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The Alchemy of Happiness — Al-Ghazzali, trans. Claud Field (1910)

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Knowledge of self is the key to the knowledge of God, according to the saying: "He who knows himself knows God."Al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness, Ch. I, trans. Claud Field (1910)

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