/lit/ - Literature

I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Gabr, nor Moslem.
I am not of the East, nor of the West, nor of the land, nor of the sea;
I am not of Nature's mint, nor of the circling' heaven.
I am not of earth, nor of water, nor of air, nor of fire;
I am not of the empyrean, nor of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity.
I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin.
I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one;
One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.
He is the first, He is the last, He is the outward, He is the inward;
I know none other except God.

~ Rumi, from Dirani Shams

In Idries Shah's "Caravan of Dreams" (1968), we read as a preface to a tale called "The Bees and the Hollow Tree":

>This is a favourite tale of Balkan dervishes. It is attributed to Sayed Jafar (died 1598 in Ephesus) who was a successor of Ibrahim Gulshani of Cairo, who founded the Gulshani Order, a combination of the Four Paths of Sufism. He died in 1553.

Jafar is popularly believed to have ‘visited the stars’, as a sort of precursor to today’s spacemen, in a luminous chariot without perceptible motive-power. The Gulshanis handed back their metaphysical endowment ‘in a brass, silver and copper casket’ to the Azamia (‘Greater’) Brethren in the seventeenth century, retaining, it is said, only the powers of obtaining interviews with certain historical figures long dead.

Now if you've gotten deep enough into this rabbit-hole, maybe you, random reader on /lit/, might have your mind blown by this strange idea: to become an ultraterrestrial is the way to make oneself fit for contact with *extraterrestrial* life, as referred to in the Book of Enoch, as OP talks about, and as were referred to in the Scriptures as things like the Star of Bethlehem, Ezekiel's vision of the chariot, etc. -- obviously analogous to modern accounts of UFOs. It's to become a magical person living a strange far-out life as opposed to just another normal asshole. But hey, I'm a drug-addled schizo writing just another Guenonian post on /lit/, right?

I'm gonna leave a link to this in the off-hand chance that it might blow a few people's minds.

https://absolutoracle.com/SufiMaster/Articles2/TheGulshaniOrder.htm