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…ly it as to build An Argo. ARGUS. Yet I verily believe Such mind must pierce far deeper than these names, Seeking the very nature of the things Thou namest thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. say !1 Tell us what they THESEUS. Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS. You speak more wisely when you float away Into pure dream, and talk of mystic things That no man born of woman understands, And therefore does not dare to c…
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…(I think divinely) In name and form: a fault perhaps— Reviewers are such funny chaps! I think that ordinary folk, Though, understood the things I spoke. For Gods, and devils too, I find Are merely modes of my own mind! The poet needs enthusiasm ! Verse-making is a sort of spasm, Degeneration of the mind, And things of that unpleasant kind. VOL. Il. M Nothing. The Apotheosis of Realism and Idealism alike. Gayatri. Is ‘‘ The Soul of Osiris "’ a Hymn Book? How verse is written. Prayer,
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…y us; even its Un- knowability is a species of knowledge of it: and, by Savitri! when I say real Zo us, I say real absolutely, since all things lie to me in the radius of my sensorium. ‘‘ To others” is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysician, we will content ourselves with the simpler task of measuring our thoughts by the only stan- dard which is unquestio…
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…oble Eightfold Path, of which I propose to give a short resumé. First, however, of the goal. It may be readily syllogised : All existing things are (by nature, inevi- tably) subject to change. In Nirvana is no change. .'. No existing thing is or can be in Nirvana. Now here is the great difficulty; for this syllogism is perfectly sound, and yet we speak of attaining Nirvana, tasting Nir- vana, &c. [We must distinguish the Hindu Nirvana, which means Cessation of Existence in certain Lokas; never absolute Cessation, as the ’ Or International Buddh…
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…, 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. The desperate son and violent…
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
…curve, by Halley’s theorem, ellipses of the form or sin —, in which case the expression is unreal, w and may be neglected. 2 Two or more things cannot form part of any one thing, in so far as they remain two, Considered in relation to that of which they form part, they become fractions. 3 Cf. A. B, Douglas, Reminiscences. S. Fourth-dimensionally ; no more. M. Yet his right optic nerve will see through his left eye? S. Of course. Af. Then of an event, an argument, a dialectic euhemerism, protoplasmic or blasto- dermic? S. I see what you mean. Yo…
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… long-lost and central Arcanum of those divine philosophers. I have no serious objection to a finite god, or gods, distinct from men and things. In fact, personally, I believe in them all, and admit them to possess inconceivable though not infinite power. The Buddhists admit the existence of Maha-Brahma, but his power and knowledge are limited ; and his agelong day must end. I find evidence everywhere, even in our garbled and mutilated version of the Hebrew Scriptures, that Jehovah’s power was limited in all sorts of ways. At the Fall, for inst…
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…fter all just as much a part of the (non-exist- ing) universe as any other non- existing thing. We divide the universe into (1) Existing things. (2) Non-existing things. If 4 exists, the line must be zo?-4 - and vice versa. Which we know to be false. (b) It is true that there isa line, and that it does not exist, but— S. Let us settle (a) first, and return at leisure. You fail utterly to make the im- portant distinction between mere absence of line and presence of a non-existing line, which is as gross a fallacy as to argue that a man who has g…
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… back to our previous irritable agnosti- cism, and look for our Messiah elsewhere. But if we can see together on this one point, I think things will go fairly smoothly after- wards. Consider! Darkness !_ Can we philosophi- cally or actually regard as different the dark- ness produced by interference of light and that existing in the mere absence of light? Is Unity really identical with .9 recurring? Do we not mean different things when we speak respectively of 2 sine 60° and of 4/3? Charcoal and diamond are obviously dif- ferent in the categori…
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…tle fragrance of regret? For me, at least, a pang of perfect grief? Had it been otherwise, I would be chief And drive her to abandon all things yet In mere despair, that by-and-by shall get Young comfort in a babe beyond belief. God would not curse and bless us to such measure; We were not sad enough nor glad enough! A little time of misery and pleasure ;. Pain strangling half the ecstasy thereof— Such all our gain, who gained the utmost treasure, Gift of the wizard wand and cup of love. THE FORTY-SEVENTH DAY. ‘*Thou ever young, fresh, lov’d, a…
