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in this book, they define the realities of things. Furthermore,
they identify the Creator as the cause of all beings and they
believe that the things they do will provide them with a means
to reach Him and unite with His Light. We have mentioned this
as a reference to their basic beliefs and actions and what their
law-makers adhere to. This is the text of what this man says:
"If we cover all the strange things they have, this book will
be too long. One of these is 'the head' which a generation of
their clergy believe in. They set it next to the dragon's head.
Then they pick a hairy, bluish, black-eyed man with connected
eyebrows. They lure him with things he likes until they get him
into the house of temples, and then he is undressed and placed
in a basin full of sesame oil that covers him up to his neck. They
close the basin leaving his head sticking out of the lid of the
basin. They nail the cover and seal it with lead leaving the head
out while the rest of the body is submerged in the sesame oil.
They feed him with a certain amount of dry figs soaked in
sesame oil and burn incense next to his nose and face. They do
this for forty days without giving him any water. This process
will render his bones flexible, his joints loose and his veins will
flow abundantly; he becomes as flexible as a candle. At the
conclusion of the forty days, they get together and discuss
things among themselves. Then they burn incense, grab his
head and pull it from the first vertebra. Pulling the head out of
the body, his veins will be stretched until they all separate from
the first vertebra, thereby leaving the body in the oil.
Subsequently, they place it on an arch on a layer of screened
ashes of olive and surround him with fluffy cotton. They
perfume it with a special incense of theirs, and consequently, it
tells them about fluctuation of prices, the overthrow of
governments and what takes place in the world. His eyes will
remain open and it will remind them if they miss any of their
worshipping sacraments to the planets, prevents them from
doing certain things and tells them what will happen to
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