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1910 · PDF PAGE 89

The Scented Garden

…ainful manner, while I beat her with whips of hide. So that she became unconscious ; and her repu- tation was of chastity and prudence.4 Therefore, as to-night is full moon, I will ac- quaint thee with a certain cherry-tree that hangs over a cool reach of Ruknabad. Under its blossom we will sit in our boat and listen to the water. Go therefore and anoint thee with rose ; and besmear thy podex with jasmine mixed with ambergris in oil5 ; for not until the dawn breaks will El Qahar withdraw his member.6

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1910 · PDF PAGE 31

The Scented Garden

…cent, too hopeful of mankind, that ye did proclaim your pearly gos- pel to the swinish multitude ! The old law, silence, is the master : therefore whoso looketh for my name, let him find it darkling in these lines of power ! R. is the Father, W. the Son, And E. the Holy Spirit, three and one : But if they esoterically are read My equal name shall glitter out instead. Yes ! we must not sing hymns to Pan to- day : we must pretend to be German professors, with a keen scientific interest in these very re- markable phenomena which look so much like …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 142

The Scented Garden

… thy podex heaven and life2 together might be thrown away ; and all per- fections of Allah are nor worth one perfection of thy podex. He therefore who would attain to merge his member therein offers nothing, but on the contrary employs to the best advantage whatever he hath, though in the Pursuit he forgetteth that he hath it, not valuing it. To him who so acts the Attainment of thy bed is certain. It is only necessary to have seen thy buttocks agitated in walking beneath thy tunic for a wise man to abandon all other pursuits.3 All this hath El…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 154

The Scented Garden

…wers at the same time enjoy- ing all the innumerable enjoyments of the world. 66. This Yoga can be practised along with much enjoyment ; therefore the Yogi should practise it. 67. There are two modifications of the VAJROLI, called Sahajoni, and Amarani. By all means let the Yogi preserve the semen. 68. If at the time of copulation, the vindu is forcibly emitted, and there takes place an union of the sun and moon, then let him absorb this mix- ture through the tube of the male organ. This is Amarani. 69. The method by which the vindu on the poin…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 57

The Scented Garden

… 80 from the one-eyed man ; but when the hunchback arrives, say Allah help us ! ” 6. Bukhti is the two-humped camel of Bac- tria. Ali is therefore the fellow’s name ; Bukhti his laqab or nickname — which none escape.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 153

The Scented Garden

…ed, if he prac- tices the VAJROLI-MUDRA. 55. This VAJROLI-YOG practice, gives emanci- pation even when one is immersed in sensuali- ty ; therefore it should be practised by the Yogi with great care. 56. First let the talented practitioner introduce into his own body, according to the proper me- thods, the germ-cells from the female organ of gen- eration, by suction up through the tube of the meatus urinarius ; restraining in his own semen, let him practise copulation. If by chance the se- men begins to move, let him stop its emission by the pra…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 30

The Scented Garden

… less lust of gold, the infamous toil of coynte, coun- ter and countinghouse. They understand us only enough to know that we are happy ; therefore they hate us ; therefore as they spat on Christ, forsaken of all but John, his sweet-voiced catamite, so does the cur to-day spit in the face of Oscar Wilde, as he goes from the judge to the prison.

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1910 · PDF PAGE 116

The Scented Garden

… Hell, from Hope sprang Heaven ; From Love our Ecstasy untold.2 Those are delusions, slow to live, This hath no death, the iron-souled. [Therefore the podex of Habib To pierce am I, thy lover, bold.]3 Only from weariness of love Was death’s unholy camel foaled.4

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1910 · PDF PAGE 59

The Scented Garden

…h them, Allah hung them by their heels in a well at Babylon, where they wile away the time by giving magical instruction. The mean- ing, therefore, (argal !) of the whole passage is that unredeemed (i.e. uninitiated) man, however ordina- rily devout, is liable to become a sorcerer ! I cannot help thinking that Mahbub must have been hung up by his heels at one time ; nobody could ever think all that out right way up !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 118

The Scented Garden

… it be mirage, is truer than truth, if it be truth. Nothing can shake thee in love, any more than any affliction touches the Sufi. It is therefore of no service that I restore to thy sweet podex its accus- tomed guest. Whether it be there or not, it is there for thee2 ; so that thou wilt never again bemoan thy- self, saying : “ Give me my Nubian ! for without stiffness is the contemptible member of El Qahar the sage.” 1. I have seen such women in Tehuantepee, Moharbhanj, and other places. But even an Eng- lish woman acquires the human figure if…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 95

The Scented Garden

…thou didst present to the besotted fellow that poxy podex with its heaped haemorrhoids, like a well whose wall has been broken down. Now therefore that ass-membered one — Allah forget him !—is very sick. Neither from his nose nor from his member will men be able to read that he is a Jew,3 O beloved one with a nose like a rose- tinted ivory statue and a member like a young al- mond tree in blossom ! for both are dropped off. Beware, if thou ridest in the bazaar, that thou dost not hurt the good Qazi, the just one, the in- corruptible one, the wi…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 70

