"The Crown is composed of four mysteries, which are the Wellspring and Datepalm, Fecundation, Glory and Light. It is constructed of seven mysteries which are the ears, the five hasfia of the head, and the hair, for it (the Crown?) dominateth three hundred and sixty mysteries — which are the Body, of its Right and its Left. And all took shape within them and settled therein and developed into a thousand mysteries."
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Book 1, Part 1, Section 19 (Drower 1960, p. 117)
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