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…ef or unbelief ; And an involuntary act Make difference infinite in fact Between the right and left-hand thief ? Belief is not an act of will !” I think, Sir, that I have you still, Free will. Even allowing (much indeed !) gctbert That any will at all is freed, penest And is not merely the result Of sex, environment, and cult, Habit and climate, health and mind, And twenty thousand other things! So many a metaphysic sings. (I wish they did indeed: I find Their prose the hardest of hard reading ! ) “ But if,” you cry, “the world’s designed If th…
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…and white hellebore, Fit for the dragon. This was my design. CHORUS. Beware thy father’s anger when he finds His plans thus baffled ! He will murder us. MEDEA. Heroes indeed ye are, and lion hearts. CHORUS. No woman need school me in bravery. MEDEA. Rather a hare. CHORUS. Most impudent of whores ! MEDEA. But when my husband comes victorious Fleece-laden, he will rather CHORUS. Wilt thou then Further my ruin, making known this shame ! MEDEA. Here is the Argive sense of gratitude. Let me stir up its subtler thought, und show What favours ye may g…
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…5 To—what abyss’s dizzy brink? And fall! And I have ceased to think! That 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 wo…
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SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM 261 and it will go hard with us if we do not!) regard all progress in any direction as morbid. So (as with Lombroso) ‘disease ”’ will become a mere word, like its prede- cessor ‘‘ infidelity,” and cease to convey any obloquy. If Science is never to go beyond its present limits; if the barriers which meta- physical speculation shows to exist are never to be transcended, then indeed we are thrown back on faith, and all the rest of the nauseous mess of medieval superstition, | and we may just as well have vital principle, and …
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…ut I Advance against thee an impervious blade, And give thee in thy throat and teeth the lie ! | JASON. Boy’s bluster ! MADNESS. Justice will be satisfied. It will be best to flee! JASON, But what is this? A sword? I scorn a sword. I scorn a boy. Let none suppose me fearful ! MEDEA, Give not back ! MADNESS. It will be finer far to go away As those disdaining aught but their own love. MEDEA. Ay ! let us leave these folk’s ingratitude, My husband ! in thy love alone I rest. This splendour and this toil alike resume Our life from the long honeymoo…
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… the House of pain for ever, Leave its laughter and its tears, and shatter All the causes of its mockery, master All the workings of its will, and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style ‘‘ Cessation”; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, ‘‘ dy’ ws rdxuora, …
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…Maurya, yours, yours only? Criospa. [Solemuly.] No! Stop! ask no more! Therelies the awful crux. Blind are fate’s eyes, and pinioned are will’s wings, In you the whole chance lies. MAURYA. In me? CRIOSDA. In you. Maurya. I will do all to win! CRIOSDA. Do all? MAURYA. Do all. Criospa. Ah then! No, no, it is not yet enough. Not definite yet. Stop! fool, shall I hint and ruin all with a word? Backwards or forwards, the blow goes home either way. [Looks at her wrth keen fierce eyes.| Ah! Maurya. [A @ttle frightened.| Come, O my brother ! It is time…
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…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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…heir sequential three Characteristics. He who has attained Sammaditthi has at least entered upon the Holy Way, and, if he but try, there will come to him the power to overcome the other fetters that restrict his progress. But first: of all he must abandon all those false hopes and beliefs; and one who has done this is called a Buddhist. And this holding of Right Views, in Pali Sammaditthi, is the first step upon the Noble Eightfold Path. The second stage is Right Aspiration— Sammasankappo. MHaving realised the woe and transitoriness and soulles…
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134 THE GOD-EATER Did make in very deed: so I will make In uttermost truth a new god, since the old Are dead, or drunk with wine, and soma- juice And hemp and opium ! Maurya, thou shalt be! So for long years I have dared. First the twin death Of the dotards, slow constraint of Maurya’s mind Totheone end. Next, study: next, research In places long-forgotten of the West, Deep hidden of the East: the perfect rite Dragged by laborious hand and brain to shape And this [Pazses glass] the first fruits ! Hail, thou fount of wit, Light liquor, child of …
