Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 132 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 132: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a prose page from what appears to be a philosophical or allegorical poem titled "Salámán and Absál" (page 106). The text presents running verse discussing spiritual discipline and divine love. A Sage uses visions of a phantom from the past to gradually transform Salámán's mortal passion into divine love, ultimately describing how the soul, through discipline, transcends sensual matter and achieves intellectual enlightenment, uniting with the "Last and First Intelligence." The page is printed in standard Victorian typography with decorative corner flourishes and contains no illustrations.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
N' , A , ae a ee a Ore ee alee NSE ee ee — >> SALAMAN AND ABSAL. ee On which he fain his Passion with Himself Would immolate ?—That was the Discipline To which the the living Man himself devotes, Till all the Sensual dross be scorcht away, And, to its pure integrity return’d, His Soul alone survives. But forasmuch As from a darling Passion so divore’d The wound will open and will bleed anew, Therefore THe SaGe would ever and anon Raise up and set before Salaman’s eyes That Fantom of the past; but evermore Revealing one Diviner, till his Soul She fill’d, and blotted out the Mortal Love. For what is Zunran P—What but that Divine Original, of which the Soul of Man Darkly possesst, by that fierce Discipline At last he disengages from the Dust, And flinging off the baser rags of Sense, And all in Intellectual Light arrayed, As Conqueror and King he mounts the Throne, Aud wears the Crown of Human Glory— Whence, Throne over Throne surmounting, he shall reign One with the Last and First INTELLIGENCE. ‘ Sew arae | Comuicboooks.com