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For it is he who gave me unerring knowledge of what exists, to know the structure of the world and the activity of the elements;
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the beginning and end and middle of times, the alternations of the solstices and the changes of the seasons,
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the cycles of the year and the constellations of the stars,
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the natures of animals and the tempers of wild animals, the powers of spirits and the thoughts of human beings, the varieties of plants and the virtues of roots;
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I learned both what is secret and what is manifest,
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