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…ollar wheat ! wheat ! AZ. It is the ‘reverse’ which does you.? If you turn a man _ fourth-dimensionally round, his hemispherical ganglia will prove interchangeable ? S. No doubt, for they are symmetrical. M. His polygonal fissures are identical with themselves? S. I admit it, for they are ambidextrous. _A/, His hypertrophied constrictor Cunni will feel nothing? S. No; it is medial. Af. Then how is he changed? Dollar wheat ! - Dollar 1 The mathematical proof of this is simple. A surface is composed of an infinite number of parallel straight line…
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254 SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM this term. And I am convinced in my own mind that the Ananda (bliss) of Dhyana will surely arise long before one has passed even up to Sankhara, And for the reality, ‘twill be a brave jest, my masters, to fling back on the materialists that-terrible gibe of Voltaire’s at the mystery- mongers of his day: ‘‘Ils nient ce qui est, et expliquent ce qui n’est pas.” Note To Section VIII. Transfigured Realism. I will not waste my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s ‘‘ Transfigured …
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…grasps Jason in embrace Worthy of Heracles. ALCESTIS. Thanks, thanks, dear queen ! We go, we go! MEDEA. The Goddess be your speed ! Thus will the danger pass! That vicious fool Shall cease his plots against my best beloved. No taint of fell complicity shall touch My honour in this matter. I will sleep Through the delicious hours of breezy noon, Lulled by sweet voices of my singing maids ; Secure at least that no one will attempt To wreck my virtue or—restore my youth ! CHORUS. O sleep of lazy love, be near In dreams to lift the veil, And silenc…
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…throw our most fun- damental hypotheses! Give me a reasonable proof of some (intelligent) existence which is not liable to sorrow, and I will throw the First Noble Truth to the dogs without a pang. And, knowing this, how splendid is it to read the grand words uttered more than two thousand years ago: ‘‘ Therefore, O Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves. Be ye a refuge to yourselves. Betake yourselves to no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast as a refuge to the truth. Look not for refuge to any one be- sides yourselves.” …
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…he Threshold of Initiation: and physiological, containing allusions to a whole group of phenomena, which those who have begun meditation will recognise. 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.
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NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST ‘‘ Blind Chesterton is sure to err, And scan my work in vain; I am my own interpreter, And I will make it plain.” NOTE TO INTRODUCTION 1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. AN APPRECIATION. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY.* Ir isa lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H. Mallock, &c.) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after alla problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. Ta me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for Shak…
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…raculous. Our Ceremonial Magic fines down, then, to a series of minute, though of course empirical, physiological experiments, and whoso will carry them through intelligently need not fear the result. I have all the health, and treasure, and logic I need; I have notime to waste. ‘‘ There is a lion in the way.” For me these practices are useless; but for the benefit of others less fortunate I give them to the world, together with this explanation of, and apology for, them. I trust that the explanation will enable many students who have hitherto,…
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…erved it by saying to the officer, ‘‘ But, sir, that is mine.” On opening this it was found to contain, besides these MSS., his literary will, All MSS. were to be published thirty years after his death, not before. He would gain no spurious popularity as a reflection of the age he lived in. ‘‘ Tennyson,” he says, ** will die before sixty years are gone by: if 1 am to be beloved of men, it shall be because my work is for all times and all men, because it is greater than all the gods of chance and change, because it has the heart of the human rac…
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…e Divided Middle ! 5S. Beware of the Water Jump! Mf. Hurrah for Taliganj! I can improve on, John Peel’s Map of Asia and that ere dawn. I will map you the lucubrations of the (converted) Hindu intellect upon this vital part of the Hegelian logic. Aum Shivaya vashi !4 S. Dulce ridentem Mysticum amabo, Dulce loquentem. M. Will you not elide the ‘um’? S. Then I were left with a_ bee Let in - 1 See Descartes, Dziscours de la Méthode, i. 1; Huxley, Des Cartes; and Mucksley, Night Carts, published San, Auth., Bombay 1goz, (At this point the damned don…
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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…