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622-631

  • The good and the evil (alike) learn magic and the opposite of magic from these twain involuntarily;
  • But first they admonish him, saying, “Beware, do not learn and pick up magic from us:
  • We teach this magic, O such and such, for the purpose of trial and probation;
  • (But thou art free to choose), for probation necessarily involves free-will, and thou canst not have any (effective) free-will without the power (of action).” 625
  • Desires are like sleeping dogs: good and evil are hidden in them.
  • When there is no power (of action), this troop (of desires) are asleep and silent like faggots (smouldering in the fire),
  • Until (when) a carcase comes into view, the blast of the trumpet of greed strikes on (suddenly rouses) the dogs.
  • When the carcase of a donkey appears in the parish, a hundred sleeping dogs are awakened by it.
  • The greedy desires that had gone into the concealment of the Unseen rush out and display themselves. 630
  • Every hair on every dog becomes (like) a tooth, though they wag their tails (fawningly) for the sake of gaining their object.