The Islamic calendar, which reckons time from July 16, 622 C.E., is entirely lunar in nature, so the year consists of 354 days. Thus, their festivals wander through the solar seasons. Certainly, a need must have been felt to stabilize this measurement of time and to fix the days in orderly cycles dictated by the celestial bodies, but it has never been done. Is there, then, a metaphysical intelligence that has programmed the Moslem world not to adopt the more logical systems of the Gregorian and kabbalistic calendars? Can we assume that some internal energy field central to the Moslem people
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