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104 Ecstasy stronger than Death. The ‘ Maybe ’ and the ‘ Letushope ’, the ‘ Allahknows ’ and ‘ Ibelieve ’ ; The ‘ Sweetitwas ’ and ‘ Werecall ’, the ‘ Pitytis ’ and ‘ Mighthavebeen ’4 These founder in the rushing tide, these bear a cargo black with fear, Heavy with hate and dull with woe, a miserable load of teen : While we the ‘ Jolly Roger ’5 sail whose freight is fairy6 pearls of dew ; The podex and the member locked, without a bar, without a screen. Remembrance and regret we quash ; we banish traitor hope and fear ; The present ecstasy is a…
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136 Ecstasy beyond all price : but to be had by him who casts away all other desires. 3. That is, even a very slight experience of the outer joys of the mystic path is sufficient to induce the neophyte to devote himself entirely to the same. 4. Surely Oriental exaggeration ; especially when one considers the shortness of Persian twilight. Perhaps the 5 refers to the Pentagram. Ed.
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154 The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. Suspend the laws of Nature, break Qismat’s insufferable boom, Incense the mountain and the plain. sufflate the forest and the combe Eternally with love, with love, with love, the lily all abloom. Love me, your poet ; pass the night from twilight gloom to twilight gloom At podex-play with El Qahar within his Garden of Perfume !
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The Peace, the Jealousy, and the Ecstasy of God. 83 6. For the use of the refrain the reader may consult any manual on Persian prosody. El Haji has made several innovations. 7. How beautiful and touching are these si- miles ! No artifice, so straining of the metaphor is involved ; the poet rests in calm and beatific certi- tude of “ a good death, and a joyful resurrection in His holy kingdom ! ” Yet there is no false piety, no arrogance ; and like every straight-living man, he is capable of honest laughter, almost in the same breath.
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Ecstasy overcometh Individuality. 97 1. A mystical fact. The rationalist objection is put satirically. 2. One of the few touches of satire in the work. But perhaps he is referring to the belief that the Messiah is to be born of sodomitic connection. No doubt many Mussalmen would seduce boys on this transparent pretext. 3. Before prayer the Moslem must recite a prayer of purification. If he is ceremonially im- pure, as after copulation or other bodily function, he must in addition wash the parts. Excellent accounts of the two forms of both are g…
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112 Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. XXX THE SCRIBE Wherefore, O Zahid, so afraid To see the Maker in the Made ? Some one-eyed cripple hunchback built Yon marble tower whose coolth and shade Gladdens the lover. Take the fact And leave the cause ! What joy or aid Springs form thy searches for the cause ? Thy cause thou dost to earth degrade, Bounding its nature ; shall Habib’s Delicious podex be displayed To weaklings whose erections lags For them to prate and make parade Of tedious knowledge…
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150 The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. XLI THE RIDDLE1 Habib hath heard ; let all Iran who spell aright from A to Z Exalt thy fame and understand with whom I made a marriage-bed ; Resort to tool-and-podex play till all the world in tears is shed Before the sword of Azrael, the trump of Israfel the dread,2 Exalt, exalt our love at last among the living and the dead, Resort to love, and press its purple calix with His purple head, Till fall the pearls with rubies strung, the dews upon the dawn that bled. Crimson, o lover, was our lo…
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… ! 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 are delusions, slow to live, This hath no death, the iron-souled. [Therefore the podex of Habib To pierce am I, thy lover, bold.]3 Only from weariness of love Was death’s unholy camel foaled.4
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106 Ecstasy stronger than Death. for the descending Shiva upon his devotee. The eunuch’s voice is the shrill sound heard by adepts at the moment of union with the divine. The gar- den is of course the sphere of the trained soul. 9. This is a very literal translation ; it is either an accident, or shows a high degree of scientific knowledge. The dependence of sound on air was discovered in Europe by Hawksbee in 1705. (Hawksbee first performed the “ bell in vacuo ” experiment in 1705. Newton (Principia Vol. III, 1687), gave an inaccurate formula …
