Not such the pageant now, though not less proud; The creed and standard of the heaven-sent Chief. Though few his years, the West already knows a «The inhabitants of Bucharia wear a round cloth bonnet, shaped much after the Polish fashion, having a large fur border. They tie their kaftans about the middle with a girdle of a kind of silk crape, several times round the body."— Account of Independent Tartary, in Pinkerton's Collection. b In the war of the Caliph Mahadi against the Emperor Irene, for an account of which vide Gibbon, vol. x. Not he, that youthful warrior,—no, too well Full of those dreams of good that, vainly grand, False views, like that horizon's fair deceit, Where earth and heaven but seem, alas, to meet!— Soon as he heard an Arm Divine was raised On the white flag MOKANNA's host unfurled, In virtue's cause ;-never was soul inspired With livelier trust in what it most desired, This fettered world from every bond and stain, Low as young Azıм knelt, that motley crowd Then thus he spoke :-" Stranger, though new the frame "Nor think 'tis only the gross Spirits, warmed "With duskier fire and for earth's medium formed, a This wonderful Throne was called The Star of the Genii. For a full description of it, see the Fragment, translated by Captain Franklin, from a Persian MS. entitled "The History of Jerusalem," Oriental Collections, vol. i. p. 235.— When Soliman travelled, the Eastern writers say, "He had a carpet of green silk on which his throne was placed, being of a prodigious length and breadth, and' sufficient for all his forces to stand upon, the men placing themselves on his right hand, and the spirits on his left; and that when all were in order, the wind, at his command, took up the carpet, and transported it, with all that were upon it, wherever he pleased; the army of birds at the same time flying over their heads, and forming a kind of canopy to shade them from the sun."—Sale's Koran, vol. ii. p. 214, note. The transmigration of souls was one of his doctrines. Vide D'Herbelot. "That run this course;-Beings, the most divine, "Thus deign through dark mortality to shine. "Such was the Essence that in ADAM dwelt, "To which all Heaven, except the Proud One, knelt :a "Such the refined Intelligence that glowed d "In MOUSSA's frame,-and, thence descending, flowed "In many a maze descending, bright through all, Again, throughout th' assembly, at these words, Thousands of voices rung: the warriors' swords Were pointed up to heaven: a sudden wind In th' open banners played, and from behind a" And when we said unto the angels, Worship Adam, they all worshipped him except Eblis, (Lucifer,) who refused.” The Koran, chap. ii. b Moses. This is according to D'Herbelot's account of the doctrines of Mokanna :-"Sa doctrine étoit, que Dieu avoit pris une forme et figure humaine, depuis qu'il eut commandé aux Anges d'adorer Adam, le premier des hommes. Qu'après la mort d'Adam, Dieu étoit apparu sous la figure de plusieurs Prophètes, et autres grands hommes qu'il avoit choises, jusqu'à ce qu'il prit celle d'Abu Moslem, Prince de Khorassan, lequel professoit l'erreur de la Tenassukhiah ou Metempsychose; et qu'après la mort de ce Prince, la Divinité étoit passee, et descendue en sa personne.". d Jesus. Those Persian hangings, that but ill could screen “But these,” pursued the Chief, "are truths sublime, "That claim a holier mood and calmer time "Than earth allows us now ;-this sword must first "The darkling prison-house of Mankind burst, "Ere Peace can visit them, or Truth let in |