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\u201cTime is the creator, it knows no limits, no one is above it, it has no foundation in anything, it has always existed and will exist for ever, and the wise one asks not \u2018Whence comes time?'\u201d<\/span> (Ulemai Islam<\/a>, quoted in Svend Aage Pallis, Mandaean Studies<\/i> (Amsterdam: Philo Press, 1926) p.69).<\/div>\n
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