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\n

\n
\nPRASHNA UPANISHAD<\/span><\/p>\n

(Being
\nthe Upanishad of the Six Questions<\/i>)<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n


\nf<\/span>irst
\n<\/span>q<\/span>uestion<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1. OM!
\nSalutation to the Supreme Spirit. The Supreme is OM. <\/span><\/p>\n

\nSukesha the Bharadwaja; the Shaibya, Satyakama; Gargya, son
\nof the Solar race; the Koshalan, son of Ashwala; the Bhargava of Vidarbha; and
\nKabandhi Katyayana; \u2014 these sought the Most High God, believing in the Supreme
\nand to the Supreme devoted. Therefore they came to the Lord Pippalada, for they
\nsaid: "This is he that shall tell us of that Universal."<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2. The Rishi
\nsaid to them: "Another year do ye dwell in holiness and faith and askesis: then
\nask what ye will, and if I know, surely I will conceal nothing."<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3. Then came
\nKabandhi, son of Katya, to him and asked: "Lord, whence are all these creatures
\nborn?"<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4. To him
\nanswered the Rishi Pippalada: "The Eternal Father desired children, therefore he
\nput forth his energy and by the heat of his energy produced twin creatures,
\nPrana the Life, who is Male, and Rayi the Matter, who is Female. These,’ said
\nhe, ‘shall make for me children of many natures.’<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.  "The Sun
\nverily is Life and the Moon is no more than Matter: yet truly all this Universe
\nformed and formless is Matter: therefore Form and Matter are One. <\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6.  "Now when
\nthe Sun rising enters the East, then absorbs he the eastern breaths into his
\nrays. But when he illumines the south and west and north, and below and above
\nand all the angles of space, yea, all that is, then he takes all the breaths in
\nhis rays.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n7.  "Therefore
\nis this fire that rises, this Universal Male, of whom all things are the bodies,
\nPrana the breath of existence. This is that which was said in the Rig-veda:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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8.  " ‘Fire is
\nthis burning and radiant Sun, he is the One lustre and all-knowing Light, he is
\nthe highest heaven of spirits. With a thousand rays he burns and exists in a
\nhundred existences; lo this Sun that rises, he is the Life of all his
\ncreatures.’<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

9. "The year
\nalso is that Eternal Father and of the year there are two paths, the northern
\nsolstice and the southern. Now they who worship God with the well dug and the
\noblation offered, deeming these to be righteousness, conquer their heavens of
\nthe Moon: these return again to the world of birth. Therefore do the souls of
\nsages who have not yet put from them the desire of offspring, take the way of
\nthe southern solstice which is the road of the Fathers. And this also is Matter,
\nthe Female.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

10.  "But by
\nthe way of the northern solstice go the souls that have sought the Spirit
\nthrough holiness and knowledge and faith and askesis: for they conquer their
\nheavens of the Sun. There is the resting place of the breaths, there immortality
\ncasts out fear, there is the highest heaven of spirits: thence no soul returns:
\ntherefore is the wall and barrier. Whereof this is the Scripture:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

11.
\n‘"Five-portioned, some say, is the Father and has twelve figures and he flows in
\nthe upper hemisphere beyond the<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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heavens: but
\nothers speak of him as the Wisdom who stands in a chariot of six spokes and
\nseven wheels’.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

12.  "The month
\nalso is that Eternal Father, whereof the dark fortnight is Matter, the Female
\nand the bright fortnight is Life, the Male. Therefore do one manner of sages
\noffer sacrifice in the bright fortnight and another in the dark.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

13.  "Day and
\nnight also are the Eternal Father, whereof the day is Life and the night is
\nMatter. Therefore do they offend against their own life who take joy with woman
\nby day: by night who take joy, enact holiness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

14.  "Food is
\nthe Eternal Father: for of this came the seed and of the seed is the world of
\ncreatures born.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

15.  "They
\ntherefore who perform the vow of the Eternal Father produce the twin creature.
\nBut theirs is the heaven of the spirit in whom are established askesis and
\nholiness and in whom Truth has her dwelling.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n         <\/span> <\/span>       <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

16.  "Theirs is
\nthe heaven of the Spirit, the world all spotless, in whom there is neither
\ncrookedness nor lying nor any illusion."<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t<\/p>\n
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\ns<\/font><\/span>econd
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>q<\/font><\/span>uestion<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n     1. Then the
\nBhargava, the Vidarbhan, asked him: "Lord, how many Gods maintain this creature,
\nand how many illumine it, and which of these again is the mightiest?" <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/p>\n

