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of the property.
Yet again, medicines have bases, which are the principal active ingredients, and `additions‟
(auxiliaries or
correctives), which are complementary, each of them having its specific influence on the action of
the bases.
Similarly, the Voluntary practices and the `customs‟ are complements which perfect the basic
elements of
formal worship.
In general, prophets are the physicians of the diseases of hearts. The only advantage of the
intellect is
that it informed us of that, bearing witness to prophetic revelation by believing the prophets and
to itself by
being unable to apprehend what is apprehended by the eye of prophecy; then it took us by the hand
and
entrusted us to prophetic revelation, as the blind ate entrusted to their guides and
anxious patients to
sympathetic doctors. Thus far may the intellect proceed. In what lies beyond it has no
Yet again, medicines have bases, which are the principal active ingredients, and `additions‟
(auxiliaries or
correctives), which are complementary, each of them having its specific influence on the action of
the bases.
Similarly, the Voluntary practices and the `customs‟ are complements which perfect the basic
elements of
formal worship.
In general, prophets are the physicians of the diseases of hearts. The only advantage of the
intellect is
that it informed us of that, bearing witness to prophetic revelation by believing the prophets and
to itself by
being unable to apprehend what is apprehended by the eye of prophecy; then it took us by the hand
and
entrusted us to prophetic revelation, as the blind ate entrusted to their guides and
anxious patients to
sympathetic doctors. Thus far may the intellect proceed. In what lies beyond it has no