New gnostic punk-pop song by Kazakh-London Suficore group the Friends of Design. Vocals by the Kazakh songstress Matronita Minor (aka Sally Deen). Lyrics by yours truly, the Tailor:
Archive for June, 2009
Emanation
Posted in Cosmology, Love poems, The path, tagged demiurge, friends of design, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, pop music, suficore on June 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Two brothers
Posted in Cosmology, The path, tagged aaron, abel, brotherhood, cain, dialectic, Islam, Kabbalah, moses, mysticism, orthodoxy, Sufism on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Tailor sat at the waystation with some other travellers. “Where are you travelling, friend,” an Egyptian traveller asked him. “Back to London,” he replied. The fellow frowned and said: “Ah yes, I have just come from that city, because I heard that there are true Sufis there and wished to learn some of their [...]
The Primal Scene
Posted in Cosmology, tagged daughter, father, freud, Lacan, Luria, mother, primal scene, son on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It is correct to say that souls are asexual. But they have sexual components, and this derives from their formation from the breath of the Divine, because this process of this breathing is sexuality itself. To be brief, mythopoeic alchemy (borrowed from Issac Luria, mediated via Freud and Lacan) must suffice to make my point. To speak [...]
A political solution: Tassawuf and the violence of religion
Posted in Love poems, tagged free love, gay soldiers, houris, Israel, Palestine, war on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The usual argument was going on at the Sufi forum. A group were arguing that true Sufism is a cure to the disease that is Islam. The traditional adherents of Tassawuf were incensed at this provocation. But of course such remarks recently made them feel slightly ambiguous, because mainstream Islam’s relationship with its mystical child [...]
