GkazzaWs Alchemy of Happiness. 79 



the empyreal heaven. And there is an essence called both 

 the Spirit of Power, and the Holy Spirit, by means of 

 which it arrives at the throne in the heavens. As the 

 phrase, In the name of God, appears in the treasury of the 

 imagination, so the image of the thing dependent on the 

 will of God appears upon the Preserved Tablet. The 

 angels appointed to serve in the empyrean and at the throne, 

 cause it to descend to the inferior world, and by means of the 

 periods and hours of the constellations, it is made to appear 

 through the four elementary qualities — heat, cold, moist- 

 ure and dryness. As the phrase In the name of God is 

 written down by first dipping the pen in the ink, so the 

 thing which God wills, comes to light by mixing heat and 

 cold with water and earth. As paper is so adapted to writ- 

 ing as to preserve the forms which are written upon it, so 

 dryness and moisture are recipient of those other forms and 

 preserve the images that are produced. If moisture did not 

 exist, forms and images could not be preserved. In the 

 same manner as by the will of the heart and by the method 

 above mentioned, the image In the name of God, which is 

 in the treasury of the imagination is painted with the pen 

 upon paper, so also the will of God, which is an image 

 produced upon the Preserved Tablet in the empyrean, is 

 produced and made visible in the material world, by means 

 of the angels, the constellations and the elemental qualities 

 of water and earth. 



At the time when the heart of man had control over all 

 the organs and members, and they were all obedient to it, 

 some thought that man was a dweller in his own heart. 

 "When the empyrean in like manner, ruled over all things 

 by the will of God, they reasoned that man was seated in 

 the empyrean. But like as man has dominion over his 

 own heart in the administration of his kingdom, the body, 

 God also rules over the empyrean in the administration of 

 the affairs of created beings, which he has committed to 



