batch.motif.sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg-l1231-l1268
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg-l1231-l1268
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: TRUTH / THE GOD BEHIND THE VEIL / THE DIVINE SELF-SUFFICIENCY / OUR NEED
OF THE BELOVED; lines 1231-1268
start: '1231'
end: '1268'
translation: 'The Persian Mystics: Jámí'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: "“Thou hast no need of us, but we of Thee.”"
summary: The speaker addresses an unseen divine Beloved who makes all things visible,
is not separate from humanity, yet needs nothing while humans need the divine.
The passage says no effort can behold the divine face without prior grace, no
substitute can replace the divine, love functions as a mirror revealing divine
beauty, and seekers and sought are comprised in the divine. A prose section describes
the universe as changing accidents rapidly renewed and mistaken by spectators
for permanent existence.
language: English
quote_policy: quoted
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The divine addressee is described as unseen, while making all things seen.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker says the divine and humans are not separate, but the divine has
no need of humans while humans need the divine.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The passage states that no one can behold the divine face or gain access without
prevenient grace.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: The divine is said to have no peer and no substitute able to take its place.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker says divine beauty produced love and longing in the speaker.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker compares the speaker's love to a mirror in which divine beauty
is brought into evidence.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The passage says every mosque and church harbours the divine.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: The passage says seekers and what they seek are all comprised in the divine.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:9
text: The prose section describes the universe and its parts as accidents that change,
are renewed at every breath, disappear, and are replaced by similar sets.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:10
text: The prose section says rapid succession deceives the spectator into believing
the universe is permanent.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Divine Beloved / Lord / Thou
description: The addressed divine figure is unseen, makes all things visible, needs
nothing from humans, has no peer, is housed in mosque and church, and comprises
seekers and sought.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Speaker / lover
description: The first-person speaker expresses need, love, longing, and seeking
toward the divine.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Seekers
description: Those who seek are said to be known by the speaker and comprised, along
with what they seek, in the divine.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Spectator
description: A spectator is deceived by rapid succession into thinking the universe
is permanent.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: unseen revealer
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The divine is unseen yet makes all things seen.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: self-sufficient beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The divine needs nothing from humans, while humans need the divine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: irreplaceable object of seeking
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The divine has no peer or substitute and comprises seekers and sought.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: lover and seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The speaker describes love, longing, and seeking directed toward the divine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: seekers comprised in the divine
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Seekers and what they seek are said to be all comprised in the divine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:6
label: deceived observer of impermanence
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The spectator is deceived into believing the changing universe is permanent.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: unseen sacred precincts
literal_form: sacred precincts none may see
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: divine face
literal_form: face that none can behold by endeavour alone
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: mirror of love
literal_form: the speaker's love as a mirror revealing divine beauty
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:4
label: mosque and church
literal_form: mosque and church as places that harbour the divine
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: changing universe
literal_form: universe as rapidly renewed accidents linked in a single substance
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Need of the unseen Beloved
summary: The speaker addresses the unseen divine Beloved, stating that the divine
makes all things visible and needs nothing from humans, while humans need the
divine.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Access by grace and divine irreplaceability
summary: The passage says that beholding the divine face or gaining access is impossible
by endeavour alone and requires prevenient grace; the divine has no peer or substitute.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Love as mirror of divine beauty
summary: The speaker says divine beauty has produced love and longing, and that
the speaker's love acts as a mirror bringing divine beauty into evidence.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:4
label: Seekers and sought in the divine
summary: The passage states that only the divine can fathom itself, that mosque
and church harbour the divine, and that seekers and the sought are comprised in
the divine.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Universe mistaken for permanence
summary: The prose section describes the universe as ever-changing accidents renewed
at every breath; their rapid succession deceives the spectator into belief in
permanence.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: divine beloved as necessary and irreplaceable object of love
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The passage repeatedly frames the divine as Beloved, needed by humans, without
peer or substitute, and the object of love and longing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is devotional and metaphysical rather than a narrative myth
episode.
- id: motif:2
label: mystical seeking requiring grace
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The passage describes seekers and seeking, while saying access to the divine
face cannot be gained by endeavour alone but requires prevenient grace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The quest is inward and theological; no journey sequence or ordeal is
narrated.
- id: motif:3
label: unity of seeker and sought in the divine
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The passage says the divine and humans are not separate and that seekers
and sought are all comprised in the divine.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage states unity but does not explicitly describe annihilation,
ecstatic union, or a completed initiatory transformation.
- id: motif:4
label: worldly permanence as illusion
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The prose section teaches that the universe is a succession of changing accidents
and that spectators are deceived into believing it permanent.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The available taxonomy has no direct impermanence or illusion category;
wisdom is a broad fit.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 1231-1236
quote_or_summary: "“O Thou whose sacred precincts none may see, / Unseen Thou makest
all things seen to be; ... Thou hast no need of us, but we of Thee.”"
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: quote
locator: lines 1237-1242
quote_or_summary: "“None by endeavour can behold Thy face, / Or access gain without
prevenient grace; ... Thou hast no peer, and none can take Thy place.”"
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:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1243-1248
quote_or_summary: The divine is described as without accident, substance, or constraint
of cause; the divine can replace what is lost, but if the divine is lost no substitute
can be found.
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: quote
locator: lines 1249-1254
quote_or_summary: "“In me Thy beauty love and longing wrought; ... My love is as
a mirror in the which / Thy beauty into evidence is brought.”"
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:5
type: quote
locator: lines 1255-1260
quote_or_summary: "“O Lord, none but Thyself can fathom Thee, / Yet every mosque
and church doth harbour Thee; ... Seekers and sought are all comprised in Thee.”"
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:6
type: summary
locator: lines 1261-1266
quote_or_summary: The universe and its parts are described as accidents, ever changing
and renewed at every breath, linked in a single substance, disappearing and being
replaced by similar sets.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 1266-1268
quote_or_summary: Because of rapid succession, the spectator is deceived into believing
the universe is a permanent existence.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-jami-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized evidence.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Literal extraction is based directly on the provided passage. Motif mapping
is strongest for divine_beloved; other taxonomy links are broader and should be
reviewed.
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: |-
No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does not explicitly compare its images or teachings to another tradition or motif family beyond the supplied taxonomy mapping.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-jami-persian-mystics-davis-gutenberg__l1231-l1268
passage_sha256=e56c6f8c313df2a65cb3793dc9aab69d60a1309813c54773306a49e2fe0b04af