The Scented Garden

92 The Mystic happier than his fellows. “ Theurgists fall not so as to be ranked among the herd that are in subjection to Fate.” Lyd. De men- sis. Taylor. 3. Once union with God is attained, the whole of life (or perhaps religion) becomes pleasant. 4. May perhaps refer to the “ horror of great darkness ” which comes, say the Mystics, to an As- pirant on the Threshold of Illumination. (We must beg students to observe that Major Lutiy seems to have written these notes in two moods, one in which he admits his own personal knowledge of, and identification with, mysticism ; the other in which (as here) he writes as a mere scholar.) 5. Obscure throughout, and the two last stan- zas seem quite inconsequential. They may have been transferred from another Ghazal by some presumptuous scribe. A. L. Yet if so where is the Takhallus ? Ed. 6. Identical with a phrase in Dhammapada, the Buddhist “ Book of Proverbs.”