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…nked 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 identification with, mysticism ; the other in which (as here) he writes as a mere s…
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… 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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…ot any rug qua rug. But a wounded buffalo is a very mild animal compared to a trans- lator in trouble with his monorhyme, so that we had perhaps better say nothing. Ed.) 5. This perhaps refers to a posture of coition described in the other “ Scented Garden.” The lady is hung from the roof by a belly-band, while her husband (let us hope) stands on a stool, and swings her to and fro, catching her vulva from be- hind on his penis. This is continued until emis- sion. The true sportsman refrains from guiding ei- ther the lady or his penis with his h…
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…e kiss of consciousness, Human and Divine. 3. Evidently refers to the physiological sensa- tions experienced in some mystical practice — perhaps Pranayama or one of its congeners. 4. Kir — membrum virile. 5. This simile, like that of the lotus-leaf in India, is the invariable expression of the life “ unspotted from the world.” 6. Hajj — here used of the actual procession of pilgrims. 7. The official leader of the Hajj, usually ap- pointed by the Padishah.
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…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 given by Burton, Pay…
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…4. Djirid. A ring, at which Arabs tilt at full gal- lop. It is our Western “ tent pegging ” or the me- diaeval “ quintain ”, this latter perhaps brought by the Crusaders from Syria. [Tilting the ring ? Ed.] 5. Light — Tune. Transcendental phenomena known to the practical mystic.
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…t 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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…dhic con- sciousness, or, as the Buddhists assert, that there is a long series of intervening states invariable and well-defined, though perhaps this may sometimes be so. Nor is the appearance of the “ Dweller ” a sure earnest of success : on the contrary, many (even most) will fail to pass this terrible barrier. 6. Crede experto ? Ed.
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… is almost certainly spurious. 4. This is the old jest : “ As long as you drink a drop of this medicine daily, you will not die.” Though perhaps the erectio penis of the hanged may give the lie to the jape. 5. In fact, I saw a very beautiful copy so inlaid on thin sheets of ivory in the house of a wealthy whoremaster.
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…asmine podex on the member of thine El Qahar ; To glut thine almond member in the podex of thine El Qahar. 1. Riddle. In the Persian are perhaps concealed some details of the Poet’s life and amours. 2. Azrael — angel of death ; Israfel — of the last Judgement, bear respectively a sword and a trum- pet. We have taken Azrael though modern Per- sians usually (Not the text here. Ed.) call him Abu Yahya [Persian text] “ Father John.” Some ignorant Persians confuse him with Ezekiel ! Result : “ to sup with Father John ” means either to eat dirt, i.e.…
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…ions 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 Exalted One.” 4.…
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…e seer. 1. A river which flows by the ruins of Chilminar. 2. Cedar — dove’s down. By no means chosen at random ; symbolically chosen, or perhaps even because these substances have a reputed value in mystical practices. Apollonius of Tyana ( ? connec- tion with Dhyana) was accustomed to wrap himself completely in a woolen garment in order to perform magic — presumably with some idea of “ insula- tion.” Cedar is esteemed highly as incense. The passage may mean : “ I will float heavenward on the perfume of my adoration, being insulated from the wo…
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…rmed in this manner. For example, I have translated [Persian text] “ Allah knows ” rea- sonably enough ; and [Persian text] Shayadistan, Perhaps — country, is well for “ maybe ”, while [Persian text] “ happy memory ” justifies “ Sweetit- was.” But what shall I say of [Persian text] and the rest — mangled though suggestive roots ? Possibly the poet knew very little about ships and their name. 5. Jolly Roger — again a coarse expression, best untranslated. The notorious debauchery of pirate ships, and the slang verb “ Roger ” (futuere]) sug- geste…
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42 The Spiritual Basis of Spiritual Sensation The Servitors 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 i…
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…. Most sensible men will heartily agree with these sentiments. El Qahar is more than mystic and sodomite ; he is a practical person. But perhaps the unusual word huqqa is a pun on hukm (command) and the phrase means, “ As long as I obey God’s law, I care nothing for phi- losophy ! ” A. L. I cannot admit that huqqa is an altogether un- usual word ; I think hukm rather merits the title. Besides, the pun is not obvious and less to a Persian than an Indian at that. Ed.
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…milarity to Allah of Ille, Il, Lui, Le and so on. The Hebrew Allah is [He, Lamed, Aleph] usually transli- terated by our empirics Eloah, perhaps dropping an L. because 36 is the value of [He, Lamed, Aleph] and the sum of the first nine numbers (0 to 8) 9 being the number of their Divine Sephiroth (not including Malkuth, the world) and the addition of the 10th number (9) giving them 45, the value of the name
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…rd ; and the modern follower of El Baab and the Baha-i-Ullah says the same to the orthodoxMus- lim. 2. An allusion to a well-known tale, perhaps to be identified in Alf Laylah wa Laylah. A chief re- turning from some expedition, finds his favourite wife in the embraces of one of his sons. He re- proaches her, saying : Am I not the maker superior to whom I made ? (quoting, I fancy, the Q’uran). She replied than women might lawfully treasure the poem and press it to their hearts, but that it would be highly scandalous if they treated the poets in…
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…m con- strained. But if anyone wishes to argue with me, I may point out that — it happened before. A. L. Irrumation, with either sex, is perhaps the most popular of all the sex-perversions — or sex-refinements ? — in the West. A well-known English peeress of American origin has kindly favoured me with a classified list of the principal methods employed by the patient. It will be seen that they easily surpass the crude expe- dients of the Kama Soutra. 1. The Spider’s Legs. Tickle the penis with fingers, lips, tongue, and eyelashes. 2. The Fire-d…
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…rd must have seemed to our lively Abdullah very much as 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 t…
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…lter Till Purity mingles with Pleasure and Fame.” You go on till your stock of abstract nouns is exhausted. [There is, the Qabalist may (perhaps too hyper- critically) remark a shade of lack of Equilibrium here. Why prefer the Near to the Far ? Browning (Abt Vogler, IV) is better with his “ Earth had at- tained to heaven ; there was no more near not far.” Yet even Browning in this passage discrimi- nates against Earth in favour of Heaven : I sup- pose we are none of us perfect.] 4. Roses etc. — the cheeks, teeth, and lips. 5. I I have heard the…