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note this dragon that I reduced to dust and whose colours appeared, it
would have killed you and have separated your soul from your body.”

Because of the extreme fear that the commitment I had just
undertaken had made me feel, and of the marvels that I had seen and
been asked to keep secret, I remained quite stunned and I exclaimed
“God, who is glorified and excited! revealed to me that I had to abstain
from unveiling the secrets, since none of the Ancients could make a
similar thing. If the one that will find this book fears the Creator of
souls and is given up to him, he will arrive at the goal. But the one that
will not have touched the purpose and who will not have understood the
author, will perish in pain and sorrow.”

When Khâled ben Yezid had read this book, he wrote to Fosathar
to inform him that he had sent him a book, which was united in the
Library of the Treasures to the book of Cratès, and to tell him that this
last book was abridged slightly, but that it contained many teachings
and provided many indications on philosophy.

Here ends, with God’s help and thanks to him, the book of Cratès
the philosopher.

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