Know, may God help you and enlighten you, that the first thing that is obligatory for someone who enters into this divine and legitimate path is to seek a teacher until he finds him, and to work during this period in which the teacher seeks the actions that I mentioned of him, which is to commit himself to nine things, for they are simple numbers, so he will have monotheism if he works on them. A firm footing, and for this reason God made the spheres nine spheres. So see what divine wisdom is revealed in the movements of these nine, so make four of them in your outward appearance and five in your inwardness. What is in your outward appearance is hunger, staying awake, silence, and isolation. Two are active, namely hunger and isolation, and two are passive, which are staying up late and silence. And by silence I mean abandoning people’s talk and preoccupying yourself with remembrance. The heart and the soul’s speech differs from the speech of the tongue, except for what God has mad