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…he devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the angel Exarpt and his followers, the great intestine: to Bitom the devil and his crew, the little intestine: to Aub, Aud, and Aur, the venerable Phallus of our Father: to Ash the little bone of the same: to our children K ., C., B., C., G ., T., N ., H ., I., and M ., his illustrious finger-nails, and the toe-nails to be in trust for their children after them : and so for all the rest; is it not written in our archives? As to his magical weapons, all vanish ed utterly at the moment of his Passing Ov…
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…k chemists else !) So I must claim Spirit and matter are the same37 Or else the prey of putrefaction. This matters to the present action Little or nothing. Here’s your theories ! Think if you like : I find it wearies ! It matters little whether we With Fichte and the Brahmins preach That Ego-Atman sole must be ; With Schelling and the Buddha own No-Ego-Skandhas are alone ; With Hegel and the—Christian ? teach That which compels, includes, absorbs Both mighty unrevolving orbs In one informing masterless Master-idea of consciousness— All differen…
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… man there, sole among them not yet an Arahat, turned pale. He alone was of Western birth in all that multitude. “Brother Abhavananda, 4 little friend,” said the Buddha, “what can we predicate of all existin things? ” “ Lord!” replied the neophyte, “they are unstable, every thing is sorrow, in them is no inward Principle, as some pretend, that can avoid, that can hold itself aloof from, the forces of decay.” “And how do y ou know that, little Brother?” smiled the Thrice-Honoured One. “Lord, I perceive this Truth wheneverI 1 Thirst: i.e. desire …
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…le For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the truth—why ! worship then Were not so imbecile for men! But that’s no Christian faith ! For where Enters the dogma of despair ? Despite his logic’s silver flow I must count Caird62 a mystic ! No ! You Christians shall not mask me so The plain words of your sacred books Behind friend Swedenborg his spooks ! Says Huxley63 in his works (q. v.) “The microcosmic lives chan…
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…above her ! I, of the Moderns, have let alone Greek.21 Out of the way Intuition shall shove her. Spirit and Truth in my darkness I seek. Little by little they bubble and leak; Such as I have to the world I discover. Words—are they weak ones at best ? They shall speak ! 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 Apology of poet. Skeleton of poem. Valuable fact for use of lovers. Invocation. Imperfect scholastic at- tainements of author reme- died by his great spiritual insight. His intention.
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THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 73 a family of Nats in a big tree at A nuradhapura had a little stranger, very welcome to Mamma and Papa Nat. “Blessed indeed was the fam ily. Five- and-forty feet1 away stood a most ancient a nd holy dagoba: and the children of light would gather round it in the cool of the evening, or in the misty glamour of dawn, and turn f orth in love and pity towards all mankind—nay , to the smallest grain of dust tossed on the utmost storms of the Sahara ! “Blessed and more blessed ! For one day came a holy Bikkhu from the land …
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…ite circle around y our original small one.” The fallacy is obvious. The big circle is not infinite at all, but is itself limited by the little one. But to take away the little circle, that is the method of the esoteric Christian or the mystic. But the proces s is never perfect, because however sm all the little circle becomes, its relation with the big circle is still finite. But even allowing for a moment that the Absolute is really attainable, is the nothingness of the finity related to it really identical with that attained directly by the …
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…ut which is the name of the song?” Alice said, trying not to seem too interested. “Ah, you don’t understand,” the Knight said, looking a little vexed. “That’s what the name is called. The nam e really is ‘Ascension Day and Pentecost; with some Prose Essay s and an Epilogue,’ just as the title is ‘The Sword of Song’ y ou know, just in the sam e way, just in the sam e way, just in the same way . . .” Alice put her fingers in her ears and gave a little scream . “ Oh, dear me! That’s * This passage is a parody on one in “Alice through the Looking-G…
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…ll not stay here : they will go forth and illum inate the whole system of ten thousand worlds, w here Arahats do not grow on every tree. Little brothers, the night is fallen : it were well to sleep.”
