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) Bodies without souls will, by their contents give us precepts bywhich to die
well. ) Food shall be taken out of the mouth of many ( the ovens mouth. ) A
great part of the sea will fly towards heaven and for a long timewill not
return. (Of Owls and screech owls and what will happen to certain birds.
(Of
Mules which have on them rich burdens of silver and gold.
) And many creatures
of land and water will go up among the stars(that is Planets. (Of Eggs which
being eaten cannot form Chickens. ) By the aid of the stars men will be seen
who will be as swift as anyswift animal. ) By the aid of the stars men will be
seen who will be as swift as anyswift animal.
) By the aid of the stars men
will be seen who will be as swift as anyswift animal. ) Innumerable lives will
be destroyed and innumerable vacant spaceswill be made on the earth. To THE
DEVATDAR OF SYRIA, LIEUTENANT OF THE SACRED SULTAN OFBABYLON.
) Serpents of
great length will be seen at a great height in the air,fighting with birds. (Of
Stones converted into Lime, with which prison walls are made.
) The greatest
honours will be paid to men, and much pomp, withouttheir knowledge.
) The
natives of the waters will die in the boiling flood.
We are two brothers, each
of us has a brother. A man said to another: Your eyes are changed to a strange
colour.
The net that was wont to take the fish was seized and carried awayby
the rush of fish.
_ _I have placed foremost of these documents the very
remarkableletters to the Defterdar of Syria.
(Of the Tongues of Pigs and Calves
in Sausage-skins. ) A great part of the sea will fly towards heaven and for a
long timewill not return. (Of Night when no Colour can be discerned.
How much
better would it be for men that every thingshould return to Hell!
) The Forests
will bring forth young which will be the cause of theirdeath. (Of great guns,
which come out of a pit and a mould. (The division of the East from the West
may be made at any point.
(Of Owls and screech owls and what will happen to
certain birds. ) One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly
becomevast.
(That isthey will be miserable lest they should fall into
misery.
And the excrement of animals always retains some virtue of itsorigin as
is shown by the faeces . The mirror conducts itself haughtily holding mirrored
in itself theQueen.
(Iron, whichcomes from under ground is dead but the Weapons
are made of it whichkill so many Men. ) Very often a thing that is itself
broken is the occasion of muchunion.
(Of the Dead which are carried to be
buried.
(Of the Life of Men, who every year change their bodily substance.
The
spider, being among the grapes, caught the flies which werefeeding on those
grapes.
A man was arguing and boasting that he knew many and various
tricks.
(Of Trees, which nourish grafted shoots.
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