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… argument are in fact part of me?” “But surely,” replies the Materialist, “you do not doubt that the world exists, that the Evolution of Man exists, that Judas McCabbage exists and is an actual fact.” “Granted they do exist,” sighs the Idealist, “‘so do the reflections of an ape’s face in a looking-glass, yes, they do exist, but not apart from my own mind.” “ Yet the world of a blind man,” says the Mystic, “isa very different place to the world a deaf man lives in, and both these worlds vary considerably from the world normally constituted man …
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…e arguing about @ priori and on hearsay.” Then they both rose up against him, and cursed him. “ Unscientific balderdash!” said the Water Man, for the first time speaking respectfully of Science. “‘Blasphemous Nonsense!” said the Inhabitant, for the first time speaking respectfully of Religion. “Wait and see,” said the Judge ; for he was a just Judge. Then the Man with the Microscope explained the uses of this new and strange instrument. And the Judge patiently investigated all sources of error, and concluded in the end that the instrument was a…
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THE MAN-COVER emergency, and I shall be compelled to use their strength if you refuse to follow me. We are off to Brighton, and I shall there put you in your proper place. Oh, my thoughts, my lofty thoughts,” he went on, “you shall to-night be seques- tered from the world of your enemies !” I should like to know, dear unknown being to whom my winged friend will bring this letter, what you would have done in my place! How was I to escape? There was cer- tainly not the slightest doubt that the man was a lunatic. Now, as it happens, lunatics have …
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THE MAN-COVER Being a man of method and logic, I could not but begin with book-keeping. When they were'dry the two books came very handy tome. I opened them at the first page, and started putting down with a blue pencil the most important among all the thoughts that came into my brain. In “The book which contains all that I know for certain” I began with these sentences : “Your enemy, when his hatred and persecution lead you to a clearer perception of Life’s secrets, becomes your benefactor.” “The men living in my company being unable to realis…
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EDITORIAL “No,” answered the Water Man, “it can’t be impure, for we filter it.” “Oh, indeed!” replied the Inhabitant, “ but my wife died from drinking it.” “No,” said the Water Man; “I assure you that this water comes from the purest springs in Utopia; further, that water, however impure, cannot hurt anybody; further, that I have a certificate of its purity from the Water Company itself.” “The people who pay you!” sneered the Inhabitant. “ For your other points, Haeckel has proved that all water is poison, and I believe you get your water from …
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… ‘is the highest kind. But, with the Buddhist, Samadhi, though the state of mind meant is the same, is not an end, but a means. The holy-man-of-the-East must keep this state of mind unimpaired during his whole life, using it as a weapon to attack the Three Characteristics (the antithesis of Nibbana) even as one uses one’s normal dualistic consciousness to attack that dualism. But I must observe that this idea is so tremendous that I almost doubt its possibility, and tremble as to my own under- standing of it. Samadhi twelve seconds in duration …
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THE MAN-COVER And the man-who-lost-his-cover came into the room again. “Well,” said he, “I thought that by now you would have found your way to submit to necessity and reintegrate your real personality. What did you see in my box?” I told him, and instantly he grew pale and staggered. But after a moment he looked furiously at me, and resumed his former manner. “ By God !” he said, “I cannot believe you. How you have found out my secret and learned by heart the things which one ought to see in my box, but which one does not, I ignore. But you ca…
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…at is left—but to weep? Maybe the stridency purpled of Pan Leads at the last to the light of His plan. Maybe his work is the wealth of a man! VII Bring me the tablets, the stylus of jade. Lend me thy light, O compassionate maid ! Soul of the master, O come to mine aid! Make me the man of the marvellous mission! Sharpen the sword of veridical vision | Cut me the knot of the mighty magician! Here I devote me (record me the vow) Unto the terrible task of the Tao. Soul of the master, the writer be thou | Bring me the tablets and stylus! Have done! …
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…l. As it is written: ‘The lightning lighteneth out of the East and flameth even unto the West, even so shall be the coming of the Son of Man!’” The Candidate during the ceremony is addressed as “ child of Earth ” as representing the earthly and material nature of the natural man: he who cometh forward from the darkness of Malkuth to strive to regain knowledge of the Light. Therefore it is that the path of the initiate is called the Path of Darkness ; for it is but darkness and foolishness to the natural man. The Hierophant giving his permission…
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THE MAN-COVER When the cage, made of the strongest steel, was closed upon me, I found myself a prisoner in the most degrading state. I began to look around and to shake the bars of my grating, but in vain. The man-without-a-cover had gone. My next step was to inspect the prison. And in so doing I discovered in the left corner a box, resembling a coffin in shape, though it was certainly not a coffin such as I delight in seeing daily in the windows of the undertakers. It was divided into compartments! “Is this the box of lofty thoughts, I wonder?…
