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144 The relations between the twins of rapture. 2. Alexander the Great, still great in Hindos- tan. I can trace no legend to justify this epi- thet ; perhaps it is merely poetic for “ mighty.” 3. This verse (says Mahbub) conceals a “ Great Word to become mad, and go about naked ” if re- peated 1001 times nightly for a number of nights not stated. Very probable. The concealed Word is only the common : [Persian text] “ Glory to God and Praise to God ! There is no God but God. Great is He, and protecteth us ; there is no might save in Him, the Exa…
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…ors to mysticism. 115 XXXI THE UNICORN They say that in the deserts of Arabia there dwelleth a beast very like a horse, but possessing a great horn. Now I am not at all like a horse, though I am beautiful and swift, but I certainly possess an immense horn.1 Also there is a great bird which, when in danger, placeth its head within the sand, exposing its po- dex. Thou, Habib, though otherwise not at all like a bird, dost expose thy podex, even when in no danger.1 I cannot but think that all this was in the mind of the Mullah, when in his sermon o…
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…t was the actual mess caused by emis- sion, and the necessity of cleaning it up, that, by allowing time for passion to cool, prevented a great deal of copulation which would otherwise take place. There is a great gulf fixed between the ‘ short time ’ and the ‘ all night ’, and that great gulf is filled with Condy’s Fluid ! This applies equally to Sodomy. If the semen is safely bestowed in mouth or anus of the beloved one, the temptation is to begin all over again ; bar the trifle of fatigue, one is in the same position as at first ; its loss be…
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…VAJROLI-YOG practice, gives emanci- pation even when one is immersed in sensuali- ty ; therefore it should be practised by the Yogi with great care. 56. First let the talented practitioner introduce into his own body, according to the proper me- thods, the germ-cells from the female organ of gen- eration, by suction up through the tube of the meatus urinarius ; restraining in his own semen, let him practise copulation. If by chance the se- men begins to move, let him stop its emission by the practice of the YONI-MUDRA. Let him place the semen o…
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…e blind beg- gar. Seven days did the barber and the druggist toil upon thee ; but thy foulness clings like musk. Also I have been put to great charges for thee, having shut thee up to purge and salivate.3 But oh ! how that droopeth that was straighter than a young palm ! Furthermore thou poutest, bemoan- ing thy Nubian that I have not his vigour. Thou whose podex has become like the twat of one sixty years an whore !4 Therefore, I will put thee in my harem for the fil- thy slut thou art ; the eunuchs shall beat thee soundly before the women ; a…
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… eye of a fawn. assuaging thy desire. [persian] Dal My member knoweth all the secret places of thy podex, and is longsuffering therein ; great and perpendicular is he within thee like the sun at noon, assuaging thy desire. My member pardoneth the imperfections of thy podex ; worthy of thanks is he therefore, being ex- alted within thee, like a tower of ivory and gold, assuaging thy desire. Great and strong is my member, and protecteth thy podex from his rivals3 ; he exposeth it, and numbereth his emissions, each like the spray of a fountain, as…
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…e or two. Now then my eyes gave the lie to my hand ; but rushing upon thee like a bull, I did pe- netrate to the core of thy being ; and great joy overcoming me I fell down, assured that there was but one. Thus it is with the unbeliever3 and his three gods ; but whoso knoweth Allah knoweth Him to be one. For all that, Habib, it is a great pity that thou art not double as to thy podex ; I could more easily understand and excuse thy filthy dealings with the one-eyed Nubian yesterday. Of a surety thou stinkest yet of his sweat ; go wash thyself be…
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…e part of an atheist ” — and so on. 3. Again Habib represents Allah ; the constant interchange is very confusing, and to Western minds a great blemish on the poem. But the chil- dish subtlety of the Eastern mind regards this as a “ veil ”, preventing the unbeliever from penetrating the allegory. 4. Q’uran CXII. Cf. Browning (Ring and Book, The Pope) for these 3 qualities. 5. Affirms the subjective value of Devotion.
