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…ack 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 in knots and patches. ELPONEN — A whitish long-haired mouse. ERGAMEN — A big black hairy spider. GOTIFAN — A bat of light colour and red mixed. NIMORUP — …
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… Set Beast’s face. TROMES — An enormous black beetle with lobster- like mandibles. BALFORI — A 7-pointed white star, with one point very long. AROLEN — Enormous green locust. ICROCHI — A Cat’s head, a dachshund’s body, a long tufted tail. 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. HACUMUB…
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…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 beauteous- buttocked Lycidas “ Oh ! who hath reft my dearest pledge ? ” Alas ! neither Fate nor God could I ac- cuse : the dread hollow voice of my own stricken soul answered me “ Thine own folly, thou m…
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External Religion betrayeth man to Fate. 49 gentleman’s pin is long and thin ” ; yet he appears to share the prejudice, probably from personal rea- sons. 4. Hatim Tai. The Hercules of Persia, though his feasts are more famous than his feats or his sta- ture. But here the bulk is clearly the important thing. 5. Hunchback — not merely an unfortunate, but a bad man. Witness “ Expect 42 ills from the cripple, and 80 from the one-eyed man ; but when the hunchback arrives, say Allah help us ! ” 6. Bukhti is the two-humped camel of Bac- tria. Ali is t…
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…e How is careless of the Why.4 So I, Habib, thy podex sodomize ; With simple art the Mullahs I defy To analyse the mystery ; nor care So long as I am in the galaxy Of sevenfold Suraiya ; El Qahar Lifteth his member evermore5 on high. So doth wise El Qahar to El Qahar The fool by El Qahar the bard reply. 1. Suraiya. — the Pleiades. 2. Hell. 3. The passage in brackets is certainly spu- rious. We retain it as shewing the ingenuity of in- terpretation employed in this class of literature. 4. The natural (though hardly altogether just) contempt of t…
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…sy 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 ? till baffled by the question Quis ?5
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…in thy podex I delight, Nor heed at all what Allah spoke.2 While stands my member, blooms by rose, Wine I can drink, or huqqa3 smoke, So long I laugh at Aflatun, And fun at Aristu4 I poke. Thy buttocks with their splendid sun This joy in me have ever woke ; In rapture alway El Qahar His spirit is content to soak. 1. Pious folk — Wahhabi [Persian text] the Mus- lim strictarians. 2. Obscure. I doubt if the Q’uran forbids sodo- my. See Q’uran XV, where the fault of the people appears to be their breach of hospitality, always a stigma in primitive …
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…gree 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.
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44 The Spiritual Basis of Spiritual Sensation ZAGALO — A big frog, green with dull yellow spots. It hath a rat-tail, very long. PELLIPIS — Like a red flaming tapering Rod, with notches at the thick end. NATALIS — 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 l…
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…a is to be found open- ly or obscurely in most sacred books. 3. This stanza is almost certainly spurious. 4. This is the old jest : “ As long as you drink a drop of this medicine daily, you will not die.” Though perhaps the erectio penis of the hanged may give the lie to the jape. 5. In fact, I saw a very beautiful copy so inlaid on thin sheets of ivory in the house of a wealthy whoremaster.
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…ware, sayeth El Qahar, lest thou bring forth a litter of pigs !6 1. Ka’abah — the “ Holy Place ” at Mecca. See Burton’s Pilgrimage for a long description of this and of the black stone. 2. Hujjaj — plural of Haji, a pilgrim to Mecca. 3. Omar — See Burton’s Pilgrimage for facts about this caliph, highly honoured by the orthodox
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…thlessness. Thy presence or absence makes no difference, therefore, to me. In the same way, whether Allah be or be not is little odds so long as His devotees enjoy the mystic rapture.2 Yet as the podex of Aziz is inferior to thy podex,3 both because it has two fistulae, and because it lacks thy heat, dryness, and tightness, so also is the god of the Christians inferior to Allah, both be- cause he has two cogods, and because he hath nei- ther the power, the wisdom, not the compassion of Him who is alone and without equal, son or com- panion.4 Wh…
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…n the case in Persia. 2. Often the case in Persia. 3. Karenian — proverbial expression. (Write this up fully). (Major Lutiy did not live long enough to accomplish this intention and we cannot trace the phrase. Possibly it is more Indian than Persian.)
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…on the just raineth plagues. For thy desertion, Habib, and this thy ingratitude doth El Qahar give praise to the beloved One. 1. Again a long explanation from Mahbub. The soul (he says) falls from 66 [Persian text] to 45 ([Persian text] Adam, man). Then the twofold head
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138 The relations between the twins of rapture. [persian] Gim My member supporteth thy podex as a rose-tree its flower ; all night long it humbleth and exalteth itself, like the moon, assuaging thy desire. My member cherisheth thy podex, drawing it close ; and hateth it, pressing it away, it heareth all the petition of thy podex, like a maiden enrap- tured by a lute, assuaging thy desire. My member seeth all podices, and judgeth that thy podex alone is beautiful ; just is he therein, and consoleth it with pearly dew, brighter than the eye of a …
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… of the anus will act as a pleasing lubricant, when the next round of preliminaries is over. 4. This has been already anticipated in the long note above. Ed. 5. I would suggest allopath, homaeopath, and ec- lectic as a fitting classification of humanity. 6. A little obscure. I suppose the author means : a scientific whist player need not pity a gambler more than he does a drunkard ; a father of twelve pity the raper more than the brawler ; or the polo enthusiast pity the man who thinks he is a horse more than him who fancies himself a tea- pot.…
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…n the holy influence shed by the Sufi upon his fellow man — and so on. Mahbub was perfectly willing to explain every phrase in the book along these lines ; reasonable people will agree that a single sample is enough. But see the note 1 on XXXVIIIth Ghazal. 4. Aristu — Aristotle. Most sensible men will heartily agree with these sentiments. El Qahar is more than mystic and sodomite ; he is a practical person. But perhaps the unusual word huqqa is a pun on hukm (command) and the phrase means, “ As long as I obey God’s law, I care nothing for phi- …
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…vals to my wife. Nothing can intervene between my boy and me but the slow foot of change, for sodomites are mortal ; but that im- mortal longing in them which is À±¹´µÁÇÃĵ¯Ç—That twins them with the Lord of Resurrection ; and even as I plunge 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 beautif…
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…n 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 classic as the Gulistan there is no genuine Persian MS., but …
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…y — nay ! a complete system of philoso- phy issued therefrom, as the living water from the rock at the touch of Moses’ wand. When, after long labour, I had made a provisional arrangement, and shewed my great discovery to Mahbub with open triumph, he calmly observed that oh yes ! the Ru- ler of the World was wiser than Solomon, and the proper order could be checked by noticing that