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Ecstasy stronger than Death. 103 XXVII THE CAMEL RIDER1 The camel-rider swoops across the desert, with his howling Jinn, To wreck and ravage human life ; insufferable Be- dawin !2 But shall he ravish thee from me ? I see the camel check and kneel, Vanquished by dread of the Unknown, appalled by fear of the Unseen ! To Death is Love inpregnable ; to Love seems Death desirable, Fixing the lightning flash of life and making per- mament the scene. The Zahid looks from Life to Death ; The Sufi gath- ers Death from Life ; Thy podex ’twixt thy buttock…
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…heaven curls, laden with maddening cannabis.3 I feel upon my jasmine-jar these eyes ; this brain its beauty knows, Its perfume roused to ecstasy 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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The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. 151 Rampant within thy podex take this member, stiffer than a mast. Lively as love itself, 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 wo…
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Ecstasy stronger than work of man or wrath of God. 101 XXVI THE TOWER OF SHINAR1 On Shinar plain a tower was built By man’s ambitious fear and guilt. (But Allah smote it with his fire : — Who sees it yonder in the silt ?) But I have built a higher tower Of love and fame for thee, o jilt !2 And yet a higher,3 this member firm, Fit for thy podex, an thou wilt. Nor Allah smites it, nor the Jinn, Until its pearly wine is spilt. Come in the cool of evening Beneath the figured goathair4 quilt ! Then will I gallop through the vale My spear at thy djir…
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Ecstasy stronger than Death. 107 10. V. 14 is the saying of Mansur el Hallaj “ I am Truth and in my coat is wrapped nothing but God.” He was stoned by more orthodox Arabs, and his blood traced “ An’ el Haqq ” on the ground. 11. Gem [Persian text] Guhr. The Fable of the Cock and the Dunghill probably sprang from so childish a source as the pun between Guhr and Guh [Persian text] (dung). It is more obvious in the oblique Guh-ra and Guhr-ra. 12. The last three verses are probably spu- rious. Verse 11 supplies a natural end, with the takhallus. A. …
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…er and my lover and my king ! For Mars is like a rose and ball of fire2 ; For Mars is like a serpent with its sting. There is a pain, an ecstasy, a woe, A joy, athrob within the wondrous thing. The dull and boneless devotees of twat— Leave them to grovel ; we are well a-wing. Yet twitch that podex, like the wandering way Of Mars within the everlasting ring.3 So shall my member, like the nightingale,4 Salute thee with melodious twittering. I made thee famous throughout all Iran5 With these the naughty Ghazals that I sing.6 In every caravanserai …
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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,…
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114 Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. 4. Taken by a parallel construction to Maker- Made. The absurdity is not so glaring in Persian, owing to the system of “ modes ” by which from each root is extracted a great number of deriva- tives, according to fixed rules. The Satire is of course against those who think that the difficulty of self-created matter is overcome by postulating a self-created God. Thus [Persian text] Jade might become [Persian text] a maker of Jade, were only Jade a verbal ro…
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96 Ecstasy overcometh Individuality. XXIV THE BLASPHEMER Hast thou never thought, O Habib of the athletic body, that when thou wrigglest thy velvet buttocks with immense vigour, and bitest hard with thy po- dex-muscle upon the member of El Qahar, that thou hast no remembrance of any circumstance connected with my personality or thine, but art completely absorbed by the act ? It causes me to remember an antient folly and blasphemy spoken to me — Allah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his…
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110 Ecstasy master of circumstance. XXIX THE MIRAGE Thou art perfect, Habib, in love ; for yesterday when as a test of thy virtue I had thee beaten by the eunuchs, there was no cry of pain. Entirely lost in our love, thy knowledge was only of my member, and not of the blows ; nor could any application of the staves, however vigorous, take away from thee that delight thou hast in me. Thou wast indeed unconscious of thy beating, crying only : “ Press harder and deeper, O mas- ter ! ”, though my member was entirely remote from thy podex, being eng…
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…sings — To pierce thy podex El Qahar’s urgent and immi- nent design !7 1. God — not Noah. But the grape here means the physical basis of Ecstasy. 2. The word used here is not [Persian text] but [Persian text] the square root (arithmetic). Possibly a pun with the word [Persian text] jazbat, which 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 :…