Just a brief reminder, for any inclined to follow the suggested path through "A Perfumed Scorpion", that yesterday wrapped up Chapter VII. The final chapter in...
To the ladies Burton was generally charming, but sometimes he behaved execrably. Once when he was returning alone to Trieste, a lady past her prime, being...
[Once at a public gathering a lady said, loudly, to a companion, "There is that infamous Captain Burton, I should like to know that he was down with some...
Hi to all! I almost by chance found out about a book by the late Omar Ali-Shah, "The Rules or Secrets of the Naqshbandi Order", in which he details 11 ...
In a message dated 6/1/2006 6:11:44 PM, azo64000@... writes: << "Madame," replied Burton, "while fully appreciating your kindness, I must decline. Had...
Hello all There is a book called "time bites" by Doris Lessing. In it she makes reference to the Canopus in Argos" series and a tale described in a book called...
Salaam Alaikum Dear Brothers and Sisters: A quick update to share the good news that my book Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel is going to be translated and...
Within the seventeen pages which make up Chapter III of APS is packed much. As it so happens, the 11 rules make up two of those pages. (there is also info on...
... life in ... I've seen several folks give you pointers to other web sites from different portions of the Path, but I'm not quite sure what you are asking....
Hi, Hypnoboth! Thank you for your message. I think that Eric and Obo's links and postings have already given me the info I was looking for. Best, Julio ... -- ...
Info about Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah: See 1) http://www.a2a.org.uk ( "The english strand of the Uk archives network") British Library, India Office Records:...
This may be redundant but I was unable to find an English language version of the "Declaration of the People of the Tradition" in any posts to the Caravansarai...
Many thanks for posting that, I found it very interesting. It reads like a synopsis of everything IS later went on to illucidate. The following paragraph...
The Declaration was accompanied (or supplemented) by another document entitled, "The 22 Principles." Here it is, verbatim: T W E N T Y - T W O P R I N C I P...
Hi, Porc1300 and all! ... The knowledge to which we refer is concentrated, administered and presided over by three kinds of individual existing at any given...
Hi, PS! Thank you for your comments. If you've read any of my posts here, you'll realize I'm in no way ungrateful as regards Shah's monumental work --on the...
... Very amusing Eric, of course there is also the short answer as given by the leader of the telepath rebels in Babylon 5 "How many angels can dance on the...
Hi, Eric, Persia and all! I've been doing some thinking on this subject of "changed ones", "abdals" etcetera and would like to present you a case I've recently...
Hi, Eric! The person who told me the story said it had been very impressive --seeing how all the regulars at that place watched for the first time in their...
Life Principles of the Sovereign Integral The entity model of expression is designed to explore new fields of vibration through biological instruments and...
Hi, Whitecloudz2002! Would you object to this non-technical wording of those Life Principles?: "Human beings were created with the possibility of reaching...
Hi, Eric! I can only imagine what it was like, not having been there myself :) But let me point out some things: 1- The story-teller is a trustworthy one...
Hi again, Eric! I'm just trying to re-create the scene myself... When my friend recounted this on the phone to me a couple of weeks ago, it was a kind of...