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Ecstasy stronger than Death. 103 XXVII THE CAMEL RIDER1 The camel-rider swoops across the desert, with his howling Jinn, To wreck and ravage human life ; insufferable Be- dawin !2 But shall he ravish thee from me ? I see the camel check and kneel, Vanquished by dread of the Unknown, appalled by fear of the Unseen ! To Death is Love inpregnable ; to Love seems Death desirable, Fixing the lightning flash of life and making per- mament the scene. The Zahid looks from Life to Death ; The Sufi gath- ers Death from Life ; Thy podex ’twixt thy buttock…
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…e sun illume them with his gold ! My dew is on thy rose ; what Light Their love with rapture doth enfold ? They are immune from Life and Death ; From heat and hunger, thirst and cold. The worn ascetics1 of the mosque Guess not what joy the ages hold. Seek we the tavern and the stream, The garden and the grassy wold ! No potter fashioned thee, o man ! ’Tis thou that didst the Potter mould. From Fear grew Hell, from Hope sprang Heaven ; From Love our Ecstasy untold.2 Those are delusions, slow to live, This hath no death, the iron-souled. [Therefo…
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128 The ruling passion strong in death. XXXVII THE CRANE What if our pleasures prove the bane Of this thy lover’s shuddering brain ?1 Some evil Jinn may haunt the fane ; Some serpent hurt the sugar-cane ; Some rot infect the golden grain ! Nay, though my flesh grow boil and blain, Each sinew cramp, each muscle sprain, Each link dissolve of Nature’s chain, Each nerve disrupt in thoughts inane,2 Each function abdicate its reign, I care not, so this love remain. Dead or alive, insane or sane, The perfect passion of us twain Shall bring us blessing…
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…n Him, the Exalted One.” 4. The “ Heart of the Q’uran ” ; one of it holiest chapters, recited or read to all good Muslim at the point of death, whenever possible. 5. Musalla, near Shiraz ; as Richmond, near London ; or the Cafe d’Hermenonville, near Paris. 6. Azrael — the angel of death. 7. Arafat — the holy mountain near Mecca. 8. The Vindu-Siddhi, power of retaining the se- men, is one of the most interesting and important branches of Hathayoga, the Hindu “ Physical Cul- ture.” The following from the Shiva Sanhita, concern- ing the Vajroli Mu…
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130 The ruling passion strong in death. 4. We do not know whether this can possibly have any reference to a local custom. In Egypt the rising of Sirius heralded various obscene religious festivals. Our own view is that the best signal for beginning a love-affair is the rising of — but no matter ! 5. Shaitan — Satan. It is however a generic name for an evil spirit. 6. Lion. The Persian, with the Scot and the Cingalee, claims a lion for his emblem.
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Ecstasy stronger than Death. 105 1. Death in the East rides a camel, not a white horse. 2. Bedawin — any wanderers. But the home- less necessarily live by robbery. Hence the para- doxes of Socialism. 3. Lit. sharp as [Persian text] zu’l faqar, the sword of Mohammed which he captured on the field of Badr. A sort of Eastern Excalibur, by the usual mythopoetic process. 4. I confess to fantastic license in translation of this curious passage. But some of the words are not Persian or anything else, and two or three seemed me formed in this manner. F…
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…re these si- miles ! No artifice, so straining of the metaphor is involved ; the poet rests in calm and beatific certi- tude of “ a good death, and a joyful resurrection in His holy kingdom ! ” Yet there is no false piety, no arrogance ; and like every straight-living man, he is capable of honest laughter, almost in the same breath.
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The ruling passion strong in death. 129 And he my tool doth entertain. I speak the truth ; falter, nor feign, Seeing my camel on the plain Girt for the Journey ; spared or slain, My love’s no moon to wax and wane. Allah our love with mercy sain ! Then death’s a splendid window-pane Through which I look the world to explain. Give me the Cup ! it’s wine I’ll drain, Thy podex to my member strain, And thrust, and pull, and writhe amain :— Thrill through each raptured dying vein That El Qahar’s dissolving brain Be of his Destiny the bane ! 1. Can th…
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…nement as of myriad nymphs and fauns, satyrs and dryads, — a stirring of the waters of life — we fall back in an ecstasy — somewhat like death — with the gasping murmur Pan ! Pan ! Io Pan ! while the marmorean splen- dour before us turns with the last ray of sunlight his goodly smile upon our still and stricken bo- dies — the heap of the slain of Priapus — perinde ac cadaver — ah ! it is night, it is death. Alas ! it is not sunset ; here is no glade, but a noisy London square ; we cannot live, we must talk ; we cannot love, we must dissect. We …
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106 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 …
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Ecstasy stronger than Death. 107 10. V. 14 is the saying of Mansur el Hallaj “ I am Truth and in my coat is wrapped nothing but God.” He was stoned by more orthodox Arabs, and his blood traced “ An’ el Haqq ” on the ground. 11. Gem [Persian text] Guhr. The Fable of the Cock and the Dunghill probably sprang from so childish a source as the pun between Guhr and Guh [Persian text] (dung). It is more obvious in the oblique Guh-ra and Guhr-ra. 12. The last three verses are probably spu- rious. Verse 11 supplies a natural end, with the takhallus. A. …
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…ght ; our fan the wind ; Our bed some mountain’s amethystine spar. Thine arms close tighter ; drain the cup of love (Which is the cup of death) with El Qahar !
