batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l1180-l1200
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l1180-l1200
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: THE MOON-SOUL AND THE SEA / LIFE IN DEATH / THE WHOLE AND THE PART / THE
DIVINE FRIEND; lines 1180-1200
start: '1180'
end: '1200'
translation: 'The Persian Mystics: Jalálu''d-dín Rúmí'
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage warns against keeping perception closed among reprobates, compares
the world to a mirror in which Love is the perfect image, and asks how a part
could be greater than the whole. In the following section, a speaking companion
addresses the listener as one who will accompany them in the grave, be heard in
the tomb, remain watchful, dwell like reason and intellect within the bosom during
joy and sorrow, and be associated with an intellectual lamp that affects the dead
in tombs.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The passage warns the addressed person not to keep the eye shut like a bud
and the mouth open like a rose in a circle of reprobates.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The world is compared to a mirror, and Love is described as the perfect image.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The passage asks who has seen a part greater than the whole.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A speaker tells the addressed person to look on the speaker because the speaker
is the person's companion in the grave.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: The addressed person is described as passing from shop and dwelling on a night
associated with the grave.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:6
text: The addressed person will hear the speaker's hail in the hollow of the tomb
and learn that they were never hidden from the speaker's eye.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:7
text: The speaker says they are like reason and intellect within the addressed person's
bosom during joy, gladness, sorrow, and distress.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:8
text: When the intellectual lamp is lighted, something is said to go up from dead
men in tombs.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Love
description: Love is named as the perfect image in the mirror-like world.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Divine Friend / speaking companion
description: A speaker in the section titled 'THE DIVINE FRIEND' addresses the listener
as a companion in the grave and as reason and intellect within the bosom.
role_refs:
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Addressed person
description: The person addressed is told to look on the speaker, will pass from
shop and dwelling, and will hear the speaker in the tomb.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: dead men in the tombs
description: Dead men in tombs are mentioned in connection with the hour when the
intellectual lamp is lighted.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: perfect image
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Love is explicitly called the perfect image when the world is likened to
a mirror.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: grave companion
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The speaker says they are the addressed person's companion in the grave.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:3
label: inner reason and intellect
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The speaker says they are as reason and intellect within the bosom of the
addressed person.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:4
label: addressed mortal or listener
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The addressed person is told that they will pass from shop and dwelling and
hear the speaker in the tomb.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: dead in tombs
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The passage refers to dead men in tombs when the intellectual lamp is lighted.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: mirror
literal_form: world resembling a mirror
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: part and whole
literal_form: a part compared with the whole
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:3
label: grave
literal_form: grave
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:4
label: tomb
literal_form: hollow of the tomb; tombs containing dead men
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: intellectual lamp
literal_form: lamp lighted in the hour of intellect
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: eye, bud, mouth, rose
literal_form: eye shut like a bud; mouth open like the rose
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Whole and part teaching
summary: The speaker warns against closed perception and open speech among reprobates,
then presents the world as a mirror where Love is the perfect image and asks whether
a part can exceed the whole.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: The Divine Friend in the grave
summary: The Divine Friend speaks to the addressed person as a companion in the
grave, a voice heard in the tomb, and an inward presence like reason and intellect
during joy and sorrow.
figure_refs:
- fig:2
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: scene:3
label: The intellectual lamp and the dead
summary: The passage states that when the intellectual lamp is lighted, something
goes up from dead men in the tombs.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine beloved or divine friend as intimate companion
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The section title names the Divine Friend, and the speaker presents this
figure as a grave companion, inward presence, and constant watcher.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage uses the title 'Divine Friend' and the language of companionship
rather than a developed narrative of a beloved.
- id: motif:2
label: Wisdom or intellect as inner illumination
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker is identified with reason and intellect within the bosom, and
an intellectual lamp is said to be lighted.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is poetic and does not explicitly narrate instruction by a
wisdom figure.
- id: motif:3
label: Passage through death with continuing companionship
taxonomy_refs:
- afterlife_journey_map
basis: The addressed person is told of passing from shop and dwelling, having a
companion in the grave, and hearing a hail in the tomb.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage evokes death and tomb imagery but does not provide a detailed
afterlife itinerary or map.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 1180-1183
quote_or_summary: '"Beware! do not keep, in a circle of reprobates, / Thine eye
shut like a bud, thy mouth open like the rose."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 1184-1186
quote_or_summary: '"The world resembles a mirror: thy Love is the perfect image:
/ O people, who has ever seen a part greater than the whole?"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 1188-1190
quote_or_summary: '"Look on me, for thou art my companion in the grave / On the
night when thou shalt pass from shop and dwelling."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 1191-1193
quote_or_summary: '"Thou shalt hear my hail in the hollow of the tomb" and learn
"That thou wast never concealed from mine eye."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 1194-1196
quote_or_summary: '"I am as reason and intellect within thy bosom / At the time
of joy and gladness, at the time of sorrow and distress."'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 1198-1200
quote_or_summary: '"In the hour when the intellectual lamp is lighted, / What a
pears goes up from the dead men in the tombs!"'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used for evidence.
confidence:
extraction: medium
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based on a short poetic passage with abstract figures and probable
transcription irregularity in the final line. Motif candidates are limited to
taxonomy references directly supported by the passage wording.
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 does not itself make a comparison to another tradition, corpus, or motif family beyond the supplied taxonomy candidates.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg__l1180-l1200
passage_sha256=ed9c611122bc4ece9bdf2939359ed241c27ccbb5d29b9144ead62cb7b3291eed