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PENTECOST 169 190 195 200 205 210 216 220 225 Why, in a word, I seek to gain A different knowledge. Why retain The husk of flesh, yet seek to merit The influx of the Holy Spirit? And, swift as caddies pat and cap a tee, Gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- Roic guerdon of Srotapatti ? With calm and philosophic mind, Our logical No fears, no hopes, devotions blind cna ioe a To hamper, soberly we'll state demonstrating The problem, and investigate erudition of In purely scientific mood poet. The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our…
1906 · PDF PAGE 146
…TTEMPTING TO BOYCOTT THIS BOOK HAVE WITLESSLY AIDED THE CAUSE OF TRUTH I DEDICATE THESE MY BEST WORDS [This book is so full of recondite knowledge of various kinds that it seems quite ineffective to annotate every obscure passage, this has been done.} ‘“You are sad!” the Knight said, in an anxious tone; ‘‘let me sing you a song to comfort you.” * ‘*Ts it very long?” Alice asked. ‘‘Tt’s long,” said the Knight, ‘‘ but it’s very very beautiful. .The name of the song is called ‘The Book of the Beast.’” ‘*Oh! how ugly!” cried Alice. ‘¢Never mind,” s…
1906 · PDF PAGE 117
…ere the nenuphar And hidden headlands loom again. Sleeps for her couch. All darkness dreams ‘The thing that is not, only seems. JASON. I know That star upon the serpent’s head Is called the soul of man : That light in shadows subtly shed The glamour of life’s plan. The sea whereon that lotus grows Is thought’s abyss of tears and woes. Leave Sirenusa ! Even Greece Forget ! they are not there! By worship cometh not the Peace, The Silence not by prayer ! Leave the illusions, life and time And death, and seek that star sublime— Until the lotus and …
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…ture, pawning youth For some strange guerdon (or its counter- foil) Gainless or not-to-be-gained, priestly or royal, Profane, canaille—I know not, in good sooth ! books, men, strength and I might do this: or else I might repose Wrapped in the urned leaves of my love’s blown rose, Seek her in spirit, and commune, and wait Her freedom and the rapture to enclose In my own house her beauty intimate. I am a fool, tossing a coin with Fate. If. Is love indeed eternal? Otherwise Is evolution an eternal plan? Must I move upward in the stream of Man, God…
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…gates That lead to the Beyond, not human force— Hardly the favour of the gods themsel ves— Shall stead him in that peril. CHORUS. Yet we know Courage may conquer all things. AEETES. Such a man Is greater than the gods ! CHORUS. If only he Know who he is—that all these gods and men And things are but the shadows of himself! AEETES. I cannot give you hope. Await the end. CHORUS. We fear indeed that in the trap Of wiles our king is taken. Lachesis shakes a careless lap And dooms divine awaken ! A desolate and cruel hap In this sad hour is shaken. …
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…and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are pleased to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely infer it.) Here’s a test ! What in your whole life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have h…
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…ing 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 o’erthrown J…
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… 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 Nothing—and choose to know instead. But, to that terror vague and dread, External worship ; all my lfe— War to the knife! War to the knife! No! on the other hand the Buddha Says: “I’m surprised at you! How coulda Person accept my law and still Use hat…
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…By some such means—lI have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x ,;* I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (‘tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perchance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So far at least. I must concede With reserva: . . * oe . tions. eus in Christ did attain in every deed ; machina. Pon- Yet, being an illiterate man, tius Pilate as a Not his to balance or to scan, Surrey Magis…
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…that it is stained; you, I think, should be wiser. It is the story of how the Israelites crossed the Red Sea. They were not drowned, you know (he seemed to lapse into a day-dream), and they came out on the Land of Promise side. But they had to descend therein.” ‘* They all died in the wilderness,” I said, feeling as if I understood this mystical talk, which, indeed, I did not. But I felt in- spired. ‘* Ay me, they died—as I am dying now.” He turned to the wall and sought a bundle of old writing on a shelf. ‘‘ Take this,” he said. ‘‘ Edit it as …
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…is, To Judge by philosophic criteria, My Lord Archbishop. The name of Winchester, Harrow, or Eton * makes them not two inches stir. They know not Trinity, Merton, or Christchurch ; They worship, but not at your back-pews-high-priced Church. ‘Tve seen them at twenty thousand feet On the ice, in a snow-storm, at night fall, repeat | Their prayers 73—will your Grace do as much for your Three As they do for their One? I have seen—may you see! They sleep and know not what a mat is ; Seem to enjoy their cold chapaties ;* Are healthy, strong—and some …
