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1910 · PDF PAGE 50

The Scented Garden

…eny-bronze and slobbery. CARELENA — A long-beaked owl, very big, grey, with no feathers. LAMAMON — Has human feet, thin legs, and skinny body ; the head is huge and a goat’s ; the arms long and skinny. IGURIM — Has a crocodile’s head, a smooth fish’s body, with white belly. Long is its tail and tape-ring, and it hath no feet, but brownish fins. AKIUM — Is a long-bodied black sphinx. DORAK — Is a very misshapen monkey, of slate co- lour. The hands are very human, as also the ears. The body like a woman. TACHAN — A red pelican’s head, a shrunken …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 51

The Scented Garden

…ibles. BALFORI — A 7-pointed white star, with one point very long. AROLEN — Enormous green locust. ICROCHI — A Cat’s head, a dachshund’s body, a long tufted tail. Browny-yellow, dead-looking. NOMINON — A large red spongy jellyfish with one greenish luminous spot. Like a nasty mess. IAMAI — A small light crested yellow bird, iridescent under the throat. AROGOR — A black vulture with human ears, a very long beak, and very red eyes. HOLASTRI — An enormous pink bug. HACUMUBI — A monkey, black, with long hair and a white face. SAMALO — An altogether…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 153

The Scented Garden

…suali- 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 practice of the YONI-MUDRA. Let him place the semen on the left hand duct, and stop further intercourse. After a while, let him …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 38

The Scented Garden

30 Is the passion of man for man. Let him but taste the wine ! It grips him body and soul. Once and for all, Whatever befall, He is bound to the golden goal By the joy of his shuddering spine.” He will know that in the rites of sodomy duly done, even more than in the rites of heterosexual passion, lies the great secret of the Universe, the Key of the Gardens of God..... But I must not proselytize : many are called, but few chosen ; a sodomite is born, not made ; you can’t make a silk sodomite out of an English groc- er’s boy ; one sodomite does…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 143

The Scented Garden

…itable person to attack. Lord Curzon however very wisely met this manoevre by ordering the cre- mation of murderers of this type. If the body of a Musselman is burnt he cannot go to Paradise ; for the os coccygis, from which God will raise his body from the dust, is destroyed. But it would probably be waste of time to explain all this to Mr. Keir Hardie.

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The Scented Garden

… the all-glorious one, not daring to raise my eyes to yonder rosy shaft of Parian stone. The love in my heart melts all the winter of my body, and the warm salt spring gush from my eyes upon the ground — surely the latter spring shall see green violets grow thereon ! Then, in the hush of the sunset, come noiseless hoofs treading the enamelled turf ; and ere I know it a fierce lithe hairy body has gripped mine, and the dread wand of magic shudders it live way into my being, so that the foundations of my soul are shaken. The heavy breath and the …

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1910 · PDF PAGE 49

The Scented Garden

…mel-jinn3 And moons4 upon the winds that scud.5 The sun6 I saw ; and night borne up7 upon some dark eternal flood. Ay ! mine Habib ! thy body’s key Is like a scarlet poppy-bud. Strike in my bell thy clapper ; wake The cosmic echo in my blood ! For El Qahar thy beauty broods, Of thy perfections chews the cud. 1. [Persian text] Suli, an impaling stake. A rare word of Sanskrit origin. 2. Chokmah, the “ emanation ” referred to the Sphere of the Stars. 3. Geburah. Curiously reminiscent of Cazotte’s conception of Asmodai. There may be a pun be- tween…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 92

The Scented Garden

… would ; Shudder a little with a little fear, But yield thy podex to my lotus-wand, Giving some smile twin sister to a tear, Just as the body shudders3 when the soul Gives up to Allah, in its hot career, Identity ; impales its sunless self On to the splendour of that sunbright spear, And laughs and weeps, not knowing what it does, Entering the glowing rapture of the sphere Where He is manifestly all ; and all He ; where the I and Thou must disappear. We shall not know if thee I sodomize, Or if thou sodomizest me, my dear !

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1910 · PDF PAGE 104

The Scented Garden

96 Ecstasy overcometh Individuality. XXIV THE BLASPHEMER Hast thou never thought, O Habib of the athletic body, that when thou wrigglest thy velvet buttocks with immense vigour, and bitest hard with thy po- dex-muscle upon the member of El Qahar, that thou hast no remembrance of any circumstance connected with my personality or thine, but art completely absorbed by the act ? It causes me to remember an antient folly and blasphemy spoken to me — Allah purify mine ears ! — by a certain Sufi, who, being excessively drunk, had lost control over his…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 93

The Scented Garden

… is like the moon that shines upon The labouring Hajj,6 its camel-throned Emir.7 For like a column of innumerous men Doth serpentine his body ; he is here With hugs to break this breath, and with his mouth To stop the mouth of El Qahar the seer. 1. A river which flows by the ruins of Chilminar. 2. Cedar — dove’s down. By no means chosen at random ; symbolically chosen, or perhaps even because these substances have a reputed value in mystical practices. Apollonius of Tyana ( ? connec- tion with Dhyana) was accustomed to wrap himself completely i…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 36

The Scented Garden

…r seductive face still as ever the incarna- tion of one single never-ending scarlet kiss ? Will yours be the long pale hands to mould my body to your liking ; and yours the faithful, the unfailing member that never said me nay ?

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1910 · PDF PAGE 35

The Scented Garden

… talk, if thou have not felt one trem- bling foot seed thine, one hand steal near thee and yet nearer ? Till thou feel the tremor of his body ; till his hot breath stir thine hair ! Why, neither thou nor I can tell of that swift attack (is it a minute or an hour ?) when without word spoken the bonds of convention snap — hast thou seen a village, with its smug Swiss thieves, whelmed by the avalanche, the avalanche of elemental force, the avalanche of God ? Nay, I remember noth- ing ; I know I found myself naked in his naked arms, his giant membe…

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1910 · PDF PAGE 14

The Scented Garden

…fely acquitted of the sins of mysticism. The first couplet of the Ghazal is called the Matla’, or “ the place of rising ” (of a heavenly body), which we may translate the “ Opening.” It is a standard rule that both hemis- tichs of this couplet should have the same metre and rhyme. The remaining couplets must have the same metre, and the second hemistich of each (but

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