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Abdallah Allah appears Arabic ascetic Bayazid beauty becomes believe Beloved Buddhist called chapter Christian mysticism contemplation created creatures creed dark dervish desire dhikr disciples divine attributes doctrine earth ecstasy ecstatic essence eternal ethical evil faith fană feeling G. R. S. MEAD gnosis gnostic God's Hallāj hath heart heaven Hell holy Hujwiri hulul human Ibn al-'Arabi infidel Islam Jalaluddin Rūmi journey Junayd Ka'ba Khadir knowledge Koran light lives London Lord Masnavi means mind miracles mirror Mohammed Mohammedan mystics moral Moslem mysteries MYSTICS OF ISLAM NICHOLSON Niffari Paradise passed passing-away perfect Persian phenomenal prayer Prophet qualities QUEST SERIES R. A. Nicholson rapture Real reality regard religion religious law repentance Sahl saint seek Sheykh Shibli SONS LTD soul spiritual stage Sufi Sūfīs Sufism thee theory theosophy things thou wilt thought tion translation Truth unity universe veiled vision wali word worship
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Page 5 - That extinction is to be brought about by, and runs parallel with, the growth of the opposite condition of mind and heart ; and it is complete when that opposite condition is reached. Nirvana is therefore the same thing as a sinless, calm state of mind ; and if translated at all, may best, perhaps, be rendered " holiness, — holiness that is, in the Buddhist sense perfect peace, goodness, and wisdom.
Page 96 - And beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty, and separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which it has contracted in the world, the lover ascends to the highest beauty, to the love and knowledge ~of the Divinity, by steps on this ladder of created souls.
Page 91 - My heart has become capable of every form : it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks, And a temple for idols, and the pilgrim's Ka'ba, and the tables of the Tora and the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love, whichever way his camels take. My religion and my faith is the true religion.
Page 139 - I am he whom I love, and he whom I love is I: We are two spirits dwelling in one body. If thou seest me, thou seest him, And if thou seest him, thou seest us both."* 1 Nicholson, Myslics of Islam, pp.
Page 83 - Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire, Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves, So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.
Page 45 - In favour and in fortune — only God I saw. In prayer and fasting, in praise and contemplation, In the religion of the Prophet — only God I saw.
Page 96 - is a quality which manifests itself, in the heart of the pious believer, in the form of veneration and magnification, so that he seeks to satisfy his Beloved and becomes impatient and restless in his desire for vision of Him, and cannot rest with any one except Him, and grows familiar with the recollection of Him, and abjures the recollection of everything besides.
Page 50 - The song of the spheres in their revolutions Is what men sing with lute and voice. As we all are members of Adam, We have heard these melodies in Paradise. Though earth and water have cast their veil upon us, We retain faint reminiscences of these heavenly songs; But while we are thus shrouded by gross earthly veils, How can the tones of the dancing spheres reach us?
Page 172 - Prose Tales: The Captain's Daughter — Doubrovsky — The Queen of Spades — An Amateur Peasant Girl— The Shot — The Snow Storm — The Postmaster — The Coffin Maker — Kirdjali — The Egyptian NightsPeter the Great's Negro. Translated by T. Keane.
Page 84 - I fare as one by whose majestic will The world revolves, floods rise and rivers flow, Stars in their courses move; yea, death and life Hang on his nod and fly to the ends of earth, His ministers of mourning or of joy.