18 
Introduction 
I love when I love my God ;  and yet in this love I 
find light ;  an inner voice, a perfume, a savour, an 
embrace of a kind which does not leave the inmost 
of myself.  There in the depths of the soul glows 
something which is not in space :  there a word is 
heard which has no syllables :  thence there 
breathes a perfume which no breezes waft 
away :  there food is always savoured and never 
eaten :  there are embraces which never ask to 
end...” 
3.  The few who still suppose that Omar Khayyam 
was a libertine should read the exposition of Book 
XI of this Purana. 
4.  Manes (Mani) the heresiarch was of course a 
Persian. 
5.  I cannot agree that such a moment necessarily 
intervenes between normal and Samadhic con-
sciousness, or, as the Buddhists assert, that there 
is a long series of intervening states invariable and 
well-defined, though perhaps this may sometimes 
be so.  Nor is the appearance of the “ Dweller ” a 
sure earnest of success :  on the contrary, many 
(even most) will fail to pass this terrible barrier. 
6.  Crede experto ?  Ed.