Al-Khamis
(The fifth),
as the grand and simple title of our ancient science, meaning
The force—
that which causes the changes in the elementary types and their combinations—than which no more descriptive title could be assigned to it, even in the present enlightened age.
Footnotes and Images
[1.] As to communication, the case of Saggid Mahmud (given in Bellew’s Indus to the Tigris), who, merely to pray for the recovery of his sick son, travelled with him from Ghazni by way of Kandahur and Shikarpur to Bombay, thence by way of sea to Baghdad, from there to Karbola, and back to Baghdad; and then by Kirmanshah and Kum to Teheran, on his way home to Ghazni, gives an indication of the long journeys taken under the most frightful difficulties. This long journey had occupied six months only, and we read that in former times twelve years were sometimes taken in trading journeys.
[2.] Transcriber’s Footnote:
This symbol should look like an inverted “female” or “Venus”— a cross above a circle— but some fonts represent it as a cross within a circle.
The complete set of symbols should appear as follows:
| (cross) | “male sign,” Mars | ||
| “sun” | “Jupiter” | ||
| “first quarter moon” | “Saturn” | ||
| “Mercury” | “Earth” | ||
| “female sign,” Venus |