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The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (31-40)
If one form sought perfection from another form, Why then, O simpleton, do you set forth your needs To one who is as needy as yourself? Since forms are slaves, apply them not to God, Seek Him with humbleness and self-abasement, Still, if you are unable to dispense with forms, "Now have we seen what the king saw at the first, When that Incomparable One adjured us." The prophets have many claims to our gratitude, Because they forewarn us of our ultimate lot,
Corpus Hermeticum
4. The Cup or Monad (11)
Now all that is engendered is imperfect, it is divisible, to increase subject and to decrease; but with the Perfect [One] none of these things doth...