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is especially made and used by them only. They have the
most capable people in making magic and illusions; they
perceive that there is a building behind the equator in the South
and they are the ones referred to as djinn and demons. They are
in the kind of world which cannot be seen by the naked eye;
they intermarry and die by natural law and believe that their
guides in the celestial sphere are 5 and the Tail. According to
their history, one of their leaders called Adam was the
beginning of their march due to his uniqueness. Their leader in
this art claims that every image in the world of being and
corruption is developed by the fixed planets thereby creating
several types of configurations in the sky. He also claims that
there are images in the sky that are not available on earth. These
images are used by magicians in ceremonies or talismans to
draw certain arrangements which they term as rings such as
this figure:
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The lines between these rings are the beams of these planets
to earth as well as between the fixed planets. This arrangement
as shown in the following figure:
-denotes their own image and is known to people devoted to
observation and ceremonies. This is what is being reported and
arranged by practitioners of legerdemain and incantation and
not what the fixed planets develop in the sky.
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