The head consists of seven pieces, matching the number of the circulating horoscopes, and within the eye are seven layers acting as veils for the beholding spirit, matching the number of the seven heavens and other than that, whatever is within the earths. This is the meaning of the saying of the Sage [Al-Alim]—His glory is mighty: 'The most cognizant of you concerning his own soul is the most cognizant of you concerning his Lord.'

And the Master Abu Sa'id said in the Book of Recognitions [Kitab al-Ma'arif]: 'Within man are three hundred and sixty personified loci—both speaking and silent—which separate and unite upon a single articulation and a single source.'

[134] And Al-Sadiq—His glory is mighty—said in the Mufaddaliyyah Treatise [Al-Risalah al-Mufaddaliyyah]: 'Know, O Mufaddal, that were it not for the spirit, man would neither come nor go. The clay is his form; the bones within his body are comparable to the trees upon the earth; the blood within his body is comparable to the water within the earth—and just as the earth cannot endure without water, in like manner the body of man cannot endure except by blood; the hair upon his body is comparable to the herbage upon the face of the earth;