Sexual Intercourse Between Humans and Daimones in >islam

Pierre Lory

49 to 64

p. 50

"jinn (sg jinni, fem. jinniyya). The term ... does not seem to be derived from the Latin genius ... . ... .

p. 51

... janin means the foetus,

janan means the heart".

p. 51

"their "fiery" shape ... enables them to move very quickly, to fly, to become invisible to humans, and

p. 52

to enter human bodies and cause ... epilepsy and nervous ... diseases."

"Jinn have the ability to understand many things that are beyond human reach : hence ... human beings making them allies by means of magical practices."

"the frightening jinniyya called ghula tries to attack men who are alone in the desert in order to ... drive them mad and/or have [sexual] intercourse with him."

[description of a Gulah by ante->islam poe:t Ta>abbata S`arran, as quoted in >ibn Qutayba : >al-S`i<r wa->al-S`u<ara 175] "She had two eyes like those of a cat ["with vertical pupils"], in an ugly face, and a split tongue {like that of a snake}, two thin legs, the skull of a dog {or of a baboon?}, and her skin seemed to be a ... goatskin."

"Several accounts speak of ... a woman ... raped by a jinni. ... According to ... Shibli and Suyuti, some women assert that [sexual] intercourse with a jinni causes the same sensation of orgasm as [sexual] intercourse with their husbands."

"jinni were believed to be ... in an "inter-world" between dream and waking consciousness." [fn. 36 : ""in-between world" (barzakh)"]

{Betwixt the waking-world and the dreaming-world is the world of hypnagogia, the aim of contemplative meditation.}

[account by >ibn >al-Mujawir in Yemen (quoted from "MJ&S")] "a woman called al-Faliqa ... came out of the sea. ... ["Next follows an account of the miracles accomplished by Faliqa."] ... . ... she was still alive ... In Wadi Qutayna ... In the region of Turan".

p. 58

[sexual spirit-possession in H.ad.ramawt (quoted from "CD", p. 173) :] "A jinni meets a woman ..., or ... a jinniyya meets a man ... to possess the human person ... enters his or her body. ... In that case, the man (or the woman) behaves with gestures and words as if he (or she) were having sexual intercourse".

p. 59

[in northern Morocco] "The most famous of these is called <A>isha Qandisha, or better Lalla (Lady) <A>isha. She is described ... unsmiling. ... One of her main activities is that of seducing men, whether batchelors or married."

married to sidi ('saint') __

is <a>is`ah __

who is __

<ali ben Hamdus`

Hamdus`iyyah

"black and lives near a river"

>ah. mad Dquqi

Sudaniyyah

"black" residing in "the desert"

Musa al-Dukkali

Bahriyyah

"white, living near the coast"

--

Gnawiyyah

"water-spirit. She is black."

--

Mulet al-Wed

"(white) ..., living near the rivers."

"If he accepts to marry Lalla <A>isha, he must usually forsake all relations with other women ..., and in fact live the life of a lunatic."

"he encountered a woman with red eyes and legs like those of a camel, who explained to him that she had taken the shape ... in order to possess him, and that he now belonged to her."

"a couple" : "The husband got possessed by <A>isha Qandisha, and

his wife by a male jinni, the husband of <A>isha Qandisha. ...

A relationship of this kind is often officially established and organized in the frame of rituals during which jinn are supposed to be present and give their agreement ot the situation."

"Services addressed to the male saints take place in shrines during the day and are officiated by men.

In contrast, the female ceremonies devoted to the many <A>ishas take place ... (in ... a cave, near a well or a tree) during the night, and the leader of the ceremonies is a woman.

The offerings made to <A>isha consist of blood -- menstrual blood in particular -- and excrements. ... The part of the ritual specifically dedicated to Lalla <A>isha ... takes place in the middle of the night, when she may become visible to her devotees."

"according to ... Muhasibi ..., the jinn will enter Paradise, but humans will be invisible to them : a situation which is exactly the reverse of the one here on earth."

"jinn ... have no mirrors, and that is why they are frightened to discover their own image in a mirror when they enter the human world." ("OeE", p. 112)

Eroticism and Esotericism in Mediaeval Qabbalah

Elliot R. Wolfson

65 to 109

"In his presence, the code of secrecy could be disbanded, as the master elevates the stature of all those who live in his time, but with his absence the mysteries that were revealed have to be hidden again."

p. 79

[quoted from Seper ha-Tmunah 26b] "Conceal and secure the matters in a seal [h.o^tam] and in an encasement [misgeret] ..., and a seal upon a seal [h.o^tam <al h.o^tam]".

p. 80

"the encasement of the mysteries is depicted as the "seal upon a seal." ... That the seal must be sealed imparts the sense that the hiddenness must be hidden ... . ...

