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'* The princess replied, * Thine handmaid re- 

 ceives thine instruction, and piaces it on the 

 stone of her forehead (i, e. the temples). Yes, 

 my brother — Thine handmaid again begs to 

 know the manner in which the empyrean and 

 crystalline spheres, the angels, and friends, (of 

 the Prophet) were formed.— Of what did rhe 

 mighty Jehovah create them ?' 



Indra-jia answered, * The creation of the 

 (Prophet's) four friends, &c., was as follows: — 

 (In the beginning) the mighty Jehovah shed 

 forth a glorious light, a living figure of Mahomed, 



This iilomined figure struck by a glance of 

 the sovereign Lord ol' all the worlds, * was agita- 

 ted like water in the boiling caldron. From the 

 sweat of its (the illumined figures) heud, he 

 formed at! the angels from the sweat of its face, 

 he formed the empyrean and crystalline spheres, 

 the tablet of record f the self moving pen, the 

 sun, the moon^ the sl;»rs, and all that are in the 

 sea, from the sweat of its breast, he formed ail 

 the inspired prophets, and ail true teachers of 

 religion ; from the sweat of its ears, he formed 

 all Jews and Christians ; and, fiom the sweat of 

 its feet, he formed the earth, from east to west, 

 with all that it coutains. Then the mighty Je- 

 hovah commanded the living illumined ligure 

 of the prophet, saying, * look behind thee— be- 

 fore thee— to thy right — and to thy left.'— Looking 

 round on all side«, the illumined figure beheld 



• '* Allilitf worlds." Tliere are, they «y, in cintitf^en tlicioeaoct 

 tt'orldt, wliicli have »i>)lnwed eacli other in snccpsaitKi, Tlip pi t^scat is tiie 

 mat u< ail, at llie eii J of which the great juajjemeui liii^es [liacfi. 



» I " '''''t iirRccorJ"-i, The hook iif God's rememtirncce ^ 

 ' The »etf TOoving pen" is tlwt which ipon tan wotly records the fat« 

 mi deed* <ft nmrtals. 



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