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THE VIRGIN 69 “ Can that have been human ? ” I see you point through the drizzling night to a cramped and shivering form . Can that have been a woman ? That living death , de graded by crime , brutalized by vice , vitiated , unsouled ; lower than a slave , worse than a dog ; spurned by man , shunned by woman , a human wreck , a growing horror ? Even so , once a smiling girl , sweet as a rose , pure as a lily ; now the bedraggled gin -sodden har ridan . O ! marriage , thy name is Failure : 0 ! priest , what hast thou done ? Cramped the human min…
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224 THE STAR IN THE WEST principle , that perceives , knows , wills , and operates about ideas . ” 1 This “ human soul " of Hume , the “ I myself ” of Berkeley are synonymous terms ; in fact , they are one with the “ purusha ” of the Yogins , and the “ magical stone " of the philosophic alchymists . Hume arrives at the conclusion : “ that there is a species of sceptic ism , antecedent to all study and philosophy , which is much inculcated by Des Cartes and others , as a sovereign preservative against error and precipitate judgement . It recomme…
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…, therefore , know both the cause and effect , and the relation between them . But do we pretend to be acquainted with the nature of the human soul and the nature of an idea , or the aptitude of one to produce the other ? This is a real creation , a pro duction of something out of nothing ... such a power is not felt, nor known , nor even conceivable by the mind We are now fairly on our road to Crowleyanity . Having left Berkeley in the dark , feeling on the dusty shelves of his reason for a flint and steel in the spirituality of God , whereby …
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…mmercial , and the voluptuous .? Every man striving against his brother , struggling and elbowing his way through the seething crowds of human life to satisfy his own personal lusts . Gentility has become the lowest plane of mental degradation , and so as the monde sinks in this social earthquake does the demi - monde rise . Phryne trips lightly to - day down Piccadilly , bringing with her no little of the beauties of Praxiteles , and the craft of Apelles . We see her no longer the draggle - tailed prostitute of the more eminently Christian cen…
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…the fairies of Grimm or Andersen , or the gnomes who spring through the flooring of Drury Lane to the amazement of little children . The human first adores images , then imaginations ; the little girl who loves her doll will neglect it to tend her youngest little brother or sister , whom she will kiss and pinch in the true fashion of the human ; and when scarcely in her teens will commence those necessary and attractive adornments to enable her shortly to have a real little doll of her own . The little boy will forsake his brave little man in t…
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THE VIRGIN 71 eternal symbol of love and life , and the purest of human joys, " and which act being attributed to supernatural powers came under the authority of religion , and fell into the hands of an interested priesthood , giving them an immense power over women , and through women over men ; an influence that has been exercised in every land , and every age , by these spiritual leaders : an influence by which they have in so many cases ruled the minds of men , and by which for so many centuries they have blighted the happiest prospects of …
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…nsidered that he once and for all had overthrown scepticism , which he defined as — the disbelief of the senses . In “ The Principles of Human Knowledge ,” he states : “ Our knowledge of these ( ideas ) hath been very much ob scured and confounded , and we have been led into very dangerous errors , by supposing a twofold exist ence of the objects of sense — the one intelligible or in the mind , the other real and without the mind ; where 1 The Principles of Human Knowledge , p . 39 . 2 Time , vol . ii, p . 269 Ibid . p . 51 .
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…Grundy's petticoats vanishes , neither is it replaced by the patchouli of Thais , nor the musk of Aspasia ; and if the aroma of a little human sweat does salute our nostrils , it is at least a healthy human smell —an odour of sanctity infinitely preferable to all the ancient pot - pourri of Philistia , that young and old ladies are alike so fond of distributing among their pretty speeches , as well as their pretty garments . “ Is life , then , to resolve itself for us into a chain of exhilarating pangs ? ” asked Pallas , in Mr. Gosse's “ Hypoly…
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…lves . We have no idea of the Supreme Being , but what we learn from reflection on our own faculties .2 | Hume , “ An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding ." “ We are not able to move all the organs of the body with a like authority , though we cannot assign any reason besides experience , for so remarkable a difference between one and the other " ( p . 67 ). This is possible by Hatha Yoga . And some yogis have become so perfect in the control of their various organs that they have been able to stop the heart beating at will , etc. 2 An Enqui…
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…pear to the casual reader of this essay , that the superscription on its cover is both froward and perverse , and contrary to the sum of human experience . This however I trust he will find is not the case , and , as Ianthe , will discover that after the mystic union has been consummated , the beautiful daughter of Ligdus and Telethusa was as acceptable a young husband as ever wooed nymph on the shaded slopes of Ida . Much has been written concerning stars , both terres trial and celestial , and not a little regarding that cap ricious star whic…
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…themselves , they invest him with special powers ; once fashioned , the next step was to endow him with an immortalizing 1 Principles of Human Knowledge , p. 62. 2 The Dialogues , p. 35.
