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… dis- missed, not with a jest, but with a warning. Poet yawns. cum ! Now who dares Call me no Christian? And, who cares? Read ; you will find the Master of Balliol, Discarding Berkeley, Locke, and Paley, ’Il Resume such thoughts and label clear “My Christianity lies here !” With such religion who finds fault? Stay, it seems foolish to exalt Religion to such heights as these, Refine the actual agonies To nothings, lest the mystic jeer ‘‘ So logic bends its line severe Back to my involuted curve !” These are my thoughts. I shall not swerve. Take …
1906 · PDF PAGE 11
…ngry sunset, Murk is the even grey, Ileavy the clouds that hover Over our Hell to-day. “¢* Say, in our dark Gomorrah, Lord, can an angel find Fifty, but fifty, righteous— Body—I say not Mind.” Sadly the angel turneth— ‘* Stay, ere thou fleest, stay ; Canst thou not find me twenty?” ‘‘ Nay” is the answer, ‘‘ nay.” ‘* Are there not ten, bright spirit, Hidden, nor quickly seen, Somewhere in Hell’s dark alleys, Somewhere in Walham Green? ‘‘ Speak, for I see thy forehead Sadden in dark denial, Is there not one that standeth Tempter and longsome tria…
1906 · PDF PAGE 186
…ked ! But I remember and reflect , 640 That anger makes a person blind, And my own “ Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. Objectivity of But then you argue, and with sense ; 645 universe not ‘‘T have this worthy evidence discussed. That things are real, since I cease The painter’s ecstasy of peace, And find them all unchanged.” To-day I cannot brush that doubt away ; 650 It leads to tedious argument Uncertain, in the best event : Unless, indeed, I should invoke The fourth dimension, clear the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 183
…will not avail? Aum! Let us meditate aright °° On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri! So may She Tliume our minds! So mote it be! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace him oiled and cleaned By the Egyptian Pantheon, The same thing by another name. Thus when oflate Egyptian Gods Evoked ecstatic periods In verse of mine, you thought I praised Or worshipped them—I sta…
1906 · PDF PAGE 185
…his remarks upon the Rational piano, and the conclusions to whi: An explanation different For this particular event. Though surely I may find it queer That you should talk of self-hypnosis, When your own faith so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense . And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinions, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are pleased to te…
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
…G Fact replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware, For I speak subtly. Resultsof prac- tice. ‘The poet abandons all to find ‘Truth. Known as I know my consciousness, That all division’s hosts confess A master, for I know and see The absolute identity Of the beholder and the vision. How easy to excite derision In the man’s mind! Why, fool, I think { am as clever as yourself, At least as skilled to wake the elf Of jest and mockery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…l that we are from mind results, on mind is founded, built of mind. Who acts or speaks with righteous thought, him happiness doth surely find. So failing not, the shadow falls for ever in its place assigned. ‘“Me he abused and me he beat, he robbed me, he defeated me.” In whom such thoughts find harbourage hatred will never cease to be. ‘‘Me he abused and me he beat, he robbed me, he defeated me.” In whom such thoughts no harbourage may find, will hatred cease to be. ‘‘ The state of hate doth not abate by hate in any clime or time, But hate wil…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
…s to ourselves the good direction of the mind. IV. FLOWERS. O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s ! power ! Who find the well taught Path as skill of herbist finds the proper flower? 1 Hades plus Minos; he both rules and judges the dead, according to Hindu mytho- logy. The seeker shall subdue this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s power; The seeker find that Path as skill of t herbist finds the proper flower. Like unto foam this body whoso sees, its mirage-nature comprehends aright, Breaking dread Mara’s flower-point…
1906 · PDF PAGE 123
…STIS. Nought but moist smoke springs up. MEDEA. Alas! for me! All is but lost. ALCESTIS. Canst thou do anything? What ! Shall the hunter find his joy abroad, And sorrow in his house? MEDEA. Thy very hearth Polluted with the old man’s blood ! ACASTUS. What blood ? Answer me, woman ! MEDEA. To thy knees, false hound, Fawning to snap! ACASTUS. What misery, pale slaves, Lament ye? CHORUS. Ah! the ill omen! Ah, the day! Alcestis hath her sire in error slain. ACASTUS. Sister ! ALCESTIS. O brother, bear thine anger back ! ACASTUS. Speak ! ALCESTIS. Ah…
1906 · PDF PAGE 51
DHAMMAPADA 45 The truth that ‘‘ here we all must die” those others do not comprehend ; But some perceiving it, for them all discords find.an utter end. Sodden ! with passion, unrestrained his senses (such an one we see), Immoderate in the food of sense, idle and void of energy : Him surely Mara ? overcomes, as wind throws down the feeble tree. Careless of passion, well restrained his senses, such an one we find Moderate in pleasure, faithful, great in mighty energy of mind: Him Mara shakes not ; are the hills thrown down by fury of the wind? He…
1906 · PDF PAGE 217
…se. Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic key to an entire line of philosophical argument. If the reader chooses, in short, he will find the entire mass of Initiated Wisdom between the covers of this unpretending volume.
