batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l1392-l1440
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-persian-mystics-rumi-davis-gutenberg-l1392-l1440
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
passage_locator:
label: THE DAY OF RESURRECTION / THE RETURN OF THE BELOVED / THE CALL OF THE BELOVED
/ THY ROSE; lines 1392-1440
start: '1392'
end: '1440'
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 presents a speaker as the beloved's rose, pressed into drops,
blossoming on the beloved's robe, and poured over the world. It then describes
winter, spring, Time, and a worm as weavers, and states that God set divine likeness
on all things. Later sections address the soul, describing Love as both enclosing
and liberating, the world as God's mirror, and love-moved souls circling toward
an Ocean King while natural and celestial figures respond to the beloved.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: The first-person speaker says the addressee crushes the speaker into drops
of rose and that the speaker does not complain under the press.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker says the addressee made the speaker blossom on the addressee's
robe and made the speaker a sign for all eyes.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: When the addressee pours the speaker on the world, the world is described
as blooming in divine beauty.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: Winter is described as weaving flakes into a robe of Death, and spring finds
the earth mourning, naked, lone, and bare.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Time's loom is heard weaving the Sun's dim veil, and a worm is seen weaving
its own lair out of life-threads.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker says the Great was seen as Smallest and the Smallest as Great
because God set His likeness on all existing things.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:7
text: The soul is addressed and told that to be free it should love the Love that
shuts it in.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: Love is described as twisting every snare and snapping the bond of sin.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:9
text: Love is described as sounding the Music of the Spheres and echoing through
Earth's harshest noise.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:10
text: The world is described as God's clear mirror when viewed by eyes free from
inner clouds and with Love's eyes.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:11
text: Love-moved souls are described as circling like streams toward a great Ocean
King.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:12
text: The addressee is called the Sun of all men's thoughts; the addressee's kisses
are called the flowers of spring.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:13
text: The dawn is pale from yearning love, the moon is in tears, and nightingales
sing in sighs for the rose-like addressee.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: First-person speaker as Rose
description: A first-person speaker identifies with a rose that is crushed, made
to blossom on the addressee's robe, and poured onto the world.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Second-person addressee / beloved
description: A powerful second-person addressee crushes, commands blossoming, pours
the rose on the world, and is later called the Sun of men's thoughts and the Rose
for whom nightingales sing.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: God
description: God is named as the one who set His likeness on all things and whose
clear mirror is the world.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Love
description: Love is personified as enclosing, making snares, breaking sin's bond,
sounding cosmic music, and providing eyes with which to view the mirror.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Soul addressed
description: The soul is directly addressed and instructed about freedom through
loving Love.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Love-moved souls
description: Souls moved by love are described as circling onward like streams toward
an Ocean King.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Winter, spring, Time, and worm as weavers
description: Winter, Time, and a worm are described as weaving, while spring encounters
earth in mourning.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: transformed rose-speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker identifies as the addressee's rose and undergoes pressing, blossoming,
and pouring.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: beloved addressee and transforming agent
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressee commands the rose to blossom, pours it on the world, and is
praised with solar and floral imagery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: role:3
label: divine source of likeness and mirror
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: God places divine likeness on all things and the world is called God's mirror.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: binding and liberating force
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Love both shuts in and frees, twists snares and snaps the bond of sin.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: recipient of spiritual instruction
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The soul is directly told how it may be free.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:6
label: circling seekers
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The love-moved souls circle onward like streams to an Ocean King.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:7
label: cosmic and natural weavers
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Winter, Time, and a worm are each described through acts of weaving.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Rose
literal_form: Rose
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- id: sym:2
label: Press and drops of rose
literal_form: press, drops of Rose
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: Robe
literal_form: robe of the beloved; robe of Death
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: World blooming in divine beauty
literal_form: world blooming after the rose is poured upon it
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:5
label: Weaving and loom
literal_form: winter weaving, Time's loom, worm weaving
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:6
label: Mirror of God
literal_form: world as God's pure mirror
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:7
label: Music of the Spheres
literal_form: Music of the Spheres
associated_figures:
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:8
label: Streams and Ocean King
literal_form: streams flowing or circling toward a great Ocean King
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:9
label: Sun
literal_form: Sun's dim Veil; Sun of all men's thoughts
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
- id: sym:10
label: Dawn, moon, and nightingales
literal_form: pale dawn, weeping moon, singing nightingales
associated_figures:
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Rose transformed and poured on the world
summary: The rose-speaker is pressed into drops, accepts the painful transformation,
blossoms on the beloved's robe as a sign, and is poured on the world, which then
blooms in divine beauty.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Winter, Time, and worm weaving
summary: Winter weaves a deathly robe from flakes, spring finds earth bare and mourning,
Time's loom weaves a veil for the Sun, and a worm weaves a lair out of life-threads.