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104 Ecstasy stronger than Death. The ‘ Maybe ’ and the ‘ Letushope ’, the ‘ Allahknows ’ and ‘ Ibelieve ’ ; The ‘ Sweetitwas ’ and ‘ Werecall ’, the ‘ Pitytis ’ and ‘ Mighthavebeen ’4 These founder in the rushing tide, these bear a cargo black with fear, Heavy with hate and dull with woe, a miserable load of teen : While we the ‘ Jolly Roger ’5 sail whose freight is fairy6 pearls of dew ; The podex and the member locked, without a bar, without a screen. Remembrance and regret we quash ; we banish traitor hope and fear ; The present ecstasy is a…
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…ver a thousand pounds weight of thin silver plates — supplied by the faithful — with the minute charac- ters of his calculations. At his death these plates were distributed and of course worked innumera- ble miracles. Should such a plate come in the pos-
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…odex of thine El Qahar. 1. Riddle. In the Persian are perhaps concealed some details of the Poet’s life and amours. 2. Azrael — angel of death ; Israfel — of the last Judgement, bear respectively a sword and a trum- pet. We have taken Azrael though modern Per- sians usually (Not the text here. Ed.) call him Abu Yahya [Persian text] “ Father John.” Some ignorant Persians confuse him with Ezekiel ! Result : “ to sup with Father John ” means either to eat dirt, i.e. (apologize) or “ to die.” Hence an offended Persian in a tavern brawl, may “ You m…
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…mber slayeth thy podex with its terrible thrusts, he is the living one ! and he pleadeth for all the joys of thy podex, like Azrael6 for death, as- suaging thy desire. My member is the only one that will fit thy po- dex, and he is the most holy on, as the Beyt Ullah is the most holy among mosques ; he is the sole member, like Arafat7 among mountains, assuaging thy desire. My member is unaccompanied in thy podex ; powerful is he, yea ! most mighty, and hasteneth from orgasm to orgasm, like a man bringing tidings of victory, assuaging thy desire.
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…friendly commentator inge- niously asserts that he does this only to add to the grimness of verses describing anger, punishment, terror, death, or some unplea- sant idea. : (3) his treatment of the Tarjiband : and (4) his trick of inventing words to carry out some extravagant metaphor or paranoma- sia : (c) his novel symbolism, which they deplore as likely to confuse even the most pious : (d) per contra, his novel symbolism as likely to be understood of even the least instructed : and (e) his constant gibes at Sadi. (I must admit that I was qui…
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…Zero. Now [Persian text] has the value of 12. The symbolism of this number will occur to all students. But without coursing that hare to death, we may lightly touch upon the traces of Hua through the languages He- brew Hua, English He ; and note the remarkable similarity to Allah of Ille, Il, Lui, Le and so on. The Hebrew Allah is [He, Lamed, Aleph] usually transli- terated by our empirics Eloah, perhaps dropping an L. because 36 is the value of [He, Lamed, Aleph] and the sum of the first nine numbers (0 to 8) 9 being the number of their Divine…
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… interesting points. We went to work accordingly during my last leave in England, and accomplished (I think) a good deal. (Major Lutiy’s death left this paragraph incom- plete. I need only add that on his departure for the front he sent the MSS., with numerous further ad- ditions, to me. I have retained the paragraph to explain the occasional diversity of opinion in read- ing or interpretation, and the way in which ‘ I ’ and ‘ We ’ are alternatively used in the notes. Ed.) The verse rendering are in every case later pa- raphrases from the origi…
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…imson of the West shall fade into the blue of the whole sky, and the blue be illumined by the streamers of the false dawn, which is like death as the true dawn is like the last day.7 I hope, Habib, that thy podex is ca- pable of severe combat ; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar withdraw his member. 1. So our best M.S. [Persian text] But [Persian text] flesh — meaning buttocks — sounds more likely. Consideration of prosody support the text. 2. Meteor-struck : meteors are the stones flung by the angels at the Jinn who pry into Heaven. T…