A MALAY PANTHEIST CHARM. 263 
“ A beginning should be made on Thursday night and the 
charm should be continued until the night of the following Thurs- 
day. 
“Tt should be recited four times a night with a sincere vowing 
of the heart to unity with Allah and the vision of Him implanted 
in one’s heart, until His Being permeates one and one has faith: 
“JT am lost in the universal and absolute Essence of God; and one 
is lost to self and one’s self becomes absolute and universal too :— 
“Tn the name of God the Merciful the Compassionate. Oh 
God! grant peace to our lord Muhammad and the household of 
Muhammad who watcheth over my self and my friends and all my 
children and all the contents of my house and my property and the 
possessions of my hands with a sevenfold fortress from the fortress 
of God Most High; its roof—‘ There is no God but God,’ and my 
wall ‘Muhammad the Apostle of God, and my key ‘the might of 
God,’ which may not be opened for ever save with His permission. 
Muhammad is like man and unlike man; he is lke a chrysolite 
among stones. 
-“ Now the import of the term ‘ fortress’ is that we know that 
we come from not-being and to not-being shall return. For there 
is nothing evidently save the Being of God. And of a surety the 
Being of God never parts from His absolute essence, which carries 
out all His will, according to His word: ‘* His desire is accom- 
plished by Himself and goes forth to no other than Himself save to 
not-being.’ 
“The intention of the term self is ‘ spirit,’ one of the attributes 
of the knowledge of God Most High, which parts not from His 
essence and it becomes an objectified idea and is called man. Now 
the spirit is distinct and determined. Always the spirit yearns 
towards God. 
“The intention of ‘the house’ is the body. The body is the 
place of the spirit and so the veritable place that reveals the Real 
God according to the saying of the Prophet, on whom be the peace 
of God: ‘ Whosever knows himself, knows his Lord.2. The house 
was built of itself and though it will pass away, yet He whose house 
it is is the Reality who with His absolute essence is eternal. 
“The intention of our ‘ property’ is the liver and heart and 
lungs and gall and all that God Most High has created: according 
to His word :—‘ There is no strength in any one save the strength 
of Allah, lord of all the worlds both as regards things revealed and 
things hidden.’ 
“The intention of our ‘ possessions’ is the ten senses, firstly 
the outward and secondly the inner. The outward are five: the 
sight of the eyes, the hearing of the ears, the taste of the tongue, the 
smelling of the nose and the touch of the hand. The inner also are 
five: consciousness, faith, insight, perception and judgment. 
“The intention of the sevenfold ‘ fortress’ is the creation by 
God Most High of man with seven attributes: life, knowledge, 
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