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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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26 nearly all forms of coprophilia : and so on. (These latter forms are so symbolic that sense of sex is a minor matter.) A man can afford to a man two pleasures which a woman cannot give him : namely : (1) passive sodomy. (pleasure of the pathic) (2) irrumation. (pleasure of the fellator)7 The latter is a small matter, and we are justified in concluding that as far as gross gratifications go, the advantage, substantial though slight, rests with the woman. The supreme pleasures are common to both, except cunnilingism (especially during the mont…
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…ibadism is rather artificial, and hardly to be distinguished from ordinary masturba- tion : so that the balance is strongly in favour of man. This explains why very few women are ex- clusively Sapphists, but many bimetallists ; and enables one to comprehend the hatred of woman for sodomy, and the toleration with which men re- gard Sapphism. 8. I cannot too strongly urge my readers to se- lect their lovers from their equals in rank and for- tune. It is the only safeguard against betrayal ; further, it fulfills the Greek ideal, and silences the v…
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… The bowl of the pipe of the sphere of the hea- vens ; the tobacco is the benevolence of God : the live coal His glory and desire toward man : the wa- ter in the bowl is the veil which prevents man be- ing burnt up in that glory, and the purifying influ- ence of calm upon the soul ; the smoke is the per- fume of the Spirit of God ; the tube is the Influence (Heb. Mezla) from on high ; the mouthpiece the love of one’s earthly teacher ; (This sounds as though Sufi confessors shared the predilections and privileges of Jesuit confessors) the inhala…
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…15th letter of the alphabet), and 60 + 45 = 105 = 21 x 5, or the Perfect Crown 3 x 7 [Per- sian text] in the 5 quarters of the perfected Man, the Cross replaced by the 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 reserv…
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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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30 Is the passion of man for man. Let him but taste the wine ! It grips him body and soul. Once and for all, Whatever befall, He is bound to the golden goal By the joy of his shuddering spine.” He will know that in the rites of sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite does…
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…is naked arms, his giant member still throbbing and beating in my flooded bowels, and the world was aswim before mine eyes. I tell thee, man, that the first kiss of man to man is more than the most elaborately manipulated or- gasm that the most accomplished and most pas- sionate courtesan can devise. That is, it is not a physical,9 but a spiritual pleasure. I tell thee, as I walk the sunsmitten streets of Mandalay, where lives a boy I love, that the very foundation of the soul tremble as mine eyes fall upon him. I have never spoken to him ; I d…
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Ecstasy beyond all price : but to be had by 135 him who casts away all other desires. 1. Cf. Canticles ; and Matthew, “ What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ? ” 2. Refers to the Ghazi, still a terror to our Fron- tier officials in N.W. India. The method of manu- facture is interesting. A poor and despairing man is selected and watched. One night, as he slinks through some deserted beggar’s haunt, he is se- cretly drugged and conveyed to a palatial house with gardens and fountains. He awakes to find himself robed in fine linen and purp…
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…y 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 ! The s…
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102 Ecstasy stronger than work of man or wrath of God. 3. Surely Oriental exaggeration. A. L. We can- not agree. The member is the Mahalingam, whose dimensions are only to be expressed in astronomi- cal terminology. Ed. 4. Goathair — the “ pashmina ” of Kashmir ; so says Mahbub the Kashmiri ; but I suspect him of patriotism and believe the text to read ‘ pustin ’ [Persian text] a fur peliise spread out as a quilt. (Of course one may cavil at “ quilt ”, which im- plies quilting, not any rug qua rug. But a wounded buffalo is a very mild animal co…
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The Infidelity and Ingratitude of Man. 55 Philosophy for an adequate and noble discussion of this fascinating theme. 2. Hindus, etc. The sins of the soul. Cf. Ezekial XVI and XXIII — indeed the whole symbolism of the Hebrew prophets. 3. Meaning that his buttocks are now public, like a serai ; while before they were private, like a harem. 4. From the Q’uran. But possibly a threat, equalling “ God may forgive you, but I never will ”, as our demi-virgin Astraea Redux told the trea- cherous Countess.
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34 finement, and possibly, parallel with the fall in the price of Mercury, Iodine, and Sandalwood oil, a slight increase in the demand for that preparation of the supra-renal capsules which is so useful in obstinate cases of internal haemorrhoids. 2. Pray analyse the sensation aroused in you by the story which ends (Mrs. Awkins, asleep, being awakened by the cup of tea which she has spilt over her lap). “ There you are, Awkings ! All over my stummick again ! ” 3. A skilful sodomite should be able to withdraw his penis nearly dry. The subsequent…
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134 Ecstasy beyond all price : but to be had by him who casts away all other desires. XXXIX THE BARGAININGS What shall a man give in exchange for the en- joyment of thy podex ? There is nothing in Iran, or upon the1 whole earth, that is worthy to be spoken of in this matter. The treasures of the sun and moon are not to be compared with it ; if the stars also were to be offered, they would not equal the joy of even the first rubbings of the member against its orifice. The desire of the fanatic is to cast away life at the feet of Heaven ; but for…
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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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…the student to the next stage, which teaches the ani- mal to think, the thinker to aspire, the aspirant to wisdom, and crowneth the wise man with the glory of the 12 Stars, his holy Genius. Not that it is for a mere dabbler like myself to suggest to others even a line of research ; but love conquers modesty, and I should like to hint that in the restoration of a duodecimal notation and cos- mography lies the best hope of a perfect recovery of the perfect Way. A. L. One is sorry to have to object that the Arabic Hua is spelt [Persian text] not […
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…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 rest is but preliminaires. An acute observer of my acquaintance remarked to me re- cently that it was the actual mess caused by emis- sion, and …
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… 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, and Laila shall be sold to Haroun the goatfaced Jew.7 1. [Persian text] the word used here “ has the value of 180, which is 4 times 45, so it means that his guardian angel is on all sides o…
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…il with a view to discovering why (unless from caprice) el Haji chose this particular indulgence to mirror that supreme passion of the human heart, the craving for unity with the All-One. “ Make room for me ” quoth the poet of Salaman and Absal, “ on that divan which is only large enough for one ! ” Now I shall waste my rime if I prove that some- thing in the nature of sexual intercourse is the most fitting image of that passion ; for our Chris- tian theologian, anxious to avoid the reproach of the scoffer who quotes such passages as “ Me be- l…
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…mosque Guess not what joy the ages hold. Seek we the tavern and the stream, The garden and the grassy wold ! 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