The World Is Divided Into Men Who

Mountains Have Been Formed By One [or Other] Of The Causes Of The Formation Of Stone, Most Probably From Agglutinative Clay Which Slowly Dried And Petrified During Ages Of Which We Have No Record. It Seems Likely That This Habitable World Was In Former Days Uninhabitable And, Indeed, Submerged Beneath The Ocean. Then, Becoming Exposed Little By Little, It Petrified In The Course Of Ages.

Pure Earth Does Not Petrify, Because The Predominance Of Dryness Over [i.e. In] The Earth Endows It Not With Coherence But Rather With Crumbliness. In General, Stone Is Formed In Two Ways Only (a) Through The Hardening Of Clay, And (b) By The Congelation [of Waters].

When You Do Not Know The Nature Of The Malady, Leave It To Nature; Do Not Strive To Hasten Matters. For Either Nature Will Bring About The Cure Or It Will Itself Reveal Clearly What The Malady Really Is.

God, The Supreme Being, Is Neither Circumscribed By Space, Nor Touched By Time; He Cannot Be Found In A Particular Direction, And His Essence Cannot Change. The Secret Conversation Is Thus Entirely Spiritual; It Is A Direct Encounter Between God And The Soul, Abstracted From All Material Constraints.

Is It The Fault Of Wine If A Fool Drinks It And Goes Stumbling Into Darkness?