The ... double secrecy ... is expanded in the introducion to the third part of the book where ...

[quoted from Seper ha-Tmunah 27a] inscribed in the secret of the power of [H.akmah], ... they emanated in [Binah] ... in subtle inscriptions".

p. 81

[quoted from Seper ha-Tmunah 28b] "everything is written in ... supernal letters, wondrous and hidden, not understood by an angel or a supernal archon but only by ... Moses ..., and Moses wrote them ... in the crownlets, tittles".

[quoted from Rabbenu Bah.ya 3:268] "

"There was a great and mighty wind ..., but the Lord was not in the wind.

After the wind -- an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

After the earthquake -- fire; but the Lord was not in the fire.

After the fire -- a soft murmuring sound" (1 Kings 19:11-12)."

[quoted from Zohar 1:234a] "The voice of the sphere rotates from below to above, and chariots that are closed {coaches/stagecoaches} go forth and rotate. ... Two pipes are placed from the right and left {trumpet-fanfare in heraldry} in two colors that emanate together , one white and the other red {blazons of the trumpets}. Both of them rotate the sphere above, when it turns to the right the white ascends, and when it turns to the left the red descends. ... Two birds ascend when they chirp {as, in a cuckoo-clock}, one to the south side, and the other to the north side, they fly though the air. The chirping and the pleasant voice of the sphere join together ... . All the blessings issue forth in the murmur of this sound ... to ... descend from above to below and they are concealed within the depth of the well, the spring of the well, which does not cease, in a murmur until the rotating sphere is filled."

p. 96

In Binah is "the "soft murmuring sound" beyond imaginal or

p. 97

iconic representation, the primordial void [tohu^] ..., the place in which there is no color (gawwan) and no image (diyoqna), and it is not comprised within the mystery of the image (raza de-diyoqna). Now ... when they contemplate it, it has no image at all ... ."" [Zohar 1:16a]

"Moses de Leo`n similarly described Binah as the "secret of the inner splendor [so^d zohar pnimi^] in the secret of

p. 98

intellectualized intellect [s`ekel {'discretion, prudence' (Strong's 7922)} mus`kal] that shimmers momentarily and then disappears, and it is not comprehended in any manner that may be understood, for it is the denuded splendor ... [zohar nis^lal ...] ..., for it shimmers in the heart momentarily, and then it disappears momentarily."

{I have often seen briefly (about a second each time) an exceedingly irregular (multiramose) vision, occasioned each time by a noise (thus a form of synaisthesia) occurring in the waking world, while falling asleep (thus hypnagogic) in a setting thitherto silent (usually during formally gathered group-meditations).}

This h.as^mal of ""internal vision" that has no form ... "they saw within what they saw in silence" ..., thereby apprehending "the mystery within silence ..., the mystery that exists within the brain ... the inner mystery of the brain that exists within the supernal mysteries ... ."" [Zohar H.adas^ 38b]

{This would be one of the A-rupa ('Formless') heavens mentioned in the Abhidharma.}

"As ... in the case of Abulafia, so too in the zoharic anthology, a connection is made between gilluy [<]arayot, the uncovering of the genitals ..., and inappropriate disclosure of secrets. [Zohar 3:79a; SZ, p. 25]

{The genitalia ought to be uncovered not frivolously in public without intent to use them, but instead only when there be intent to use them (as, in sexual intercourse). Otherwise, the divine world might become offended by the frivolity of disclosure, of that which is of sacred import, without proper usefulness nor worshipful admiration. (Accordingly, casual nudism would not be recommended.)}

By contrast, the suitable revelation of secrets, exemplified in the case of [S^im<o^n ben Yo^h.ay], ... in the Zohar, ... is associated with the murmur".

valenced as masculine

valenced as feminine

standing during prayer

sitting during prayer

phylaktery worn on head

phylakteries worn on arms

[quoted from Zohar 3:146a] "When priests below rise and spread out their hands,

{While use of the hands (in handshaking) is usual in Nas.uray (Manda<) rites,

all the holy crowns above {in heaven} are aroused ..., and they shine from the depth of the {heavenly} well [<unqa d-be^ra], which overflows ... from the wellsprings to all the worlds".

