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Rh the Temples of the Knowledge of God! How well it is said, " Dost thou arraign those whom the True One hath made trustees of the treasures of the Seventh Sphere?" No one among the people of perception and knowledge, or among the wise and intelligent hath noticed these absurdities. Yet it is clear and evident to every one endowed with perception that such sciences have ever been and are rejected by the True One. How can the understanding of sciences which are rejected among the truly learned be essential to the knowledge of the summits of the " Ascent," while the Lord of the u Ascent" hath not sanctioned a single letter of these limited and discarded sciences, and the brilliant heart of that Master of " Were it not for thee " was sanctified and purified from all these allusions? How excellent is the saying: " All these conceptions are on lame asses, while Truth rides upon the wind and flies like an arrow." By God, whosoever desireth to know the mystery of u Ascent," or drink a drop from the Knowledge of this Sea, should he possess these sciences, that is, if the mirror of his heart be marred with their stain, must clear and purify it before the mystery of this point may reflect therein.

In this day, divers in the Sea of Eternal Knowledges and dwellers in the Ark of Divine Wisdom forbid people from studying such sciences. Their shining breasts, praise be to God, are purified from these allusions and sanctified from these veils. We have consumed the greatest veil, in the saying "Learning is