1906 · PDF PAGE 266
…ingenuity of scientific investi- gators. But no sane man has ever pre- tended, since science became a definite body of doctrine, that we know or ever can hope to know or conceive of the possibility of knowing, whence this mechanism has come, why it is there, whither it is going, and what there may or may not be beyond and beside it which our senses are incapable of appreciating. These things are not ‘explained’ by science, and never can be,”’ he gives a curious example of that quaint scientific pride which knows the limits of its powers, and re…
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…: ‘‘ There is a lifting of an arm.” By this terminology he avoids Teutonic discussions concerning the Ego and Non- ego.” But how does he know this proposi- tion to be true? By sensation. The fact is therefore: ‘* There is a sensation of the lifting of an arm.” But how does he know that? By percep- tion. Therefore he says: ‘“ There is a perception of a sensation, &c.” And why this perception? From the in- herent tendency. (Note carefully the determinist standpoint involved in the enunciation of this Fourth Skandha; and that it comes lower than V…
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…ge of that virgin was on this wise: She had three arrows, yet but two flanks, and the wise men said that who knew two was three,! should know three was cight,” if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my Brethren! And she gave him the great and perfect gift of Magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. Now at that great wedding was a Suggler,® a riddler: for he said, ‘‘ Thou hast beasts: I will give thee weapons one for one.” For the Lion did our Father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for…
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…the ceasing from existence is the ceasing of sorrow (the third); and you would seek in the fourth the Way, the Noble Eightfold Path. ‘‘T know, O Arahats, that you do not need this instruction: but my words will not stay here: they will go forth and illuminate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, where Arahats do not grow on every tree. Little brothers, the night is fallen: it were well to sleep.”’
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…at passeth understanding, that am [! Even I, perceiving deeply beneath the eyes of flame The soul that, kindling, is not kindled: I have known thy Name. Awake, O soaring billows! Lighten the raging dome, Wrap the wide horizon in a single cloak of flaming foam, Leap in your fury! Beat upon the shores unseen! Devour your food, The broken cliff, the crumbled bank, the bar. I know the mood. Even so I see the terror of universal strife : Murderous war, and murderous peace, and miserable life : The pang of childbirth, and the pain of youth, and the f…
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…oil of them In the pomegranate walks of Proser- pine !! THE FORTY-FIFTH DAY. ‘Peace, fool! I have not done.” Troilus and Cressida, THovu knowest, O Love, how tired our bodies grow Forgotten in quick converse, love to love ; How the flame flickers of the ghost above, The spirit’s kiss; the sleepless to-and-fro Movement of love’s desire too strong to know Or care for that it takes its substance of— As if life’s burden were not drear enough Or death’s deliverance not so far and slow. Our bodies almost perish, with one thought Crowned and completed…
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…ges of so doing, see the ap- pended Jataka story, which I have just trans- lated from a Cingalese Palm-leaf MS. See Appendix I. 228, You know for me, etc.*®8—See Huxley, Hume, 199, 200. 239. Spirit and matter are the same.*’—See Huxley's reply to Lilly. 273. ‘‘Lam notwhat Isee.” ®—In Memoriam. But see H. Spencer, ‘‘Principles of Psycho- logy,’ General Analysis, ch. vi. 281. ‘'' Tis lotused Buddha.” 39— “ Hark! that sad groan! Proceed no further ! Tis laurelled Martial roaring murther.” —BUuRNS, Epigram. But Buddha cannot really roar, since he h…
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…se at last. From father unto son it flees, An awful heritage of woe. Wives feel its cancerous prodigies Invade their wombs; the children know ' The inexpiable word, exhaust Not by a tenfold holocaust. Thus let mankind abase in fear Their hearts, nor sacrilege profane ‘The awful slumber of the seer, The dread adytum of the fane; Nor gain the mockery of a fleece, Losing reality of peace. Hail to wild Ares! Men, rejoice That He can thus avenge his shrine ! One solemn cadence of that voice Peal through the ages, shake the spine Of very Time, and pl…
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…‘Com- mentaries on Matthew and John.” 695. Direction x.°’— Vide supra, ‘* Ascension Day.” 710, Steel-tired °8— For Dunlop people did not know Those nineteen hundred years ago. 723. Super-consciousness.°°—The Christians also claim anecstasy. But they all admit, and indeed boast, that it is the result of long periods of worry and anxiety about the safety of their precious souls: therefore their ecstasy is clearly a diseased process. The Yogic ecstasy requires absolute calm and health of mindand body. It is useless and dangerous under other condit…