Eros and the Pearl by Artur Rodziewicz;

Author:Artur Rodziewicz;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Peter Lang Group

The Yezidi phrase “the branch of Love” as well as references to the Beauty (a presumed reference to Sheikh Hasan/Melek Sheikh Sin) present in the early stages ←369 | 370→of cosmogony clearly belongs to the same tradition as Suhrawardi alludes to his On the Reality of Love. However, his work is particularly intriguing for one more reason – apart from the descriptions of cosmogonic love, it also contains another interesting motif – the Pearl. And it is with the mention of a pearl that this treatise begins:

Know that the first thing God (Haqq) created was a glowing pearl (gouhar) He named Intellect (aql).306 (…) This pearl he endowed with three qualities, the ability to know God, the ability to know itself, and the ability to know that which had not existed and then did exist. From the ability to know God there appeared husn, who is called Beauty (Nikuyi);307 and from the ability to know itself there appeared ‘ishq, who is called Love (Mehr). From the ability to know that which did not exist and then did exist there appeared huzn, who is called Sorrow. Of these three, who sprang from one source and are brothers one to the other, Beauty, the eldest gazed upon himself and saw that he was extremely good. A luminosity appeared in him, and he smiled. From that smile thousands of cherubim (malak-e moqarrab) appeared. Love (‘Ishq), the middle brother, was so intimate with Beauty and he could not take his eyes from him and was constantly at his side. When Beauty’s smile appeared, a consternation befell Love, who was so agitated that he wanted to move.308

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