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…or 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 of your own mind. You cannot bring God in the compass Of human …
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
… to Nibbana? come at last, the incom- parable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of |. that concentred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by self- restraint, by suffering long, Let the wise man an island build against the fatal current strong. Fools follow after vanity, those men of evil wisdonr’s sect ; But the wise man doth earnestness, a precious talisman, protect. Follow not vanity, nor seek the transient pleasures of the sense : The e…
1906 · PDF PAGE 176
…d Christi- anity. , Dhyana and Hinduism. Sammasa- madhi and Buddhism. — You know for me the soul is nought “6 Save a mere phantom in the thought, That thought itself impermanent, Save as a casual element With such another may combine To form now water and now wine ; The element itself may be Changeless to all eternity, But compounds ever fluctuate With time or space or various state. (Ask chemists else!) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same ” Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’…
1906 · PDF PAGE 45
…of slaves, Leaving no shadow where they drooped, No echo in the architraves As silent as the grave’s. That shape vibrated to the tune Of thought lulled low; the stirless swoon Half felt its fellow gather close, Yet stirred not: now the intruder moves, Turns the tune slowlier to grave rows Of palm trees, losing life in loves Less turbid than the mildest dream That ever stirred the stream Whereon night floats, a shallop faint, Ivory and silver bow and beam, Dim-figured with the images Divinely quaint Of gold engraved, forth shadowing sorceries. S…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
DHAMMAPADA 47 Moving alone, far-travelling, bodiless, hidden i th’ heart, who trains His thought and binds it by his will shall be released from Mara’s chains. Who stills not thought, nor knows true laws; in whom distraction is not dumb, Troubling his peace of mind; he shall to perfect knowledge never come. His thoughts concentred, unperplexed his mind renouncing good and ill Alike, for him there is no fear if only he be watchful still. Knowing this body to be frail, making this thought a fortalice, do thou aright Mara with wisdom’s shaft assai…
1906 · PDF PAGE 183
… is, have conquered and made still Mind’s lower powers by utter Will. It may be that pure Nought will fail Quite to assuage the needs of thought ; But—who can tell me whether Nought Untried, will or 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 …
1906 · PDF PAGE 248
…directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not already finished mental athletes. By act, word, and thought, both in quantity and quality, the one object of the ceremony is being constantly indicated. Every fumiga- tion, purification, banishing, invocation, evocation, is chiefly a reminder of the single purpose, until the supreme moment arrives, and every fibre of the body, every force- channel of the mind, is strained out in one overwhelming rush of the Will in the direc- tion desired. Such is the real purp…
1906 · PDF PAGE 177
…urther !” ?” Nibbana is the state above you Christians and them Hindus—Lord love you !—- Where Nothing is perceived as such. This clever thought doth please me much. But if das Essen ist das Nichts— Ha! Hegel’s window! Ancient Lichts! And two is one and one is two— ‘** Bother this nonsense! Go on, do !” My wandering thoughts you well recall ! I focus logic’s perfect prism : Lo! the informing syllogism ! The premiss major. Life at best Is but a sorry sort of jest ; At worst, a play of fiends uncouth, Mocking the soul foredoomed to pain. In any c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 166
… the very crystals feel !— 620 For them no harp-resounding court, No palm, no crown, but none the less A cross, be sure! The worst man’s thought In hell itself, bereft of bliss, Were less unmerciful than this! 625 No! for material things, I hear, Will burn away, and cease to be— (Nibbana! Ah! Thou shoreless Sea !) Man, man alone, is doomed to fear, To suffer the eternal woe, 630 Or else, to meet man’s subtle foe, God—and oh! infamy of terror! Be like him—like him! And for ever! At least I make not such an error: My soul must utterly dissever — …
1906 · PDF PAGE 259
…f the breath.” ‘‘ There is an expiration,” &c. Or, walking, ‘‘ There is a raising of the right foot,” and so on, just as it happens. The thought is of course not quick enough to note all the movements or their subtle causes. For example, we cannot describe the compli- cated muscular contractions, &c. ; but this is not necessary. Concentrate on some series of simple movements. When this through habit becomes intuitive so that the thought is vea//y ‘‘ There is a raising,” as opposed to ‘‘I raise” (the latter being in reality a complex and adult i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 257
…tucco—as who should hang the Taj Mahal with fairy lamps and chintz. It is simple. The mind is compelled to fix its attention on a single thought; while the controlling power is exercised and a profound watchfulness kept up lest the thought should for a moment stray.t. The latter portion is, to my mind, the essential one. The work is comparable to that of an electrician who should sit for hours with his finger on a delicately adjusted resistance- box and his eye on the spot of light of a galvanometer, charged with the duty of keeping the spot st…
1906 · PDF PAGE 50
…t oath, and works, and studies silence, Takes his refuge in the triple jewel, Strangles all desires in their beginning, Leaves no egg of thought to hatch its serpent Thrice detested for unnatural breeding— Basilisk, to slay the maddened gazer. Thus the wise man, for no glory-guerdon, Hope of life or joy in earth or heaven, Works, rejecting all the flowers of promise Dew-lit that surround his path; but keepeth Steady all his will to one endeavour, Till the light, the might, the joy, the sorrow, Life and death and love and hate are broken : Work …
1906 · PDF PAGE 231
… against that bitter day, and he took fair maidens, and was their servant. And he builded a fine house and dwelt therein. And he took no thought. But he said: Here is a change indeed ! 1 The common formula for beginning a ‘‘ Jataka,” or story of a previous incarnation of Buddha. Brahmadatta reigned 120,000 years. 2 The Sun. 3 The Moon, 4 Perdurabo.,Crowley’s motto. VOL. II. 225 ‘* Now it came to pass that after many years he looked upon his lover, the bride of his heart, the rose of his garden, the jewel of his rosary; and behold, the olive lov…
1906 · PDF PAGE 104
98 THE ARGONAUTS The silent thought, the hand unseen, The rayless majesty of light Shed from the splendour of our Queen Athena! mystery and might ; These worked invisibly to bring The end of triumph to our King. Great Jason, wronged by hate of man, Shall pass the portals of the deep ; Shall seek the waters wide and wan; Shall pass within the land of sleep ; And there the guardians of the soil Shall rest at last from pain and toil. O ruler of the empyréan, Behold his fervour conquering The fury of the breed Cadmean, The dragons of the Theban kin…
1906 · PDF PAGE 121
ACTUS QUINTUS ITS MEDEA. One thing remember! While you say the spell— Here is the parchment !—let no thought arise In any of your minds !1 ALCESTIS. [Zo her Sisters.] Remember that ! MEDEA. Else—Ototototoi ! FIRST DANAID. What woe is this? MEDEA, The charm is broken. SECOND DANAID., And our father MEDEA, Lost ! DANAIDES. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Ai Ai! MEDEA, Ai Ai! Aji Ai! ALCESTIS, Be brave, dear sisters, pluck your courage up ! Easy this one condition! All is safe. MEDEA. . Haste then! Good luck attend you!) When the hunt Returns, how joyful 1 Tt isa c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 174
…rhaps, yet does its best To show its strong appreciation Of the humour of the situation— 155 In short, dimiss me, jeered and hooted, Who thought I sported Roland’s crest,*° With wisdom saddled, spurred, and booted, (As I my Jesus) with a jest.*! So here is my tribute —a jolly good strong ’un—— 160 To the eunuch, the faddist, the fool, and the wrong ’un ! It’s fun when you say “A mysterious way * God moves in to fix up his Maskelyne tricks. He trots on the tides, on the tempest he rides (Like Cosmo); and as for-his pace, we bethought us 165 Achi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 74
…me and be my dear, To love me in the spirit without fear ;— Leaving the body’s love to follow at even. Seemeth it not absurd? to use the thought, The utterly divine impersonal Mind of a man, the pure, the spiritual, To such a purpose rather less than nought, A woman’s love—considering that all Wise men assure us that it may be bought! THE TWELFTH DAY. ‘* T grant thou wert not married to my Muse And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook The dedicated words which writers use Of their fair subjects.”’ The Sonnets. I LEARNT at last some sort of …
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…ut for the most essential and continuous acts of life? Why should an infinite Ego fill a non-existent body with imaginary food cooked in thought only over an illusionary fire by a cook who is not there? Whyshould infinite power usesuch finite means, and very often fail even then?” What is the sum total of the Vedantist position? ‘‘I’ am an illusion, externally. In reality, the true ‘I’ am the Infinite, and if the illusionary ‘1’ could only realise Who ‘I’ really am, how very happy we should all be!’ And here we have Karma, rebirth, all the migh…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
…tinction final and complete, utter and absolute ex- tinction. For by these words only can we indicate Nirvaria: a state which transcends thought cannot be described in thought’s language. But from the point of view of thought extinction is complete: we have no data for discussing that which is unthinkable, and must decline to do so. This is the answer to those who accuse the Buddha of hurling his Arahats (and himself) from Samma Samadhi to annihilation. Pray observe in the first place that my solution of the Great Problem permits the co-existen…
1906 · PDF PAGE 95
… states and thrones for—justice? Thou art just; But wisdom, but the life of innocents, The happiness of all, are better served By solemn thought and weighty counsel held, ° JASON, This is more simple. I abolish thee— One sword-sweep—and assume thy “politics.” PELIAS. Thou art. this ‘‘ simple” ! allies (Willing with age and wisdom to accord) Not tremble at thy firebrand breed, not think Who hath in blood, an old man’s blood, made fast A perilous footing, may betimes discover More ‘ justice ”—and invasion footing it Hard after? Wilt thou plunge a…