Motif
Creator as potter shaping and judging vessels
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A motif of the Divine Judgment and Moral Reckoning family, within the sub-family Moral Causality and Consequence. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox The Sufism of the Rubáiyát, or, the Secret of the Great Paradox / PREFACE / THE AUTHOR. / NOTES; lines 1301-1463 confidence: high
The speaker sees clay shapes and a dog, asks the Potter why such a faithful soul was sunk so low at birth, and sees a vase design of a temple where a dog supports a main support; an inscription names the dog faithfulness in heaven.
The Potter turns the wheel, shows clay forms, reveals hidden meanings in vessels, and destroys a beautiful but false vessel.
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