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…ile of the Oriental, that he had a sacred and secret book treating of the ‘ hikmat ’ but that it was never shown to anyone but a Sufi of great and exception- al sanctity — such as “ the Protector of the Poor, my father and mother, who glances at the earth in the hot season, and the fields are immediately tall and green.” Me. The MS., produced, bore on its front the legend Bagh-i-muattar, in all the glory of the finest Talik calligraphy. Why ! I exclaimed, this is the Scented Gar- den ! the famous Arab treatise of the Sheik al Nef- zawi, which B…
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…ow- 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 accomplished ? Even the in- accessible glory of my godhead can be attained through it. 9. The angel to whom is allotted the duty of sounding “ the last trump.” 10. Sodom — a legendary city, sai…
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…e Pentagram. 2. Abdullah — the unredeemed man ; Cf. Rev. III. 17. 3. A common medical practice in the East. 4. The worst of insults. The great excuse for the podex is its superior tightness — supposing that Persians thought an excuse necessary. 5. Laila — perhaps the Evil Jinn. Laila means “ night ” ; and Lilith is the chief of the succubi, much feared by good Muslim. It was reserved for Mr Thomas Lake Harris and his English dupe Ber- ridge to cultivate of set purpose this abominable and disgusting variety of masturbation.
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…r. 3. Once union with God is attained, the whole of life (or perhaps religion) becomes pleasant. 4. May perhaps refer to the “ horror of great darkness ” which comes, say the Mystics, to an As- pirant on the Threshold of Illumination. (We must beg students to observe that Major Lutiy seems to have written these notes in two moods, one in which he admits his own personal knowledge of, and identification with, mysticism ; the other in which (as here) he writes as a mere scholar.) 5. Obscure throughout, and the two last stan- zas seem quite incons…
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Concentration. 121 not practised can realize how swift and numerous our impressions are. Under ordinary circums- tances the great majority do not rise into con- sciousness at all, for one is occupied with one main current of ideas. But once the mind seeks to check all possible currents of ideas, the simple im- pressions rise into the vacant space, which is fairly bombarded. 4. “ Into one wave all the wavelets ” is the Hindu equivalent for this. El Baab, when the orthodox took him out to be shot, having dug holes in his skin and filled them with…
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…tion 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 root. As [Persian text] slayer from the root [Persian text] to slay. 5. The Takhallus being absent from this Ghazal, it is e…
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…ife from the dead an expression constantly and exclusively employed to de- note the yogic attainment. that word to Aum is attributed the great power of regenera- tion. It has the sense of the Greek Logos. immortality a-mrita, the same idea glyphed as a dew : the Christian Graal, cup, blood, etc. In short, every single word in the verse is literal- ly and even in two cases etymologically identical with a technical mystic Sanskrit phrase. This is not a carefully chosen and exceptional case : on the contrary, I challenge any orthodox divine to pro…
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…uging thy desire. Worthy of glory and honour is my member, who divideth thy buttocks, and assembleth thy whole soul in thy podex, like a great king gathering an army in one place, assuaging thy desire. Rich is my member in pearly dew, and enricheth thy podex therewith ; he refuseth to withdraw the- refrom, and afficteth thee with the sweet pain of a thousand orgasms,11 like the bitings 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 t…
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…rfection 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 wast away from me, I was unable to regard her or her companions (the thunder-smitten bitches2 !) without excessive sick- ness. It was for thy sake, o mischievous one ! that I caused the eunuchs3 to forn…
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Introduction 5 that first letter of the first ode was Aleph, the second of the second Ba, the third of the third Jim, and so on ! I take great credit to myself for the fact that with only six transpositions my provisional order became that of the poet. THE POEM Abdullah el Haji flourished in circa 1600 A.D., well after the classic era of Persian poetry. But his style is highly praised by competent judges, though the older school regret the way in which he has broken away from tradition in : (a) the introduction of coarse expressions. (b) the un…
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… life, and end by spitting upon my beard, bidding me procure for them a fat and fair boy : but the Asylum of the World, who lives like a great prince and a fakir (mean- ing : “ You have illimitable resources, but are ab- stemious ”) really understands the ‘ hikmat-i-
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…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 in knots and patches. ELPONEN — A whitish long-haired mouse. …