[177] See (vol. I. p. 293, note 1) the seven heavens under particular names, as given in the Viraf-namah, and the explanation of them. The seven prophets above-named are somewhat differently distributed by other authorities. See the notes to Avisenna’s explanation of Muhammed’s ascent to heaven (vol. III. pp. 186. 189). I shall subjoin the distribution of the seven prophet-kings, according to the Desátir, and that of seven Jewish and Christian prophets, according to the notes just referred to: PLANETS: ACCORDING TO ACCORDING TO THE DESATIR. MUHAMMEDAN AUTHORITIES. Saturn, Inhabited by Gilshaw. Inhabited by Abraham. Jupiter, ―― Siamok. ―― Moses. Mars, ―― Hushang. ―― Aaron. The Sun, ―― Tahmuras. ―― Idris. Venus, ―― Jemshid. ―― Joseph. Mercury, ―― Feridun. ―― Jesus, St. John. The Moon, ―― Minocheher. ―― Adam. [178] See the Cosmology of the Desátir, compared with that of the modern Orientals, vol. III. p. 143, note. [179] According to the Occidental fabulists (see Ariosto’s _Orlando Furioso_, canto XXXIV), the moon holds, in a strait valley between two mountains, all that mortals lose here below: fame, tears and sighs of lovers, lost time, futile designs, vain desires, ancient crowns, all instruments of deceit, treaties, and conspiracies, works of false coiners and knaves, the good sense of every body, is there bottled; all is there except folly, which remains below, and never quits the earth: _Sol la Pazzia non v’è poca, nè assai, Chè stà quaggiù, nè se ne parte mai._ § XIV.――THE RELIGION OF THE SUFIS. We arrive at the last chapter, “_Upon the Sufis_;” the most abstruse of the twelve, but to which we are well enough prepared by the contents of the former. Súfism, according to the Dabistán, belongs to all religions; its adherents are known, under different names among the Hindus, Persians, and Arabians; it appears to be nothing else but the rationalism of any sort of doctrine. It could never be the religion of a whole nation; it remained confined to the precincts of schools and societies.