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recourse to the `hidden Imam‟ and said one must journey to see him. The
astonishing thing is that they squander their lives in searching for the
`instructor‟ and it boasting that they have found him, yet without learning
anything at all from him. They are like a blight smeared with filth, who so
wearies himself with the search for water that when he comes upon it he
does not use it but remains smeared with dirt.
There are indeed certain of them who lay claim to have some special
knowledge. But this knowledge, a., they describe it, amounts to some trifling
details of the philosophy of Pythagoras. The latter was one of the earliest of
the ancients and his philosophical system is the weakest of all; Aristotle not
only criticized him but showed the weakness and corruption of his thought.
Yet he is the person followed in the Book of the Brethren of Purity, which is
really but the dregs of philosophy.
It is truly amazing that men should toil all their life long searching for
astonishing thing is that they squander their lives in searching for the
`instructor‟ and it boasting that they have found him, yet without learning
anything at all from him. They are like a blight smeared with filth, who so
wearies himself with the search for water that when he comes upon it he
does not use it but remains smeared with dirt.
There are indeed certain of them who lay claim to have some special
knowledge. But this knowledge, a., they describe it, amounts to some trifling
details of the philosophy of Pythagoras. The latter was one of the earliest of
the ancients and his philosophical system is the weakest of all; Aristotle not
only criticized him but showed the weakness and corruption of his thought.
Yet he is the person followed in the Book of the Brethren of Purity, which is
really but the dregs of philosophy.
It is truly amazing that men should toil all their life long searching for