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… I have kept my dinars, Habib, to buy thee a new tarband withal ; having reflected upon the case of the Mullah, that about his father we know nothing, while on the contrary about his mother everything is known. For himself, since we know so much, none desireth to know more. I think, however, that we will make him some- what drunk, or even excessively drunk, and that in that condition we will lead him to the house of Fatma, where the old humbug3 shall fornicate with the ugliest of the slave girls. Also setting him upon an ass4 with his face to t…
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84 The kiss of consciousness, Human and Divine. XIX. The Cherry Tree I know a cherry-tree by Bendimir1 Whose blossom curves and sways upon the clear Eddies of light ; I have a cedar boat Whose cushions are of dove’s down2 ; let us steer Under that tree and lie alone together What time the West is grey, the stars appear. Then you shall love me as a virgin would ; Shudder a little with a little fear, But yield thy podex to my lotus-wand, Giving some smile twin sister to a tear, Just as the body shudders3 when the soul Gives up to Allah, in its ho…
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…ing shall see green violets grow thereon ! Then, in the hush of the sunset, come noiseless hoofs treading the enamelled turf ; and ere I know it a fierce lithe hairy body has gripped mine, and the dread wand of magic shudders it live way into my being, so that the foundations of my soul are shaken. The heavy breath and the rank kisses of a faun are on my neck, and his teeth fasten in my flesh — a terrible heave flings our bodies into mid- air with the athletic passion that unites us with the utmost God — “ hid ’i th’ middle o’ matter ” — and th…
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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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… grips him body and soul. Once and for all, Whatever befall, He is bound to the golden goal By the joy of his shuddering spine.” He will know that in the rites of sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite doesn’t make a scan- dal ; take care of the boys, and the girls will …
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33 bring home these things, don’t you know ? But we think what we think, don’t you know ? While your admiring friends openly boast of you as a dam clever bugger, by God ! He had half the boys in London, and when they started to black- mail him, he turned right round like that (gesture) before you could say “ knife ”, by God ! and didn’t they get beans, by God ! But could I fight an English election ? How would my chiefs in the army look at it, when it came to the actual point of choosing one of two men for promotion ? What price that fat tutor-…
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74 The Pains and Pleasures of Redemption. penalty of age and excess. But as far as I know, there is not. 4. The grave Persian literally screams with laughter whenever his poet quotes the Q’uran in a blasphemous sense ; just as our own people with the Bible. 5. A last touch of the whip. 6. As a witty Irishman remarks, “ There is only one argument that will convince a woman — the argument in a circle.” 7. A very profound allegory. Laila being the Jinn, this passage means that since the revelation of the Method of true communion between man and Go…
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…and giveth pearly dew, like the stars to the roses, assuaging thy desire. Beautiful is my member as it openeth thy podex, and allwise to know every secret recess thereof, holding it on its stiffness like a lion thrust through by a spear, assuaging thy desire.
