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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

This inverted bowl we call the sky, is that Garden we've been told; the four heads there have thus been named the lion, the man, the bull, the bird. [34]Within these names four more are found; spirit, soul, mind, and body and yet again four more you have birth, youth, manhood and age. When added twelve all told they make, and the names of the tribes reveal, from which all things their being take, and yet there are four to spare; Reptiles, beasts and birds of song, with fish of various kinds, when added go to make the man, of sixteen parts all told.

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