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Excerpt from Bar Hebraeus's Book of the Dove: Together With Some Chapters From His Ethikon The present translations are due to the desire to make the sources of Syriac mysticism more accessible, in the first place for its own sake, in the second place because of its intimate connection with Muslim mysticism from its origin up to G_hazali. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.