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…r, as for him that understandeth not thy writing, and that easily and well, be ye well assured all that he is a vile m an and a losel of little worth or worship ; a dog, an unclean swine, a worm of filfth, a festering sore in the vitals of earth: such an one is liar and murderer, debauched, drunken, sexless and spatulate ; an ape-droppi ng, a lousy, flat-backed knave: from such an one keep y e well away ! Use hath he little : ornam ent maketh he nothing : let him be cast out on the dunghills bey ond Jordan; let him pass into the S. P. P., and t…
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… to reduce unto eight things his many. And thus , O Brethren of our Venerable Order, he at last succeeded. Those who know not will learn little herein: y et that they m ay be shamed all shall be put forth at this tim e clearly before them all, with no obscurity nor obfuscation in the exposition thereof. Writing this, saith our Father to m e, the Humblest and oldest of all his disciples, write as the story of m y Quintessential Quest, m y Spagy ric Wandering, my Philosophical Going. Write plainly unto the Brethren, quoth he, for m any be little …
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… more bovine than a sane yak250 Ever would ruminate upon, Half Sabbatarian and half Khakimaniac, Built up from Paul and John, With not a little tincture of Leviticus Gabbled pro formâ, jaldi,† à la Psittacus To aid the appalling hotch-potch ; lyre and lute Replaced by liar and loot, the harp and flute * Proprietor of a circus and menagerie. † Hindustani : quickly. 220 225 230 235 240 245 250 255 Lord George Sanger* on the Unknowable. How the crea- tures talk.
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…lies my vivid will? My carcase with quinine is crammed; I wish South India were damned ; I wish I had my mother’s nursing, Find precious little use in cursing, 620 625 630 635 640 645 650 655 Death-bed o f poet. Effec t of body on mind.
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…orth defending, and the Baptist chapel the only chapel worth of worship (sic). But Mr. Crowley is a strong and genuine poet, and we have little doubt that he will work up from his appreciation of the Temple of Osiris to that loftier and wider work of the hum an im agination, the appreciation of the Brixton chapel. G. K. CHESTERTON. 778, 779. The rest of life, for self-control, For liberation of the soul.81 Who said Rats ? Thanks for your advice, Tony Veller, but it came in vain. As the ex-monk* (that shook the bookstall) wrote in confidence…
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…ghter as you read Each Sunday. Ibsen43 to a full pit May play in the moon. If (lunars they) They thought themselves to be the play, It’s little the applause he’d get. I met a Christian clergyman,‡ The nicest man I ever met. We argued of the Cosmic plan. I was Lord Roberts, he De Wet.44 * Scots legal term for defendant. † A Romany word for woman. ‡ The Rev. J. Bowley. The conversation described actually occurred in Mr. Gerald Kelly’s studio in Paris. 185 190 195 200 205 210 215 Ascension Day. Moral aspect of Christianity to be discussed to preju…
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…r one more tress Off the White Beard22 with his son’s blood besprinkled, Carve one more gash in the forehead23 hate-wrinkled:— So, using little arms, earn one day better ones; Cutting the small chains,24 learn soon to unfetter one’s Limbs from the large ones, walk forth and be free!— So much for Browning ! and so much for me ! Pray do not ask me where I stand ! “Who asks, doth err.”25 At least demand No folly such as answer means ! “But if” (you26 say) “your spirit weans Itself of milk-and-water pap, And one religion as another O’erleaps itself…
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…like children, trust in Allah ; (Flies in Mohammed’s spider-parlour !) They may not think : at least they dare Live out their lives, and little care Worries their souls—worse fools they seem Than even Christians. Do I dream ? Probing philosophy to marrow, What thought darts in its poisoned arrow But this ? (my wisdom, even to me, Seems folly) may their folly be True Wisdom ? O esteemed Tahuti !25 You are, you are, you are a beauty ! If after all these years of worship You hail Ra26 his bark or Nuit27 her ship * A flat cake of unleavened bread. …
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… Corn- wall, the somew hat cruel instrument of eternal Justice, is killed by his servant. Regan avenges her husband promptly, and I have little doubt that this act of excessive courtesy towards a man she did not love is the moral cause of her unhappy end. I would not that we should not attempt to draw any opinions as to the author’s design from the conversation of the vulgar ; even had we not Coriolanus to show us what he thought. IV. Act IV. develops the plot and is little germane to our matter, save that w e catch a glimpse of the unspeakably…
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…cohort of ills and terrors. H aving perfected one weapon, reason, and found it destructive to all falsehood, we have been (some of us) a little apt to go out to fight with no other weapon. “FitzJames’s blade was sword and shield, ”† and that served him against the murderous bludgeon-sword of the ruffianly Highlander he happened to meet; but he w ould have fared ill had he called a Western Sheriff a liar, or gone off Boer-sticking on Spion Kop. Reason has done its utmost; theory has glutted us, and the motion of the ship is a little trying; mixe…
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…iciently slowed down, so that, even for a few seconds, the rela- tion of subject and object remains impregnable. It is a circumstance of little interest to the present essayist that this annihilation of duality is associated with intense and passionless peace and delight; the fact has been a bribe to the unwary, a bait for the charlatan, a hindrance to the philosopher; let us discard it.† * Hume, and Kant in the “Pr olegomena,” discuss this phenomenon unsatisfactorily.—A. C. † It is this rapture which has ever been the bond between mystics of a…