outwardly break customary patterns, they do not possess this station and have never caught so much as its scent. They are those who receive from causes: the causes have not left them and will not leave them, but have become hidden. Someone who outwardly breaks custom must make a sensory movement that is the cause of the existence of that very thing sought. He scoops or clenches his hand in the air, then opens it upon something grasped, of gold or something else. This occurred only through the cause of his hand's movement and clenching.
He has therefore not departed from a cause, though overall it is uncustomary. Clenching, however, is customary, and the hand's movement is customary. Obtaining this thing from another direction is customary, while obtaining it from this direction is uncustomary, and so it is called a breaking of custom. Know this. Whoever wishes to lift the rule of the talisman of habits should exert himself in what we have mentioned. Habits will then have no rule over him, while he remains within habits, unrecognized by the common people and the elect.
(The Sciences of Allusions, Bringing into Existence, and Measuring Out)
Among the sciences of this Abode is the knowledge of allusions and address. It contains knowledge of the intrusion of specious arguments upon the people of proofs. It contains knowledge of the Name that turned toward creation through bringing into existence and measuring out,
