The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox — John Shaqi
The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great ParadoxOmar Khayyam
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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat; Persian poetry -- Translations into English; Sufism
[24] When we can perceive that through our conventionalities and self
formed opinions we delay our spiritual progress through limitations, we
can then embrace the inclusive and forego the exclusive, thus changing
our manner of living and entering the path that unto freedom leads.
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Up to the Eternals cast thy weary eyes, earth is not thy home, no
more than heavenly skies.
Question those Heavenly [25]Symbols of Mars the God of War, Jupiter
of Benevolence, Mercury of Lore, Venus of Life's Pleasures.
Saturn of Old Age, ask Uranus of what is hidden, the Moon of Bringing
Forth, and the Sun of Life's Fecundity, and each will in turn
declare that they like thee are dependants,
Upon that ONE GREAT CAUSE to share, the knowledge of their being,
which all may read WHO DARE.
[25] The planets, signs and constellations symbolized to the ancients
the universal creative energies, their powers and equivalents.
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Here then is the Key, thy Will that Door unlocks, thy Future Faith
must be the KNOWLEDGE of THYSELF.
Shirk not this task for in it ye will find the way in which to solve,
that the [26]UNIVERSE is I!
[26] Through the analyzing of our natures we learn that we are as it
were a miniature of the universe and that we are potentially its equal.
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Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Ether, the elements that compose the sum of
all that under heaven blows,
And if ye then should ask, how they their birth received, or whence
they came, or of what consist, or where they go, and of their final
destiny?
THIS WILL ALL AGES ANSWER! HE ONLY KNOWS! HE ONLY KNOWS!
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The Heavenly signs are but the SYMBOLS of that BOOK, whose chemistry
Birth's secrets here make plain.
Thus are written in characters eternal, where none can erase one word
of those recorded histories of MEN, of THINGS, of WORLDS.
From off its open pages bound in HEAVEN'S ETERNAL BLUE,
Here then is the VEIL, the LAMP, the VOICE WITHIN; learn thou to be
LORD and MASTER, PROPHET, PRIEST and KING.
Thy BIRTHRIGHT here now enter, and know ye the LAW OF LAWS, the WISE
MAN RULES, THE FOOL DOTH TREAD WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO GO.
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Thus from the Law of Life and Death we learn, and why with hate and
strife this earthly urn doth burn.
Yet a Voice from out of the DEPTHS doth SPEAK "MURMUR NOT"! Make ye
the best of life,
Waste not thy OPPORTUNITIES! For when ye once have onward passed, to
CLAY YE NEVER SHALL RETURN.!!
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