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Ecstasy stronger than Death. 
for the descending Shiva upon his devotee.  The 
eunuch’s voice is the shrill sound heard by adepts 
at the moment of union with the divine.  The gar-
den is of course the sphere of the trained soul. 
9.  This is a very literal translation ;  it is either 
an accident, or shows a high degree of scientific 
knowledge.  The dependence of sound on air was 
discovered in Europe by Hawksbee in 1705.   
(Hawksbee first performed the “ bell in vacuo ” 
experiment in 1705. Newton (Principia Vol. III, 
1687), gave an inaccurate formula for Velocity of 
Sound in Air and other fluids.  Laplace nearly 100 
years later corrected this.  But we do not wish to 
stake El Haji’s reputation as a prophet on this 
phrase.  It is perfectly open to us to read “ dies with 
breath ” or “ dies with mind ” the root [Persian text]