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THE NEW WINE 301 Let human thought itself expand Bright Sun of Knowledge , in me rise ! Lead me to those exalted skies To live and love and understand ! Paying no price , accepting nought The Giver and the Gift are one With the Receiver -O thou Sun Of thought , of bliss transcending thought , Rise where division dies ! Absorb In glory of the glowing orb Self and its shadow ! 1 And , Within the charméd space is nought Possible unto thought . There in their equilibrium They float —how still , how numb ! There must they rest , there will they stay…
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…nd Kant . BERKELEY . Berkeley , that “ God - illumined Adept ,” ) almost at the commencement of his introduction to “ The Prin ciples of Human Knowledge ,” states : “ Upon the whole ,I am inclined to think that the far greater part , if not all , of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers , and blocked up the way to know ledge , are entirely owing to ourselves that we have first raised a dust , and then complained we cannot see ." 2 And naturally to expect , Berkeley himself , though an Adept of a very high order , starting u…
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THE VIRGIN 73 Childbirth sobered me . I loved the child , the only human love I ever tasted , and I sacrificed The popularity , the infamy, Of my old life ; I sought another world . I “ got religion " -how I hate the phrase ! So jest the matron newspapers . ... For I will do without a mother's name If only I may keep a son's love still ! ' It is not here that we can enter on the fearful tragedy of these short dozen pages , suffice it to say , that it was that of Phædra and Hippolytus , the sexes however being reversed . Shamed , insulted by her…
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…sinewy glitter of serpenthood , That I may look once more into his face , And , kissing , kill him ! Thus to hold him fast , Drawing his human spirit into mine For strength , for life , for poison ! Ah , my God ! These pangs , these torments ! See ! the sleeper wakes ! I am triumphant ! For he reaches out The sleepy arms , and turns the drowsy head To catch the dew dissolving of my lip . Wake , lover , wake ! Thy Venus waits for thee ! Draw back , look , hunger ! —and thy mouth is mine !" The vision of Elizabeth , the loved one of his boy hood …
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…t distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it. " - An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Hume (Religion of Science Library ), p. 172.
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…ngs of sense . What is the quarrel between us ? 1 The God - Eater , vol . ii, p . 138 . 2 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 134 . 3 The Principles of Human Knowledge , p . 39. ( Religion of Science Library .)
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…gns , and God and priests are fed , Man's blood for wine , man's flesh for meat and bread .? And these priests are not dead yet . As the human race throve so did their gods , the old savage of man's early thoughts grew , and growing became more evil , as their gods so were men , and as men so were their gods , the one continually acting and reacting on the other : Of obscene deities and apish men , Rivalling their gods in petty filthiness.3 Gods sprang from gods : For the old gods indeed go down to death , But the new gods arise from rottenness…
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…s and Upanishads ; its concep tion of the supreme God was ineffable , for He bore neither name nor attribute , being beyond the power of human conception . Over the face of the whole world we find earnest thought arriving at or towards such a conclusion . In ancient China we hear Lao - Tze declaring : “ What is there superior in Heaven and 1 Songs of the Spirit , vol . i, p . 34 . ? The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 166 . 3 Berashith , vol . ii, p . 236 .
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…r lover , is the greatest joy of life. Burns sang : To make a happy fireside clime For weans and wife, Is the true pathos and sublime Of human life . And from the other side of the sphere the melodious lines of Kalidasa reverberate with the same perfection of pure wifehood . In the Raghuvancha the step mothers of Rama greet Sita thus , when she blames herself for the misfortunes which befell her husband : Dear daughter , rise ! (So said they) “ 'Tis thy spotless life alone That brought thy Lord and Lakshman through their toils Triumphant .” The…