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would reject it. The rejection of the strange features of the world to come
usually belongs to this class. To the physicist we reply: `You are compelled to
admit that in opium there is a property which leads to freezing, although this is
not consonant with nature as rationally conceived; why then is it not possible
that there should be in the positive precepts of the Divine law properties
leading to the healing and purifying of hearts, which are not apprehended by
intellectual wisdom but are perceived only by the eye of prophecy‟? Indeed in
various pronouncements in their writings they have actually recognized
properties more surprising than these, such as the wonderful properties
observed when the following figure was employed in treating cases of
childbirth where delivery was difficult:
The figure is inscribed on two pieces of cloth untouched by water. The
woman looks at them with her eye and places them under her feet, and at
once the child quickly emerges. The physicists acknowledge the possibility of
that, and describe it in the book entitled The Marvels of Properties.
The figure consists of nine squares with a number in each, such that the
sum of each row or line, vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, is fifteen.
usually belongs to this class. To the physicist we reply: `You are compelled to
admit that in opium there is a property which leads to freezing, although this is
not consonant with nature as rationally conceived; why then is it not possible
that there should be in the positive precepts of the Divine law properties
leading to the healing and purifying of hearts, which are not apprehended by
intellectual wisdom but are perceived only by the eye of prophecy‟? Indeed in
various pronouncements in their writings they have actually recognized
properties more surprising than these, such as the wonderful properties
observed when the following figure was employed in treating cases of
childbirth where delivery was difficult:
The figure is inscribed on two pieces of cloth untouched by water. The
woman looks at them with her eye and places them under her feet, and at
once the child quickly emerges. The physicists acknowledge the possibility of
that, and describe it in the book entitled The Marvels of Properties.
The figure consists of nine squares with a number in each, such that the
sum of each row or line, vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, is fifteen.