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and a complex shell for the whole human. The image of the
whole human is an idol and a shell for the whole spirit and the
whole spirit is an idol and a shell for the mind. The whole mind
is an idol and a shell for the light from which the mind evolved.
The light is the primordial source of the whole mind. Similarly,
what is below that, which is higher, is simple and primordial to
that which is below it and in addition to it and what is below
that is always a complex image for what is above it and in
addition to it. In fact, the human being is the complex image
which uses the other bodies of nature.
He, who wants to gain the truth of this knowledge, ought to
be virtuous, pure in his mind and body from all sins and then
he will see it and observe it in its reality.
We did not, by presenting this subject, may Allah help you,
deviate from our objective. In fact, this is the objective of this
book because it is the principle for the science of talismans. If
you have any experience in this field, you will realize this and
acknowledge that it is obviously magic. Plato, the virtuous and
an authority in this science, deals with this subject in his book,
Timaeus, and elaborates a great deal on images and he explains
this sought objective. However, he makes the conclusion vague
like other philosophers who act in the same manner to protect
their wisdom from uninformed people as did Proclus.
To them vagueness is the ambiguity of meaning so that
whoever wants to clear up this ambiguity must do that with
reflection, deliberation and thorough examination in order to
distinguish it from whatever it has been mixed with from the
obvious matters. Of these arts there are two kinds: the obvious
and the concealed. The concealed art is that which needs
analogy and introductions so that it becomes clear to you or that
can be achieved by observation, reasoning, reflection and
deliberation.
Reasoning can be attained in many ways, some of which are
relating the present to the past or the part to the source by a
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