Egyptian-Hebrew stream·Jabirian Corpus·Beginning of Part 1 of the Book of the Hidden Secret·Beginning of Part 1 of the Book of the Hidden Secret

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Whoever has read something of our books, of whatever art it may be, among those things for which we have mentioned the indication in them, he will know that we mentioned four persons, yet reliance must thereafter be upon two only: one of them Persian and the other Arab. And because this my book contains the disclosure of the secrets of the hidden arcana beneath the seal of prophethood which we have named the Book of the Hidden Secret, we say: Now then, the Persian of my two brothers—his birthplace is Iraq, from the lands of ruin; and the Arab—his birthplace is likewise Iraq, except that the lands and places in which the younger is born differ from the places and lands in which the elder is born. It is permissible that the lands be one and the places different. That is because the places of our younger brother are hot, dry, far from water, and the places of our elder brother are the contrary thereof equally. That is because his places are near to the cold, moist, watery, spacious, soft, moist; so know that, make it clear, and consider it first. And know that when their ages are equal, it will be eighty years, and that when he reaches...

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The smaller of the two reaches thirty, the greater of the two reaches fifty. Thereupon the great benefits and the sciences of the Balance and the mighty causes occur without time and the harvest continues. ٣ Thereupon it rises, and the repose of these two brothers begins. As for the greater, the other of the four, and the smaller, benefit attaches to them both from them, and there shall not be for them both from them much enrichment in the affair of their two brothers, and peace. ٦ That, O my brother, if there was for your brother—God be exalted—offspring from the two whom we were mentioning earlier, then it is inevitable that he have two children, male and female, and it is near to this time. And perhaps one of them may have it and the other in his offspring, except that the female is first because of her coldness and her nearness to the water, as we have already set forth earlier. ٩ My master related to me from his fathers, one after another, saying: the last one said to me: As for the one arising in the time of immorality, the smaller’s children shall be very many, their number not to be counted save by God Most High, and many wives, desirous of justice from the women, little...

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The desire for healthy women. As for our elder brother, he has two wives who stand in the place of one woman. And our elder brother + we nourish them with food and evil work ٣ and he turns away from it only that in this time he has worked many times and some of the women have left a trace on his body. If you consider that well you find it a work with the weapon, excellent in the divisions, except that his work with the weapon is slight. And I think — ٦ and God knows best and is wisest — that he must be a warrior, fully, and his courage is greater than his horsemanship. Consider that and reflect upon it. If these signs are yours then you are he, so do not go out and do not disclose your affair and the affair of your brother, for you will both perish utterly. ٩ And your younger brother is great of aspiration, wide of thought, hasty, cowardly; he seeks courage in speech not in deed, and he is never a master of war in his own person, so know that. ١٢ And know, O my brother, that you will find wealth in your house in which you were born or you have found it and it will be lawful, and it must be that you have found it and it is true. And know, O my brother, that you will find a treasure belonging to another than you, in which you need toil and labour and expense ١٥ but you reach what you desire.

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It remains that you know this, for whom it is from each one of the two of them. As for the treasure—may God preserve you—it is for the elder, and the buried is for the younger, from each one; and God knows best. And know that our younger brother will suffer four great calamities: the first ٣ from the sultan, and it is middling in greatness, and he will be delivered, if God alone wills. And the second from a great ailment that befalls him, burning, destructive, that nearly kills him. And the third another ailment harder than the first, greater and more severe; he will be delivered from both of them together by the power of God most high ٦ and His might. And the fourth calamity is the greatest of them, on the way of suspicion, from the elder brother; and that is that there will pass between them wonders of mutual hatred and evils in secret and in public between the two of them only, and there will be no reality to it; then the matter will be revealed unto well-being ٩. As for our elder brother, two great illnesses will befall him; then the matter will be revealed unto well-being and completion also, and he will be delivered from them; rather, they will leave traces upon his body ١٢.