2. To him
\nanswered the Rishi Pippalada: "These are the Gods, even Ether and Wind and Fire
\nand Water and Earth and Speech and Mind and Sight and Hearing. These nine
\nillumine the creature: therefore they vaunted themselves, ‘We, even we support
\nthis harp of God and we are the preservers.’<\/span><\/p>\n

\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.  "Then
\nanswered Breath, their mightiest: ‘Yield not unto delusion: I dividing myself
\ninto this fivefold support this harp of God, I am its preserver.’ But they
\nbelieved him not.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4. "Therefore
\noffended he rose up, he was issuing out from the body. But when the Breath goes
\nout, then go all the others with him, and when the Breath abides all the others
\nabide: therefore as bees with the king bee: when he goes <\/span><\/p>\n

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out all go out with him, and when
\nhe abides all abide, even so was it with Speech and Mind and Sight and Hearing:
\nthen were they well-pleased and hymned the Breath to adore him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5.  " ‘Lo this
\nis he that is Fire and the Sun that burns, Rain and Indra and Earth and Air,
\nMatter and Deity, Form and Formless, and Immortality.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6. " ‘As the
\nspokes meet in the nave of a wheel, so are all things in the Breath established,
\nthe Rig-veda and the Yajur and the Sama, and Sacrifice and Brahminhood and
\nKshatriyahood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.  " ‘As the
\nEternal Father thou movest in the womb and art born in the likeness of the
\nparents. To thee, 0 Life, the world of creatures offers the burnt offering, who
\nby the breaths abidest.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8.  " ‘Of all
\nthe Gods thou art the strongest and fiercest and to the fathers thou art the
\nfirst oblation: thou art the truth and virtue of the sages and thou art Atharvan
\namong the sons of Angiras.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t<\/p>\n
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\n9. " Thou art
\nIndra, O Breath, by thy splendour and energy art Rudra because thou preservest:
\nthou walkest in the welkin as the Sun, that imperial lustre.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

10.  ‘"When
\nthou, O Breath, rainest, thy creatures stand all joy because there shall be
\ngrain to the heart’s desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

11. " Thou art,
\nO Breath, the unpurified and thou art Fire, the only purity, the devourer of all
\nand the lord of existences. We are the givers to thee of thy eating: for thou, O
\nMatarishwan, art our Father.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

12.  " That
\nbody of thine which is established in the speech, sight and hearing, and in the
\nmind is extended, that make propitious: O Life, go not out from our midst!<\/span><\/p>\n

\n     <\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

13.  " ‘For all
\nthis Universe, yea, all that is established in the heavens to the Breath is
\nsubject: guard us as a mother watches over her little children: give us fortune
\nand beauty, give us Wisdom.’"<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nt<\/font><\/span>hird
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>q<\/font><\/span>uestion<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1. Then the
\nKoshalan, the son of Ashwala, asked him: "Lord, whence is this Life born? How
\ncomes it in this body or how stands by self-division? By what departs, or how
\nmaintains the outward and how the inward spiritual?"<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2.  To him
\nanswered the Rishi Pippalada: "Many and difficult things thou askest: but
\nbecause thou art very holy, therefore will I tell thee.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.  "Of the
\nSpirit is this breath of Life born: even as a shadow is cast by a man, so is
\nthis Life extended in the Spirit and by the action of the Mind it enters into
\nthis body.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.  "As an
\nemperor commands his officers and he says to one, ‘Govern for me these
\nvillages’, and to another ‘Govern for me these others’, so this breath, the
\nLife, appoints the other breaths each in his province.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t<\/p>\n
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5. "In the anus
\nand the organ of pleasure is the lower breath, and the eyes and the ears, the
\nmouth and the nose, the main breath itself is seated; but the medial breath is
\nin the middle. This is he that equally distributes the burnt offering of food:
\nfor from this are the seven fires born.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6. "The Spirit
\nin the heart abides, and in the heart there are one hundred and one nerves, and
\neach nerve has a hundred branch-nerves and each branch-nerve has seventy-two
\nthousand sub-branch-nerves: through these the breath pervasor moves.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7.  "Of these
\nmany there is one by which the upper breath departs that by virtue takes to the
\nheaven of virtue, by sin to the hell of sin, and by mingled sin and
\nrighteousness back to the world of men restores.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8.  "The Sun is
\nthe main breath outside this body, for it cherishes the eye in its rising. The
\ndivinity in the earth, she attracts the lower breath of man, and the ether
\nbetween is the medial breath; air is the breath pervasor.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

