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The Mystic the true support of all religion. 95 7. This is a very profane jest. Ostensibly, of course, the verse means that mystics are the salt of the faith. But Islam means “ resignation ” or “ submission.” In wooing a lover your conquest is his ubmission, and your penis widens out his anus. The old sodomite is as keen to promulgate his vice as his religion, the dog !
…nd 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.
The contempt of the mystic for opinion. 117 Sodom and that of the Levite. May be “ Allah ” is a slip for “ Mullah ” — a difference of only one letter. 3. 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 mouth…
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…
…- er devoted one may be to vice, sooner or later it tires and gives no more pleasure. The same is of course true of virtue ; but, to the mystic, virtue, as such, is itself vice. Cf. “ All your righteousness is as filthy rags.” 5. Shahrava. A king who forced a leather cur- rency on his subjects. Dildos in Persia being usually made of leather, the jest is double- edged. To present a dildo, or anything which might by any possibility be used as such, to a courtesan is a deadly insult, implying “ You cannot attract a live man ”, and she will assured…
…is allotted the duty of sounding “ the last trump.” 10. Sodom — a legendary city, said to have been destroyed by a volcano. But it has a mystic meaning. It is spelt
…r perhaps brought by the Crusaders from Syria. [Tilting the ring ? Ed.] 5. Light — Tune. Transcendental phenomena known to the practical mystic.
92 The Mystic happier than his fellows. “ Theurgists fall not so as to be ranked among the herd that are in subjection to Fate.” Lyd. De men- sis. Taylor. 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 identif…
116 The contempt of the mystic for opinion. XXXII THE BULL-FROGS In ill repute of pious folk1 The Sufi seeth but a joke. The traveller, passing by the mere, Heeds not the frogs, but lets them croak. So in thy podex I delight, Nor heed at all what Allah spoke.2 While stands my member, blooms by rose, Wine I can drink, or huqqa3 smoke, So long I laugh at Aflatun, And fun at Aristu4 I poke. Thy buttocks with their splendid sun This joy in me have ever woke ; In rapture alway El Qahar His spirit is content to soak. 1. Pious folk — Wahhabi [Persian …
The Mystic the true support of all religion. 93 XXIII MIRRIKH1 Like Mars, red planet of the evening, Rising o’er breasts of tender earth in spring, So gleams thy podex, beautiful Habib, My brother 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 ri…
The Mystic happier than his fellows. 91 XXII THE FOREHEAD-WRITING On each man’s brow hath Allah wrote his fate :— Many are destined to frequent by gate ! They catch a glimpse of thee upon the roof :— By fixed Necessity they masturbate !1 But thou and I are free,2 as love is free ; We smoke and drink and smile, content to wait.3 The Zahid-sage is bound by dogma’s chain, Looks up and worships—let the donkey prate ! The wine-drawer and his beloved boy Unite above in the ecstatic state. Nor doth the Sufi need a heaven in Heaven :— Earth’s heaven to…
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…
…AR would rather pos- sess Habib’s podex than the universe. 1. I am alone responsible for these capital summaries ; but a well known lady mystic in Lon- don assures me that they are just. 2. [Persian text] satirist, not to be confused with [Persian text] pilgrim. 3. El Qahar — The Conqueror — Abdullah’s ‘ Takhallus ’ or cognomen qua poeta. 4. Common symbols for member and po- dex. See Burton, Priapeia. 5. Not the common cowrie, which would be more probably taken as an emblem of pudendum mulie- bre. [Persian text] is the pearl-oyster shell ; [Per…
…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 produce any passage of scripture or any decent hymn which is free from identities of this kind.
…metic). 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 : 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…
…ence makes no difference, therefore, to me. In the same way, whether Allah be or be not is little odds so long as His devotees enjoy the mystic rapture.2 Yet as the podex of Aziz is inferior to thy podex,3 both because it has two fistulae, and because it lacks thy heat, dryness, and tightness, so also is the god of the Christians inferior to Allah, both be- cause he has two cogods, and because he hath nei- ther the power, the wisdom, not the compassion of Him who is alone and without equal, son or com- panion.4 Whether He exist or no, whether H…
…ay, darling ! come now, and as thou art ; I love thee, wert thou the bedfellow of every hog in Iran. 1. Husein — possibly represents the mystic Teacher or Guru of the poet. The Nubian is per- haps Satan or the “ Evil Genius.” Abdal means Saints or Hermits, but also a class of beings spo-
94 The Mystic the true support of all religion. So, seeing man beloved of Allah, jinn Aim at that bliss ; their crowns and jewels fling From star to star before the crystal throne, And El Islam goes ever widening.7 To Allah praise ! and El Qahar his slave Taketh reward in offering thanksgiving. 1. Mirrikh. Mars the planet. 2. I have often seen Mars — in the Red Sea es- pecially — with its apparent diameter something like a quarter that of the moon, and its brightness sufficient to wake me, who am the soundest of sleepers. Thus seen for the firs…
Ecstasy to content the mystic, without scientific, 113 enquiry into its nature. Pantheism. The garden quit ? Frequent the mosque ? By Allah, ’twas an ass that brayed. Allah, if Allah be, indwells All beauty.3 He is best repaid By who loves jade as jade, nor asks Some mighty Jaker for the Jade.4 The garden-podex wants, methinks, No worship, but a member-spade.5 1. The Sodom-fable is to be found in the XVth chaper of the Q’uran. Moslems accept the Bible, so far as it goes. Only they regard the Christian as the Christian regards the Jew : as one n…
…n the course of my first few readings) to the joyous company of the Sufis, (I cannot here discuss the curiously patriar- chal systems of mystic fraternity in vogue among Muslim, if only because I am a Freemason). I was enabled to use several fine MSS. for the transla- tion, a privilege of which I availed myself without scruple or diffidence : without scruple, as knowing I was well entitled to them : and without diffi- dence, because of the invariable courtesy which adepts in these mysteries exhibit to their fellow workers in the divine Arcanum.…