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Indication concerning these our two brothers, except that “our younger brother, fear is had for him in the time of siege and the occurrence of calamities and the disturbance of the sultan and the ruin of the lands and the appearance of the wicked over the depraved in all regions and cities is a great matter, and likewise concerning our elder brother. We had already said in our book al-Aghrad li-kitab al-Usul how the way of safety of our two brothers from diseases and ailments and infirmities is, and the attainment of what they hope for of the sciences in that book. And we mentioned in the book al-Farqad — and by my life, that in it are things that connect to the sciences and the sought-after matters and the important matters and their uncovering such that none would doubt that safety is through it. And I said: O my master, what is the meaning of safety? He said: The safety of our two brothers from harms and envy occurs by the arrival of this book to them. <As for the harms < and envy, they occur from their enemies if you perceive that. So seek it, O my brother, and do not despair and do not grieve, and beware and beware of neglecting thought for yourself. So understand, O my two brothers, what I say concerning your neglecting consideration of these books. The hidden secrets and the concealed sciences are only deposited — may God preserve you both — in the bellies

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The notebooks. And beware, O my two brothers, of neglecting consideration so that you may attain knowledge of the secrets of creation and the Work of Nature. For if thou dost not consider then thou art not our brother whom we have designated. And likewise I say to you both: the statement in this chapter to one of you is the statement to both of you ٣. As for our two brothers whom we have mentioned, the brother who is the younger of the two loves knowledge exceedingly, and he is the one who disposes—by the truth of my master—of these books which are mine, and he knows all that is in them. And our elder brother is more excellent ٦ in knowledge of them and by them. Know thou that, and by the truth of my master, sorrow shall never be upon the collection of my books so that all that we promised thee may appear by these books in the world, in the Book of Proofs and in ٩ the Book of Life, and they are the end of the indication from these books, and the Book of the Temperament and the Book of the Gathering and others of these books; so beware, both of you, of neglecting consideration. And we had promised you both a number of books which follow these hundred books and are their completion, ١٢ and these books have no intercessor and no benefactor other than these which we have mentioned. And by the truth of my master, if thou reachest knowledge of their names and which books they are from my books, thou shalt be connected to all.

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that which we promised thee. So if these ten books together with these hundred books reach thee, then by my master’s truth thou art the man upon whom we have explicitly remarked in this ٣ book, thou and thy brother. And by my master’s truth, if our Book of the Balance reaches thee and thou understandest it, thou shalt verily be the Balinas of thy age thereby. And by my master’s truth, if the Book of the Balance from us reaches thee, all the books shall reach thee. Beware of neglecting the study of them ٦ and of being niggardly in collecting them and seeking them, and of sitting idle, of delaying, and of occupying thyself with other than their collection. And beware also of abandoning the study of these our books and of mixing thy study with anything other than them; rather the correct course is that thou devote thyself to collecting them and studying them one by one, singly, and mastering ٩ what is in them and taking their chapters from the operations and deriving the sciences [348] that are in them and gathering their glosses from them until the chapter is completed, if God wills. And I mean a chapter of knowledge and other than it from the operations; and we possess nothing of the like of this temptation save these books ١٢ only in the world.

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It is therefore necessary — may God make you prosper — that you know these loci and that the state not be imagined for you. For copper, lead may indeed come forth for you from it and return to the state of copper. And these things that have followed this course, the stripping of their species and their return may be permitted upon them, but that is not the case in plants and animals, because they do not revert. For when the Stone is acted upon so that a stone or an animal or a plant comes from it, it is possible in that acted-upon stone — the stone acted upon from the Stone, the plant acted upon from the Stone, and the animal acted upon from the Stone — that it return to stoneness. But when a stone is acted upon from the animal, it is not possible that that stone return to >the animal; and when a stone is acted upon from the plant, it is not possible that that stone return to <the plant. And that is not the case in plants and animals because of their weakness; that is, when the animal becomes a plant, it is not possible that it return to animality in this rank until it becomes a stone, then is returned.

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