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with fire, although, when he heard it, someone who had no acquaintance with fire
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:
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: