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W
E HAVE GATHERED FOR YOU reader from
other nations' books this valuable
knowledge about the field and once you read
it then you will be able to appreciate the
difficulties that we had to go through to get this
knowledge. One of the books that is considered the
principle of this knowledge is the book that was written by
Utarid Al-Babel" that he called the Secret of Secrets and I
am about to include fortv-five aphorisms from that book
that contains different knowledge as an example for you
attentive reader to have an idea about the principles that
Al-Babel mentioned in his book about this strange
knowledge.
(1) The first of AI-Babel's principles and secrets is to
acquire the planets nature if you want to invoke it
(2) The Sun's secret nature is the great solemnity, the high
characteristic, the extreme determination; it is the king of
mightiness, the disgracer of sultanates, the kindle of fires
and the brighter of darkness,
(3) The Moon's secret nature is facilitating the movements,
revealing secrets, affecting water natures, cooling off fires,
revoking peremptory deals and separating combined
souls.

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(4) The secret nature of Saturn is restraining movements,

sealing secrets, desolating countries, adding more sorrows
and suspicions to souls and calming waters.
(5) The secret nature of Jupiter is collecting money, fixing
visions, keeping suspicions away, calming sorrows and
providing safety in the sea and in the land.
(6) The secret nature of Mars is seducing hostility, boldness
of the soul, setting up beasts, knotting the desires, cooling
off tires, rising troubles and curbing the enemies.
(7) The secret nature of Venus is forming souls, sending
happiness, keeping troubles away, rising desires, having
children, putting out fires and loving animals.
(8) The Writer Mercury's secret nature is revealing the
concealed, acquainting hidden matters, launching talks,
spending money, disgracing shelters and sending
defamations,
(9) The brace of charms are exceeding the incenses, the
soul health, the persistence to fast, the persistence to pray,,
aiming for the possibilities, choosing kinships and
detailing responsibilities-
(10) If your request's nature is the same nature of your
planet, it will be so much easier for you to be granted you*
wish.
(11) The zodiac signs might spoil the planets effects and;
lessen their operations and it might fix it
(12) If the rising sign was not from the same nature ot the
requester or the desired need the request would be
cancelled and the requester can't be granted his wish.

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(13) The charms of the fixed planets are much longer in

time that the charms of the rotating planets.
(14) If you can use from every rotating planet a fixed
planet from the same nature you would have the chance to
gather the power of effect and the continuants of their
functioning.
(15) If the rising sign was in same nature with the request
and the ruling planet of its matters and you have used the
help of a fixed planet, your request will be granted easily
and with so much power.
(16) You could use a help of a frying eagle to achieve your
movements as vou require the help of reality to achieve
quietness.
(17) There is a huge support in uniting planets together
that you can use.
(18) There is as much states in the principles of the planets
as there are m their uniting.
(19) Make the ruling planet in the middle of the sky in his
honor or his home and give him a share in the rising signs.
(20) Seek the protection of the Sun any time you need it
because it will lead to all goodness and rightness and to a
faster response.
(21) Seek the protection of the Moon when you are trapped
because the Moon has a faster effect and faster response
and it also leads to all goodness and rightness.
(22) Seek the protection of Saturn if you were banished
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(23) Seek the protection of Jupiter if you became wealthy

because it is faster in effects and faster in response and it is
the leader to more wealth, goodness and rightness.
(24) Seek the protection of Mars if you were defeated
because Mars is the most powerful in effects, faster in
response to this kind of need than others and he is the
leader to goodness and lightness.
(25) Seek the protection of Venus if you are burdened
because Venus is the most powerful in effects, faster in
response to this kind of need than others and he is the
leader to goodness and tightness.
(26) Seek the protection of Mercury if you wanted to know
certain knowledge because Mercury is the most powerful
in effects, faster in response to this kind of need than
others and he is the leader of goodness and rightness.
(27) The slow answering comes from low level knowlt
from uncertainty or from being unorganized.
(28) The charms and talismans that are made with incenses
and prayers are more successful than the charms that are
done with regular incenses and smokes.
(29) The rising of the Sun disconnects the planets spirits of i
the night.
(30) The darkness of the night and the calmness of things
will disconnect the planet's spirits of the day, so make sure
to use each spirit at its time.
p i ) The heavy planet in its calmness is more effective then
the light planet with its movements even it vou compared
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(32) Never ask Mars to harmonize and never ask Venus to

divide so measure your requests according to that and do
not try to change any planets nature.
(33) Use the planets with tails when they appear the same
way you use the fixed planets natures.
(34) Hear Mercury in the silent song and use the Moon
with him in all times in all your requests.
(35) Use Mercury in something if you wanted to get the
opposite reaction.
(36) Launching Mercury's powers as he is in his home is
more powerful to grant what you have desired.
(37) The Sun might respond to what was asked from Mars
and Mars might respond to what was asked from the Sun.
(38) The Moon might respond to what was asked from
Venus and Venus might respond to what was asked from
the Moon.
(39) The Sun refuses what was done by Saturn and Saturn
refuses what was done by the Sun.
(40) The Moon refuses what was done by Mars and Mars
refuses what was done by the Moon.
(41) Venus might respond to what was asked from Jupiter
and Jupiter might respond to what was asked from Venus.
(42) Jupiter refuses what was done by Mars, and Mars
refuses what was done by Jupiter.
(*3) Mars refuses what was done by Venus, and Venus
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(44) Mercury refuses what was done by Jupiter, and
Jupiter refuses what was done by Mercury.
(45) Sometimes two planets that are opposite in nature
could unite for personal matters and that changes between
planets.
Thus 1 have brought to your attention some of the
principles from Al-Babel's book.
r
T" , here are also ten aphorisms that I would like to point
X to that are as important to know as Al-Bal
principles that were written by Ptolemy the master of
wisdom in this field, that appear in his book under the
name Centitoquium:
The astrologer is capable of conducting many of thej
stars actions if he knows the nature of what he is affecting
and the reaction of the action before it happens or the
possibilities of the action to happen.
The wise soul helps in the astrological actions as the
strong farmer helps the nature in farming and clearing the
land.
The figures in the assembly world are obeying to the
figures in the orbit that is why the charm and talisman
makers drew images for the planets according to the
natures of the charms.
Use the misfortunate in your choices as the smart!
doctor uses the poisons in his medicine in a small u-
amount.
Two people agreeing on something are a proof of that their
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effective chief and the other becomes the affected and

follows orders.
Love and hate happens from changing the location of
the two numerous in their birth and to the matching
nature of their rising sign for love and hate and the
obeying sign is more of a loving sign-
Use the fixed planets in building cities and use the
rotating planets in building ground floors, every city gets
built as Mars is in the middle of the sky or any planet of
the fixed planets.
Do not neglect the knowledge that is in the hundred
and twenty Quran chapters that is in the rotating planets
because that knowledge is of the whole universe.
Make an exception in every case in the same amount as
the possibility of failure of the requester in accepting the
total of the action.
The Sun is the source of the animal power, the Moon is
the source of the natural power, Saturn is the source of the
holding power, Jupiter is the source of the growing power.
Mercury is the source of the thinking power. Mars is the
source of the anger and attractive power and Venus is the
source of the desires power- That is why Mercury, Mars,
and Venus are exemplary for their manners and actions.
I also saw, in Plato the great philosopher, wise words
similar to these that I would like to mention, as he said that
only Jupiter between all the planets that his actions lead to
reality and he also said that the human bodv elements like
blood, gallbladder and phlegm are elements of power that
is the same as the moving planets with their power and
weakness elements that thev had since the beginning.

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Plato also said that what made the knowledge of stars a

clear open knowledge to all is the difference between the
actions of the confronter and the standards of the charm
makers.
Hippocrates said in his book regarding the same
matter that if the Parcheesi gets hold of the Sun in the time
of transforming into the Sun year, that year would go bv
with so Httle sicknesses and plenty of health and it would
be a good year for pregnancies and deliveries.
As from Aristotle's wise words in this same matter, he
said that Saturn is the dominator, Jupiter is the just, Venus
is the delicate. Mercury is the manager, the Moon is the
server and Mars is the tyrant
I have brought to your attention reader some of the
greatest philosophers knowledge in this field so you can
see how as wise and knowledgeable these people were all
their concern always was to dig some more into this field
and find more wonders and secrets to reveal.
I will also include in this chapter some of Aristotle's i
thoughts that he wrote in one of his books about these
same issues and was translated by Isaac Bin Haneen, just |
to show you reader another proof to exclude the Greek for
being the masters in this field and to give them all the
credit for their detailed researches. As I have mentioned
some of the Greeks mysterious thoughts and the outcome
of their researches in the first book, I will talk about the
uniting of the souls and the heavenly talents and the
heavenly grarrting's that these philosophers had and 1
mean philosophers like Kronyos, Plato *n°
Agathodaemon and similar, as their studies showed that
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through and even- industry has a ladder that every seeker

can climb up and reach to all mysteries. So every person
that rides in this field with negligence will be facing
danger and he will be risking his own life and he will
never reach to his purpose.
When the great philosophers talked about this matter,
their studies were a little mysterious and had so many
hidden symbols and that led to missing the point on some
things and that harmed more than to help in reaching to
the desired results. Yet the intelligent and wise
philosopher still can reach to all the hidden and
mysterious answers in every field especially this field of
the knowledge of the rising planets and the images that
contain images inside but appear as one big image after
uniting with other parts that try to imprint in the ground
with the help of the primordial matter. Make sure to use
your intuition when you request the bottom ground of the
contributing elements towards the mutual spirits in these
heavenly figures for the most desired and suitable of them
and that to be able to achieve the actual harmony and
imprint the figures according to the occasions and also to
ask for the dualism that is considered in this industry the
main factor.

So if you make sure to keep all this in mind and do

your charm, that charm will be more stable and more
lasting in the meaning that it reached and that does not
end with time unless if the main ground for the charm is
gone or the structure got untied or the state of the elements
has changed or even if the life of the planet was over. The
best nature that vou can relate to is the nature and the
action of the seven planets. It is the highest and the most
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earth from the orbit and from the holv skies. You have to
know what you are doing to bring down the spirits
otherwise it would cause harm more than benefit it even
might kill that person who brought the spirit down for not
being aware of the nature of each planet. As in magical
charms it does not pass the circle of the earth and the
action of the calling down, the charms do not reach its
actions till the request to it is related to and involving the
greatest power of all and that is Allah's power, he is the
one that moves it with the orders and the law of the
primordial matter that directs the earth's point
The charm maker's knowledge has to include the
knowledge of the core of nature and the actual prep,irer
for the magical charms. The maker should be reserved
between the twro natures and speeiailv between the shapes
that forms hostility and there is an example that I will
mention regarding that If when forming the spirits figure
with the charm of a Hon, the maker of the magical charm
must be someone that is absolutely not afraid of such an
animal, in the form of his nature or anv other form. He also
should have seen before the lion and have complete
knowledge with his nature and the common possibilities
like to be in a passive shape like a mouse or a rooster. 5o
the charm maker should be aware of these factors and if
the maker has such qualifications and if he
determined to be a powerful person to reach his desires.
Allah only knows that he would be one of the very tew
philosophers that have such power and will be able to;
succeed.

From the completeness of the charms effects that you

need, you have to form it when the shape is stimulated
and the type is hooked- You need to make sure to
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away of causing any changes to the released and the

power that is released on, as that would cause weakness to
the action and effect of everv moving movement in the
orbit as this power is the power that moves creatures on
earth with God's magnificent prospect
Also look at the role of the planet you choose as if you
wanted your charm to last forever you need to make two
shapes for i t The first is the stage and period of the planet
that is also considered the main principal of each planet,
the second is to know who is the ruler of the planets
matters as every time that shape turned in its orbit, the
power of the charm would be going back and fourth or up
and down.
The charm maker should also know that making a
charm to other than the rotating planets is nothing but an
aggravating action for hostility and corruption so Stay
away from that and change your direction to what will be
expected with making this charm, beside what is appear-
able in the orbit for that planet is what you could reveal
and hide what is secret and hidden of what Allah gave of
allegiance and wisdom to each planet. So practice reader
and watch out for what there is of secrets to this
knowledge and as I said vou need to make sure that your
charm is a lasting chaim by using the beginning stage of
the circle of horizons as it is the divider between the
obvious half and the hidden half of the orbit

We should never forget that Allah has brightened our

mind with knowledge, that we understand a word like
Daragfih could be used as weight measurement or be used
if a different meaning as an astronomical degree which
equals sixty six miles and one third of a mile. It is also used
*n temperature measurements of heat, cold, humidity and
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dryness and it could be used in everything addable or

parts of it There is also the word Dakika, which could be
used as a measurement and it equals five leagues and four
fifth leagues. The mile equals three thousand spans of the
outstretched arms. The span of the outstretched arms
equals three cubits. The cubit equals two spans of the
hands. One span of the hand equals one small span.
I have mentioned the meaning of the astronomical
degrees so it would help with your researchers and I have
to remind you again that you need to be careful with
keeping the secrets of the charms to yourself or share them
only with others from the same knowledge as it is verv
important not to reveal any of those charms. Everv
researcher has worked so hard to reach to these secrets and
to reach where we are today and all of us have followed in
this advice one of the great philosophers in hi< time Abu
Musa Jabir Bin Hayan in keeping this knowledge secret
from others and I would like to mention some of this
philosopher's important words so it can help you reader ir>
approaching your desires as he said: "Making charms
looks exactly like the work of nature. As it does not
happen without the knowledge of what was divided for it
of animals, plants and stones and the similar to it from the
planets like the rotating planets, the fixed planets and the
signs to all the regions. Beside the knowledge of the forms
and the fortunes of each planet, their levels, their ' ^ ^ H
and width, the nature of the earth's regions, the waters, the
grounds, the rains, the snows, the lands, the oceans, the
rivers and their locations from the equator line, also what
forms and what increases in it from animals and continues
of its existence, beside constructing animals and the rest of
its kind like snakes, scorpions, bugs, mice, wasps, ge.
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what forms in each area on earth of animals and other

things so when you do the charms your knowledgeable in
obtaining the items vou need to use in your charm. Also
bind the work on your charm with stones other than the
two kinds because plants dries and burns by time and the
animals rot and require patience in forming but working
with it in charms is possible. There is two way to work in
charms, either by collecting and bringing or by execution
and smuggling. There is also two ways of time and
movement and that is the time is for executions and
smuggling and that is the most needed in the doors of
meeting, circulate and planets. There are secrets in the
stones and that is if the nature of the animal was hot the
stone would be cold; if it was moist the stone would be
hard and vice versa. So if we wanted to keep away snakes
and wasps you need to use millstone, magnet, silver and
any same kind stone. But if the animal was cold like
scorpion, flies, bugs and louse then the kinds of stones you
need to keep them away are hot like grindstone, copper,
gold and brass and similar kind stones. As for collecting
and bringing you use the opposite for snakes you use gold
and copper and for scorpions you use millstone and crystal
and similar stones. The reason for that is harmonizing the
natures and comparing the movements or the opposite
natures and the opposite movements the single of it and
the revealed motioned ones. As for the patterns and the
designed images, the examples to those axe from animals
the mice to mice, the snakes to snakes, the vipers to vipers,
scorpions to scorpions and bugs to bugs. You also need to
know the effect of the stone used in charms is only partial
as the amount of the stone used is about one ounce to one
pound and to make its effect last the amount of the stone
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So the charm lasts with the lasting of the calmness of the
movements and with no actions and that is more than
obtaining its location like the ground, water and spiritual
bodies as their volumes are wider than the simple easy
spiritual bodies".
Let's not forget Plato's words as he said that the bodies
are the opposites of the spirits as they do not last together
So chose to ruin your bodies so the soul lasts and makes
the sultanate to your selves above your desires. That is
your body's shelter, so the bodies becomes the tools of the
souls in their desires and don't make vour souls tools to
your bodies. Make one of them die so the other survives
and don't kill the live with the dead. When a philosopher
was asked about the confusion of the souls when it gets to
hear a playing on an instrument, he said that the nature
moves the logical vitalities of the soul and that moves the
brutishness of the natural appearance which is the body, in
a way that what the soul has of love and domination
unites with the parts of the body and then the movement
happens. So whenever the nature moves in a continue
movement with the body parts then it hugs the soul in a
spiritual love and it would connect then with the brig
sides and its equals from the same world then it becomes
simple and whenever you moved it in a separate
movement, the primordial soul pulled it back to the bodily
love. As the logical soul gets moved by the pleasant
positive reaction from the nature side, the primordial
moves to the parts and the partial strings towards the semi
partial parts from the natural body and that is because the
soul has in its shapes figures it cannot take out with log
to nature, as nature moves these parts the similar to the
way it moves the body and 1 mean the body strings, then
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it couldn't take out with logic. Then the simple movements

like a movement of eyebrows or the eyes or even a smile
and other movements of the body parts. That is why it has
been said that the sound of the strings is the connection
between the shapes of life and the soul and what is better
that the say that said that the best form for the mind
movement and the soul movement that the natures
movement, just like the form of the movement of the
strings till all movements unite That is then the happiness
of the world for its own and for everything around it. So
readers turn your thoughts to these ancient wise men's
thoughts that encourages exercising the souls at all time
awake or sleep, as they say train your selves while
sleeping because there is so much of what we don't realize
we do realize in our dreams. They meant with this that
when you are awake your visible senses dominates the
actions of the hidden senses, that is why you need to let it
go in your sleep to get the complete actions of the hidden
power of your thoughts, thinking, reminders and
imaginations- As the soul at that time can use the absolute
power, the heat is also concealed at that point and when
the heat is concealed it melts every remains in the body, so
if he soul is satisfied at that time, it will show you in your
sleep the explanation and reason for everything you have
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^Chapter F i v e ^

T
HE ANCIENTS HAVE REACHED these fine
results after years of hard working and searching
and after realizing the ten main sciences to each
charm. The first five of these sciences of the ten,
each philosopher and lawmaker needs to know very well
for they are the most important between them all.
First science is the knowledge of farming, caring and
navigation. The need for this knowledge in the beginning
is to build cities and inhabit them and every person should
have a previous knowledge of it and an advanced
knowledge and to read all the books that relate to these
subjects.
The second is the knowledge of leading troops, war
tricks, horse training, veterinary and refining weapons.
The third is the civil knowledge that is the planner for
the parts of the city like grammar, language, literature,
foundations, obligations, the knowledge of the laws of that
community, learning to write in all types and the talent of
making documents and all other principles required in
building any city for any community.
Then fourth are the policies with all its kinds like the
main policies of the cities then there are the medium
policies that are of two kinds, the general and the private
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the medium policy, the policy of a house, and then private

like each persons own policies.

The fifth is the knowledge of morals and there an?

plenty of books regarding this matter.
The sixth is the knowledge of mathematics with all its
types and there are four types, one of them is the numbers
with its transactions, algebra and mathematical problems.
The second is geometry with two kinds; the science of
geometry and the practice of geometry and then follows
land surveying, fractions, weight lifting, industries, water
and air tricks, geometrical shapes and visions. The third
type is the stars and followed by engineering, the forms,
the amendments, the law and squaring. The forth type is
music and is followed by the beat as well as metrics.
The seventh is the knowledge of logic, which is
surrounded bv eight books, the first wise man had guided
us and lit our minds and visions.
The eighth is the knowledge of all types of medicine as
a science and practical knowledge and under this science
there is pharmacology, surgeries and eye operations.
The ninth is the knowledge of nature. There are plenty
of books, which were written by Al-Hakim and was
handled by many others that explained his books and tried
to divide them as much as they could so after they
managed to divide them they made each element of nature
in a separate book. The first divided book is about the
traditions, the second was the book of the skies and the
world, the third was the book of the universe and the
corruptions, then the forth was the book of hig
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the book of plants, the seventh was the book of animals,

the eighth was the book of soul, the ninth was the book of
feelings and the feeling of things, the tenth was the book of
health and sickness, then the eleventh was the book of the
location movements of animals. Who ever gets the chance
to read the information and knowledge in these books will
have the complete knowledge of nature.
The tenth is the knowledge of the after nature and the
Al-Hakim had combined this knowledge in thirteen
articles that gives every reader the complete connection
and the hope to reach to desires.
To reach to these two fine results it was not possible
until we had reached to the latter knowledge first and we
could not have realized it and obtain it till we were able to
study and understand all these sciences, so the complete
philosopher is the one that has all this knowledge as the
first rulers did and you need reader to affect your world
by achieving a success that as close as possible to
perfection as Allah desired from man to do on earth
wonders with his knowledge as he mentioned in the Holy
Quran "I'm making on earth a successor".
Abu Bishx Mita Bin Yunis, in the book that he wrote
about Aristotle's eighth explanation for nature, he
included an argument that Tabit ibn Qurra had with
another man about Allah's power and his creations. Qurra
said that God is capable of everything and anything in the
world, he is the creator. He is even capable to make the
total of divided number five in five, less than twenty-five
or more. So the man was unable to argue back with Qurra
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By being aware and having understanding for such1
knowledge makes your enjoyment greater with passionate
love, which is highly praised. As the passionate loves
limits are the extreme kind of love and some praise it and
other do not The praised kind requires watching the soul
from railing in extreme passion, but to give so much love
and passion only to the lover and all the goods in this kind
of love. The dispraised kind of love is the extreme love of
the bodily desires, to the pictures and figures and to the
rosy pleasures. The passionate love unites between the
soul of the lover and the soul of the other lover under
certain circumstances in the first locations, as the passion
for love could be because of a reason or an occasion or to
be around majority of people till the love strikes one of
them and he be called lover and the other is not aware of
this love and here are some of the principles of this kind.
The reasons exist in the nature of the souls and the reasons
that come out of i t as the embodied souls have three;
kinds, animal soul, plant soul and articulate soul. So if the
plant soul is powerful and dominator in the embodied soul
that soul becomes passionate for bodily desires towards
food and drinks. If the animal soul was powerful an*B
dominator in the embodied soul then it becomes
passionate to victory, mightiness and revenge and if the
articulate soul dominated then the passion becomes
towards all virtuous and knowledge. All this happens in
the first stage and that is because each person should be
possessed by a planet in his root and birth, so if the rx
was possessed by the Moon, Venus or Saturn his nature
would be dominated with desires towards foods and
drinks and marriages and if the person was possessed with
Mars, the Sun or Venus his nature would be dominated
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possessed by the Sun and Mars then his nature would be

dominated with the desire of anger, revenge and the
passion for ruling. If the person was possessed by the Sun
and Mercury his nature would be dominated with the
passion for knowledge, gaining rightness and justice. If all
this happens to the person and some nature dominated his
passion, then the passion of love starts and in the
beginning it is all in the looks and that becomes like a seed
or a branch that just got planted or like the drop of the
fetus that just landed in the womb. The moments then is
just like a liquid that pours in the soul and keeps on
increasing and growing and getting closer to the one he
loves till he gets love back. Then he is able to be alone with
his love and it gets easier to get a hug and a kiss from the
lover till the souls combines and that is the cause of the
bodily passion. The combination of love between lovers, as
if the person follows the articulate soul he would love the
same kind towards the knowledge and righteous and the
eternal desires, toward the passion of the righteous of the
articulate soul and the two other kinds. With this love the
souls unite with the continuing of the looks.

Plato mentioned in his book The Book of the Souls that

the people with hard nature and the evil eye are extremely
harmful and corrupt to what it sees and likes. Plato has
compared it to a hard animal that is in a hard dried place
surrounded with mountains, and ruins everything in sight
just by looking at it and that is related to the corruption in
its soul and nature. This kind get to envy a lot for every
good thing they see, that is why we should bless every
thing and be proud to do that as that comes from the first
position commencing in astronomy and it could be
inherited from mood commencement The ancients called
that the universe and generating rule in the knowledge of
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natures. You need to know reader, that there are two

organs that create the generating. First organ give?; the
material that which forms the animal that has all that
power and the second gives the picture of that kind of
animal and moves the material rill that picture is complete.
The power that gives the material is the power of the
female and the one that gives the picture is the power of
the male, as the female is a female with the power that
prepares the material for and the male is a male with the
power that gives that material the picture of the kind that
has that power and the organ that serves the heart to
prepare the material to the female which is the womb. The
womb serves in giving the picture, which is the male organ
and it has the semen, if it passed by the womb it sees the
blood that the womb prepared to accept the picture of the
human. The semen gives the power to the blood to move
with itfallit becomes human organs and the figure of each
organ and on the whole the shape of the human. The blood
in the womb is the material of the human and the semen is
the mover to that material till the shaping happens. The
position of the semen to the blood that is prepared in the
womb is like the position of the thickening layer on top of
the milk, the layer is the active in this role that thickens
and it is not a part of thickener or the material also the
semen is not a part of the thickener in the womb and not a
material either. The fetus forms from the semen from the
blood of the womb as the thick layer forms on the top of
the milk. As also the pitcher forms of copper. The tubes
that have the semen in are also the ones that form in the
human body and it is also the veins under the skin of the
penis that supports the testicles. These vanes penetrate the
tube in the penis, so it flows through these veins to the
tube of the penis, then it flows through that tube till it

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pours in the womb and gives the blood that is in it at the

start power that changes with it till the organs have its
picture. The semen is the tool of the man and there are two
kinds of tools. Separate tools and continual tools. Like the
doctors hand is considered the continual tool like the
surgeon's knife, the medicine is considered the separate
tool and it becomes a continual tool when the doctor uses
the medicine in his treatment to provide the body of the
patient with power mat leads it to health. The power that
the doctor pours in the ill persons body live or dead is
continual, also the semen and the surgeon's scalpel are
tools that do not work without the continual of the doctor
that use these tools. The hand is considered in this case
more powerful than the scalpel. As for the medicine, it
works with the power within without the doctors
continual need, so too the semen it is the tool of the man
and it is the generator and separator power like the
medicine. The tubes of the semen and the testicles are the
birth tools that is continual for the body like the hands of
the doctor are continual in treating patients.

Let us not forget that virility is an active power in

plants and animals. The virility in animals is found in
some and femininity is found in others, but in plants
masculinity and femininity are together compared to equal
a complete person and like a lot of plants that form from
seeds, the plant gives the material which is the seeds and
gives with it the picture and the power to move with it the
shape as the one that gives the acceptance of the shape is
the femininity power and the one that gave the principle to
move towards the shape is the masculine power. Some of
the animals have something similar to that as some has a
complete femininity power beside a small amount of the
musicalitv power but as mat is not enough they need an
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external assistance like the ones that have their eggs with
the help of the wind. There are kinds of fish that have their
eggs and bury them so the males find it and moist these
eggs. Then the eggs that get misted by the male forms to be
animals and any egg that does not get rotten.
The human body is not like that at all as these two
powers are specialized individually in two bodies each
body has its own organs and these are among the known
body parts- They share some of the parts and they share
the souls except the womb, the testicles and the parts
related to it. The male parts are hotter because he has more
action and movement and he is also more powerful in
motion and in the mental reactions as some lead to powers
like anger and gallantry and they are more powerful in
males than females. Some of the reactions lean toward
weaknesses like mercy, compassion and delicacy and those
are more powerful in females than males. That does not
stop some males from having mental reactions like females
and some females have mental reactions like males and
that is how we differentiate between males and females.

There is also wisdom in splitting all the seeds, the

splitting is a sign for a single muscular split and another
feminine split and each seed is described thus. As we can
see that sesame is two parts, wheat and barley are pairs,
the oak, the nut and all the seeds are divided to two
sections and there is some wisdom in that otherwise what
other reason could be in dividing the seeds. The ancients
say that the human being is the same way too because he is
half cold and half hot- So the feminine power gets excited
with the masculine but it is not enough on its own to form
birth unless with the help of another human that also gets
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complete each other and form the necessary need to form

the birth.

I have brought to you reader, wisdom and spiritual

charming as a symbol for you and as an explanation and
revealing the secrets of nations that were buried under
thousands of symbols. We have brought to you in this
book some from their knowledge and some of their
charms. So you be aware to keep this as a secret to your
self or only share it with others from the same knowledge.
Now let's get back to our original purpose.
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O
NE OF THE INDIAN PHILOSOPHERS that
was the debater and responsible for much of the
wisdom of the Indian knowledge in this field,
had made incenses from earthly power that tied
and united the charms with the divine world- They used
these charms in all their general needs. The spirits of the
planets were flowing over them and it was used for tying
or untying the charms for them and it was nol special for
one desired action but it was for every benefit offered by
the planets.

^INCENSE OF THE S U N ^
The first of these incenses is the incense of the Sun as it
requires taking five small amounts of safftawer spike, yellow
and red sandalwood, three small amounts of galingale, red
wisteria skin, two small amounts of chestnut, ten small
amounts of birds and eagles brains and blood, the brain and
blood amounts should be equal. Gather all and grind then
mix with honey any foam that was drained there from.
Make loafs; each loaf should weigh half dirham. Then dry
it in the Sun and when you use them you call and ask for
the spirit of the Sun the mandator)' with its matters in the
six directions so the powers unites in the mixture. Put
aside the mixture and use as you need.
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'INCENSE OF THE MOON"^

The second incense is for the Moon and that requires:
taking fifty small amounts of peadi leaves and cinnamon, ten
small amounts of peeled dried hibiscus, five small amounts
of cumin, two small amounts of white snake fat, ten small
amounts from each dried rabbit brains and white cats and
twenty small amounts of dried fox blood. Gather all after
grinding what needs to be grinded and sieved out. Then
mix with honey drained from any foam. Make loafs like we
have mentioned earlier in the incense of the Sun, then tie
the spirit of the Moon with the spirits of the mixture to the
six directions. Then as we also mentioned, continue on
calling the Moon with its spirits names from all directions
using the mixture. Then put aside the rest and use as you
need.

^INCENSE OF JUPITER^
The third incense is for Jupiter and that requires taking
five small amounts of dried marjoram and myrtle flowers,
seven small amounts of hush-grass, two small amounts of
dried nut seed and hazelnut, twenty small amounts of dried
rooster, pigeon and duck brains, ten small amounts each of
dried peacock and camel blood, three ounces of musk and
camphor. Make sure the blood you need to use is taken
from the major vanes that pump to the heart. Gamer, grind
and sieve out the mixture as we have mentioned earlier
and use the same way whenever you need-

^INCENSE OF V E N U S ^
The forth incense is for Venus and that requires taking
four small amounts of laurel, mahaleb and gum seeds, ten

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small amounts of mastic andyres/t green sticks, two small

amounts of bitter fruit, two small amounts of licorice, one
small amount of tin, eight small amounts each of dried birds
and horses or camels brain, twenty small amounts of dried
horse blood. Gather all. grind and dry as we have
mentioned before make loaves the same way to tie the
spirits powers, then use as you need.

^INCENSE OF S A T U R N ^
The fifth incense is for Saturn and that requires taking
fifty small amounts of dried mandrake seeds and olives leaves,
two small amounts of coaster oil plant, five small amounts
each of dried black myrobaian and black chickpeas, fifteen
small amounts of dried ravens, black cats and cranes brains,
twenty small amounts each of dried pig and monkey blood.
These are the ingredients for the spirit incense of 5aturn
and the rest is as we have explained previously for the
other planets.

^INCENSE OF M A R S ^
The sixth incense is for Mars and that includes the
nature of the upper and lower spirits and that requires
taking thirty small amounts of red comfrey, mustard, radish,
two small amounts of water chestnut and red arsenic, ten
small amounts each of dried birds and hedgehog brains,
twenty small amounts of dried tigers blood, five small
amounts of red snakes fat. Kneed all the loaves after drying,
grinding and sieving and tying the powers of the spirits to
the mixture, put it aside and use as you need.
Vou also need to keep these mixtures away for
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put it some place safe and hidden and in a container made

of one of the metals that the planets are connected with
and you need to be careful of the details of making any of
these ingredients as the effect could be harmful if vou
make any mistakes in these charms and later on in the
book I will mention what needs to be done to avoid harm
from any thing that might go wrong while making them.

^INCENSE OF MERCURY^
The seventh incense is for Mercury and that requires
taking ten small amounts each of the roots herbaceous plant,
cedar leaves and grape leaves, two small amounts each of
amber and chinaberry, one small amount of blue liawthorn
may, ten small amounts each of eagles. Iioopoes and turtles
brain, thirty small amounts of red snakes blood. Mix all after
grinding, sieving and drying the brains and the blood.
\Iake loaves as we have mentioned earlier.
The wisdom in these mixtures is to defeat weakness by
tying the spirits with the incenses to get the individual
power of each charm that no one else shares- These
incenses were general charms that the ancient Indian wise
men used and depended on in their general matters and
mutual requirements beside similar wonders that arise
from the heavenly dominations and the spirit actions.

^INCENSE OF M O S E S ^
One of the written scripts which is mentioned in
Moses' Torah (Pease be upon him) talked about the charm
of incenses, that was mentioned in the meeting between
Moses and God. It has been said that God told Most
brace himself and for that he needs to use this mixtui

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incense and he told him how he needs to make it Moses

needed to take five hundred small amounts of the good
sweet myrrh and half of that amount of redolence good
smelling cinnamon; two hundred and fifty small amounts
each of cane powder and chestnut (make the weight that you
use for this ingredient Jerusalem's measurements which
equals twenty dirham). Then add one dry measure of
bitter, new, good quality oil and use that as an oil to
consecrate sanctuaries, domes, graves of testimonies,
tables and all its belongings, minarets and the rest of the
places. This was the script written in the Torah and I
brought it up to you reader as an example for some of the
ancient's secrets.

^INCENSE OF CONSECRATION^;
There is also another script that showed different
incense and this one is made with a small amount each of
styrax. tlie lioney ofstorax and good smelling gum and mix it
with aromatic spices till it is a past)1 mixture and then uses
that to consecrate the dome of time, the front of the grave
of testimonies.
All the knowledge mat I have mentioned in my book is
the result of the hard work of the nations and the ancients,
you need to realize reader the wisdom in this knowledge
and to keep these secrets to yourself and not to share them
with any one just like the ancients inherited this
knowledge and kept it to themselves or only shared it with
othersfromthe same field.

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^•INDIAN INCENSE OF MERCURY'S;

The Indian wise men have reached to some assembled
formulas that had strange effects that I would like to
mention as they are known to be the best in the field of this
knowledge. The first of these formulas is the one they
called Mercury's formula and they used that to spread the
spirit of knowledge, intelligence, insight, acceptance and
deliberate-ness. The wav is made is by taking twenty small
amounts of the/a/ of eadi sand grouse, crayfish and slicep
after cleaning it by melting i t then take ten small amounts
of amber, twenty small amounts of dried hoopoe blood, five
small amounts of each of dried pomegranate leaves and citron
seeds, twenty five small amount of chestnut. Mix all
together after melting and grinding and sieving, then add
the fat and tie the spirit of Mercury with this mixture
calling on Mercury' as we previously mentioned. Then von
put this mixture in the graves of testimonies in a container
made of mercury that is knotted by the knot of the wise-
men till the need to use it to wipe stuff with or cense with
it and this is one of the wonders of the Indians and their
secrets. When some of them needed to establish a low, he
would use some of this mixture for himself and his friends
and that would make the spirits favor them then the rest of
the world and lift them above the others and honor their
requests.

^ I N D I A N INCENSE OF S A T U R N ^
The Indians had another assembled formula where the
spirit of its incense spreads the fear in people's hear
the ignorance spreads on a group oi people till they
establish a holy law, so thev made this formula and it is a
Saturnine formula to keep the ignorance, stupidity and
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slothfulness away from them. The way it is done is by

taking twenty small amounts of each of pigs and wolves fat
after cleaning and melting i t ten small amounts of each of
wallflower seed and lupine seed, twenty small amounts of
blade myrrh, five small amounts of caster oil seed, fifteen
small amounts of dried elephant blood, mix all as we
mentioned earlier after grinding, sieving, drying and
clearing the ingredients. You make one whole body by
rvmg the divine force with the earth's power with words. I
need to add one useful point to this matter which is that all
these formulas and the incense charms of planets and the
oil incenses requires purifying before use, to be able to tic
the mixtures with the spirits, even your animals that you
are using as a sacrifice for the honor of that planet. As for
this mixture of Saturn's formula, put it in the grave of
testimonies like the others in a container made of lead
away from the eyes of other humans till the time you need
to use it for wiping or as an incense.

^ S P I R I T PROTECTION FORMULA^
This assembled formula is the one I mentioned earlier
to keep the harm away from the charm maker if anything
goes wrong and this formula is called the formula of
keeping the ordinary spirits harm away, so it does not
attack and harm the charm maker and it is similar to the
Indian beads that they used to keep the poisons away from
harming and it is used for all sections of all the planets.
The way to make this formula is by taking three small
amounts of eagle blood, two small amounts of white dog's
brain, four small amounts each of peacock and chickens brain,
two small amounts of bird's brain, one small amount of
Egyptian culture's brain and three small amounts of the male

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hedgehog's blood. Gather all the brains and dry them, then
add after grinding and sieving two small amounts of
cinnamon, sandalwood and spikenard, half a small amount of
water cltestnut, ten small amounts of amber, three small
amounts of azalea, five small amounts of bu$h~gras$, two
small amounts of musk, one small amount camphor, eight
small amounts of cinchona and two small amounts of
mandrake. Mix all very well with olibanum and make seven
beads, leave it to dry in the shade and as you are mixing
and drying it, do not stop using the words of purifying
and tving the mixture with the calls of the spirits of the
required need, as the spirits remains with the mixture once
it is dried and never crosses with any harm back on the
charm maker. You need to hold one of these beads as you
are working on any charm for any planet

^ I N D I A N SOLAR O I L - ^
There is another assembled formula the Indians used
and they called it the Sun's oil and this formula is also one
of the wonders that they have used to solemnize kings,
rulers and nobles. The way its made is by taking a glass
bottle and wipe it with pure rote oil, then approach the Sun
if it was clear on a Tuesday and you make sure that the
Sun then is facing Aries or Leo and the Moon is facing the
Sun. Then hold the bottle in your right hand as you are
facing the Sun and you say:
Peace be upon you O Luminous Planet, ho-
wonderful you are and how loonderful your appearance is,
O Spirit of the Sun, the Golden, you are the existence of the
world, the luminous of them all, the tight of the orbit,
you're the efficient, you are the one that created the pivot
of the Sun in the four corners of the world and gave the
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Sun four faces in summer and winter. You have arranged

the completion of the Moon without a veil Give me in this
oil the love and acceptance until the love of all the people
to me runs in their hearts and defeats the rulers, kings and
rulers, it is me, I beg you my lord to make in the hearts and
mind of all this people and in all the places they gather, so
much love and happiness to me and to mighty me. I beg
you my Lord ANTOOR the one that sits in the orbit, O
HARTIYOON, AKTARYA, AOODA, YAMOORA, to give
this oil I'm holding in my hand the love in the hearts of all
kings, presidents and nobles so they are never an enemy to
me and to return to me with love and obey and make them
rush in pleasing me. I beg you my Lord SLTYOBAROON
the one that sits in the fifth sky, to tie the tongues and the
hearts of any one wishes harm to me, make no one can say
anything or think anything bad about me, make them
can't talk with any harm to me at all, at all I beg you my
Lord SUSIP the one that sits in the sixth sky to tie the
tongues, words and the thoughts of my enemies and to
spread my love into their hearts. It is me my Lord
BARHAWT the one that sits in the seventii sky to give me
the love and the best logic, the well praise on me from
others. Give me in this oil, plenty of love and acceptance
as a must on every human day and night In the name of
the loved one the live, the one that with him all hearts
harmonize and the moderate in moodiness give an extreme
love in peoples hearts towards me that lasts for eternity
and forever and ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,
ever, ever, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen.

Then you save that oil and use it on your face and
body when you will meet kings or nobles, then you will
see wonders from them.

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I
N THE BOOK OF ABU BAKR IBN WAHSHIJA under
the name Nabataean Agriculture he talks about the
Nabataeans and some of their talismans and he says:
"some of the wise-men had a long story about the
laurel tree and how it talked to the vineyard keeper as one
day he was sleeping in the middle of the garden and
surrounded with four laurel trees and he dreamt that one
of the trees told him, "Hey human do you have in your
garden anything better then me? Or who could say that
they have seen a tree like me". So the vineyard keeper said
"What is the meaning of this?" and the tree said "You need
to know my superiority over all the other trees and my
high standing with Jupiter so you can sympathize with me
and take care of me in watering and planting and in return
I will tell you what you need to do, get up at midnight and
bring with you some of the gillyflower oil, grease me with
the oil then lift you head to the sky and look at Jupiter and
say "Aye the source of all happiness, add to my life and to
my time fifteen years" and for sure you will be granted
fifteen more years more life above your life from that
date". "Then you need to say "1 mediate to you with this
tree". Then the tree told the vineyard keeper that he needs
to try it and he will find that it is true and it is useful to
grant him his wishes. The tree also said that he will see the
superiority and the high standing of the tree under
Jupiter's rulership. That is why the tree was called the
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called it the "Who have seen anything like me" tree. Abu
Wahshija claimed that in this story there is great
knowledge and a successful sign that this tree is a special
tree with special gift-
There are other stories that were written specifically
about the laurel tree that 1 would like to mention to you
reader so vou can see how many weird effects this tree has.
one of them is if you take fourteen laurel tree seeds. Dry
them on an iron mill that has a very low coal fire for an
hour. Then grind the seeds some more till thev are
completely powder, put them in a clean bowl and cover it
with wine vinegar- Beat it with a branch of fig tree and
when any person drinks that he will turn into a crazy
person that is not aware of any one around him and won't
know what is wrong with him. The onlv wav to remove
the spell and end this persons madness is to feed that
person three medium steed radishes with their leaves
sliced into small pieces and the person should eat it all
without leaving any pieces behind, then the effect of that
madness will go away in about an hour as soon as the
radish starts to digest in his stomach.
It has also been said that if you pick one leal of the
laurel tree without dropping it to the ground and put it
behind your ear you wouldn't get drunk no matter how
much you drink and you wouldn't get any headache from
drinking either. Is not that a strange charm?
If you also take from the laurel tree leaves a moist leaf
and as you are grinding it mix it with one small amount Of
jonquil and good vinegar, then you put some of that on
any part of your body and you put on that part a red hot
iron bar you won't feel anything, also if you use it en your

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hands and hold a red hot iron bar it won't burn you or
harm vou at alL
There is a similar story that was told by Shifahy but
this one was on the hollyhock tree that Shifahy claimed
that is as magical as the laurel tree. He said that this tree
used to talk to him in his sleep all the time and while he is
awake too. Every time he heard the tree telling him
anything he would immediately write it down rearing that
he might forget it. So one night the tree came to his dream
and told him "vou need to know that mv name is one of
Mercury's names and you think that I'm only a hollyhock
tree. I had so many arguments and disputes with
mandrake because he claims that he is entitled with this
position rather than me and that everything in the ground
is his, he knows that he cannot change his location, nature
and specialties. The mandrake is so ignorant and stupid
for claiming all this and what I sav is impossible, he says it
is possible to be done. I ask you Shifahy to write to the
wise-men of Babel so they can judge between me and
mandrake, as thev know so much more about this
knowledge then you do and as you know 1 can not write to
people or tell them anything I want 1 told you because 1
have chosen you for this mission over all the other
people". Then the tree disappeared in the air as soon as it
was done talking and Shifahy never saw the tree again. So
he wrote to Babel's wise-men and he received an answer
that savs "We have received your letter and we were very
pleased for your safety- The hollyhock tree for us is not in
the same importance as the mandrake tree, the mandrake
has greater position and more valuable to us because of its
actions and use and even in its harms- Yet with all this, the
mandrake is tricky, shifty and we can not stand his
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against hollyhock but just to prevent his evilness, as both

of the trees have the same nature of coldness, heaviness,
slowness and they are both belong to two strong planets.
Mercury and his father Saturn. These plants are intelligent
and we were surprised to know that there is a dispute
between them as the disputes and evilness would happen
between two fools, but to happen between two intelligent
plants is surprising as they should not have any dispute or
evil. For a dispute to happen between two intelligent
plants there has to be a cause that would lead to that but
when it happens between two fools, it just happens
because of their nature. The intelligent have one cause for
dispute but ignorant have two causes as the dispute then
would happen for so many causes and not from one cause.
We have judged for mandrake plant as we use it a lot in
our work and it does a great effect. We also use the
hollyhock plant in some places and some certain
situations, like connecting, passion and deep sympathy
and in some charms that requires the benefit of hollyhock.
But the mandrake plants effect in evil is more powerful
and we use it more for that reason". So 1 brought the letter
to the hollyhock tree and informed it with its arrival. Then
I left and the hollyhock tree came to me in my sleep and I
told it what the wise-men have decided and that thev said
that they have judged for me not for him by saving that!
am good and he is evil and also by saying that they praise
him and prefer him because of his evilness is a great proof
that I am better. Just as there are in animals, the
maliciousness between them like predatorv aninials you
would fear them for their evilness. Or like the kinds of
snakes that are terrifying in their evilness, but because they
are evil they are miserable and burdensome not like the
good ones which eat the grass and are happy for being
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good and that is why the snakes are sought to be killed but
the fish and turtles are safe and happy. So the wise men
actually judged him with evilness and fear but 1 am better
and happier- Just like those who are good in human kind
are better than those who are bad among them in all the
many ways and the only exception between bad and good
are the comfortable consciences of the good and the
uncomfortable consciences of the bad. As the one with the
comfortable in conscience enjoys the life and its food and
drinks but the bad ones cannot enjoy anything because
their hearts are always busy with evil". That why Shifahy
the wise-man of Al-Garamika ordered his people to build
in their statues a figure of a man holding in his right hand
a branch of the hollyhock tree as he is leaning on the tree
itself and the knots in the tree showing clearlv a great
snake rapt around it and on the top of the branch there is a
cross made of gold and the snake mouth is wide open
facing the man. Due to this statue this group of people has
so much knowledge and magical symbolism in using the
hollyhock and the mandrake tree in their charms.

Abu Bakr Tbn Wahshija has written also in his book

that he called Ttie Secrets of Mercury some of the mandrake
tree's symbols and effects in talismans. In the Nabataean
Agriculture book it has also been said that if you look at the
hollyhock trees flowers you feel happy and it takes all the
bad feelings and problems away and that is done by
moving around the tree and looking at it from all sides.
There is also the laurel tree that is against human kind
not in nature but in features, which are capable of
changing hearts. The wise-men use it in their talismans just
as they used the mandrake and hollyhocks and it is also
called the tree of the Djinn as they go to it at night after
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sunset to gather and hide under it. Also if women smell its
flowers they get so sexually aroused that thev have a
strong desire to have sex like the birds in spring and the
wolves in winter and usually the women harm themselves
from the extreme sex desire that they feel. The wise-men
also said that if someone took a branch with Jeaves from
the laurel tree and put it on his head like a wreath would
get very happy suddenly for no particular reason just an
extreme happiness in his heart
Also if vou take one flower, one leaf and some of the
root of the laurel tree, and you put the flower, leaf and root
in a tin made of fine silver, then cover it with white silk
cloth and white silk thread, then put it in your pocket,
hang it on your clothes or put it in your sleeve, thai u ill
cause everyone who sees you to feel an acceptance and
admiration in their heart towards vou and if vou had anv
need from any of them they will accept granting your
request with no objection.
There is another tree that is called Abraham tree that
also has weird features and it is used in a lot of charms for
it has great affect and power. According to Sokolonya the
messenger of the Sun if you take five pounds of mandrake
fruit and leaves with Kotrip tree leaves and fruit (It
tree that grows in the Nabataean and (Canaan areas) and
put the leaves on top of each other with the fruit in
between, then take one pound soft green branches from
Abraham tree and wrap it on the leaves and the fruit, then
take three leaves from cauliflower leaf and wrap it around
the whole thing and put it in a clean place to putrefy and
cover it with twenty-one flowers of Abraham tree and
pour on ail this four pounds of churned cow milk and one
drop of tar. Put the mixture in a container made oi

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and cover it. Dig a hole in soft ground three and a half
cubits deep. Put the mixture in the bottom of the hole and
fill the hole with donkey urine and leave it for an hour till
the ground absorbs the urine, then cover it very well with
dirt and leave it there for forty-nine days. Then take out
the mixture and open it and you will find an animal in the
shape of a fish that has two wings like a bat and two
goggled eyes like the crabs eyes and two hands that have
five fingers in each and a bottom like the tail of a fish. Do
not hold it with hands, leave it in the container for one to
three hours in the sun as it will die during that time and
you will know it is dead when it stops moving. Leave it in
the container and cover the lid and leave it there for seven
days without touching it. When you open it after seven
days you will find that it has split into pieces and mat is a
sign of attainment and awareness of the purpose of
making it. Then Sokolonya mentioned a couple of the
functions that this mixture is capable of doing and he said
that if you go to a wide open deserted area or on top of a
mountain at a time during the day where you can see the
planets and the sun in the sky and take with you a brazier
with coal and a small part of this animal without touching
it and with the use of an iron hook put it in a container.
Then add to it dried Kotrop plant and mandrake and put it
on the brazier till the smoke rises to the sky. Add some
bull's gallbladder and some of gladiolus tree to the
mixture. As the smoke starts rising to the sky from the
brazier a huge noise and fearful roar will erupt, that
people will be able to hear for miles away and that horrible
noise will continue as long as the smoke rises up in the
sky. Then as the smoke dies out the planets will disappear
to the visible eye one after the other just as the noise will
fade slowly.
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There are some other wonders about magical feats and

other talismans, written by Daghreeth in his book that he
called the Secrets of tfie Sun and he said that there are other
uses for this animal in talismans and weird magical feats.
As each part of this fish is used for a different purpose and
those who use it and it's oil and fat are the talisman
makers of Saturn.
Abu Bakr claimed in his book that the magicians told
him that any milk, oil and grease taken from any plant can
be used in any potion and that is because the milks and the
oils are faster in granting the request behind the potion
than any other. Like the potion they have, which can get
any person they wish that drinks from that formula
sick in the bod v and in the heart.
Then Abu Bakr also said that there is a big dispute
between the Caidaeans and the Kanaanites over this issue,
as each group claims that they are the ones that created
this formula. Even Tashid Bin Al-Kanaany went as far as
sending Anuha a letter scolding him about their claims, of
being visited and inspired by Mercury's spirit Me also said
that the Kanaanites are the one that reached this
knowledge and all these wonders with their own minds,
like the potion of the milk that gets any one who drinks it
very sick in body and in heart Tashid said that is more
effective then him claiming being visited and granted the
acceptance of Mercury's spirit He also told Anuha that his
mind made him think that he had found a potion in the
fruit of caraway but in reality he can't reach to the level of
the wise-men and ail the potion makers.

According to Kothamy that the first one was ab!<:

reach to this knowledge is Masy and he said that Masy had
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written a book about it and that he lived for a hundred and

eighty years after Adam his grand father died. He wrote in
his book how to prepare the animal that you can use his fat
in charms and also how to prepare the plants that you can
use its oil in making potions and he has explained all that
in long detail in his book.
Kothamy also said that there is a great effect in using
myrtle and mixing it with other ingredients that he does
not like talking about because he does not have so much
knowledge about it, but he said that the Nabataeans are
the ones that know how to use it in potion that affect
peoples souls and he said that they do that by shaping the
plant from the root and give it the shape or the figure of
the man or the woman they chose and they write their
names on i t Thev add the figure of an animal with that
human and this could be a lion or snake or any other
poisonous animals like scorpions and they make those
figures around the shape of the man or woman. Then they
make all the preparations matching the time and hour of
the planet they are aiming for. Then once the potion is
done that person gets sick with any of these animals
diseases and becomes crazy, scared and in so much pain.
Then Kothamy said mat the magicians are people he fears
to interfere with and will not say anything about them
because they are extremely dangerous and evil and could
harm him.

From the other useful plants that are used in potions is

the olive tree as Rawahty mentioned in his poem that he
wrote in his book The Cultivation, he said "This tree has
lived in glory as it says "I am the golden that my oil is in
the color of the gold and has a cure for ninety-eight
diseases. There is no other oil that strengthens the heart
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and builds the body and pleases the soul other than my oil.
I am the blessed that if any one picks any of my branches,
leaves and fruit and stored it in their homes they would
never see any poverty, grief or worries and that person
would live with his family for a whole that vear a very
blessed life away from any desolation or scruple or evil
thoughts. I am the blessed in that anyone who would hold
and hug me with his hands every day at sun rise, I would
give him happiness and joy all day and keep away anv
harms, worries, disability, sadness and bad evil thoughts.
I'm the tree of Saturn the heavy, the slow in motion- I am
its greatest and largest name, I am the company that even'
lonely one enjoys, I am the one that removes the
misfortunate and bad luck, I am the one that rebuilds the
ruins. Since the beginning my blessings with the regions of
Persia, Garamikah and Sudan were able to have the best
habitation, the oldest engravings, long lasting and most
solid fortifications, the biggest and longest rivers, the
coldest wind, the clearest directions, the highest orbits, the
longest tail and the best and mightiest place*.

Rawahty said that Daghreeth mentioned in his book

that there is a group among the ancients who would take
some of the olive trees fruit and leaves at the time that the
Sun is facing the head of Aries, the head of Cancer, the
head of Libra and the head of Capricorn and they put it in
their homes to be blessed with and they used it as a good
omen and for safer)' and they would live longer and be
healthy.
Then he also said that if at the time the Moon and
Mercury was in Gemini and you buried some citron as it is
in the root of the olive tree and you dug it deep till the
citron is touching the root of the olive tree and yofl
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covered it with dirt about a cubit high and poured water

on i t after seventeen days in that spot a plant will grow
that looks like the rice plant that burns with fire and the
ancients used this plant in their charm making.
Daghreeth said that if any person would take from the
branches of the olive tree the ones that have only green
leaves on it and without any yellow leaves and that is in
the first hour of the day of the first of the month when the
Moon is crescent Then put that branch in the house for
one month then take another branch and put it the place of
the first one and take the first one, put it on the brazier and
burn it and keep doing that every month as that will
protect you from Saturn's epidemic and make your soul
happy all the time and you will never get worried or
troubled. It was claimed also that who does this his wealth
would be blessed and would increase and that death
would stay far from him till he is old and if you add to it
some of the palm tree root it will make every one in that
house healthy and never get sick and if they looked every
day at the branches with the green leaves on it mat will fix
their eye sight and make it better.

Also if you take ninety olive seeds, clean then until

they are smooth- Then make a hole in them and run a thick
black silk thread in them and hang it in the room of a
lonely and scared person this charm will take those feeling
away and replace it with more happy feelings and
confidence and also will change his nature to be more
social and add good thoughts and feelings to his heart
instead of hateful feelings.
Also if vou take seven olive seeds and stand facing the
Sun and throw them one by one with all your power at the
Sun and sav: O Sun have mercy on me and cure me from
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this disease or sickness. That disease or sickness would be

cured even if the person had it for years and you need to
do it seven times with total of forty nine olive seeds.
Also if you take a hundred and seventeen olive seeds
and wash them with hot water very well, then with a cold
water very well, then dry them well with a clean cloth and
add oil to i t Then put the seeds in the shirt sleeve of your
left arm and go to a running river and look at the water
and say- O Rtmning Water that is against t)ie burning pre,
calm the anger of (this person) and remove the hate he has
for me from his heart and replace it with love then you
throw a seed in the water and repeat your words till you
have said your prayer for a hundred and seventeen times
and have thrown all your seeds in the water. That wffl
calm the anger of that person on whomever even if he waft
a tyrant and stubborn king that no one can stand and even
if he was extremely angry, this will remove the hate and
anger and replace it with acceptance and love.

Also if you take a bottle made of crystal or glass th3t is

very white and dear, then you fill it with a clear oil and
seal its top very well, then you look at that bottle many
times a day and everyday it will strengthen your eye sight
and keep any diseases away from you, when you do that
you make sure you are sitting in the shade and the bottle is
in the Sun and that will give a great happiness in the soul
and increase the wealth and acceptance in the heart of
whom sees you.
Also if you had a water spring that the water decreases
more than the usual amount it usually flows in, take a
pretty young slave and make her sit by the spring on
something high, then order her to play the flute
continuously for three hours during the dav and to p
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the flute as she playing it towards the water spring. Then

you order another slave girl as pretty and as young either
similar in age or younger than the first one, to take a drum
and as she is playing on the drum to sing in her best voice
and the first one with the flute to follow this second slave's
singing, then the water will rise and increase in the spring
either at that moment or after fourteen hours from that
time or in the same time of that flute playing for three
hours and the singing of the second for six hours so the
total of nine hours will rise and increase the water in the
spring the next day so much more than the usual amount
There is another charm that you can do for increasing
the water and that is to take a couple pretty and virgin
slave girls and order them to dress m different color
dresses that do not match each other, then you give two of
them flutes to play with, one of them a drum, the others an
musical instrument a mandolin and the last one a different
kind of flute. Then as they are facing the water spring thev
play the instruments and sing as they are standing about
two cubits away from the spring, then slowly as they are
playing and singing move further away from the water,
they do that till they are twenty cubits away from the
water. Then they approach the water slowlv the same way
they went further away from it and without stopping, they
continue playing and singing, they do that till they are one
cubit dose to the water. They do this for a full seven times
and the water will rise and increase more that before either
at the same moment or after that within a little while.

The ancient Indians said that the using the bush-grass

in their charm formulas is very useful and important for
their thoughts and minds even the people around that they
smell the smoke of it and the Indians used it as an incense
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for their statues or even chewing it. The Kasdamyoon has

said that bush-grass is accepted by all statues and images,
which is why it is used in all the incenses and formulas.
From these formulas there is one among them where
the bees do not come near the bee keeper when he gets
dose to the bee hive to get the honey out and that is by
taking powdered hibiscus leaves and wet it with oil then
rub it all over the body or any part which will be revealed
to the bees.
There is also the charm that Kothamy said he tried for
killing fleas is by taking colocynth seed with quicklime
and the root of Egyptian cucumber. Grind mem and add
some stinky red comfrey. Melt plenty of salt in water and
soak the mixture in that water, then spray it around the
beds and the house and you will never see any fleas again.
There is a formula used for rotten alcoholic drinks if
they are already rotten or about to be rotten and taste like
vinegar and the way it is done is by taking chickpea, rub it
with oil and put it in a pan, fry it on very low heat and stir
it constantly. Then grind it after it cools down and add to
the alcoholic drinks according to their sourness and level
of rottenness starting from two ounce to quarter pound to
one third of a pound in each ten bottles. Then leave it sit
the same amount of lime that requires making the
alcoholic drinks and that will take the rottenness away.
There is a formula for preventing hailstones from
raining down and the way it is made is by taking a snake
and cut it into pieces and you put piece after piece on the
brazier facing the wind and the smoke of the snake will
prevent the clouds of hailstones from raining down and it
would keep it away from that area.
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The other formula to keep the hailstones away from an

area or a region is by getting three women that had
children and thev go to the area you see the hailstones
cloud coming from and they take their clothes off and lay
on their back with their legs wide open facing with their
privates the hailstones clouds and those clouds will stay
away from that area and not one hail will be rained down.
There is another formula that Masy Al-Surani has tried
to keep the hailstones clouds from rairring down and the
way it is done is by bringing seven men that are holding in
their hands cotton, they throw that cotton towards the
clouds and they have another four men that are
continuously clapping and rising their hands towards the
sky as these men throw the cotton, they also yell loud like
they do to keep the birds and ravens away from their
plants and if you had more men clapping and throwing
cotton to keep the clouds away the process will be faster as
the clouds stay away from that area if the number of the
men reaches forty men or sixty and the number should be
double.

Kothamy has tried a formula that he read for

Yanbushath and the way it is done is bv taking a very
healthy man that has no defect in any of his body parts
and make him hold a big mirror made of shiny metal and
wave it towards the clouds, that will prevent any hailstone
from raining in that region.
Kothamy has mentioned another formula that he tried
from Yanbusliath for keeping the hailstones and any other
harm that comes from clouds and winds and damages
vineyards and that is bv taking a board made of wood or
marble and vou draw grape branches with grapes on it
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and you do this drawing during twenty two days between
January and four days before the month of February and
you put that board in the middle of the vineyard and that
will do the work of a amulet and keep the vineyards from
any disasters from the sky or earth as well as keep the
hailstones away.
There is another charm to keep the wolves and vicious
wild animals away from the vineyards and other crops
and it is made by taking the dung from black dogs and
wolves and mix them with human urine that has been kept
for seven days. Put that any where you want and that will
keep the wild animals like wolves, foxes and pigs away,
you do that for three full davs and that will also keep
snakes and vipers away from the yaxd as thev love the
vineyards and crops when they are first growing as they
like to hide in the branches for their wide shade. The grape
tree is among the coldest trees in the heat that is why the
snakes and vipers hide in its shade to cool off.

Masy Al-Surany said that pomegranate wood and the

smoke from its skin keeps away all snakes- That is whv
one of the ancient kings that was so afraid of snakes he
would put pomegranate branches and the smoke of its
leaves everywhere he gathered.
There is a charm formula that Masy Al-Surany came
up with to keep snakes, geckos, lizards, mice, cockroaches
and beetles away and the way it is done is by taking black
cumin, mustard, henna, deer horn and a hoof of a gout and
mix them with ammonia, then grind it very fine and pour
on wine vinegar till the form of the mixture becomes
doughy, then add pomegranate seeds and grind it very
well and kneed them all together and make small round
shapes of the dough in the size of hazelnuts or chickpea

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and house it in a glass container and use it when you need

to keep snakes or any other harmful vermin and that is by
putting the dough on a brazier and cense the area with it
and all these will run away and as much as there is smoke
coming out the pests like mice, cockroaches and beetles
will run away.
Surdana had a formula to kill mice with that he came
up with by taking lentil and yeast and grinding it with one
*i\th of their weight of flower and add some oil to it, then
make small doughy hazelnut sized balls, then smear the
balls with cheese that has a very strong smell and put them
where the mice are located and when the mice eat them
even a small amount of this will kill them.
There is another charm made in a copper container
With the mix of tartar oil and grinded black veratrum. The
house that has this container will see that the mouse comes
to it for the oil and once they drink from it they get drunk
and fall in the oil and it kills them.
Daghreeth also said that if you want to kill a scorpion
peel a radish and put the skins on the scorpion it
languishes the scorpion all he dies.
Some of the magicians claimed that if you soak beans
in alcohol for one day and night when the Moon is in one
of Saturn's houses then gets cooked the next day and the
person that has a deep love and passion for someone in his
heart will end when he eats for three days and he even
forgets he ever loved that person.
Also if you take the root of asparagus, dry it and
moisten it with sesame seed oil, then wipe your hands and
feet and any part of your body with the mixture and went

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to a bee hive, the bees or wasps will not harm you and if
vou get bit bv a wasp you will not feel i t
There is a grass that grows in Armenia that is very
poisons and the Armenians use it after squeezing it to get
the juice out of it by using a squeezer and not by hand,
then they soak cotton balls in it and they put it in the heads
of their arrows and use it against their enemies at war. As
the poison kills the enemy immediately when the arrow
breaks their skin.
This grass poison is specialized in killing, if it touches
the human skin it does not harm it, if it was eaten or
imbibed it would harm but does not kill. If it was mixed
with iron or touched blood it would kill immediately. It
does not have any cure that would work with it or remove
its harm other than human feces that you take some soft
and some hard of it, if it was soft swallow about two
dirham of it with the same amount of pure violet oil or
rose oil and that will prevent any harm to the person. But
if the feces were hard you take the double amount of the
soft one and you drink it with same amount of grinded
roses. This plant that is mentioned by Kandas is similar to
a mixture that we use that also kills by touching the blood
of the enemy through the arrows breaking the skin.

Then Kandas said that in the region of Kabil and other

Indian areas there is a plant that grows there that is called
Beesh, which is considered one of the most fatal poisons, a
small amount of it like two wheat seeds would kill
someone in four hours. We could not find a cure for it
other than eating hard or soft human feces as it rescues
that human from the certain death by that plant and
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cures from most of the hot poison and cold poison and
from snakes and scorpions poisons.

As for the bite of a snake you need to compress very

fine grinded radish on the wound and the ground radish
will ease the pain and suck the poison out of the body- If
you realize reader all the wisdom, magical charms and
talismans that 1 have brought to your attention about all
the other nation's knowledge in this field, is nothing but a
sign for Allah's great wisdom and blessings that I can't
thank him enough for.
There is another charm that Masy Al-Surany has tried
and that is by taking three dirhams of laurel tree leaves
and seven dirhams of its branches, two dirhams of its
seeds. Dry and grind very fine like powder then add half
of the total weight of the other ingredients and human
feces and kneed all with soft honey and do not make more
then this amount. Then store mis mixture in a silver or
gold container and use it as an antidote for all poison. The
ancients also used to hang laurel trees branches in terrified
little children's rooms to stop their nightmares and fears
and it is very beneficial for them. Also they said if you
plant the laurel tree in the house it would keep evil away
and it would increase the good morals of the people in the
house and they would have a better nature. There is
another plant called shilam and it is a Persian name, this
plant numbs the brain and causes loss of eye sight, it is
very harmful and it is used as an anesthetic. Rawahty said
that the shilam is a kind of anesthetic that anesthetize
people and make them lose their minds and tie their
tongues so they cannot talk or move and that is something
the evil people and the swindler robbers do to rob people's
money and property. Rawahty also said that the shilam is
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one of four anesthetic mixtures and thev are saffron, bush-

grass and the dregs of the wine. Add a small amount to
any food or drink.
Then they add four other mixtures to the first four
mixtures and it becomes eight and that intoxicates and
anesthetizes any person till they loose their minds and
they forget where they are. The other four ingredients are
wild opium, mandrake seed, wild lettuce seeds and
anesthetic seeds. Ibn Wahshija has said in his book that
you need to keep this mixture a secret so your enemies do
not know about because the effect of it is so harmful and
fatal.
Ibn Wahshija also mentioned that rice has a significant
characteristic for magicians as they take a handful and
throw it in a basin that has snakes in it and that makes the
snakes stand on their tails and dance in that basin. This is
what the magicians; tricksters and the eye magicians (The
magicians that their hands are faster than their eves) use to
trick people. The rice plant's other feature is that the green
plant would burn under the sunlight through a
magnifying glass like the Sun bums thin cloth through the
magnifying glass.
Leguminous also has significant features if you mix it
with rye and soak it in wine vinegar for one day and night
and then throw them where the crows and ravens can eat
them the birds will pass out and will not be able to fly or
roove and will not resist if they get picked up by hand.
Also if any one has leprosy started in their body can take a
hand full of leguminous and face the Sun at it is rising in
the morning and say "Aye glorious and great god, here I
throw the leguminous behind my back to cure me of this
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and my soul" every time they say these words they throw
some of the leguminous behind them and repeat the words
till they throw all the leguminous. They need to do this
seven times in seven days when the Moon's light is not
bright or even hidden and they will be cured completely of
leprosy.
Chickpeas also have a special feature and that is if you
have any number of warts take in the same number
chickpea seeds and you do this when the Moon is
opposing from the Sun. Heat the seeds on low fire in a pan
and put it on the warts and remove it quickly. Then wrap
it in a black cloth and tie with a thread. Then throw it
behind you and do not look at it and you will see a great
benefit from this formula. Yanbushath mentioned another
useful formula for chickpeas and he said the way it is done
is by taking a quarter pound of chickpeas seeds and put
them under the Moon when it is very bright for one night.
Then in the morning before the Sun rises, oil the chickpeas
and soak them in water and cook them in the same water
till they are overdone and shred. Then eat it hot or cold
and that will give the heart happiness and will please the
soul, makes you forget all problems and end all bad
thoughts.

Daghreeth said that the Indian cannabis has so many

functions and the Indians use it mostly in their incense
mixture that is used in the temples and some people prefer
it more then the dregs of the wine and Yanbushath said it
is also called the Chinese seed.
Ibn Wahshija said that the Sabistan plant has seeds that
are called the nut seeds or as the mountain people call
mem the Darshishan is mainly used by the magicians as
they sav it is very powerful for separating any two people.
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in dominating people and in works of hate and this plant

is sort of like a sister plant to the laurel tree. It is also the
same plant that the Persians call Fangikisht and the Kurds
eat its bread.
The Nabaraean people had a tradition that they
followed and believed in doing on the night of the first of
April and that is no man, woman or child sleep that night
unless they had a piece of bread, four dates, seven raisins
and a silk wrap that has salt in it, under their pillows
because they believed that the old woman that is called the
servant of Venus comes on that night and goes around and
checks everyone's belly and looks under their pillows and
the ones that she finds with empty bellies and no piece of
bread, raison or dates under his pillow, she would tighten
his income for the whole year and also calls Venus to
dominate him and she would make that person sick till
next year. All the people of Babel followed this tradition
and never railed to do it and that is one of their wonders.

The watermelon also had its own special features

because both the Moon and Mars share this plant so the
magicians claim that if you plant a seed of the watermelon
in a human skull and covered it with dirt then you bury
the skull in the ground and water it all the time the seed
will grow to be a watermelon but whoever eats from this
watermelon their level of intelligence and the quality of
their knowledge will increase. The opposite of that effect
happens if you put the seed in a donkey skull, bur
water it the same way vou normally water the watermelon
plant and the person that eats from it becomes
simplerrunded, stupid and would forget everything- The
magicians use it all the time in their magic and they use
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roots for different purposes to get different effects. They

use it inside of things like skulls and bones and different
animals give different results. The results are different
because of the nature of each animal and the power of the
acceptance and harmony between the two natures but it it
matched with the human nature the result is amazing most
of the time.
The magicians also claimed that if we take a mandrake
seed and some of its root then bury it in the middle of a
watermelon field and leave it there till it grows the effect
that it will have on the watermelons and the people that
eat from it is very amazing and the magicians had divided
their magical work into male and female functions.
1 have read in the month of December in the year three
hundred a book that was written by one of the famous
workers in this field and he is name is Abu Mansur Ai-
Hussein Ibn Mansur also known as Al-Hallaj. He wrote
that the watermelon seeds have many magical functions
such as if you put a watermelon seed in a fresh human
skull and bury it in an agricultural area and cover it with
dirt that is useful for the seed and will help it grow. Then
you water the seeds with human blood that is mixed with
warm water and this will make the watermelon that grows
there has a horrific reaction on the human mind and body
if it is fed to any one.
Al-Ilallaj also mentioned that there is a charm between
the chicory plant and the rooster especially with white
roosters and he said if you take some of the chicory plant
leaf and wrap it then feed it to the rooster three times a
day for a three days and make sure that the first day
would be on Wednesdav. Then that rooster will be very-
acquainted with the human that fed him the wraps and
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will not recoil from him like he does with other humans
and these are some of the magical secrets about animals
and charms.
Some of the other charms that axe done if someone has
a toothache and the way it is done is by taking a hand full
of chicory plants leaves, stand outside looking up at the
sky, when the Moon is rising in one those nights that the
Moon appears right after sun set, then you say: Aye I
swear by you Moon if you stop the pain of my teeth I Hill
never eat chicory ever again. The toothache will be gone
and that persons teeth will actually get fixed on its own
and becomes completely healthy, but to keep the teeth this
way and to stop the pain from coming back, this charm
needs to be done again in the beginning of every month.
There is also another grass that grows between the
vineries that is called the peak of the vinery, it does not
grow on a stock, it grows Iving on the ground and even
some of its parts stay under ground so not ever)- one can
notice the plant. It has very tiny leaves smaller than the rue
leaves almost in the size of chickpea leaves or smaller. This
plant if it grew in the dessert with no plants around it
would do wonders in charms and weird magical tricks and
Adam had described this plant and mentioned lots of its
functions in his book as he said in one part that if - OS
carried some of this plant's leaves and branches and mixed
it with wax then left it in your pocket, you would
disappear where no one can see you coming in or gi
out or what you are doing. Then he also said that the
person that does this formula would feel afterward with a
tightness in the chest and his soul for two to three da
long as the time that he stayed invisible from people's
eyes. Since an hour of invisibility would equal a da;
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that chest pain many people refrain from doing it because

of this pain that they feel afterwards- Also if the leaves and
branches were used as an incense on a strong coal under
the sky after an hour from the smoke rising in the sky a
strong horrifying roar will start which people can hear for
miles away and once the smoke stops so the horrifying
noise stops with it. If you also mix some of the branches
and leaves of this plant with pig's fat and grind it in a
mortar nil it is well mixed then shaped it into the size of a
walnut or smaller, then hold it in the left hand and cover
the left hand with the right hand and go to a barn where
there are pigs and walk back and forth in there, the pigs
will rush around and will surround you from all directions
and they will keep their eyes on you all the time. Adam
also said that the region of the Sun is the dexter region of
India and that causes great wonders he used to show to
the people there. He also claimed that the Nabataeans had
homes with the statues of the seven planets in them and
that they had a house they called Al-Nainaah that they
worship and use in their making of charms, like the charm
of softening the bones, horns, stones and metal objects and
every other solid items till they get soft and doughy and
they way it is done is by taking ten pounds of alkali and
ten pounds of fresh blossoms. Then pour three times the
weight of both ingredients in a container of dear water
and soak them and leave them for seven days and drain
the water, then add another alkali and blossoms like the
first time then water again and drain and you do that for
three times each time you leave it for seven days and on
the third time add to each ten pounds water, half a pound
grinded ammonia and two ounce bat milk. Then put all on
a low heat or in the heat of a very hot Sun. like its heat in
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hot Sun for ten days and cook it for one day, drain it and
then soak whatever you want of horns, canine tooth's and
all hard edgy objects in this mixture and leave it in the hot
Sun or on fire but cover it too keep any dust from getting
into it with a piece of cloth and however you cook it, in the
Sun or on fire, cover it with a lid because that will soften
all the hard objects and makes it doughy so it is easier to
be used in any of the magical charms. There is also another
formula that gives the same effect on objects but it is done
with different ingredients and the way it is done is by
taking equal amounts of citron acid and rice vinegar and
mix it with three dirham ground sea foam and ammonia
and keep stirring constantly for one day, then leave it in
the Sun for three days and soak the solid objects that you
need to soften in it and put it in the hot Sun til! it is soft
and easy to kneed with and use in the magical charms.
This formula is great for softening sulfur but because of
the strong smell of the sulfur, this formula is not used in
the edible charms but other objects like stones and solid
objects are used in charms that have very strange effects.

Daghrecth said that taking a weight of ten dirhams of

ground saffron and mixing it with alcohol, then give it to
someone to drink will make that person laugh till he dies
and that he will not be able to control himself or stop
himself from laughing also no one will be able to help him
or do anything to stop him from dying. Daghareeth also
says that the amount in this formula is what is unique
about it because if we use ten and a half dirham or nine
and a half dirhams of the saffron we will not get the same
effect and the person that drinks it will not be affected, wifl
not laugh and will not die of laughing. The effect of saffron
and its specialty is in its weight because if we increased or
decreased the amount it will not give any effect I
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preferred mentioning this formula in this chapter rather

than the later chapters were I talk about the specialties of
each plant, because there was a direct connection with this
formula to the Nabataean groups. There is another plant
that is called the lion grass, this plant is harmful to all the
plants around it and the way to avoid its harm is by
ordering a maid to hold a white rooster with a comb and
to walk around the location of the plant holding and
moving the rooster till the rooster starts to flap his wings
and once he does that several times it will cause the plant
to dry and stop its harmful affect on the other plants, the
rooster scares the plant and causes it to dry out.
Spikenard is also one of the plants that have a weird
effect on birds if they smell i t as it causes the birds to
remain with the plant and the)' cannot separate from it and
on some of the birds it has the effect of continuious
screaming and that is really weird.
Daghreeth said that he realized from roaming the
Indian regions and other places that each land has a
different special plant; like the elderberry plant grows only
in Egypt, the ebony plant grows in Sudan, the black wood
grows in Africa, the banana and prickly pear plants grow
in Morocco region and others that are on the same line
from the east like bush-grass. So all regions have their own
plants that only grows there and not anywhere else and
not necessarily the nature of the region like the air and
water that made the land suitable for certain plants to
grow in some and not in other regions. Then the gathering
of the nature of the land and the specialty of the place that
it grows in forms the first reason of the line that region is
with the planets that pass by its horizon and causes things

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in these plants that does not happen in other plants in
other regions.
Adam also confirmed that the changes in the nature of
the plants and their effects come from the effect of the
planets on some regions and he gave an example of some
from the east and the west regions. So he pointed out that
in the Andalos regions on an island mere called Kades in
the green sea, a place where no ship ever sailed, there is a
plant that grows in the spring which looks like wild
watercress and it is called in the language of the
Kasdanyeen and they are a group of the Nabataeans. Al-
Helfaan or the Askataas in the language of the people in
that region. The people in that area are sheepherders so
they feed that plant to the sheep in the spring and the
sheep themselves love to eat it and when they milk the
sheep and drink the milk they get intoxicated or if the)' eat
the seeds of the plant they get drunk like they had alcohol
and the effect of the intoxication would vary for each
person like the effect of alcoholic drinks in the blood of
each person- Adam said that the people in that region
know that when the summer comes the plant stops
growing and disappears so they keep the milk and the
seeds by drying them and mixing them with the wheat
flower and they eat it piece by piece. They know mat it still
intoxicates them in that shape but they say it is good to
calm the people down in the summer heat.

Siglimasah is one of the close towns to Al-Andalos

region, there is a tree there that grows to be about three
cubits tall or little taller sometimes. The leaves of this tree
looks like the laurel plant, if any person made an wreath
from this tree and wore it on his head and kept it all day.
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his head and he will also not feel any tiredness that
normally a person would feel from the lack of sleep.

There is a tree in the European region that if any one

sits under for half an hour during the day or touches it or
cuts a branch or a leaf from it or if they were to shake the
tree would immediately die. In the Sakalibah region there
is a small plant that looks like leguminous with a leaf that
looks like me, if you soak this plant with its leaves and
branches in cold water after washing off the dirt it will
make the water hot like fire and if you take it out of the
water the water will cool back to norma! and that is very
weird. In the region of the Romans they have a gentile tree
that grows on the beach and has a leaves so small in size as
that of chickpeas and the length of the tree is two cubits,
they gather some of the leaves and branches from the tree
then thev squeeze it till some juice comes out of it, then
they take that juice and freeze it then they dry it and when
they put one and a half ounces from it in old wine it gives
whom ever drinks it a strong desire to have sex with
anyone and he never gets bored or tired. In the Indian
regions there is a plant that does not get burned and there
is a tree that if a branch of it was cut and thrown on the
ground it would move like snakes or walk like insects. In
some of the regions where the northern wind blows a tree
that people can hear in the spring and summer seasons a
human whispering and this tree is called the tree of the
(Sun) and the people in those regions say that the tree
looks like a human being and they look like a male human
and none of these trees look like a female figure, only
male.

In the regions of Bakiyan there is a tree that glows like

a lamb at night and if any one comes near it at night the>
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would not need anv torch or light because the tree is so

illuminated, that it sheds light on a large area around ft
and they call it the Moon tree. These wonders were
inspired by God unto Adam, which is why he wrote a
book of a thousand pages about the features of the plants,
which ha? plenty of wonders and secrets of the plants. In
the book he also talks about a tree that he called the
invisible tree. He said that this tree does not appear during
the day to anyone, it only appears at night for two hours
then it disappears again and these are some of the wonders
that he mentioned in his book-
Adam also said that there is a tree that the Indians call
Al-Kast and it grows in their region, this tree has a more
pleasant smell than the other Kast trees in other regions
and the Indians use it for incensing their statues and their
temples and the Chaldeans say that it is the best tree to use
for sacrificing unto Venus and it is valuable for sacrifices
used to ask for certain requests. Daghreeth called it the
Munfih and he talked about it in long detail and a group of
them would mix it with buttonwood, soft and hard
licorice, rose leaves, myrtle splashed with saffron and they
use that to cense their clothes and statues on their many
holidays. Daghreeth also said that smelling the incense of
this mixture keeps the bad, diseased and coritantinated air
away from them, especially if it is mixed with bush-grass.
The Babylonian's call this incense the incense of the Kurds.

Daghareeth also talked about the Kabakshana tree that

he called the Jupiter tree. It is a short stocky tree, which
rises above the ground about one cubit, the Persians calls it
Par Shyshan and the Greeks call it Asbalathon- This tree
has small leaves that look like myrtle leaves and they grow
in BabeL It has many thorns and if you peel the tree bark
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you will see that the wood is bright red inside and is very
pleasant smelling and the spice dealer uses it in making
scents and perfume oils. The Chaldeans have stories about
this tree along with their kings in the past and one of the
stories is about a king that got mad at his wife for a great
sin she committed. The king loved his wife so much but he
had to order her death because he could not bear the
thought of her sin. He chose for this mission one of his
loyal followers, but he also asked him not to slaughter her
with a knife or cut her neck with a sword. So the king's
servant decided to hide the kings wife in a hidden place
and asked to find a woman in the wife's shape and size
who looks very close to her, so he did find a woman that
died and looks a lot like the wife of the king and he
promised the family of that woman that he will bring her
back to bury her. He took the dead woman to the king and
he told the king that he had killed his wife by smothering
her and the king ordered him to get her to so he could see
her, and they brought the dead woman to the king. He
looked from a distance at the body and he did not examine
her very closely so he just saw a woman that looked like
his wife and he did not suspect anything. So he ordered for
her to be buried and the servant then took the body back to
her fa mil v and gave them a thousand Dirhams.

Days past by and the king regretted very much killing

his wife and he was sleepless and thinking only about her.
So he turned to Jupiter's temple, calling unto his statue
and begging him and sacrificing for him as the musical
instruments played and the singers sang to please the
statue. That night he saw in his dreams the statue of
(Jupiter) telling him to get from Rabakshana tree some
leaves and use them to incense everywhere you go. then
take get a branch of the tree and wrap it with the tree
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leaves as much as you can around it and put it under your

pillow, then see what you will see in your dream. The king
immediately did what the statue of Jupiter told him and
"he saw in his dream the tree of Rabakshana which is in
the middle of his palace talking to him and telling him that
his wife is alive in the world and if you call your servant
he will get her to you because he did not kill her as he told
you". The king was thrilled and very happy to hear that
and he called his servant and he told him "woe unto vou
who disobeyed my orders"- The servant said "I did not kill
her because I know how much you love her and I thought
if I kept her and the king regretted his decision then I
would have a great prize and acceptance bv my king but if
I failed in my thinking and made a mistake in disobeying
my king then ? will accept any punishment you order".
The king said "You have won my acceptance and a big
reward and I thank you for keeping my wife alive as I did
regret greatly her separation from me, so go and bring her
back to me".

The servant brought her back and the king bowed to

her from his happiness and thankfulness and he ordered a
huge reward for his loyal servant Then the servant said
"Aye king I want to assure to you that 1 did not touch your
wife and 1 want you to make sure of that by examining me
as I'm barren and if the king does not believe me he can
order my death", the king said "no matter what, your
value in my heart is greater I do not need proof*. But the
servant insisted so his king would be assured how loyal
the servant was for his king and the king did order his
doctors to check him and he was saying the truth so the
king doubled his reward and was very happy with his
servant The king bowed and worshipped the Rabakshana
tree for the rest of his life which lasted seventy five years
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in ruling and this story spread in die Chaldean region and

they called this tree the love tree and they wrote poems
about it and they worshipped it till the king Kathoor came
and he forbid that worshipping and what they did with
the tree and that is how the people stopped from even
mentioning the name of the tree.
Then there is the Myrrh tree that keeps the bad,
diseased and contaminated air away and they use it to
incense the their temples and they also make a formula of
its wood and glue by adding bush-grass and licorice and
they call it Sokokomsa and it means in Arabic the pleasure
of the statues. The Chaldeans say that this smoke incense
pleases Venus and they approach it by using this incense
so that whom ever desired to approach it they would burn
this incense between the hands of the statue and play the
flute and drums for an hour while they ask Venus for what
they desire and Venus grants them their wish and does
what they ask her to do, even if what they asked for is
impossible, for no obstacle would stop her not even the
other planets including Mercury. Daghreeth said if we add
to this smoking incense some saffron and Kast plant it
would be more powerful and successful. The Chaldeans
do not add that to their formula and they use it till this
day, but they worship Jupiter more and ask him for their
requests more than they ask the other planets and the
experience have proven that both groups of Chaldeans and
Kasdanis are right and powerful in their ways and with
their own formulas mat thcv use for different planets,

Daghreeth also says that there are a lot of hidden

secrets and wonders that the ancient wise men have
reached in their searches about plant knowledge and their
functions related to the influence of the planets on them.
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These ancient wise men have kept their secret* to

themselves or only shared them with others with the same
knowledge and never spread it to the public because this
knowledge is very valuable and they only wanted to share
it with the group of people who appreciate it and
understand the value of iL Also Abu Bakr the translator
said that Daghreeth also wrote a book, which mentioned in
detail each plant and their loyalty to the planets like which
ones are loyal to Saturn or Mars and the rest of the seven
planets. He also said that he had made pleasant
descriptions with the colors of the plants, the different
animals, camels, sea creatures and birds and others. There
is some that are pleasant for the eye to see and others are
weird and he described them like the jewels against the
sunlight, the Moon and the planets and the rays of the
lights that shines from them and most of this happens with
magical feats and that is how we get the wonders and
secrets out of the visible sense motions that please the soul,
makes it busy and captures it. The colors of the plants, like
narcissus with its yellow flowers that are mixed with white
and its green stalk is what captures the soul of even' good
human just like it also captures the best kind of animals,
then there are also plants like the prince of all plants the
gillyflower, that has seven colors and even* color is very
likable and pleasant There are also plants, like the ones
that are engraved like asparagus, that have colors like
white, red, yellow and turquoise. There are also big trees
like the bitter orange tree that carries some green, some
yellow, some have sweet and some a bitter nature, just as
in white roses there are so many different colors in them
that please the soul. Beside the wonder of colors that the
plants have they also have wonders in shape, for instance
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Adam saw in the Indian regions and brought pictures of it

to the Babylonians and there is another tree whose flowers
looks like human shapes and these are wonders of nature.

These are all that 1 have captured from the book of Al-
Wahshija and brought to your attention reader. This is the
knowledge that he wrote about the Nabataeans and what
they have of the plants natures and features and that is but
a comer of the world of manv corners m this field, as we
know that the whole universe is composed of three main
elements, the animals, the plant and the objects and the
connection between them is that the plant and animal both
grow and the plant shares the metals in the stones nature
and their feeling- The plant is used for useful items more
than the others since it gets divided into groups. One of
them is the curing group, where we use the branches,
leaves and roots in curing illnesses, then comes metals and
salts, stones and elements like mercury and the rest like
gold and silver. Then there are animals; we use all their
parts like the meat, the fat, the feathers and the plants are
closer to animals than metals. We prefer some plants over
others because of their scent and we also prefer metals like
rubies over others, we prefer the gold in the stones but the
best of all are talking animals that have all the functions
we have mentioned earlier in one. As the whole world is
under the control of the mind and the mind Allah has
specialized for humans with a soul over all the other
creatures and that means that it is the efficient subject to all
not the reason. So you need to understand reader that
what 1 have gathered from the people's tales and their
secrets is to be aware of the honor of existence, the my stery
of things and to use the mind that Allah gave you to reach

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to your desires and these axe some of the Nabataean's

secrets that were translated by Ibn Wahshija.

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W
HAT IS LEFT IS TO MENTION to you
reader are the effects of things which happen
by their own features and not deliberately
and that is the best kind of magic from one
point. The knowledge that I will include comes from a
book that was found in an Assyrian temple in the times of
the queen Cleopatra. I will try to give examples of this
knowledge just like I did before from the other nation's
books and that is to make you reader aware so you have a
complete idea of the knowledge of the wonders and the
secrets of this field and all the experiences of the ancients
that worked in it.

The effects of pure clear emeralds on the snakes that

have heads shaped like oak nuts is very strange, if these
snakes see an emerald their eyes tear up immediately and
they will eventually loose their eyes and as soon as the
snakes feel that burning effect they immediately look for
elecampane and wipe their eyes m it so their eyes heals.
The eagles use diamonds to keep the vermin away from
their eggs similar to the use of onions to keeps bears away.
Some of the other wonders like the bones of the
hoopoe, when it is thrown in running water some of the
bones would sink and some would rise. Also owls in their
sleep, they keep one eye open and the other closed so the
open one captures the actions of every thing around while
the closed continues sleeping. Also like the talon of a
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vulture that is used to heal gout disease, which is done by

hanging the talons on the right and left sides, it heals the
disease and stops the pain. There is also a stone that is
called the Nasif stone, it is a Kharasany stone very white in
color, one cannot use a rasp on it but it has an amazing
healing ability for all stomach illnesses.
Above the valley of Khazlaj there is a stone that is
dusted with black or white or spotted colors and it is
found more towards the bottom, if these stones are rubbed
with each other, it causes rain and no one enters through
this valley out of fear they will die from the strong rain
since walking on these stones causes it to rub and then it
rains. There is the Ikab stone; it is a red stone in the color of
the cypress clay, this stone when you shake it you hear
another stone inside of it but when you break it vou find
that it is empty inside and it makes the birth giving easy.
The salamander is a small animal which is colored like the
io*, the skin of this animal does not burn and also has fine
white skin on top like the ostrich's palate and the skin in
its throat and the whole stomach skin will not bum either
even if vou put a red hot steel in the stomach it would cool
off the metal and melt it. The feather of any bird has the
ability to lift things off the ground and that is making a
shape that is medium in size then constantly rub it on a
dothes or by hand so many times then hold it dose to any
object smaller in size it will lift it off the ground
powerfully.

The Bahit stone is a stone in the color of the red golden

stones that has a glow to it, this stone if anyone looks at it
they laughs until they die and nothing would save them
even if the stone was covered after this person saw
still will kill them The only thing that stops the effect of
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the Bahit stone is if the gallinuje bird, which is a small

black bird with a red ring and red eyes, steps on the stone
and then anyone can look at the stone with no harm. The
Fawina is a Habashi sandalwood when it breaks it breaks
in the shape of a cross even if you continue breaking the
broken pieces it will still be in the shape of a cross and that
is one of natures wonders and if it is used on the patients
sick with epilepsy it would cure them from it but it will
make them addicted to it as well.
One of the other ways to keep the snakes away is the
smell of the horns of the camels, just as ants run away of
the smell of cumin and geckos run away from the smell of
saffron and would not come near the place and the flea
runs away of the blossoms if they are spread on the
ground and would also run away by using the salt marsh
if it was well spread in the houses and the bed bug stays
away if you cense with ebony wood- Another one of the
wonders is that the moss plant does not bum just like the
jujube wood does not bum. The eagles spread buttonwood
leaves in the nest because that will keep the bats out of the
nest and away from its eggs. The Tiraz stone is a stone that
does not break or divide neither big pieces nor small pieces
of i t There is also a stone in the Nile in Egypt, it is so
heavy yet it floats and never sinks and the Jimset stone if it
was divided into pieces and put in glasses and imbibed
with alcohol, it prevents from getting intoxicated. The
Tabary stone does the opposite effect if it was divided and
added to drinks it causes quick intoxication and it makes
anyone lose their mind and to start to have horrific
thoughts. The loadstone has the power of pulling the metal
but if it was rubbed with garlic it would not work and if it
was soaked in a bull blood it gets the power back and pulls
the metal again. If anv human looked at the snakes in the

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valley of Khazraj they would die and if they looked at

themselves they would die and the glare front each of the
snake's eyes is about ten leagues.
Another of nature's strange wonders is if a pig was
carried on the back of a donkey and the donkey urinated
deliberately or uncontrollably the pig would die on the
back of the donkey immediately. If any woman that has
her menstruation at that time were to lay on her back
naked and her tegs up m the air in a planted field die hail
stones would not rain on that field nor in the fields around
it. There is a strange feature between the dogs and hyenas;
if the dog was on a hill and a hyena past under that hill
and according to the location of both if the shade of the
dog met the shade of the hyena under the hill, the dog tails
of the hill and then the hyena kills and eats hint- Also the
skin of the wolf; if a person with scarlet fever sat on the
skin he would be cured from the illness immediately. The
significance of the number fifteen in the three houses
means successful easy delivery. If a person with scarlet
fever had so much pain he would be cured if he uses
damask rose and it eases the pain quickly. Also if elephant
dung was hung on a tree, that tree would not produce for
a whole year and if it was hung on a woman she would
not get pregnant for the whole year either.

4 9 l
i r 7
8 I 6
The table of fifteen that Imam Abu Hamid AJ-Ghazali,
may his soul rest in peace, pointed out
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The yellow water stone has the power of curing the

stomach and the bodv parts from any illnesses as it takes
the illness power and breaks it up and voids its power.
There is a metal that is called Allaiyah, this metal when it
is mixed with mercury it congeals it and it makes the
mercury leap like it is boiling. Also the stripped spider
cures from the scarlet fever and if it does not completely
cures it in some cases it at least slows the illness down, the
sap of the pine tree also if it is added to the spider the cure
becomes faster.
The snakes and vipers run away when they hear the
sound of the owls. There is a metal called the Isfidiroyah if
it is mixed with some silver that was extracted from
copper then when put in a nest of a bird that bird will not
be able to move until he is removed from there by the
charm maker. The lion and donkey especially of all the
other animals have the feature of following any human
anywhere he would go, if he was wearing an outfit or
holding a piece of meat or had on his body the scent of
another human's semen. Mercury is a metal that can harm
humans. The Rabbits forehead has a feature of shredding
the human flesh if it touched it. Plastering the gold with
lime and mice dung is like plastering it with acid and
using the bird's dung on gold gives it back the shine and
nature. If the gold also was mixed with any object that
changed its quality add some molding or sulfur or other
golden stones it will clear the gold and return its shine and
nature back.

Sulfur kills and burns any object yet it revives the gold
and makes it better and higher in quality. The Dahnaj also
softens gold and makes it moist, if it was plastered with
lime or mixed with tin it would be much easier and faster
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to work with- When the low grade gold was to be washed

in squeezed henna water and put off in that water couple
of rimes that will soften the gold completely, if salt was
added to the gold it will make it very red in color and if
J the silver smelled the sulfur it gets extremely dark and if it
was mixed with salt it brings back its clearness
immediately.
Ammonia has the feature of pulling things from the
deep and from any height. Al-N'atroon is a metal that
washes off all objects from any dirt and clears it and
returns it to its bright natures. If lapis is mixed with gold it
makes the gold brighter and higher in quality and if it was
put on coal with no fire it would start fire in that coal. The
Sepj works wonders in curing the eyes. If the sulfur inside
the Markishithya was burned and plastered with lime
until it is white as flour it becomes a material used in
industries. The magnet has lead in its ingredients that is
called Andrademos and glass cannot be made without it.
The Tutya is great for the moisture in the eve and the best
kind of it is the white in color. Coral is used to take fillings
out of teeth. The ashes of lobsters are verv useful for
almost all the eye's pains and illnesses. If a dog would eat
the spleen of a camel he would die immediately and that is
really strange. If the dung of a white dog was blown in or
smeared in the throat of one strangled or the slaughtered it
would cure quickly. If a female turtle's pupil of the eye
was put in a pot on a fire for the whole day it will never
boil. The Haray tree is a short tree from Kharasan, this tree
has a male and a female kind, if any woman was to drink
five ounces of this tree's female kind, she would have an
extremely increased sexual desire and would disregard
any manners and if anv man would drink five ounces of
the tree's male kind, he would stay awake and will not
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sleep at all and the only way to remove the effect of the
tree is by drinking two ounces of chalk. The seeds of the
male kind of this tree if it was fed to someone in his food
that person will be continuously flatulent from the time he
eats till it digests in his stomach and he has no other option
at that point The seeds of the female kind of this tree when
fed to someone that person would sleep for three days
nonstop and the only core is to make him drink hot water
with the Rufcaby oil The leaves of this tree get grinded,
kneaded with sulfur water then used for patients with
leprosy and it cures them immediately from the first use.
The wood of the Kandar tree, which a snake or a scorpion
falls on, it would die immediately and quickly. The salt is
used for the bite of a scorpion, snake or wasp. A kind of
the leguminous is called the Bakla Al-Hamkaa stops the
bleeding from a cut and it would heal the wound and cure
any cough if the patient eats of it for a day or two. The goat
would die naturally if he feels the presence of a lion and if
some hair was taken from the goat when it is in this
position and was cut with the left hand then a person with
scarlet fever was to incense with it he gets cured
immediately, it might come back for a little while stronger
than before, but it will be cured after that and it will not
come back.

The scorpions die immediately when they see a gecko

just like the snakes with owls. Among the wonders I
found from the queen Cleopatra is a ring that is made of
Chinese metal or it could be made of agate and has the
following twenty- six letters engraved on it, this ring will
protect and grant the person that wears it any thing he
desires and it will protect from a tyrant king, a criminal or
any other fear and if one letter was missing from the
twenty six letters it won't give the wanted effect
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The person who is stung by a scorpion can be cured of

the effect of the poison if he chews the root of colocynth
then he takes some of his own saliva and puts it on the
sting. The leaves of the Yanboot plant is used also for the
sting and that is by nibbing it on the sting for a while it
cures it quickly. The mixture of syrup with salt cures the
bites of snakes and it is one of the strange wonders; also
the male that rubs this mixture on his penis and has sex
with any woman that woman will not get pregnant. The
person that eats hazelnuts will find that it helps him with
the stings of any scorpions and as long as he is holding a
fresh hazelnut in his hand he will not be stung by a
scorpion. The bitter almond is used after chewing as a
wrap on the bite of a dog and if the person eats of it, it
helps in curing the bite too. Fish bones are used to cure
snake bites immediately, it is also a poison for fleas when it
is spread in the house or if clothes are soaked in its water.
If scorpions are eaten with bread they cure from the
calculus stones. The flour of ervil mixed with milk is also
used as a wrap on dog bites. Are not these wonders and
these weird talismans amazing brothers? When they are
well studied and used wisely you get verv wonderful
results out of them with their nature that they follow so be
aware while using them.

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W
E ALSO FOUND IN THAT BOOK in the
temple some talismans that were used back
then in the time of queen Cleopatra that I
would like to share with you reader, these
talismans do wonders with the natural functions they
posses. Of these talismans there is the kohl talisman that
the person that has a snake bite or scorpion sting or viper
or wasp or all other vermin bites use it as a cure and the
way it is made is by taking the gallbladder of a kite and let
it dry in the shade, then put it in a clean glass bottle with
some groundnut juice and use it when someone is bit by
any of these vermin use it for three days and that will cure
that person from the bite. The talisman of the rattling bell
that is used to force snakes and scorpions out of their holes
and the way it is done is by taking a pharaonic glass bottle
and steel fillings and melt them in a container with red
arsenic and red magnesia, then take the mixture out and
break it into small pieces, then grind some red rust with
black henna then add it to the melted metal and make a
bell of it and make the handle of the bell out of loadstone.
Once you are done making the bell use it to get snakes and
scorpions and similar vermin out of their holes and then
you can make what you would like with them. There is
also a bird that has the feature that he could get the snakes
and scorpions out of their holes by shrieking out loud.

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The smoke talisman that gathers mice together in one

place, the wav it is done is bv taking the juice of white
grape and the juice of onion, tin, Indian red covvpea, grind
the cowpea with the tin and kneed it with the juices and
make it into a dough and make small balls in the size of
chickpeas and dry them in the shade, put them aside until
you need to use them then burn one of the little balls on a
coal fire the mice then will gather where the smoke is and
then you can use them for what ever you need.
A talisman that gathers crabs, the way it is done is by
taking the leaves of the apricot tree and the leaves of the
fox tree with some rabbit blood and grind them all till it
becomes soft in texture, then put it in a cloth and hang it
with a thread in a watery location that has crabs dwelling
nearby and the crabs will gather and hang in trying to get
to the mixture.
A talisman that gathers fish, the way it is made is by
rotten millet plant and adding to it goat fat and grinded
beans and some bull blood and mix them all very well
then put the mixture in a cane container and tie it with a
packthread then put it in a location that is known to have
lots of fish, the fish will gather for the smell and then vou
can throw your net and catch the fish.
A incense talisman that gets burned under a tree that
causes all the birds on the tree to fall, the way it is done is
by taking a sea turtle's fat with the Egyptian Nile's grain,
an equal amount of the green shell of the walnut and
horsetail. Grind all and kneed with donkey urine, then dry
it in the shade after making it into small balls in the shape
of chickpeas and put it aside until you need it, when
do use one of the balls on a coal fire under a tree that has
birds cover your nose so you do not smell the smoke,
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when the birds smell the smoke they get drunk and start
falling and if you wash their feet with hot water they
would immediately get up again.
There is another incense talisman that has the same
effect but this one is done by taking an equal amount of
mandrake and sugar cane and kneed it with the water of
the moist carob, shape it the size and shape of chickpeas
then dry them and burn it under the tree but do not bum it
on a windy day because the wind spreads the smoke and
carries it away and once you are done cense the tree with a
mixture of bush-grass and chestnut so that bad smoke that
you have burned earlier will go away from the tree.
The talisman of the wreath which if anyone would
wear gives him strong vision in which he can see very far
things and if the person takes that wreath off he would get
back to his normal vision, the way it is done is bv taking
branches of a tree that is called Katla, it is a tender tree so it
is easy to make a wreath with it, and wear it to see the far
vision. In the squeezed juice of this tree a very huge benefit
if It is mixed with wine vinegar and used on the areas
infected with leprosy it cures it immediately.
The talisman of a glass in which those who drink from
it never get drunk and the way it is done is by taking thick
copper and an equal amount of citron acid vinegar
elevated with gourd and alembic and the juice of Nibty
cabbage and the juice of soft galingalc, then wash the glass
before vou pour this formula in it repeatedly until the
glass has had the formula in it for about a pound then
empty it and keep it until vou need it and when vou take it
out to use rub it with some bitter almond oil and who ever
drinks from it will never get drunk.

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A talisman to put on the dining table so the flies do not

fall on it and the way this talisman is done is by taking
fresh bush-grass with yellow arsenic and dried truffle, add
all and grind and kneed with the extract of grapes and rub
your hands with some oil and make a talisman with this
mixture and put rt on the dining table and that will keep
all the flies away from the table.
Another talisman that keeps all the vermin away from
the dining table and the way this talisman is done is by
talcing a skin of the horse tan it like any other skin and
make a dinning table of it and use it the same wav we
pointed out earlier and these skins are now is sold m
Makah.
A talisman for snakes with ink and the way it is done is
by taking grinded birthwort and add it to wild frog meat
then after grinding them very well add black ink. After
drying in the shade make it in the shape of hazelnut and
when you need dissolve one of the small balls with
ammonia water and write with it whatever vou desire on a
piece of paper and put it in the bag of the snake charmer
with his snakes and the snakes will die as soon as that ink
on the paper touches their skin and that will tear them
apart right there and then.
A incense talisman if the incense rises into the sky it
looks like a stream of fire and it scares everyone and the
way it is done is by taking the root of Kotrop lit grass, it is
a grass that lights up at night, grind and kneed with the
deer brain and a gallbladder of a bull then make it in the
shape of chickpeas and dry it in the shade then burn it on a
low fire as a weird smoke will rise of it like it is a red fire
in the sky and it will scare even* one and it does not work
in the cloudy weather or in the windy days.
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A talisman like a torch of light that makes one who is

carrying it temporary blind and unable to see anything but
the person behind him can see through the first person
everything in the house and the way it is done is by taking
the oil of a fish called Dokhs and they call it in Egypt the
dolphin, melt the fat of the fish and when you need it
make a wick of linen and put it in the oil with grinded
verdigris then light it up and use it as we mentioned.
A talisman that if it was put under of a pillow of a
sleeping person it would keep him awake when? he cannot
sleep at all and the way it is done is by grinding the grass
of Birshawshan and sieve it then kneed it with the milk of
a female pig that is breast feeding and make of this a statue
of a little boy that is epileptic and put that under the pillow
of a human he will be distracted and absentminded and
will not be able to sleep again.
A talisman that if a man wrapped it on his groin and
had sex will not have children and the way mis talisman is
done is by making a statue of a monkey from copper and
make a hole in the back of the statue and add some
sequoia and wrap it around and that will prevent one from
having children.
A talisman that who ever carries it on their person the
dogs will not bark at him or come near him and actually
thev would run away from that person and the way it is
done is by grinding the root of the mandrake plant and
knead it with the milk of the female dog then make the
shape of a dog and carry it with and walk through a
barking dogs they will stop and fear you.
A talisman of water that makes metal melt when it is
soaked in it and the way this talisman is done is by taking
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a small amount of sugarcane, grape and fresh

pomegranate skin mix all this together after grinding and
knead it with wine vinegar till it is verv well mixed, then
reduce it into a container and put the heated iron in this
mixture and it will turn the iron into water, leave it for
about an hour and drain the water, the iron will be in the
bottom of the container heavy, very shiny and did not mix
with the water.
There is also the talisman of cold water (Arid) that
would bum anv clothes when it is sprayed on them and
the way this talisman is made is by grinding some golden
stones and kneading it with wine vinegar then hang it to
drain drop by drop take the drained liquid and putrefy it
in manure for fourteen days and keep changing the
manure every three days and that is in a bottle well sealed
then take it out and bury it in the bran as it is and when
you need to work with it use it in a bottle and be careful
not to touch it by hand or let it touch your clothes and use
it where ever you desire to bum off clothes as it is the cold
fire that burns and never extinguishes.

The talisman of red water that is poured in lamps to

light the house and shine it in the color of red rubies and
for that you need to get the a kind of the green cypress
cabbage, cook the cabbage in a very hot furnace till it
becomes red then grind it and add to it ftve times the
weight wine vinegar and put it in a thick bottle and leave it
for three days and shake it every day three times that red
water that will come out of it will be like purple put it in
lamps and you will see wonders.
Another similar talisman that is used to light up with
and this one is purple in color, the way it is made is by
taking some of the dry hard blossoms and some of the
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tinctures, after grinding pour their weight four times

water. Put in a pot till it boils smooth, then leave it to cool
and clear up and that will turn into red water like ruby
that shines.
A talisman to make green killer scorpions and the way
they are made is by fasting for a whole day then chew on
wild cucumber leaves and you put the chewed leaves in a
glass bottle and seal it and hang it in a dark moist house
that does not get any sun light and after forty days
scorpions will be born that are green and if thev sting any
human it will kill immediately and it is useful to cure from
scorpion stings if it is soaked in oil and hung in the sun for
twenty one days until it dissolves and dies then use it on
the sting and it takes the pain away and if you drop one
drop of this oil on any scorpion it would kill it
immediately.

A talisman to make a red snake and the way it is done

is by soaking big spiders in female donkey milk in a glass
bottle and leave it for three days then take the fat from a
turtle and grind it with the spiders and the milk till it takes
on the form of a brain and put it in wool cloth and bury it
in manure and after seven days strange red snakes will be
born and if you used harvestman instead of spiders then
the snakes that will be born it will look like serpents
because the harvestman is the enemy of the serpents in
Egypt as when the harvestman sees the serpent it follows it
all the time until it fights with it and stings it to death and
the serpent would die immediately.
A talisman to keep bugs away from the home or the
village and the way it is made is by taking hair from the
comb of a reindeer at the moment it is struck by a male
bull, then make a bug of copper and tie a hair on each bug
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and make it like a bunch and put it in a yellow jug and seal
it and bury it in the middle of the house or the village and
that will keep the bugs away.
The talisman of making paint that kills the person that
enters the house that is painted with it from the smell or it
would pass out and the way it is made is by taking small
amounts of bull blood, cupping blood, fat from the horses
hooves and gather all that in a glass container and beat
until it is well mixed then take quarter of the amount of the
mixture some bat milk and half of the amount of the bat
milk some nightingale milk, grind and add to the first
mixture, mix all very well then paint the walls of the house
and the ceiling and make sun? to put cotton that is soaked
in violet oil in your nose as your painting and hurry out as
soon as you are done. After painting, cense with
brushw'ood, grain and the green shells of the walnut and
then close the door for three days and make sure the door
and the house is well sealed so the smell does not come out
and the air does not go in either and whoever opens that
door and smells the paint will pass out and the person that
would go in will die.

This talisman is made by the people of Antakya and it

is an ointment talisman that thev rub on wood and when
they light it, it lights like a candle and the way it is made is
by beating the fat of an otter and mix it with Daphne oil,
soap and some sulfur and it becomes like ointment, then
they rub it on a stick or wood or cane and they light it and
it lights like a candle and does not burn off till the end of it.
A talisman of a drum that is used to scare wolves and
the way this charm is made is by taking porcupine,
slaughter it and pluck its feathers and it looks like arrows
that he uses to kill animals with. Then skin it and tan it and
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make a drum with it and use it at night and any wolf or

wild vicious animal which hears it will run far away from
the area also if anv of the vermin hear it thev would die.
An oilv talisman to catch crocodiles and the wav it is
done is by taking equal amount of the fat of a mole, jerboa
and lizard, melt it till it becomes an oil and when you
decide to catch a crocodile, slaughter a dog and skin him
and rub that oil on the dog and hang him with a hook that
is tied with packthread and throw it in the Nile, the
crocodiles will come to it and when one of them swallows
it pull him quick out of the Nile water and that is how they
catch a crocodile from the Nile.
A light talisman that silences frogs in rivers, lakes, or
any small ponds of water and the way it is done is by
kneading crocodile fat with wax and make a wick of it and
light it up in any of these locations and the frogs will be
silent as long as the wick is lit
A talisman for scorpions is made by grinding the
Burghnatha grass and the Shikaay grass and adding
grinded antidote stone and red henna, knead all the
ingredients with bramble water and make a statue of a
scorpion and make from the rest little round balls in the
size of chickpeas and dry them and put the statue in a
location in the house and between its hands coal in a
brazier and use the little balls for incense and the scorpions
will leave the house.
These are the talismans that were provided in the book
and 1 had to mention it in the book so you be safe reader
and aware of the knowledge of talismans and to make sure
to keep the valuable secrets to yourself and as I am ending
my book I would like to advise you with Socrates' nine

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admonitions that he used to advise his students and thev
are to accept the natures of each other from the beginning
of the knowledge that will make one know how to thank
when one has plenty and that will make life at its best, he
also said do not trust your secrets other than in vour heart
because you cannot trust time as it can attack you with its
cruel army, do not underestimate things as the)* can grow
and be useful to vou, also raise vour friends with love and
manners like you raise children and do not show all your
feelings at one time because if you do he will return with
hostility, also stay away from tyrannies because it wastes
magnanimity and honor and manners, also use love and
refuse the injustices so you will not surrender to evil and
surrender to goodness, also do not restrain anyone with
their actions or they will avoid restraining your enemy,
also do not prevent people from asking you because then
you would be the only one holding God's luxuries to
yourself you have to thank Cod for giving you all this by
giving who does not have it and have so much less then
you as who gives that is a way of thanking Cod, he also
said to know the value of things we owe and love very
much it will return the love. So this is the advice that
Socrates used to advise so be aware of their values.

Also Pythagoras the philosopher would advise his

students with seven admonitions after teaching them and
he would say, correct your balances and know them, fix
your mistakes if you would be safe, do not light fire when
you see a cutting knife, balance your desires and your
health will last, use justice you will gain continuous love,
use time like the rulers that control you and have your fate
in hand, do not waste your bodies and soul or you would
regret loosing them in bad times. Be aware of this reader

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may Allah protect you and bless you and hang on to this
knowledge.
Here I end my book and I thank Allah for that he is the
one that granted me the light of mind with no end and the
thanks are to Him first of all and till the end with no
purpose. Glory to Allah and his prophet Muhammad
Peace be upon him and all his followers ^

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