Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

affliction as furnace-burning

affliction_as_furnace_burning

A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


sufi

  • The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XCVI. / XCIX. / APPENDIX. / PAGE 4.; lines 4371-4396 confidence: high

    Khayyam is said to have “stitched the Tents of Science,” to have “fallen in Grief's furnace and been suddenly burned”; Fate's shears cut “the tent-ropes of his life,” and the “Broker of Hope” sold him “for nothing.”

    Khayyam falls into Grief's furnace and is suddenly burned.

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