figure_refs:
- fig:7
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:5
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Love binds, frees, and reveals the mirror
summary: The addressed soul is told to love Love, which both encloses and frees,
sounds cosmic music, and allows the world to be viewed as God's clear mirror.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Love-moved souls and cosmic yearning
summary: Souls moved by love circle like streams toward an Ocean King; the beloved
is described with sun, spring, rose, dawn, moon, and nightingale imagery.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Divine beloved as transforming addressee
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: A second-person beloved transforms the rose-speaker through pain, displays
it as a sign, pours it on the world, and is praised with sun and rose imagery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The passage addresses a beloved in devotional language, but it does not
explicitly identify every second-person address with God.
- id: motif:2
label: Painful transformation into divine sign
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The speaker is crushed into rose drops, forgets pain within the beloved's
sweet pain, and becomes the beloved's visible sign.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: medium
cautions: The motif-family assignment is interpretive; the literal passage gives
transformation and belonging to the beloved but does not use doctrinal terminology.
- id: motif:3
label: Seasonal death and renewal imagery
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
- seasonal_cycle
basis: Winter weaves a robe of Death, spring arrives to a mourning earth, and later
the beloved's kisses are called flowers of spring.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage uses seasonal images, but it does not narrate a complete death-and-rebirth
episode.
- id: motif:4
label: Cosmic divine likeness in all things
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker sees reversals between Great and Smallest because God has set
divine likeness on all things; the world is also called God's clear mirror.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage supports a wisdom or contemplative pattern, but the taxonomy
link is broad.
- id: motif:5
label: Liberation through Love's paradoxical bond
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: The addressed soul is told that freedom comes by loving the Love that encloses
it, and Love both makes snares and breaks the bond of sin.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: high
cautions: The passage presents instruction to the soul but not a full quest narrative.
- id: motif:6
label: Return of souls to an oceanic source
taxonomy_refs:
- return
basis: Love-moved souls circle like streams toward their great Ocean King.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The image suggests return or movement toward a source, but the passage
does not explicitly state origin or final arrival.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 1392-1401, THY ROSE
quote_or_summary: The speaker identifies as the beloved's rose, is crushed into
drops under a press, blossoms on the beloved's robe as a sign, and is poured on
the world so it blooms in divine beauty.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 1403-1410, I SAW THE WINTER WEAVING
quote_or_summary: Winter weaves a robe of Death from flakes; spring finds earth
mourning; Time's loom weaves the Sun's dim veil; a worm weaves its lair; God has
set His likeness on all things.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 1412-1425, LOVE SOUNDS THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
quote_or_summary: The soul is told to love Love in order to be free; Love shuts
in, twists snares, snaps sin's bond, sounds the Music of the Spheres, and enables
the world to be seen as God's mirror.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 1427-1440, THE SOULS LOVE-MOVED
quote_or_summary: Love-moved souls circle like streams toward an Ocean King; the
addressee is called the Sun of men's thoughts, associated with spring flowers,
and praised as the Rose for whom nightingales sing.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/persian-mystics-rumi-davis.md
rights_note: Public domain source; concise summary used.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is based directly on the supplied passage. Motif-family
assignments are cautious because the passage is lyric and metaphorical rather
than narrative. No comparison claims were added because the passage itself does
not provide explicit cross-textual comparison.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage and metadata. Taxonomy references are limited to supplied motif families and symbol list.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
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