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Mercury is familiar with their rotation. You ateo hold a
funifc in your hand and pretend to be writing in the book
and the incense is between your hands and also a brazie*|
made of one of the metals of which Mercury is specialized.:
Then as you bum incense you say:
Peace be upon you Mercury the Master, the YirtuousS
the Honest, the Smart, the Articulate, the Understanding,
the Debater, knowledgeable with all arts, the cautious, the
writer with good manners, knowledgeable with alt
matters Above and Below, the honorable master, the one
with so little happiness, the useful for money, the useful
for trade, the cunning, the oath keeper, the intelligent, the
Itelper, the patient, the skillful, the kind, the preventor, the
Proprietor of the Revelations to the Prophets, you are the
proof of divinity, believing, intellect, conversation, news,\
fine education, different sciences, intelligence, smartness, 1
literature, philosophy, advanced knowledge, engineering ofI
the divine and terrestrial things, surveying, the KnowledfiM
of Stars, restraining and fortune telling, the rhetorician^
able to poetize book writers and the poetry gatherings]
with eloquence, the fast, gentile and nice talking, after]
depressions, working fast, the moodiness, the lying, the\
humoring, the enduring, the supporting, being obedient^]
being patient, being merciful and companionate, kindnaM
quietness, respect, preventing evil, good Allah follower,]
protecting rights, good low voice, there is not one^
description that does not fit you of kindness, you bring\
more happiness to the happy, you bring boys to boys and
girls to girls, you bring Light to Day and Darkness to the]
Night, you blend easily in peoples nature and shapes and]
in all their moods- I also call you with all your Sun:
Arabic UTARID, in Persian TEER, in Roman HAROOS. in
Greek BORMUS, in Indian BEDDAH. I ask you in the 1
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