"crowns" and "Wellspring" are particularly prominent in Nas.uray (Manda<) mythology.}

Ta<nug : Erotic Delights from Qabbalah to H.asidism

Moshe Idel

111 to 151

"Jacob Joseph of Polonoy (one of the Besht's leading disciples) confessed that he had learned that

[quoted from Toldot Ya<qob Yosef, fol. 16c] ... the member of copulation is the best of delights ... . And out of the material [delight] he shall understand the spiritual delight".

"the beauty of a nice woman should be understood as reflecting this world of splendor of the divine presence. The contemplative elevation of beauty to its source ... can be described as theurgy."

fn. 127 "the divine erotic or sexual response is ... mayiin nuqbbin -- the female waters".

{By "female waters" are secretions of the female's Bartholin glands intended?}

The Song of Songs in John of Morigny's Liber Florum Doctrine Caelestis

Claire Fanger

153 to 174

p. 153, fn. 1

"Translations from many important late medieval commentaries ... are given ... at the end of Denys Turner, [E&A]. The most influential ... include those of Honorius Augustodunensis and Rupert of Deutz. Honorius wrote two commentaries; ... the Sigillum Beate Marie ... and ... the Expositio in Cantica Canticorum ... . Rupert is responsible for ... the Commentaria in Canticum Canticorum".

p. 154, fn. 2

"Beguines and Victorines are discussed in Bernard McGinn, The Flowering of Mysticism, and ... in his ... ["LLChHM"]."

[quoted from FM, p. 79] "two broad streams of the interpretation of Dionysius can be found ... :

the speculative Dionysianism initiated by the Dominican master Albert the Great, and ...

the "affective Dionysianism" first given systematic formulation in the writings of Thomas Gallus."

"John opens his Book of Prayers with a visionary autobiography, the Liber visionum or Book of Visions, which forms part I of the Liber florum."

scriptural book

Book of Proverbs

Ekklesiastes

Song of Songs

branch of learning

ethics

physics

enoptics

its character

moral

natural

inspective

"For Gregory, allegoresis ... is ... described as an anagogical activity that lifts the soul up to God :

[Gregory : "Exposition of the Song of Songs", quoted from E&A, p. 217] "For allegory supplies the soul ... with a kind of mechanism by which it is raised to God. ... By that ... divine meanings ... are brought to an inner understanding.""

#

those men who __

are to kiss the __ of the woman

1st

seek "forgiveness or reconciliation"

"feet"

2nd

"have gained some merit"

"hand"

3rd

are "contemplatives"

"mouth"

p. 167

[quoted from Bodleian MS Liturg. 160, fol. 67f] "the holy fountain of the breast of the selfsame Virgin ..., with which Christ was nourished, ... I spiritually suckled and was nourished. In the strength of this spiritual food I made my way all the way to H[.]oreb, the mountain of God. And thence ... the things which I have written and shall write, the sacred flowing words of this book."

p. 168

"John expresses his sense of being a {adoptive?} child of Mary, {foster?-}brother of Christ, and successor to the prophets."

[quoted from Bodleian MS Liturg. 160, fol. 55r] "blessed is he who enters into knowing and wisdom,

but much more blessed is he who enters into the Knowing of Knowings and Wisdom of Wisdoms, because all good things come along with Knowing and Wisdom, and immeasurable honor through their hands. [Wisdom 7:11] ... I, brother John, propose to write this smallest of books called the Book of Figures ... and of the Special Procedures for the Entirety of this ... Art. Through it we can ... be inspired with all Knowing and Wisdom, ... divinely ordained."

p.

Prayer

art/discipline

order

miracle of Khristos

172

21st

Grammar

Angeloi

Maria's conception of Khristos

22nd

Dialectic

Arkhangeloi

Redemption of souls

23rd

Rhetoric

Thronoi

Harrowing of Hell

24rd

Arithmetic

Powers

With disciples after resurrection

25rd

Music

Virtues

Arrival via locked doors, Emmaus

26rd

Geometry

Dominations

Saving Petros by water-walking

27rd

Astronomy

Principalities

Eclipse of sun during crucifixion

173

28rd

Philosophy

Krubi^m

Khristos's ascent to heaven

29rd

Theology

S`rapi^m

Apokalupsis