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…e to me, and I will beat thee sound- ly ; and if thou offendest again I will carry thee be- fore this ass-calibred Qazi—Allah on him !—I know well what punishment he will give thee—love ; but ever after thou shalt have no need to be a thou- sand, but accommodate thirty lovers at one time within thy podex. So saith El Qahar, but I am not so sure that if thou comest to him with thine impudence and prettiness, he will not forgive thee. Allah is the Forgiver.4 1. In reference to the problem of Greek philoso- phy, I may refer students to Erdmann’s H…
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…onsciousness, Human and Divine. 85 If beautiful Habib plays ‘ kir ’4 or ‘ kun ’, And El Qahar the wise plays ‘ kun ’ or ‘ kir ’. Only we know that we in Him are dead, And that the Far is buried in the Near. Thus like a cherry-blossom is our life Floating unwetted on the moon-white mere.5 It is no time to sing ; for from the house Comes forth the bride Habib, sans prince or peer ; Unique Habib, who walketh like a cat, Sitteth, a swan, and runneth like a deer. His face is like the moon that shines upon The labouring Hajj,6 its camel-throned Emir.…
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INTRODUCTION As everybody now-a-days is perfectly well aware, a knowledge of the Persian language is practically a necessity for all sojourners in Mohammedan In- dia. In the North-West, even more than Urdu, it is the lingua franca of the upper classes : it is the tongue spoken in the courts of the Believing Princes : it is the dialect alike of love and of litera- ture : and its possession is a very talisman from Kabul to Yarkand. As a subaltern stationed at R... P..., though in a British regiment, I found it my first duty to acquire a thorough …
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…rely), seduction, abortion, concealment of birth, child-murder, social tyranny, — et omnis horrida cohors malorum. As few people seem to know the fons et origo le- gis, I may here be permitted to sketch it in out- line. When the power of the Crescent menaced that of the Cross, sodomy was put down with Dra- conic rigour because the Turks believed that the
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…l-mannered, infam- ous, ill-starred, ill-doing and so on. So I chose a word wide enough to include them all. 4. The Q’uran. Many Moslems know it by heart throughout. The interior riming of so many of the chapters makes this task curiously easy, even to a stranger. I found that I could readily master any of the shorter chapters in an hour or so, while the acquirement of a dozen stray words would last me the whole day. 5. This attempt to reconcile all-Power and all- Benevolence is formally identical with that of the veriest Evangelical, and is no…
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…ge my member in the sarcophagus, the flesh-eater, the podex of my lover, and with- draw it, its strength renewed as the eagle’s, so do I know that when the Eater of all flesh devours me altogether, I shall arise in my strength, through the blessed resurrection of our Lord Jesus, the lover of John the beautiful, into a world where erectio pe- nis shall be the rule and not the exception. Where, please God, we shall all be Sapphists and Sodo- mites, joined each to each in one incredible spinth- ria, with the extreme orgasm (which is the Holy Ghost…
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…e Yogi, worshipper of the lotus-feet of his Guru should, in order to obtain quick success in Yoga, drink milk or nectar in this way. 58. Know semen to be moon-like, and the germ- cells the emblem of sun ; let the Yogi make their union in his own body with great care. 59. I am the semen. Sakti (the goddess) is the germfluid : when they both are combined, then the Yogi reaches the state of success, and his body be- comes brilliant and divine. 60. Ejaculation of semen is death, preserving it within is life ; therefore, let the Yogi preserve his se…
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8 Introduction It is the sort of order that acquits a man of the charge of doing nothing for posterity, for assuredly nobody who knows India will try to raise false hopes in me that I may live long enough to see it. I would warn scholars that, unless they are in some way definitely mystics and truly acknowl- edged as such, they will do better to hunt for the lost books of Livy than for the Bagh-i- muattar. There is no copy in any public library here or in the East : not surprising, when one hears Platt in 1874 complain that of so famous a class…
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… burning cheeks, the bitten lips !) whose hidden fire shall kindle the great blaze ? How talk with thee, whose quickened hearing has not known him creep ever closer, yet afraid to touch thee, has not heard the rushing of his heart, the shortening of his breath ? How talk, if thou have not felt one trem- bling foot seed thine, one hand steal near thee and yet nearer ? Till thou feel the tremor of his body ; till his hot breath stir thine hair ! Why, neither thou nor I can tell of that swift attack (is it a minute or an hour ?) when without word …
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…rience. “ 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- mation of murderers of this type. If the body of a Musselman is burnt he cannot go to …
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…ng intruded what may appear to be a personal matter into an essay on the German model, but the good Bimetallist will forgive me. He will know that the old poet was right who wrote : “ The passion of man for woman May serve a lad for a span. But utterly superhuman
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… the efficacy of this secrecy business. The Apocalypse has been pub- lished for some years now, and I have yet to meet anyone who really knows how to extract the gold. Certainly no unworthy person. All arcana are indicible. A man whose formula is n may un- derstand (n + 1), but not (n + 101). So that my Persian MS. is doubly safe from the profaning touch of the British Public. Even the Persians themselves hold that there are Guardians who know how to guard : without pandering to any such superstitious beliefs, I may say that as far as results g…