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24 ORACLES Stain not the planets, the unfathomed home, The spaceless, unformed faces in the dome Brighter and blacker than all things, Borne under the eternal wings No whither: solitary are the winter woods And caves not habited, And that supreme grey head Watching the groves: single the foaming amber floods, And O! most lone The melancholy mountain shrine and throne, While far above all things God sits, the ultimate alone ! Ill. I sate upon the mossy promontory Where the cascade cleft not his mother rock, But swept in whirlwind lightning foam …
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…lso a change: so that he cried, ‘Who then am I?’ And he saw that all this was sorrow. And he turned his thought without and saw that all things were alike in this; that nought might escape the threefold misery. ‘The soul,’ he said, ‘the soul, the I, is as all these; it is impermanent as the ephemeral flower of beauty in the water that is born and shines and dies ere sun be risen and set again.’ , ‘* And he humiliated his heart and sang the following verse : Brahma, and Vishnu, and great Shiva! Truly I see the Trinity in all things dwell, Some r…
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…r lady! So that our Father sank into deep sleep and dreamed a dream, and in that mirific dream it seemed unto him that the walls of all -things slid into and across each other, so that he feared greatly, for the stability of the universe is the great enemy; the unstable being the ever- lasting, saith Adhou Bin Aram, the Arab. O Elmen Zata, our Sophic Pilaster! Further in the dream there was let down from heaven a mighty tessaract, bounded by eight cubes, whereon sat a mighty dolphin having eight senses. Further, he beheld a cavern full of most …
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…RISTICS. 227" V. ‘“Now the great elephant strode with lordly footsteps in the forest, and Jehjaour shut himself up with his caldrons and things and felt quite happy, for he knew his danger was not near till the approaching of Perdu’ R Abu’s Arahatship. But in spite of the young gently-ambling cows which Ganesha took care to throw in his way, in spite of the tender shoots of green and the soft cocoanuts, this elephant was not as other elephants. The seasons spoke to him of change—the forest is ever full of sorrow— and nobody need preach to him t…
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…nthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true } In short, the mind is capable, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty other things as well, The first of which is concentration ! Here most philosophers agree ; Does truth Claim that the truth must so intend, make itself in- aes _ stanily appa- Explain at once all agony rent? Not Of doubt, make people comprehend reason.
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… 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 smoke Psychology still leaves. This question G55 Needs a more adequate digestion. Yet I may answer that the universe Of meditation suffers less From tui…
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…r bliss of truth. Beware Lest your lewd laughter set a snare For any! Thus and only thus Will I admit a difference *Twixt spirit and the things of sense. What is the quarrel between us ?- Why do our thoughts so idly clatter? — I do not care one jot for matter, | One jot for spirit, while you say One is pure ether, one pure clay. I’ve talked too long : you’re very good— Practical ad- I only hope you’ve understood ! vice. Remember that ‘‘ conversion ” lurks Nowhere behind my words and works. Go home and think! my talk refined To the sheer needs o…
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…th and Light and Peace and Love; deeper and deeper enmeshed in the net of Circumstance, bogged in the mire of Tanha! and Avigga? and all things base and vile. False Vichi-Kichi® had caught him at last ! XIII. ‘*Aye! The hour was at hand. Perdu’ R Abu was reincarnated as a child of Western parents, ignorant of all his wonder- ful past. But a strange fate has brought him to this village.” The Buddha paused, pro- bably for effect. A young man there, sole among all them not yet an Arahat, turned pale. He alone was of Western birth in all that multi…
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… you Scripture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he mentions Perhaps the best of his inventions, God. For, at first, this practice leads To holy thoughts (the holy deeds Precede success) and reverent gaze Upon the Ancient One of Days, Beyond which fancy lies the Truth. To find which I have left my youth, All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-gra…
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… externality, or no ;! whether or no we fly to the extreme idealistic position ; there is no question that, to our normal consciousness, things as they present themselves — apart from obvious illusion, if even we dare to except this—-are undisprovable to the immediate apprehen- sion. Whatever our reason may tell us, we act precisely as though Berkeley had never lived, and the herculean Kant had been strangled while yet in his cradle by the twin serpents of his own perversity and termi- nology. What criterion shall we apply to the relative reali…