5-22-2024: Art and Sacral Drugs in the Orient [draft]

 "Of all the odours in this world, that of opium is the least disagreeable."


[coming soon]

NB: sacral is a word referring to the "holy" not to the sacrum. This blog to come is directly inspired by the article to take a look : orient part 1

Indicative outlines follow:

Art and Sacral Drugs in the Orient 

Rudolf Gelpke 


Key words: Legend and Dream; Georg Jacob; conscious dream; fantasy; drugs; "Mécanisme des drogues"; hashish and teonanacatl; metaphysical truths; inaccuracy; bridge-builder; Arabian Nights; ghazals; Kufic writing; Shekasteh writing; Persian Quadarite; Mogul princess; Ottoman sultan; Spanish Alhambra; Taj Mahal; Koran; Pantheism; wahdat al-wodschud (=”unity of the existing"); King's seed; emerald plant; weed of the poor; weed of the Fakirs; mysteries; Jamål Esfâhâni; Tugrul; poet 'Abd ar- Razzaq; Chesr; great poets Sufis (Sheik Sanâ'i, Sheik Saadi, Sheik 'Attår, Pir Jamali, Jalâl ad-Din Rumi, Fachr ad-Din 'Erâqi, Ebn al'Arabi etc.); the hearing of music;

Dancing; looking game; leaf of imagination; anorganic nature; curdled milk of unity;

Pir Jamâli; pole of the loving; Alamut persian region; Hakim' Emad ad-Din; Ebrähim-Chân; Hosayn Behzad


[the art of story-telling of the Islamic Orient is the "conscious dream"]

[the mechanics of drugs]

[hashish visions responsible for the Islamic architectural style]

[metaphysical truths]

[Islamic art?]

[the invisible centre of a visible circle]

[Islamic philosophers, scholars and Sufis]

[He has the keys of all that is hidden]

[shåndåneh; zomorrod-giâh; hashischat al-foquarâ; asrår]

["O poet of the world of the soul in this world...”]

[declining Timurid and the developing Safawid styles]

[unity of existence]

[Grand Master of the Order of Assassins]

[Qalandarån , wandering Dervishes and hashish vagabonds]


In the year 988/1580, a wandering Dervish appeared in the Gilan mountains and assisted by a great physical resemblence, claimed to be Shah Esma'il II who had died three years earlier (probably from an overdose of opium).


[Behzad, Picasso, Cocteau]




Translation G. F.S. 


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