Do Not Imagine That These Most Difficult

No Form Remains Permanently In A Substance; A Constant Change Takes Place, One Form Is Taken Off And Another Is Put On.

When Reading My Present Treatise, Bear In Mind That By "faith" We Do Not Understand Merely That Which Is Uttered With The Lips, But Also That Which Is Apprehended By The Soul, The Conviction That The Object [of Belief] Is Exactly As It Is Apprehended. If, As Regards Real Or Supposed Truths, You Content Yourself With Giving Utterance To Them In Words, Without Apprehending Them Or Believing In Them, Especially If You Do Not Seek Real Truth, You Have A Very Easy Task As, In Fact, You Will Find Many Ignorant People Professing Articles Of Faith Without Connecting Any Idea With Them.

If Men Possessed Wisdom, Which Stands In The Same Relation To The Form Of Man As The Sight To The Eye, They Would Not Cause Any Injury To Themselves Or To Others, For The Knowledge Of The Truth Removes Hatred And Quarrels, And Prevents Mutual Injuries.

The Key To The Understanding And To The Full Comprehension Of All That The Prophets Have Said Is Found In The Knowledge Of The Figures, Their General Ideas, And The Meaning Of Each Word They Contain.

Give A Man A Fish And You Feed Him For A Day; Teach A Man To Fish And You Feed Him For A Lifetime.