27/35 Only no one seemed to use it. Every creed has an esoteric side which is kept from the common herd. I struck this side in Constantinople. Now there is a very famous Turkish _shaka_ called _Kasredin_, one of those old half-comic miracle plays with an allegorical meaning which they call _orta oyun_, and which take a week to read. That tale tells of the coming of a prophet, and I found that the select of the faith spoke of the new revelation in terms of it. |