founder quotes the saying, “Whoever wishes to investigate divine knowledge must cultivate a different disposition” (the founder explained this by saying that when a person reflects on the conditions of terrestrial and celestial bodies and considers their attributes, this provides him with a standard; if he wishes to proceed from these to knowledge of Lordship, he must acquire a different disposition, a different approach, and an intellect unlike that through which he came to understand corporeal things): “You, teacher of these innovating Sabian philosophers, when you spoke