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they suppose impossible. If it were not that veridical vision in sleep is
familiar, when someone claimed to gain knowledge of the unseen while his
senses were at rest, men with such intellects would deny it. If you said to
one, `Is it possible for there to be in the world a thing, the size of a grain,
which if placed in a town, will consume that town in its entirety and then
consume itself, so that nothing is left of the town and what it contained nor
of the thing itself‟?; he would say, `This is absurd; it is an old wives‟ tale‟.
Yet this is the case 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
familiar, when someone claimed to gain knowledge of the unseen while his
senses were at rest, men with such intellects would deny it. If you said to
one, `Is it possible for there to be in the world a thing, the size of a grain,
which if placed in a town, will consume that town in its entirety and then
consume itself, so that nothing is left of the town and what it contained nor
of the thing itself‟?; he would say, `This is absurd; it is an old wives‟ tale‟.
Yet this is the case 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