‘Rabe’a had been praying in her room late one night until she was finally overcome by weariness and fell asleep. So deep was her slumber that she stirred not a bit when a thief broke the window and climbed right in.’
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The Divine Way
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Friday Night Rabe’a
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‘One Friday night, Rabe’a was busy readying herself for a gala ball. A letter had arrived in the mail some weeks before, inviting her and a partner to attend, but as yet she hadn’t found anyone to accompany her.’
A Test of Faith
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‘Jeremy sat, crouched alone at the mouth of the cave that he had lived in for … was it a moon, a season, a year, or always?’
Buddha Divided
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‘Once, when returning from a pilgrimage, a man bought a solid gold statue of Buddha from a merchant in a Bazaar. Even as he was handing over the money for it, the man suspected – against the vendor’s most passionate assurances to the contrary – that the Buddha was completely hollow.’
The Astral Projection of Sun Lao
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‘Once, a pilgrim travelling towards Mecca was fortunate enough to obtain an audience with the Saint Sun Lao.’
The Mysticism of Suso
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‘Nowadays he’d probably be diagnosed along with the majority of the other children as having an Attention Deficiency Disorder and subsequently prescribed unceremoniously with an amphetamine of one sort or another. Depending on how you look at it, however, it was either very unfortunate or simply Divine Providence that no such medication was known in Suso’s day.’
The Temptation of Cupid
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‘Cupid spent so much time and energy in idolising his wife that he had let himself go a little.’
