Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 130 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 130: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Page 104 This is a page of running poetic prose from what appears to be "Salaman and Absal," a philosophical or allegorical narrative work. The text presents an extended metaphysical exposition explaining the nature of divine creation, the soul of man (Salaman), and the body (Absal). The passage describes how a supreme divine power created all material and spiritual forms, and introduces two central characters—Salaman, described as "The Soul of Man" created by divine intelligence, and Absal, the "Sense-adoring Body" enslaved to blood and sense. The text concludes by noting that these two are "united as God only can divide, / As Lovers in this Tale are signified," suggesting the work is a allegorical love narrative exploring the relationship between soul and body.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
eke reg Sh rset . : 104 SALAMAN AND ABSAL. Of Joy and Sorrow. Himself apart from Marrsr, In Essence and in Energy—He yet Hath fashion’d all that is—Material Form, And Spiritual, all from Hrw—by Him Directed all, and in his Bounty drown’d. Therefore is He that Firman-issuing SHAH ‘To whom the World was subject. But because What He distributes to the Universe Another and a Higher Power supplies, Therefore all those who comprehend aright, That Higher in THE Sace will recognise. HIS the Prime Spirit that, spontaneously Projected by the TentH INTELLIGENCE, Was from no womb of Marrsr reproduced A special Essence called THE Sout or Man; A Child of Heaven, in raiment unbeshamed Of Sensual taint, and so SALAMAN named. | And who Axpsin P—The Sense-adoring Body, | Slave to the Blood and Sense—through whom THE | SOUL, | Although the Body’s very Life it be, ' Doth yet: imbibe the knowledge and delight | Of things of SzrnsE; and these in such a bond | United as Gop only can divide, { As Lovers in this Tale are signified. \ ee ee eee ee i eg 7 Se CORnNICLOO KS, (