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things that existed in the past and are being
brought out. Nonetheless, if these are some of the signs that
describe the deceased, which means they are telling what is
going to take place forever. Some of these examples are
presented by the Sufi, Jabir Ibn Hayyam, in his book entitled
Explaining the Images of Constellations and Their Actions. In his
book, he listed all stars in the straight band and the action of
every one of them. By this, he compensated for what Aristotle
wrote in his book entitled Astrologia. This book as well as his
book The Plants, were burned and no traces were found.
Hermes states in his book entitled The Composition of Moving
Images in Space that the useful actions of stars are too many to be
specified. He states that every star has a certain action in each
degree of its path if it reaches a tangential point of that degree
or if it was within it. The total of these actions are 360 x 7 which
is equal to 2,520. These images produce artistic actions and
effects, and if you multiply 360 x 6 the product will resemble the
number of times in which every two planets converge in one
degree. The reason for multiplying by 6 is because this is the
possible number of convergence of each two planets; 5 and %
may meet in one degree, and that is one, 5 with C, and that is
two, 5 and the O, and that is three, 5 and 9, and that is four, 5
and 9, and that is five, 5 and the "S, and that is six. When you
multiply 6 x 360, the total number of degrees of that circle, the
product will be 2,160 images. These images produce miraculous
actions and effects. Then you multiply 360 x 5 the product of
which will be 1,800 and that indicates the number of times each
three planets converge in one degree. These images produce
miraculous actions and effects. Afterwards, you multiply 360 x
4, which is the number of the times every four planets meet in
one degree, the product will be 1,440. These images also have
actions and effects. Then multiply 360 x 3, which denotes the
number of times each five planets meet on one degree and the
product will be 1,080. These images produce actions and effects
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