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…s up and worships—let the donkey prate ! The wine-drawer and his beloved boy Unite above in the ecstatic state. Nor doth the Sufi need a heaven in Heaven :— Earth’s heaven to who hath God to heart for mate ! And if at first thy virgin podex bled4— He smiteth, for He is compassionate ! O Zahid, hear thou El Qahar5 the wise : “ By love hate ends ; hate never ends by hate.”6 1. They who worship Allah give pleasure to themselves, but He profiteth not at all there- by. [Mahbub’s comment]. 2. This doctrine of Freewill as the prize of Theurgy is curio…
1910 · PDF PAGE 142
…qual the joy of even the first rubbings of the member against its orifice. The desire of the fanatic is to cast away life at the feet of Heaven ; but for thy podex heaven and life2 together might be thrown away ; and all per- fections of Allah are nor worth one perfection of thy podex. He therefore who would attain to merge his member therein offers nothing, but on the contrary employs to the best advantage whatever he hath, though in the Pursuit he forgetteth that he hath it, not valuing it. To him who so acts the Attainment of thy bed is cert…
1910 · PDF PAGE 84
…ade of lack of Equilibrium here. Why prefer the Near to the Far ? Browning (Abt Vogler, IV) is better with his “ Earth had at- tained to heaven ; there was no more near not far.” Yet even Browning in this passage discrimi- nates against Earth in favour of Heaven : I sup- pose we are none of us perfect.] 4. Roses etc. — the cheeks, teeth, and lips. 5. I I have heard the claim that the substance of porcelain can be so impregnated with scent that “ You may break, you may shatter — etc. ” But I
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…ll the wrong I did you here. I will try and be a good wife to you, darling, if you will give me one more chance to hold your love. I had heaven in your kisses, and I went to seek it in the cloister.11 I loved you al- ways ; it was but a boy’s folly ; forgive me ! I may never cling to you on earth again : pray God that Heaven may be one long, long life of such bliss as we had of one another long ago by yon slow stream on whose banks I have wandered (many a time since) crying like a lost soul concerning you in the words of Milton lamenting his be…
1910 · PDF PAGE 116
…den 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. [Therefore the podex of Habib To pierce am I, thy lover, bold.]3 Only from weariness of love Was death’s unholy camel foaled.4
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…ower of eglantine, my couch of lilac and nargis. The cup of wine is in my hand ; the slaves await the master’s word ; My huqqa2 smoke to heaven curls, laden with maddening cannabis.3 I feel upon my jasmine-jar these eyes ; this brain its beauty knows, Its perfume roused to ecstasy by cunning strain of ambergris.4 Above, Habib my lover hangs ; his podex is the jasmine-jar ; His lips are softly closed on mine, one long unfa- thomable kiss. All, all is rapture ; who would shift one inch all mystery to disclose ? A fool is he who queries Quid ? til…
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…ssus waist to hold, His jasmine podex2 to my raptured smell, His rosy lips and coralline to kiss — Well saith the sage that youth’s sole heaven is hell ! A thousand times a night the Fatihah3 Did I recite — my member did not swell. Once for a night I slept with my Habib — A thousand times that member rose and fell !4 Love and not worship is the key of life ; Silence, not prayer, the universal spell. For while I knelt, how could I clasp Habib ?5 And while I prayed, how kiss ? Adorable And perfect boy, thy podex serves alike My member both to cha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 83
…ey come no more to mar Our loves ; we’ll wing through universal space, Borne in the moon’s chryselephantine car. Nor shall the bounds of heaven nor the walls Of Allah’s house to love be bond or bar.2 Nor shall the Thee make mischief with the Me, The Near be interrupted by the Far.3 See, how the roses bloom ! How shine the pearls ! The tulip-buds, how beautiful they are !4 While in the deep and dark, thy podex gives The fragrance of some porcelain jasmine-jar.5 Our canopy is night ; our fan the wind ; Our bed some mountain’s amethystine spar. Th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 117
…al materialist, self-styled orthodox, common to all religions, and the despe- rate devotee who does not set his life at a pin’s fee when heaven is at stake. El Haji probably wishes to kill the two birds with one stone. 2. Another hint that all Religion is subjec- tive ; and that consequently mean men are Evan- gelicals, gross men Roman Catholics, cowards be- lievers in Eternal Punishment, sensual and senti- mental men Universalists, and so on. Such a ra- tionalistic view of the Genesis of Creed is uncom- mon enough in Eastern literature, though…
1910 · PDF PAGE 90
…ikely. Consideration of prosody support the text. 2. Meteor-struck : meteors are the stones flung by the angels at the Jinn who pry into Heaven. This epithet confirms our view of the allegory. 3. Eunuchs. Those from whom the testicles only are removed can still copulate, and experience sexual orgasm, though of course no fecundation results. Hence the possibility of Gibbon’s remark that a certain lady “ preferred the titillations of her favourite eunuch to the ponderous emballings of the Roman praetor ” ; and of Martial’s epigram : “ Cur tantum …
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… transcending God !) that should this essay fall (as seed by the wayside) into the hands of the young that they may dwell with us in the Heaven which is Here and Now, and (after) in the Palace which of His lovingkindness He hath prepared for us in that Garden of Gardens which is approached only through the narrow postern gate of Death. 1. There is of course not the most shadowy rea- son in ethics for the attitude of the law. The most confirmed sodomite (bimetallist) may beget quite as many children as another, while monogamy is the fashion. If …
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…s and within us for ever and ever. Shall I find you there, my lost darling ? As I pass from the swoon of death to feel the fresh wind of Heaven blowing on my cheek, shall I find you first to meet me in those Elysian glades ? “ In what etherial dances ? By what eternal streams ? ” shall I find you, sweet acolyte of Salmacis or of Terpsichore, of Bacchus or Sabrina ? Will it be you on yonder bank of yellow moss by the sunspangled rivulet that tumbles noisily from the throne of God ? Will it be you with your fine golden hair like spiders’ webs in …
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…re some sodomites, which were made sodomites of men : and there are sodomites, which have made them- selves sodomites for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. (The Urning, the Bimetallist and the carcerophobe, and the holy sodomite to whom his passion is a sacrament, leading him on the straight road into the very arms of God). He that is able to receive it, let him receive it ! The law manufactures sodomites as it manufac- tures habitual criminals. Legalize sodomy, and you will diminish it ; or even if, as you seem to fear, you increase it, you will s…
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…fore. He wakes up utterly miserable, and consults the local Mullah as to his experience. “ My son ! ” replies the good man “ favoured of Heaven ! You have had a vision of the realms of Paradise.” He naturally wants to know how to get back, and the Mullah reiterates the well-known blessing on those who die, slaying infidels, and further indicates such and such a Sahib — who has probably made himself obnoxious to the faithful in some way — as a suitable person to attack. Lord Curzon however very wisely met this manoevre by ordering the cre- matio…