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^ Picatrix ^
magic, then he started to show more praise and
appreciation to the magicians, the temples and min: :
that made them like him and trust him. He also did not
leave any girl in the country without marrying her and he
did not leave any money with anyone without claiming it
to himself. Til] one night he saw the king Al-Waleed in his
dreams were the king asked Awna about who gave him
the right to take place of the king, to marry the other kings
daughters and take peoples money with no right and that
he will kill him for impersonating the king. Then the king
in the dream ordered to bring barrels with boiling oil in it
and wanted to take his clothe off and drop him the oi! At
that point a bird that looks like an eagle flew* and took
Awna from the hands of the guards, flew with him up
high in the air and landed with him on the top of a
mountain- Then Awna fell from the mountain to a valley
where he saw a rotten sludge. He got up with great fear as
he knew very well the kings temper and merciless
punishment So Awna decided to run away and get out of
Egypt especially when he received a message from the
king saying that he is coming back to Egypt but he decided
to share the dream with some* of the magicians he trusts
and he told them that he was afraid and was getting n
to leave the country. So they told him that they would -
him but on the condition that he does every thing they tell
him to do. Awna agreed to do anything and everything
they say, so they told him that the eagle that saved you in
the dream is a spirit that wants you to do the same to
Awna said "Now I remember the eagle talked to me in the
dream and told me not to forget this favor" so the
magicians told him what he needs to do is to build a c
of gold, make his eyes from two jewels and to cover it" itri
all kinds of valuable stones. Then he built a temple
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