9. "Light, the
\nprimal energy, is the upper breath: therefore when the light and heat in a man
\nhas dwindled, his senses<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nretire into the mind and with these he departs into another
\nbirth.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

10. 
\n"Whatsoever be the mind of a man, with that mind he seeks refuge with the breath
\nwhen he dies, and the breath and the upper breath lead him with the Spirit
\nwithin him to the world of his imaginings.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

11. "The wise
\nman that knows thus of the breath, his progeny wastes not and he becomes
\nimmortal. Whereof this is the Scripture:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n     <\/span> <\/span>        <\/span><\/p>\n

12.  " ‘By
\nknowing the origin of the Breath, his coming and his staying and his lordship in
\nthe five provinces, likewise his relation to the Spirit, one shall taste
\nimmortality.’"<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nf<\/font><\/span>ourth
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>q<\/font><\/span>uestion<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1. Then Gargya
\nof the Solar race asked him, "Lord, what are they that slumber in this Existing
\nand what that keep vigil? Who is this god who sees dreams or whose is this
\nfelicity? Into whom do they all vanish?"<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n2. To him
\nanswered the Rishi Pippalada: "0 Gargya, as are the rays of the sun in its
\nsetting, for they retire and all become one in yonder circle of splendour, but
\nwhen he rises again once more they walk abroad, so all the man becomes one in
\nthe highest god, even the mind. Then indeed this being sees not, neither hears,
\nnor does he smell, nor taste, nor touch, nor speaks he aught, nor takes in or
\ngives out, nor comes nor goes: he feels not any felicity. Then they say of him,
\n‘He sleeps.’<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n3.  "But the
\nfires of the breath keep watch in that sleeping city. The lower breath is the
\nhouseholder’s fire and the breath. pervasor the fire of the Lares that burns to
\nthe southward. The main breath is the orient fire of the sacrifice: and even as
\nthe eastern fire takes its fuel from the western, so in the<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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slumber of a man the main breath
\ntakes from the lower.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n4.  "But the
\nmedial breath is the priest, the sacrificant: for he equalises the offering of
\nthe inbreath and the offering of the outbreath. The Mind is the giver of the
\nsacrifice and the upper breath is the fruit of the sacrifice, for it takes the
\nsacrificer day by day into the presence of the Eternal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n5.  "Now the
\nMind in dream revels in the glory of his imaginings. All that it has seen it
\nseems to see over again, and of all that it has heard it repeats the hearing:
\nyea, all that it has felt and thought and known in many lands and in various
\nregions, these it lives over again in its dreaming. What it has seen and what it
\nhas not seen, what it has heard and what it has not heard, what it has known and
\nwhat it has not known, what is and what is not, all, all it sees: for the Mind
\nis the Universe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6. "But when he
\nis overwhelmed with light, then Mind, the God, dreams no longer: then in this
\nbody he has felicity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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7.  "O fair
\nson, as birds wing towards their resting tree, so do all these depart into the
\nSupreme Spirit:<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8. "Earth and
\nthe inner things of earth: water and the inner things of water: light and the
\ninner things of light: air and the inner things of air: ether and the inner
\nthings of ether: the eye and its seeings: the ear and its hearings: smell and
\nthe objects of smell: taste and the objects of taste: the skin and the objects
\nof touch: speech and the things to be spoken: the two hands and their takings:
\nthe organ of pleasure and its enjoyings: the anus and its excretions: the feet
\nand their goings: the mind and its feelings: the intelligence and what it
\nunderstands: the sense of Ego and that which is felt to be Ego: the conscious
\nheart and that of which it is conscious: light and what it lightens: Life and
\nthe things it maintains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

9.  "For this
\nthat sees and touches, hears, smells, tastes, feels, understands, acts, is the
\nreasoning self, the Male within. This too departs into the Higher Self which is
\nImperishable.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

10.  "He that
\nknows the shadowless, colourless, bodiless, luminous and imperishable Spirit,
\nattains to the Imperishable, <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\t<\/p>\n
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even to the
\nMost High. O fair son, he knows the All and becomes the All. Whereof this is the
\nScripture:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n       <\/span>     <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

