Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

sacred light dependent on saintly taper

sacred_light_dependent_on_saintly_taper

A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family, within the sub-family Divine Light and Sacred Radiance. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


sufi

  • The Mesnevi THE ACTS OF THE ADEPTS / CHAPTER I. / CHAPTER II. / CHAPTER III.; lines 2685-2821 confidence: medium

    At Perwāna’s palace, Jelāl brings a small taper while others have large waxlights; he extinguishes his taper and all candles go dark, then his sigh rekindles the taper and the candles burn again, leading to conversions.

    The assembly’s large candles go out when Jelāl extinguishes his small taper and burn again when his taper is rekindled by his sigh.

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