One day Khidr, the teacher of Moses, addressed humanity with a warning. “The day will come,” he said, “when all the water in the world, except that which will be specially collected, will disappear.” Then it will be replaced by another water, which will make people go crazy. Only one person understood the meaning of these words. He collected a large supply of water and hid it in a safe place. Then he began to wait for the water to change.
On the predicted day, all the rivers dried up, the wells dried up, and that man, retreating to his refuge, began to drink from his reserves.
When he saw from his refuge that the rivers had resumed their flow, he went down to the other sons of men. He discovered that they spoke and thought completely differently than before, they did not remember either what happened to them or what they were warned about. When he tried to talk to them, he realized that they considered him crazy and showed hostility or compassion towards him, but not understanding.
At first he did not touch the new water at all, and every day he returned to his supplies. However, in the end, he decided to drink new water from now on, since his behavior and thinking, which distinguished him from the rest, made life unbearably lonely. He drank the new water and became like everyone else. Then he completely forgot about his supply of other water, and the people around him began to look at him as if he were crazy, who was miraculously cured of his madness.
The legend is often associated with Dhu-n-Nun the Egyptian, who died in 850 and is considered the author of this story by at least one of the free brotherhood societies of masons. In any case, Dhu-n-Nun is the earliest figure in the history of the dervishes of the Malamati order, which, as Western scholars have often pointed out, bore a striking resemblance to the Freemasonry. It is believed that Dhu-n-Nun revealed the meaning of Pharaonic hieroglyphs.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru