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The Masnavi
The King and his Three Sons (1-10)
Be not intoxicated with these goblets of forms, Pass by these cups full of forms, linger not; There is wine in the cups, but it proceeds not from them. Look to the Giver of the wine with open mouth; When His wine comes, is not cup too small to hold it? O Adam, seek the reality of my love, When sand was made meal for "The Friend of God," Know, O master, the form of wheat was dispensed with. Form proceeds from the world that is without form, The Divine art without form designs forms (ideals),
Life of Pythagoras
SELECT SENTENCES OF SEXTUS THE PYTHAGOREAN. (32)
Every cup should be sweet to you which extinguishes thirst. Fly from intoxication as you would from insanity. No good originates from the body.
The Conference of the Birds
The Seventeenth Bird Questions the Hoopoe (4)
A water-carrier, meeting another, asked him for some of his water. The latter said: 'O you who are ignorant of spiritual things, why don't you drink...
Corpus Hermeticum
7. The Greatest Ill Among Men Is Ignorance of God (1)
Whither stumble ye, sots, who have sopped up the wine of ignorance and can so far not carry it that ye already even spew it forth? Stay ye, be sober,...