The Ist intelligence. II The Ist The IXth The uppermost intelligence. heavenly sphere. Heaven. III II VIII That of the zodiac, or of fixed stars. IV III VII That of Saturn. V IV VI Jupiter. VI V V Mars. VII VI IV the Sun. VIII VII III Venus. IX VIII II Mercury. X IX I the Moon. XI X The human. the Earth. The difference between the system of the Dasatir and the latter consists only in this: that the first enthrones the first supreme intelligence, or reason, above all nine heavenly spheres, and assigns to the second intelligence with its soul and body the ninth sphere, in which the latter system places the first intelligence, and the third intelligence corresponds to the eighth sphere, and so on; each intelligence is placed in the first system, one sphere higher than in the latter; so that the numbers of intelligences and spheres, counterparts of each other, do not form a perfect _Dekas_, which mutually meets in the sacred number _five_, but they make an Endekas. Besides, the Muhammedan philosophers call the soul of the second intelligence “the truth of truths,” and identify it with Muhammed, who is said to have declared: _The first being which God created_ _was my light._――(See upon this subject _Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Literatur_. 1823. _Erste Hälfte_, pp. 313, etc.) [112] Koran, chap. III. v. 163. [113] _Shosterí_, or _Tosterí_, “native of the town of Shoster or Toster,” is the surname of Abu Muhammed (above Mahmud) _Sahal Ben And_. He is reputed as one of the principal chiefs of the Sufís; he was a disciple of Zu al nun, and condisciple of Jionaid. He died in his eightieth year, in the year of the Hejira 283 (A. D. 896). [114] See pp. 8-9, note 2.