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Page 1 of 11910 · PDF PAGE 89
…1 like new moons ! and there is no degree in the ex- cellence of thy podex ; nor is the joy of thy lover, when he delights therein, from day to day dimi- nished or increased. This is the sigillum of perfection in any work. The perfect lover is calm and equable ; storms of thunder, quakings of the earth, losses of goods, punishment from great men, none of these things cause him to rise from his divan, or to remove the silken tube of the rose-perfumed huqqa from his mouth. I can even take pleasure with Laila, O no longer jealous one ! When thou w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
…f Allah ye assume, Rejoicing in the luscious play, the slippery splendour of the spume Cast from the holy hiding-place for ever till the day of doom. Rejoice, O podex, in thy strength ! thy spasms like the stars illume Earth’s darkness, life’s disgrace, abash the trifling terrors of the tomb. The nargis scent shall steal about the world, assuage its fret and fume,
1910 · PDF PAGE 82
…nizing tendencies on account of this pas- sage, since Christians repressed magic so severely, and in spite of his stout denials. To this day many singer “ mak’ siccar ” of the approval of the ortho- dox by altering the words to “ Christian Jew.”
1910 · PDF PAGE 97
…at naked podex knows a sacred spell To exorcise the Jinn that bring decay. One glance, one touch, and acorn springs to oak— God sees the daystar, and invokes the day. If Suleiman3 with all his concubines From dusk to dawn consecutively lay, Yet at thy buttock’s velvet, O Habib, That man would rise erect from mudded clay. Bid thou the Qazi to thine house ; I ween That he would sprout a member on the way. Or didst thou call upon him in the tomb Isa4 would rise, as silly Christians say. Thy podex being his, thine El Qahar Is always gold, and never…
1910 · PDF PAGE 119
Ecstasy master of circumstance. 111 of stays, and made to walk several hours a day for a number of months. 2. A very convenient doctrine : all this — (This note appears unfinished.) I wish one could teach it to the English wife, for ever on the groan as she is that she is neglected, and then crying out again when one gets her with child. The solution of the sex-problem is given in the Arab proverb, “ Women for children, and boys for pleasure.” I strongly ad- vocate the putting of women in their proper sphere ; they should breed, nurse, educate,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…- 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 have engraved over a thousand pounds weight of thi…
1910 · PDF PAGE 64
…they are no longer firm. This is because thou lingerest in bawdy talk in taverns, drinking forbidden liquors ; because thou dalliest all day with that camel-backed monocular from Nubia. He serveth thee without remission from the Wolf’s Tail2 to the Evening Star, O thou eaten up with beastliness ! and for this thou forgettest the manly games of youth. When I first had thee, thou wast like a young deer, bounding over the grassy plains ; now thou waddlest like a gravid she- ass. Puffy are thy cheeks and bloated, just as if the moon were turned by …
1910 · PDF PAGE 31
…irit, three and one : But if they esoterically are read My equal name shall glitter out instead. Yes ! we must not sing hymns to Pan to- day : we must pretend to be German professors, with a keen scientific interest in these very re- markable phenomena which look so much like madness, and which our own perfect sanity and the effulgence (possibly a shade alto) of our dis- creet and legal passion for our Limburger-tainted hausfrau hide from our fuller comprehension. As is right, therefore : In nomine v. Krafft-Ebing, v. Schrenk-Notzing, et Havelo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 65
…e interesting. Brown- Sequard prepared a testicular infusion, but this was not found — everywhen, everywhere, and by all — a success. To-day they kill a goat, obtain the semen while the animal is still not quite dead, and preserve by a special process. Such a decoction, even when a year old, exhibits live and active spermatozoa when warmed by an experienced mi- croscopist on the stage of a good instrument. In- jected under the skin, it produces magnificent re- sults, both as a general tonic and a cure for impo- tence. Thus the goat, deposed fro…
1910 · PDF PAGE 90
…ue of the whole sky, and the blue be illumined by the streamers of the false dawn, which is like death as the true dawn is like the last day.7 I hope, Habib, that thy podex is ca- pable of severe combat ; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar withdraw his member. 1. So our best M.S. [Persian text] But [Persian text] flesh — meaning buttocks — sounds more likely. 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 all…
1910 · PDF PAGE 108
…s Southey did to Byron. Yet the Eastern is a terrible slave to convention, and may perhaps acquiesce in Hafiz as the undergraduate of to-day acquiesces in Milton. 7. The central thought of these two chapters is represented in the Buddhist philosophy, per- haps ; but in the Hindu practice, certainly. It is true that the Hindu claims the extinction of self in Parabrahm (Jivatma in Paramatma) as the pheno- menon in question ; but this is clearly a petitio principii, since we can always retort that any per- ception however glorious is less than the…
1910 · PDF PAGE 66
…ertion 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 Tribe
1910 · PDF PAGE 87
… 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 none the less shameless casuistry for its Oriental phraseology. 6. This is a common practical joke among friends. The recalcitrant pathic is treated more severely by sharp taps on the coccyx with the knuckle, dagger-hilt, or tent-peg. Genuine obsti- nacy would lead to the slitting…
1910 · PDF PAGE 81
…nst them. So eagerly did I kiss every red weal upon thy vel- vet buttocks that thou didst wish thy beating had been prolonged by a whole day. Also, for every peppercorn that did shoot from thy podex, thou hadst a balm. Wise art thou who badest me sell this my garden to buy more pepper therewithal.6 Repine not, therefore, O man ! at the chastise- ments of Allah ! Each of these will He a thousand- fold repay. And the pain that I suffered at thine infidelities is well repaid by this thy love restored. Thou shalt never leave the side of El Qahar, a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 37
… ! ” Ah ! but I beat my breast — in vain — in vain ! Ay ! the joy we had of each other under those blue-grey hills ! Do you remember the day of the storm, when we huddled under the rocks, and lit a fire of bracken and pine twigs ? How you stripped me by force — for I was afraid, and jealous, and coquettish—and took your pleasure of me, thrice in the one delirious hour ? By the memory of that cave, I conjure you, be first to meet me in the Ely- sian fields ! I must express regret for having intruded what may appear to be a personal matter into a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 20
…hikmat ’, and denied existence to the question of the infidel. Perhaps owing to some curious trick of my brain, I found myself (one fine day) in the state which, as far as I can gather, Hindu writers call Samadhi. (Compare the experiences of Burton in the Bombay Presidency, as hinted by Lady Sisted in her admirable sketch of his Life.) Hindus claim that advanced Yogis can always recognize at sight those who have attained this condition, just as the Freemasonry of Paederasts makes the formality of introduction superfluous among free companions o…
1910 · PDF PAGE 40
…than any mere persistence of Levitical tradition, founded as it was on a popular superstition scarcely less gross than their own. But to-day no man can bring forward either the population nonsense or the heresy nonsense, 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 …
1910 · PDF PAGE 30
…ppy ; therefore they hate us ; therefore as they spat on Christ, forsaken of all but John, his sweet-voiced catamite, so does the cur to-day spit in the face of Oscar Wilde, as he goes from the judge to the prison.