The Scented Garden

…iz1 Of what have I sung, Habib ? Of thy love. Of what do I sing now ? Of thy faithlessness. Thy presence or absence makes no difference, therefore, to me. In the same way, whether Allah be or be not is little odds so long as His devotees enjoy the mystic rapture.2 Yet as the podex of Aziz is inferior to thy podex,3 both because it has two fistulae, and because it lacks thy heat, dryness, and tightness, so also is the god of the Christians inferior to Allah, both be- cause he has two cogods, and because he hath nei- ther the power, the wisdom, n…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 140

The Scented Garden

…mistake in this. 1. After this ode the “ secret key-number ” breaks down. It is said that there are five odes missing. But no doubt need therefore be cast upon the genuineness of the following odes. Some weight is to be given to the contention that there can be only 42 odes, neither more nor less, for mystical reasons. Their Persian dress I cannot learn ; but the Egyptians knew 42 Gods who purify the soul ; and the Jews speak of the “ Revolution of the 42-fold Name of the Palaces of Yetzirah ” — the world which should invade and redeem this ma-…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 74

The Scented Garden

…hou poutest, bemoan- ing thy Nubian that I have not his vigour. Thou whose podex has become like the twat of one sixty years an whore !4 Therefore, I will put thee in my harem for the fil- thy slut thou art ; the eunuchs shall beat thee soundly before the women ; and this night I will go in to Laila,5 whom most thou hatest of all my con- cubines. While thou wast away, I wooed thee with soft words and lamentations ; now I have my will of thee, I will treat thee with great severity. So also doth Allah entreat kindly the wicked ; and upon the just…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 146

The Scented Garden

…s he within thee like the sun at noon, assuaging thy desire. My member pardoneth the imperfections of thy podex ; worthy of thanks is he therefore, being ex- alted within thee, like a tower of ivory and gold, assuaging thy desire. Great and strong is my member, and protecteth thy podex from his rivals3 ; he exposeth it, and numbereth his emissions, each like the spray of a fountain, assuaging thy desire. [persian] Ha Glorious is this member of mine and generous of pearly dew ; beholding the heart of thy podex, like the sunset watching for the f…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 60

The Scented Garden

…e in the Almighty !2) as having two podices like suns on the horizon in a duststorm ; and four buttocks, shaking in a con- fused manner. Therefore I did take council with Husein-i-Abdal1 as to what it were fitting to do ; and he bade me look upon my member, whether it were one or two. Now then my eyes gave the lie to my hand ; but rushing upon thee like a bull, I did pe- netrate to the core of thy being ; and great joy overcoming me I fell down, assured that there was but one. Thus it is with the unbeliever3 and his three gods ; but whoso knowe…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 157

The Scented Garden

…the Brahminical (or post-Fichtean) metaphysic, in which an Absolute is reached by denying to it all possible predicates as thinkable and therefore derogatory. Even when one retorted, “ He is then Unthinkable ” the wary Rabbi would reply, “ Neither Thinkable nor Un- thinkable.” You can’t win ; but you don’t want to play any more ! All this is far, far indeed from the true practical Qabalah, which contents itself with leading the student to the next stage, which teaches the ani- mal to think, the thinker to aspire, the aspirant to wisdom, and cro…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 84

The Scented Garden

…t [Persian text] but the Hebrew ב. Ed.) means house, and connotes (says Mahbub) a great Magus — “ The Magus of Power.” The passage means therefore that mystic Union is the key to Practical Magic. 3. This sort of individualization of ideas is common in Eastern literature. We had a bad attack of it ourselves with Thomas Haines Bayley and Co. “ Though Custom may frown upon Boyhood and Beauty, And Ethics take counsel with Prudence and Breeding, Morality smiles “ But if Patience be Duty, Should Courage lament, or Repentance lie bleeding ? ” And so t…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 43

The Scented Garden

… Corinth ! God gave me Daphne ; I won Hyacinth.” All our modern devices, though applications of na- ture, are against and above nature ; therefore of God. Nature’s man is the cave-man. We take no paternal pride in the pariah dog, the product of Nature ; in the highly bred setter, the product of man’s genius applied to nature’s very raw material, through centuries and chiliads of struggle, we do. There is no poetry in the panting Puritan prone on his puffing and perspiring Priscilla : the love of Adrian and Antinous is a monument for all ages. I…

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The Scented Garden

…e scholars and paederasts who have previously enlarged on this fascinating topic : the style is impassioned and the matter impeccable. I therefore turn my readers over to it without further parley, for I feel that they must be (by this time) thoroughly tired of the prosing of one who is after all not a writer, but a soldier. [In deference to the wishes of the widow of the gallant soldier who penned these lines, and gave his life to his country in S. Africa, we do not carry out his intention of attaching his name to them (during her lifetime) an…

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