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clement, no soul can live without air so air is the
intermediary of the acceptance and giving. Phe air also has
more power in canving out the force and energy of the
desired person. That is why you cannot dismiss these
actions once vou have done them because thev are divine
spiritual actions attached together. He also mentions in his
book that the Nabataeans have matters and actions in
elevation mixture with the human body parts from plants
and other elements that they can move with the human's
spirits whenever thev wanted. Thev also have the words
that move the spirits with an original dividing and
talismans with clear reactions.
1 have also seen and heard about the Indians'
knowledge in some of these matters from Abi Ghj
Ahmad bin Abdel-Wahid Al-Kuzbady's book that he
named Vie Book of Dividing the Knowledge and Revealing the\
Concealed one of the interesting mattefs that he has written ,
is as follows, "I have been told a story from a trader from J
Kharasan that I know and trust, that on one of his trip? he
had met a man from India. The man was selling
merchandise from Binsiyar. He talked with him about this
magical knowledge and he happened to be aware of that
knowledge too. Then they argued over a couple of points)
that he had suspicions about. So the Indian man called the,
trader for a demonstration and there was a rich good I
looking boy from the Balkh tribe, he darned that he wid J
bring that boy for obedience and make him leave hi*j
wealth and remain in the trader's house nil he releases him (
at the trader's choice and desire. So the trader agreed for j
the demonstration for two reasons one for learning such
knowledge and one for fun. So the Indian man made the]
figure of the planets with the ascendant and then he drewj
a small picture. Then he said the rising sign is Aries a
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