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From the heart of the lovers, blood\xa0flows like a vast river. Our body isthe windmill, and love, the water.Without water the mill cannot turn.\u2015Jal\u0101l ad-D\u012bn Muhammad R\u016bm\u012b, Hidden Music\nAli ibn Ubayd said, \u201cYahya ibn Muadh wrote to Abu Yazid, \u2018I am intoxicated with how much I have drunk from the cup of love.\u2019\xa0 Abu Yazid wrote back to him, \u2018Someone else has drunk the oceans of the heavens and the earth and his thirst is not yet quenched.\xa0 His tongue is hanging out and he is asking, 'Is there any more?\u2019"\xa0\u2015Al-Risalah: Principles of Sufism, Al-Qushayri\nThe blossoming of spirituality and the development of the consciousness is founded upon divine eroticism and\xa0the creative sexual energy: the most potent force available in the universe.\xa0This lecture elaborates upon the spiritual, symbolic, and erotic language of the Sufis, or how the soul achieves unification with the divine through the union of husband and wife. \xa0Learn also about the secret meaning of the Wedding of Cana, Jesus' instructions to Nicodemus regarding the second / spiritual birth, and the teachings of Bacchus / Dionysus through Mozart's Opera:\xa0The Abduction from the Seraglio.