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. . . (657) And again we use the tobacco. (658) We give thanks 

 for the thing that is covered by a veil, where the wind is formed. 

 And your mind will continue to be so, 



. . . (659) And again the tobacco smoke rises. (660) We ask that 

 it will continue in the same manner. (661) That the wind will be 

 just so strong that we are content. (662) We are happy; the wind 

 is just so strong that we are happy. (663) And we ask that it will 

 continue in the same manner in future days. And your mind will 

 continue to be so. 



(664) And now this is what Our Creator did: indeed he decided, 

 "Now I have finished the creation of the earth. (665) And now it 

 must not be by itself in just this way. (666) And I must make the 

 wind on the earth." (667) And in the west he made the thing that 

 is covered by a veil. Slowly it moves and revolves. (668) And now 

 the wind is formed there, and now we who move about on the earth 



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