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THE MAN-COVER name of Guy Fawkes. I hurried home through a torrent of rain. A man was pacing my street, muttering strange words which I could not understand. The rain, which fell heavily, had apparently not the slightest effect in cooling his heated brain. As I passed him I spoke: “What a wretched night!” The sound of my voice startled him. He seized my arm and hurried me towards the lamp-post. Then he stared at me for a long time, and, speaking slowly, hammering every syllable in my ear, while the rain continued its monotonous lamentation, he …
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THE EQUINOX the adjective), “has painted many pictures of Paris. Indeed, as I think of it, I seem to remember a large picture of St. Sulpice at the Salon of eight years ago—no, seven years ago.” Roderic stared in surprise. How should any one—such a man, of all men—remember his daub, a thing himself had long forgotten? The oldster read his thought. “There was one corner of that picture which interested me deeply, deeply,” he said. “TI called to see you; you had gone—none knew where. I am indeed glad to have met you at last. Perhaps you would be …
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…to become the dominant; and then the whole line of thought breaks down. Let me give an example: Thought, Criticisms and their glyphs. 1. Man. a man reaping—meaning “ Good—go on.” a horse = “ True—Mill’s definition.” 2, Featherless Biped. Three horses in a field = “Are there no other featherless bipeds ?” a stream = “ Stop—Stop—Stop.” 3. Was it Mill ? A tombstone on ahill = “ Was it Locke ?” 4. Locke? Locke? a battle. thousands of other violent glyphs. The whole mind is now a raging sea of confused thought: doubts, attempts to remember accuratel…
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…nough,” says a fourth. “I have no chart.” . . . ‘My business won't let me.” . . . “ My wife is against it.” Thus God enters the heart of man in a thousand forms and tempts man as he tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Abraham in the land of Moriah. But the strong man replenishing his wallet, and filling his flask, girds a goat-skin about him, and taking his staff sets forth on his Great travel to the Summit of the Mountain of God; and curious to relate, and terrible to tell, the whole length of that wizard way Satan follows behind him in the…
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…For this object the mighty box is of the utmost importance; and here I touch on the first difficulty which I encountered. The destiny of man being precarious and unsettled, my soul was often wandering at large in its anxiety to provide for the future of the lofty thoughts of my late tormentor. I had banished all hatred and bitterness from my heart and forgiven my enemy. He had done mea great wrong, dragging me pitilessly away from the peaceful occupations of my life, cutting and planing my worthy form in order that I should fit his coffin. He h…
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…m its nostrils; and the one in the South was as an eagle plucking forth the entrails of a Nubian slave; and the one in the West was as a man swallowing the ocean. “And whilst I watched these suns rising around me, behold, though I knew it not, a fifth sun had arisen beneath where I was standing, and it was as agreat wheel of revolving lightnings. And gazing at the Wonder that flamed at my feet, I partook of its glory and became brilliantly golden, and great wings of flame descended upon me, and as they enrolled me I grew thirty cubits in height…
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THE MAN-COVER discarded the two pigeons and the dog. I had only to choose between the three sailors and the man-whose-nose-sings-at- will. As the latter was of great help to us, and kept the negroes amused for hours with the harmonious though plain- tive accords springing at will from his nasal organ, there remained only the sailors. The natives were, of course, totally unfit for such a fate. They could find no inner delectation in the perpetual sufferings occasioned by so dreadful an ordeal— or doom ! Of the three sailors, one was much too sho…
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…tual truth. It should be remarked that this does not destroy the validity of reasonings on their own plane. Ill. THE SPIRITUAL SENSORIUM Man being a finite being, he is incapable of appre- hending the infinite. Nor does his communion with infinite being (true or false) alter this fact. Let then the student contradict every vision and refuse to enjoy it; first, because there is certainly another vision possible of precisely contradictory nature ; secondly, because though he is God, he is also a man upon an insignificant planet. Being thus equili…
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…ns have come to me. Iam glad to say they look very happy. Though there is still much to be published before we arrive at the part of the Man-Cover’s adventures with which this last message is concerned, he informs me of such surprising news that I think it my duty to let the readers share it atonce. The news is startling. Having received my letter, he threatens to blow the island into the air, should any vessel approach within three miles, He informs me of his absolute decision never to leave the place, and never to allow any one to come within…