1906 · PDF PAGE 198
…poken of by the prophet Milton ! * This is the horn of the prophet Zeruiah, and with this am I, though no Syrian, utterly pushed, till I find myself back against the dead wall of Dogma. Only now realising how dead a wall that is, do I turn and try the effect of a hair of the dog that bit me, till the orthodox ‘‘literary+ school of Buddhists, as grown at Rangoon, exclaim with Lear: ‘‘ How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have an in- tellect!’’ How is this? Listen, and hear! I find myself confronted with the crux: that, a Buddhist, convinc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 176
…me ” Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like: I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own Non-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; | With Hegel and—the Christian? téach That which completes, includes, absorbs Both mighty unrevolving orbs. In one informing masterless Master-idea of consciousness— All differences as these indeed Are chess play, conjuring. “ Proceed !”…
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
… these Germans said : “Ekam Advaita!” one, not two! Thus East and West from A to Z Agree—Alas: so do not you? (It matters nothing—you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind.) As far as normal reasoning goes, Mind’ssuperior I must admit my concepts close functions. Exactly where my worthy friend, Great Mansel, says they ought to end. But here’s the whole thing in a word: Olympus in a nutshell! | Jdave a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true } In short, the mind is capable,…
1906 · PDF PAGE 169
…t Saith (silent, to himself, apart) This secret: “ obs Pe? 9 See the good Psalm! And thus, my friend ! My diatribes approach the end And find us hardly quarrelling. And yet—you seem not satisfiedP The literal mistranslated thing © Must not by sinners be denied. Go to your Chapel then to pray ! (I promise Mr. Chesterton % Before the Muse and I have done A grand ap-pre-ci-a-ti-on . Of Brixton on Ascension Day.) He’s gone—his belly filled enough ! Future plans of This Robert-Browning-manqué stuff ! poet. Jesus ’Twill serve—Mercutio’s scratch !—to …
1906 · PDF PAGE 175
…rating The problem, and investigate erudition of In purely scientific mood poet. The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our steel to find Whereby those brazen nails subdued Against our door-posts may in vain Ring. We'll examine, to be plain, By logic’s intellectual prism The spiritual Syllogism. We know what fools (only) call Whether or Divine and Supernatural not spirit and And what they name material tinct, Tet us in Are really one, not two, the line vestigate the By which divide they and define fundamental necessities of Being a shadowy …
1906 · PDF PAGE 160
…ng My hand down on this table- thing,*! And that commotion widens thus And shakes the nerves of Sirius ! To calculate one hours result I find surpassing difficult ; 380 385 390 395 400 405 410 415
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…he individual case allows Some chance to operate, and thus Destroys its value quite for us. So that is why I knit my brows And think—and find no thing to say Or do, so foolish as to pray. “So much for this absurd affair ” About ” validity of prayer. But back! Let once again address Our minds to super-consciousness ! You weary me with proof enough That all this meditation stuff Is self-hypnosis. Be it so! Do you suppose I did not know? Still, to be accurate, I fear The symptoms are entirely strange. If I were hard, I’d make it clear That critici…
1906 · PDF PAGE 153
… in England Christ still stands With iron nails in bloody hands -Not pierced, but grasping ! to hoist high Children on cross of agony, I find him real for English lives. Up with my pretty pair of fives ! # I fight no ghosts. “But why revile ” (You urge me) ‘“‘in that vicious style The very faith whose truths you seem (Elsewhere) * to hold, to hymn supreme In your own soul?” Perhaps you know How mystic doctrines melt the snow Of any faith : redeem it to A fountain of reviving dew. So I with Christ : but few receive The Qabalistic Balm,*® believe…
1906 · PDF PAGE 168
…tians live and look the lie Their faith has taught them: none of these Inspire my life, disturb my peace. I go beneath the outward faith Find it a devil or a wraith, Just as my mood or temper tends! And thus to-day that “ Christ ascends,” I take the symbol, leave the fact, Decline to make the smallest pact With your creative Deity, And say: The Christhood-soul in me, Risen of late, is now quite clear Even of the smallest taint of Earth. Supplanting God, the Man has birth (“ New Birth” you'll call the same, I fear,) Transcends the ordinary spher…