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…ife-dissolving swoon ! But once my spear hath threaded the djirid,4 It clutches as the dragon grips the moon. Till all is dark but the Unlighted Light,5 And all is still but the Unexampled Tune.5 So, when thou smilest on him, dearest lad, Is El Qahar wiser than Aflatun. 1. Aflatun — Plato. 2. Kun [Persian text] anus. 3. Ruknabad — a streamlet of Persia, near Shi- raz (Forbes). 4. Djirid. A ring, at which Arabs tilt at full gal- lop. It is our Western “ tent pegging ” or the me- diaeval “ quintain ”, this latter perhaps brought by the Crusaders …
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… Browny-yellow, dead-looking. NOMINON — A large red spongy jellyfish with one greenish luminous spot. Like a nasty mess. IAMAI — A small light crested yellow bird, iridescent under the throat. AROGOR — A black vulture with human ears, a very long beak, and very red eyes. HOLASTRI — An enormous pink bug. HACUMUBI — A monkey, black, with long hair and a white face. SAMALO — An altogether black undersized ram with very long curling horns lying back along its back. PLISON — Has two very thin legs, a black big belly, and arms stretched up and behind…
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42 The Spiritual Basis of Spiritual Sensation The Servitors of Beelzebub ALCANOR — A light-flash. Perhaps bird-like — swallow or dove. AMATIA — A very black snake, wormy and wriggly. BILIFARES — A great toad with a black head. LAMARION — A donkey-headed beast the size of a spaniel, with a long twisted tail. DIRALISEN — A snake with six feet. Its head is like that of an enormous ferret, and the eyes very red. LICAMEN — A very small long-eared monkey. DUNIRAG — Like a sheep with the mange. It has straight horns and four black legs : the wool is i…
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…e Origin of Religion. XXVIII THE POTTER The dew is on the rose ; behold The 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 …
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…pt From turning by its axle-pin.1 But swing thine hips and smile upon The hideous world’s malicious grin ! Then when we end, the task is light : Bid El Qahar once more begin2 ! 1. The very cause of life — desire — is that which hinders its attaining to higher planes. A
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…f, supreme in pride, stupendous in the vast ! Even the present gold and white, the Moment ever fleeting fast, Surrendered never ! this delight the Venus-throw hath surely cast.3 Jehannum shall exclaim “ Habib ! ” and light inform its murky fire, Entrancing all the ghouls4 to love, waking the Shaitans to desire ! Rejoicing souls in Paradise shall spurn the Hur al Ayn5 with ire, Opening their lips in pangs of woe, offering their souls in pawn to hire ! Men from the utmost desert lands shall spur their steeds through sand and mire, Even to look up…
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…dreams. Nor while thy podex grips my tool Canst thou deceive me, boy, it seems.1 If other thoughts invade my heart, Of thee my heart but lightly deems. As he who worships Allah2 knows, His Teacher light the fool esteems Whose mind is occupied with sense — And how the crowd of senses teems !3 But El Qahar doth love ; collects Into one ocean all the streams.4 1. This is the Rabelasian jest — the story of Hans Carvels ring — in Eastern dress. 2. Again a confusion. He refers to the Sufi, not to the Zahid. (Teacher is nominative — fool accu- sative.…
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…usness, 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 hot career, Identity ; i…
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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 Bo…
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…eyes of jewel-sheen ; Though squawking with an eunuch’s voice, our paederastic plumes we preen.8 For voice is sound, and dies with air ; light is co- excellent with God9 ; As Hate’s a poison for delight, so love’s a physic for the spleen. And El Qahar is Truth, and nought but Allah stuffs his gaberdine,10 And Allah windeth he about with tarband gemmed11 of gold and green.12
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… A small black gnome. In his left hand is a grey pedestal surmounted by a white pyra- mid. NAMIROS — Is formless, like a flood of yellow light more brilliant than the Sun. ADIRAEL — A very large gold fish with an enormous head. KABADA — Is a fat frog, erect, with a green white chest. KIPOKIS — A small figure, fox-headed, extending its left hand. ORGOSIL — A very dark and very large tortoise. ARCON — A smallish nude human bony figure. It has a square head with three large plumes. AMBOLON — A hunched-up rabbit squatted on a pedestal. LAMOLON — An…
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152 The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. Light springs and liberty is fair— o break the intoxicating jar ! It is enough that thou art Near, the shamer of the foolish Far, To glut thy jasmine podex on the member of thine El Qahar ; To glut thine almond member in the podex 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 usua…
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…tings and pinchings of a courtesan,12 assuaging thy desire. [persian] Ya13 My member bestoweth much advantage upon thy podex ; he is the light thereof, as the sun of the dark earth at dawn ; and he giveth it peace, as- suaging thy desire.
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…1. [Persian text] : Hakim — doctor, not to be confused with [Persian text] Hakim — official. 2. Wolf’s Tail — the false dawn or Zodiacal Light. 3. One M.S. omits the sentence, and finishes the previous couplet “ O flabby and withered lips ! ” ([Persian text]) lit. “ lips of one who fasts.” 4. Probably a pun [Persian text] to kiss [Persian text] rotten. 5. Reputed aphrodisiacs. In reality of little more use than the boasted South American Damiana. Chobchini (wood of China) is the “ ginseng ” of Sze- chuen and Corea. The modern biological methods…
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Devotion better than learning. 123 But the light-hearted Sufi thither floats Breasting God’s waves with Life for coracle. So El Qahar defies the host of Fate, Having thy podex for a citadel. 1. Zemzem. The holy well at Mecca. Its waters are excessively foul, and even the most devout make a wry face when drinking them. 2. Jasmine podex — surely a true perversion of sense ! Yet the adjective is as invariable as pius for Aeneas and fidus for Achates. 3. Fatihah, the first chapter of the Q’uran. To recite it 1,000 times nightly causes one to become…
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…that we rarely notice you ; when we do, it is to say : God have mercy upon these blind and miserable slaves, and bring them out into His light and joy and liberty ! Wherefore I pray Him (Oh thou all-loving, all 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.…
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…ove for God. “ What is it then, that I love, O my God, when I love you ? It is not beauty of bodies, nor the glory which passes, nor the light which our eyes love ; it is not the va- ried harmony of sweet songs nor the aroma of per- fumes and sweet flowers, nor the voluptuous joys of carnal embraces. No, it is more than these that
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…t, but managed to scramble out. Seeing an ass going in that direction, he kindly warned him. The ass disdainfully replied that he, being light, ran little danger. Ay ! said the elephant, but small and without an hand, how will thou escape if thou dost fall ? And in fact the ass fell, and perished misera- bly. [I think it far more likely that it refers to another fable, the following, told by Persians against Omar and Ayeshah who as the daughter of Abu Bekr is supposed by the Shiahs to have influ- enced Mohammed’s conduct for evil. There are num…
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…sense, so he brings up his dinner instead, under the equally absurd delusion that the process is physically dir- ty. In the interests of Light and Truth, one cannot too widely disseminate the grossly phrased, but noble, American proverb that “ A turd jumps away from a live prick like a grasshopper from a snake.” Anyway, one can wash1 ! The sole effect of the law as it stands is to make life in England insupportable for the wretched Urn- ing, and to expose every man, whether he be a so- domite or not to the attacks of blackmailers of the vilest …