And that spirit or genie has power to make you king of the whole world and of the sky above the world, lord of the spirits of heaven and earth and air and fire.

Yet the stone is only--a pearl--and it can make you lord of the universe.

That is the old Arabian story.

The word scroll here means a manuscript, an Arabian manuscript.
But what is after all the happiness of mere power?
There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Here is a woman; to the eye of the world, to the sight of other men, she is not very beautiful nor at all remarkable in any way.