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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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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 !
1910 · PDF PAGE 140
…love’s podex-joy, and missing love all good ye miss. Come, O Habib, thy podex close on El Qahar’s enamoured tool ! Though we mistake the world and God, at least is no mistake in this. 1. After this ode the “ secret key-number ” breaks down. It is said that there are five odes missing. But no doubt need therefore be cast upon the genuineness of the following odes. Some weight is to be given to the contention that there can be only 42 odes, neither more nor less, for mystical reasons. Their Persian dress I cannot learn ; but the Egyptians knew 42…
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…ir — 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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…IL GALLANT, I WHO HAVE DONE SO LITTLE TO COMPLETE HIS LABOURS DEDICATE MY SHARE THEREIN ON THIS OCCASION OF OFFERING THEIR RESULT TO THE WORLD.
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…rone on his puffing and perspiring Priscilla : the love of Adrian and Antinous is a monument for all ages. Is there better poetry in the world than Wilde’s “...on Adrian’s gilded barge The laughter of Antinous ” or F....’s “ the splendid Syrian youth with scarlet mouth Standing upon the summit of the world ? ” Why, to kiss my boy is a canzonet, to suck him off a sonnet ; his mouth is a madrigal, his lips are lyrics, and his eyes idylls ; to be be-
1910 · PDF PAGE 154
…e., through celiba- cy) one becomes like me in glory. 63. The vindu (semen) causes the pleasure and pain of all creatures living in this world, who are infatuated, and are subject to death and de- cay. For the Yogi, this preservation of semen is the best of all Yogas, and it is the giver of happiness. 64. Though immersed in enjoyments, men get powers through its practice. Through the force of his practice, he becomes an adept in due season, in his present life. 65. The Yogi certainly obtains through this practice all kinds of powers at the same…
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…but for the very much simpler reason that all the traditions are based on the same set of facts. Just as the festivals of Spring all the world round more or less suggest the story of the Cruci- fixion and Resurrection, simply because the actual phenomena which every man is bound to observe in Nature are essentially the same in every clime : so also is Mysticism One, because the phy- siological constitution of mankind is practically identical the wide world over. We have then the right to buy our pigs in the cheapest market, and the Bagh-i-muatt…
1910 · PDF PAGE 161
… like the stars illume Earth’s darkness, life’s disgrace, abash the trifling terrors of the tomb. The nargis scent shall steal about the world, assuage its fret and fume,
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…hings ; I cannot win Unto the real ; life’s wheel is kept From turning by its axle-pin.1 But swing thine hips and smile upon The hideous world’s malicious grin ! Then when we end, the task is light : Bid El Qahar once more begin2 ! 1. The very cause of life — desire — is that which hinders its attaining to higher planes. A
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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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…he present ecstasy is all, the Middle Path, the Golden Mean. An He endure, then love endures : — so El Qahar will ever sing, Till he the world from milk of prayer to wine of me- ditation wean.7 Like peacocks in a garden spread our thousand eyes of jewel-sheen ; Though squawking with an eunuch’s voice, our paederastic plumes we preen.8 For voice is sound, and dies with air ; light is co- excellent with God9 ; As Hate’s a poison for delight, so love’s a physic for the spleen. And El Qahar is Truth, and nought but Allah stuffs his gaberdine,10 And…
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…ss of his songs.3 1. These similes are very affected. 2. Dinar — a gold coin worth about 10/- 3. Evidently the reviewer is as old as the world.
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152 The fame of Ecstasy the redemption of the World. Light springs and liberty is fair— o break the intoxicating jar ! It is enough that thou art Near, the shamer of the foolish Far, To glut thy jasmine 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 usua…
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
…f the method and aim. 53. Actuated by mercy for my devotees, I shall now explain the Vajroli Mudra, the destroyer of the darkness of the world, the most secret among all the secrets. 54. Even while following all his desires, and without conforming to the regulations of Yoga, a
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…is esteemed highly as incense. The passage may mean : “ I will float heavenward on the perfume of my adoration, being insulated from the world by my love (or the Holy Spirit) under That Tree.” i.e. the Tree of Life.
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… my people for their bad 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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…e, 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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… slain, My love’s no moon to wax and wane. Allah our love with mercy sain ! Then death’s a splendid window-pane Through which I look the world to explain. Give me the Cup ! it’s wine I’ll drain, Thy podex to my member strain, And thrust, and pull, and writhe amain :— Thrill through each raptured dying vein That El Qahar’s dissolving brain Be of his Destiny the bane ! 1. Can this be a reference to the Western su- perstition that mystic devotion injures the intel- lect ? Or only to the dangers of “ obsession ”, to the appalling results which occa…
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…hat of Walter Pater ; a stylist is as direct a miracle of God as a sodomite. No ! I must not proselytise ! there are enough of us in the world ; a select body of idealists, of men cleansed from the gross passions, of poets and mystics linked in a perfect freemasonry of style and man- ner, of ships (as it were) who have dropped anchor in a safe harbour, or conquerors at ease in the towns they have captured, whose inhabitants are too crass and stupid even to know themselves slaves.