<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A few folks have asked me about this, so I decided to start a new discussion list- the Atlantia Prayer Beads Guild. <div><br></div><div>You can subscribe to it by going to: <a href="mailto:atlantia_prayer_beads_guild-subscribe@yahoogroups.com">atlantia_prayer_beads_guild-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>We have a place to post our projects and share our research, ask questions and talk about the history of all kinds of prayer beads including paternosters and rosaries.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>-Countess Rowan<br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The one who is ruled by mind,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">without sleeping, puts her senses to sleep,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">so that unseen things may emerge from the world of the soul.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Even in her waking state, she dreams dreams,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and opens thereby the gates of Heaven.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; ; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; "><br style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; "></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-Mathnawi [III, 1833-1834]</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>