batch.motif.sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg-l1134-l1168
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg-l1134-l1168
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: ONE HEART, ONE LOVE / GOD THE ONLY LOVE ETERNAL / FINITE AND INFINITE BEAUTY
/ HOW TO OBTAIN UNION WITH THE DIVINE; lines 1134-1168
start: '1134'
end: '1168'
translation: 'The Persian Mystics: Jámí'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: '"I am the tree; these flowers My offshoots are. / Let not these offshoots
hide from thee the tree."'
summary: A poetic speaker visits the Loved One's rose-garden and is taught that
flowers are offshoots of the tree. The passage contrasts finite human beauty with
Beauty Absolute, then instructs the seeker to detach from mundane relations and
contingent forms so that Truth may fill the heart and nothing remains except One
God.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The poetic speaker goes to see the Loved One's rose-parterre.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A figure described as beauty's Torch sees the speaker and speaks.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The speaker is told that the speaker is seeing offshoots or flowers and should
not let them hide the tree.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: Rosy cheeks, graceful forms, ringlets, and a lovely face are named as finite
beauties.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Beauty Absolute is described as beaming all around.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: The prose instruction says to detach from mundane relations and emancipate
oneself from attention to contingent forms.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:7
text: The prose instruction says vain thoughts and imaginations are to be expelled
from the mind and kept outside the enclosure of the breast.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:8
text: Truth most glorious is described as casting beams into the heart and delivering
the seeker from self.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:9
text: The final condition described is that no consciousness of self remains, and
nothing remains except the One God alone.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Loved One / beauty's Torch
description: A beloved figure associated with a rose-parterre who sees the speaker
and speaks as the tree behind the flowers.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Poetic speaker / seeker
description: The first-person speaker who goes to see the Loved One's rose-parterre
and receives the instruction about tree and offshoots.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Beauty Absolute
description: Beauty described as absolute and as beaming all around.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Addressed seeker
description: The second-person addressee instructed to maintain relation, detach
from mundane relations, and expel vain thoughts.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Truth most glorious
description: A glorious Truth that may cast beams into the seeker's heart and deliver
the seeker from self.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: One God alone
description: The final sole presence described after the disappearance of self-consciousness.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Divine or absolute beloved presence
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: The passage uses titles such as Loved One, Beauty Absolute, Truth most glorious,
and One God alone for the ultimate object of attention and union.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: Seeker or instructed addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:4
basis: The poem has a speaker who goes to see the Loved One, and the prose addresses
a person who must detach and strive.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: Instructor or revealer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:5
basis: The Loved One speaks an explanatory saying, and Truth is described as acting
on the heart and delivering the seeker from self.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Tree and offshoots
literal_form: A tree with flowers or offshoots in the Loved One's rose-parterre.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- tree
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: Rose-parterre and flowers
literal_form: The Loved One's rose-parterre and its flowers.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: Torch and beams
literal_form: Beauty's Torch and beams cast by Beauty Absolute or Truth.
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: Heart and breast enclosure
literal_form: The breast as an enclosure and the heart as the place into which Truth
may cast beams.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: Finite beauties
literal_form: Rosy cheeks, graceful forms, ringlets, and a lovely face.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:6
label: Rivals in the heart
literal_form: Rivals entertained in the heart, from which the seeker is to be saved.
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Instruction in the Loved One's rose-parterre
summary: The speaker visits the Loved One's rose-parterre; the Loved One, called
beauty's Torch, says that He is the tree and the flowers are His offshoots, warning
that the offshoots should not hide the tree.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Contrast between finite and absolute beauty
summary: The passage asks what profit there is in lovely human features when Beauty
Absolute beams all around, and asks why one should linger over finite beauties.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Discipline for union with the divine
summary: The addressee is instructed to detach from mundane relations, turn from
contingent forms, expel vain thoughts, and allow Truth to illuminate the heart
until self-consciousness disappears and only One God remains.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Union through annihilation of self-consciousness
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The passage describes detachment, expulsion of thoughts, divine illumination
of the heart, deliverance from self, and the final absence of self-consciousness
with only One God remaining.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy label is broader than the passage; the passage itself gives
a mystical-disciplinal description rather than a narrative myth.
- id: motif:2
label: Divine beloved as sole true beauty
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The Loved One, Beauty Absolute, and Truth are presented as the ultimate object
beyond finite beauties.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage uses devotional and metaphoric language; it does not narrate
a human romance.
- id: motif:3
label: Mystical quest by detachment and inner purification
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The seeker is instructed to strive, detach from mundane relations, and purify
the mind and heart to obtain union with the divine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The quest is interior and instructional, not an external journey narrative.
- id: motif:4
label: Tree obscured by its offshoots
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The Loved One says the flowers are offshoots of the tree and warns that offshoots
should not hide the tree.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage supplies the image but not a full mythic tree-system; only
the available symbol taxonomy supports the tree image.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 1134-1140
quote_or_summary: '"The Loved One''s rose-parterre I went to see"; beauty''s Torch
says, "I am the tree; these flowers My offshoots are. / Let not these offshoots
hide from thee the tree."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1142-1146
quote_or_summary: The passage names rosy cheeks, graceful forms, ringlets, and a
lovely face, then contrasts them with Beauty Absolute beaming all around and asks
why finite beauties should be embraced.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1150-1158
quote_or_summary: The addressee is told to maintain a relation continuously, detach
from mundane relations, turn away from contingent forms, and strive to expel vain
thoughts and imaginations.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1159-1165
quote_or_summary: The passage says thoughts should be forced outside the enclosure
of the breast so that Truth most glorious may cast beams into the heart, deliver
the seeker from self, and remove rivals from the heart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 1165-1168
quote_or_summary: The passage says there will remain neither consciousness of self
nor consciousness of that absence, but "nothing save the / One God alone."
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: high
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: The passage is explicit about divine beauty, detachment, self-effacement,
and union. No comparison claims are made because the passage does not itself compare
traditions or external motif families beyond the provided taxonomy mapping.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Taxonomy references are limited to the supplied motif families and symbols. Symbols and motifs are derived only from the provided passage.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg__l1134-l1168
passage_sha256=e297ef5d11a3fb881d09e5b588cd442e1684d7e5d328056bac2989aff76c315f