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The relations between the twins of rapture. 147 73. When an then time of voiding urine, the Yo- gi draws it up forcibly through the Apana-Vayu, and keeping it up, discharges it slowly and slow- ly ; and practises this daily according to the in- structions of his Guru, he obtains the vindusiddhi (power over semen), that gives great powers. 74. He who practises this daily according to the instructions of his Guru does not lose semen, were he to enjoy a hundred women at a time. 75. O PARVATI ! When vindu-siddhi is obtained, what else cannot be acc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 59
…Elohim ” going in to the daughters of men. To punish them, Allah hung them by their heels in a well at Babylon, where they wile away the time by giving magical instruction. The mean- ing, therefore, (argal !) of the whole passage is that unredeemed (i.e. uninitiated) man, however ordina- rily devout, is liable to become a sorcerer ! I cannot help thinking that Mahbub must have been hung up by his heels at one time ; nobody could ever think all that out right way up !
1910 · PDF PAGE 32
24 we suspect) author of ‘ White Stains ’, and the nameless Aristophanes who wrote the ‘ Nameless Novel ’, nobody in modern times has dared to voice openly the supreme sanity, the splendid athletic- ism, and the unutterable spirituality of the male rapture of the passion between man and man. In treating of this matter I must first premise that by paederasty I mean actual sodomy as de- fined by British law1 — immissio penis in corpus vivum. “ Arse makes life golden, want of it dull yellow ; The rest is only leather and prunella.” At least, the r…
1910 · PDF PAGE 154
…ecomes an adept in due season, in his present life. 65. The Yogi certainly obtains through this practice all kinds of powers at the same time enjoy- ing all the innumerable enjoyments of the world. 66. This Yoga can be practised along with much enjoyment ; therefore the Yogi should practise it. 67. There are two modifications of the VAJROLI, called Sahajoni, and Amarani. By all means let the Yogi preserve the semen. 68. If at the time of copulation, the vindu is forcibly emitted, and there takes place an union of the sun and moon, then let him …
1910 · PDF PAGE 111
… the Future and the Past between. The Sufi pierces, gains and holds the Present ; can the present fade ? Never ! through all the seas of time fares on the prow erect and keen.3 The keel a member fit to pierce the podices of ocean-lords, Clasped to thy gushing bosom-waves, o pearly amorous undine !
1910 · PDF PAGE 128
…. He refers to the Sufi, not to the Zahid. (Teacher is nominative — fool accu- sative. Ed.) 3. Anyone who has practised even for a short time any of the Eastern systems of meditation will realize the force of this remark. No person who has
1910 · PDF PAGE 92
…lear 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 ; impales its sunless self On to the splendour of that sunbright spear, And laughs and weeps, not knowing what it does, Enter…
1910 · PDF PAGE 133
…e Carrefour de L’Odeon, a Paris). Swallow the scrotum whole and rub the penis backwards and forwards across the nose. Excite at the same time the testes with the tongue, and the fundament with the finger.
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…I have translated “ charm.” However there is (ac- cording to Mahbub) a mystic truth con- cealed. Arithmetic like all sciences was at one time considered magical by the vulgar ; to this day the “ magic squares ” of numbers of which the simplest cast is : 492 357 816 are attributed to the planets, and credited with su- pernatural powers. There is an Arab saying — I think by Averrhoes — “ God is the square root of man ” : and a certain very holy Fakir (only recently dead) determined to discover the nature of God by working out √3. He is said to ha…
1910 · PDF PAGE 141
…, bhang, ganja, mariju- ana, kif, a drug much used by Yogis and Fakirs. It induces maniacal attacks, destroys the sense of proportion in time and space, and give powerful emotions to its victims. 4. Ambergris. Without much perfume of its own, it is priceless for bringing out the best of any others with which it may be mixed. The price in 1906 was 135 shillings the ounce. 5. i.e. it is useless to explore the universe until the problem of personality is satisfactorily settled. 6. Hakim — doctor. 7. Gonorrhoea is known in Persia as else- where. At…
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…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 History of
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…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.7 For like a column of innumerous men Doth serpentine his body ; he is here With hugs to break this breath, and with his mouth To stop the mouth of El Qahar the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
…hing like a quarter that of the moon, and its brightness sufficient to wake me, who am the soundest of sleepers. Thus seen for the first time it is a stu- pendous and astounding phenomenon. 3. i.e. with a circular motion. The art of working the hips in coition, called by the Romans Ars Cris- sandi (Ars Cevendi in the case of a boy. Ed.) is in the East as complex and profound as that of mu- sic. It requires as much study as theology, and much practice as billiards. 4. An hardly obvious analogy. Boccoccio’s use of it is a curious coincidence. 5. …
1910 · PDF PAGE 15
…ather his assumed or poetic name, called the Takhallus, though few of the older poets paid strict attention to this rule previous to the time of Hakim Sanayi, between A.D. 1150 and 1180. Anwari occasionally introduces his own name in his Ghazals, but it is the exception and not the rule in his case. As a general law, the Ghazal must consist of at least five couplets, and not more than fifteen ; but on this subject authors by no means agree, either with one another or with real facts. Hafiz, for example, has several Ghazals consisting of sixteen…
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…he epic poet of Persia. 7. Some M.S.S. end with this Takhallus. But the title seems hardly justified without what fol- lows. At the same time, it must be remembered that the titles are all probably of late insertion and for convenience of reference only. 8. According to Mahbub, this is an attack on the Q’uran. (He being like so many Persian to-day not only a Sufi, but a follower in secret of El Baab, delights to point out these things). For furious [Persian text] is a pun on [Persian text] Salir, a prophet, who converted some of the Thamud Trib…
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…trike while the tool is hot ; don’t bugger in haste, or withdraw at lei- sure ; a turd in the hand is worth two in the bush ; a prick in time saves nine ; it’s a wise Wilde that knows his own Q. ; one good turn deserves another ; frig wise and fuck foolish ; there’s better boys in the choir than ever came out of it all of which goes to show that it took no genius to write ‘ John Ploughman ’. Not that if Charles Spurgeon had been12 one of us, his style would have approx- imated to that of Walter Pater ; a stylist is as direct a miracle of God as…
1910 · PDF PAGE 25
…assioned and the matter impeccable. I therefore turn my readers over to it without further parley, for I feel that they must be (by this time) thoroughly tired of the prosing of one who is after all not a writer, but a soldier. [In deference to the wishes of the widow of the gallant soldier who penned these lines, and gave his life to his country in S. Africa, we do not carry out his intention of attaching his name to them (during her lifetime) and designate him only by his chosen non de plume, Alain Lutiy. Ed.] 1. The two books have nothing in…
1910 · PDF PAGE 143
… go to Paradise ; for the os coccygis, from which God will raise his body from the dust, is destroyed. But it would probably be waste of time to explain all this to Mr. Keir Hardie.
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…ven 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 miserable of the fortunate of the sons of men ! ” Ah ! but I beat my breast — in vain — in vain ! Ay ! the joy we had of ea…
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… they warble their melodies among the rose bushes ; the joys resulting from wine and hilarity, are most particularly noticed at the same time ; the whole interspersed with an occasional pithy allusion to the brevity of human life, and the vanity of sublunary matters in general. The more orthodox among the Musulman are rather scanda- lized at the eulogies bestowed upon the “ juice of the grape ” by their best poets, such as Hafiz for example ; and they endeavour to make out that the text is to be taken in a mystic or spiritual sense, such as we …