11.  ‘ "He,
\nO
\nfair son, that knows the Imperishable into whom the understanding self departs,
\nand all the Gods, and the life-breaths and the elements, he knows the
\nUniverse…!’"<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\nf<\/font><\/span>ifth
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>q<\/font><\/span>uestion<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1. Then the
\nShaibya Satyakama asked him: "Lord, he among men that meditate unto death on OM
\nthe syllable, which of the worlds does he conquer by its puissance?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2. To him
\nanswered the Rishi Pippalada: "This imperishable Word that is OM, 0 Satyakama,
\nis the Higher Brahman and also the Lower. Therefore the wise man by making his
\nhome in the Word, wins to one of these.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3.  "If he
\nmeditate on the one letter of OM the syllable, by that enlightened he attains
\nswiftly in the material universe, and the hymns of the Rig-veda escort him to
\nthe world of men: there endowed with askesis and faith and holiness he
\nexperiences majesty.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

4.  "Now if by
\nthe two letters of the syllable he in the mind attains, to the skies he is
\nexalted and the hymns of the Yajur escort him to the Lunar World. In the heavens
\nof the Moon he feels his soul’s majesty: then once more he returns.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
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\n\t<\/p>\n
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\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n5.  "But he who
\nby all the three letters meditates by this syllable. even by OM on the Most High
\nBeing, he in the Solar world of light and energy is secured in his attainings:
\nas a snake casts off its slough, so he casts off sin, and the hymns of the
\nSama-veda escort him to the heaven of the Spirit. He from that Lower who is the
\ndensity of existence beholds the Higher than the Highest of whom every form is
\none city. Whereof these are the verses:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n6.  " ‘Children
\nof death are the letters when they are used as three, the embracing and the
\ninseparable letters: but the wise man is not shaken: for there are three kinds
\nof works, outward deed and inward action and another which is blended of the
\ntwo, and all these he does rightly without fear and without trembling.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n   <\/span>    <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n7.  " ‘To the
\nearth the Rig-veda leads, to the skies the Yajur, but the Sama to That of which
\nthe sages know. Thither the wise man by resting on OM the syllable attains, even
\nto that Supreme Quietude where age is not and fear is cast out by immortality’."<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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\ns<\/font><\/span>ixth
\n<\/font>
\n<\/span>q<\/font><\/span>uestion<\/font><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

1. Then Sukesha
\nthe Bharadwaja asked him: "Lord, Hiranyanabha of Koshala, the king’s son, came
\nto me and put me this question, ‘O Bharadwaja, knowest thou the Being and the
\nsixteen parts of Him?’ and I answered the boy, ‘I know Him not: for if I knew
\nHim, surely I should tell thee of Him: but I cannot tell thee a lie: for from
\nthe roots he shall wither who speaks falsehood.’ But he mounted his chariot in
\nsilence and departed from me. Of Him I ask thee, who is the Being?"<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

2. To him
\nanswered the Rishi Pippalada: "O fair son, even here is that Being, in the inner
\nbody of every creature, for in Him are the sixteen members born.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

3. "He
\nbethought Him: ‘What shall that be in whose issuing forth I shall issue forth
\nfrom the body and in his abiding I shall abide?’<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t<\/p>\n
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4.  "Then he
\nput forth the Life, and from the Life faith, next ether and then air, and then
\nlight, and then water, and then earth, the senses and mind and food, and from
\nfood virility and from virility askesis, and from askesis the mighty verses, and
\nfrom these action, and the worlds from action and name in the worlds: in this
\nwise were all things born from the Spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

5. "Therefore
\nas all these flowing rivers move towards the sea, but when they reach the sea
\nthey are lost in it and name and form break away from them and all is called
\nonly the sea, so all the sixteen members of the silent witnessing Spirit move
\ntowards the Being, and when they have attained the Being they are lost in Him
\nand name and form break away from them and all is called only the Being: then is
\nHe without members and immortal. Whereof this is the Scripture:\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

6. " ‘He in
\nwhom the members are set as the spokes of a wheel are set in its nave, Him know
\nfor the Being Who is the goal of Knowledge, so shall death pass away from you
\nand his anguish.’"<\/span><\/p>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

7. And
\nPippalada said to them: "Thus far do I know the Most High God: than He there is
\nnone Higher."  <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage \u2013 312<\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/div>\n

\n <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

8. And they
\nworshipping him: "For thou art our father who has carried us over to the other
\nside of the Ignorance." Salutation to the mighty sages, salutation! <\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nPage \u2013 313<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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