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  • Contemplate the same grievous war in thyself: why, then, art thou engaged in warring with others?
  • Or (is it because thou hast no means of escape) unless God shall redeem thee from this war and bring thee into the unicoloured world of peace? 55
  • That world is naught but everlasting and flourishing, because it is not composed of contraries.
  • This reciprocal destruction is inflicted by (every) contrary on its contrary: when there is no contrary, there is naught but everlastingness.
  • He (God) who hath no like banished contraries from Paradise, saying, “Neither sun nor its contrary, intense cold, shall be there.”
  • Colourlessness is the origin of colours, peaces are the origins of wars.
  • That world is the origin of this dolorous abode, union is the origin of every parting and separation. 60
  • Wherefore, sire, are we thus in opposition, and wherefore does unity give birth to these numbers?
  • Because we are the branch and the four elements are the stock: in the branch the stock has brought its own nature into existence.
  • (But) since the substance, (which is) the spirit, is beyond ramifications, its nature is not this (plurality); it is the nature of (the Divine) Majesty.