![]() ![]() She sold it to a used book dealer in Beirut. I was so obsessed by the book that my grandmother got rid of it while I was sleeping. It survived the centuries despite various attempts to get rid of it. What I didn’t know then was that this book has been one of the most banned books throughout Islamic history. He pulled the book out from a hidden compartment. I was still a teenager and the seller had an inclining of my interest. I got my first copy of this book while I was visiting Damascus almost 25 years ago. It’s an almost impossible task to figure out the proper context of the sentences without occult training. It’s a mighty undertaking to do a word-by-word translation of this old form of Arabic. This has been one of the challenges while attempting to do a proper translation. It’s so jam packed there isn’t even clear sentence punctuation and paragraph breaks. The expanded edition of the Sun of Knowledge is a compilation of four volumes jam-packed with occult lore. ![]()
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