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…. On, thou puny verse ! Weak tide of rhyme ! Another argument Will block the railway train of blague you meant To run me over with. This world Or that ? We’ll keep the question furled. But, surely, (let me corner you !) You wish the painter-mood were true! To leave the hateful world, and see Perish the whole Academy ; So you remain for ever sated, On your own picture concentrated ! Objectivity of universe not discussed. Preferability of concentration- state to the normal. 630 635 640 645 650 655 660 666 670
1904 · PDF PAGE 22
… 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 As a mere mirage in the mind, Up jumps free will.” But all I’m pleading Is against pain and hell. Freewill Then can damn man ? No fearful mill, Grinding catastrophe, is speeding Outside—some whence, some whither ? And67 I think we easier understand Where Schelling (to the Buddha leading) Calls real not-self. In any case There is not, there can never be A soul, or sword or armour needing, Incap…
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…century’s life of pain— He lives, he dies, he lives again, And rises to eternal rest Of bliss with Saints—an endless reign ! Leaving the world to centuries torn By every agony and scorn, And every wickedness and shame Taking their refuge in his Name. No Yogi shot his Chandra56 so. Will Christ return ? What ho ? What ho ! What ? What ? “He meditates above Still with his Sire for mercy, love,—” And other trifles ! Far enough That Father’s purpose from such stuff ! You see, when I was young, they said : “Whate’er you ponder in your head, Or make t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 46
…side. One hint of Amrita55 to taste And all earth’s wine may run to waste ! For by this very means Christ gained56 His glimpse into that world above Which he denominated “Love.” Indeed I think the man attained By some such means—I have not strained Out mind by chance of sense or sex To find a way less iron-brained Determining direction x;57 I know not if these Hindu methods Be best (’tis no such life and death odds, Since suffering souls to save or damn Never existed). So I fall Confessing : Well, perhance I am Myself a Christian after all ! So…
1904 · PDF PAGE 108
…tence be grasped and anni- hilated, so that the Arahat is sure of being abolished in the utter extinction of Nirvana, while even in this world of pain, where he must remain until the ancient causes, those which have already germ inated, are utterly worked out (for even the Buddha himself could not swing back the Wheel of the Law) his certain anticipation of the approach of Nirvana is so intense as to bathe him constantly in the unfathom able ocean of apprehension of immediate bliss. AUM MANI PADME HOUM.
1904 · PDF PAGE 127
…: I am of them, false or frail, True or lasting, all is fusion in the spirit’s shadow-veil, Till the Knowledge-Lotus flowering hides the world beneath its stem; Neither I, nor God life-showering, find a counterpart in them. As a spirit in a vision shows a countenance of fear, Laughs the looker to derision, only comes to disappear, Gods and mortals, mind and matter, in the glowing bud dissever: Vein from vein they rend and shatter, and are nothingness for ever. In the blessed, the enlightened, perfect eyes these visions pass, Pass and cease, poo…
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…ods and mortals wither ; Moons fade where constellations shone ; Numberless aeons brought us hither ; Numberless aeons beckon us on. The world is old, and I am strong— Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! Here, in the Dusk of Gods, I linger ; The world awaits a Word of Truth. Kindle, O lyre, beneath my finger ! Evoke the age’s awful youth ! To arms against the inveterate wrong ! Awake, awake, O Sword of Song ! Sand-founded reels the House of Faith ; Up screams the howl of runing sect ; Out from the shrine flits the lost Wraith ; “God hath forsaken H…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…heir labours in other fields? — A. C. More, though the establishment of this new estate of consciousness seems to open the door to a new world, a world where the axioms of Euclid may be absurd, and the propositions of Keynes* untenable, let us not fall into the error of the mystics, by supposin that in this world is necessarily a final truth, or even a certain and definite gain of knowledge. But that a field for research is opened up no sane man may doubt. Nor may one question that the very first fact is of a nature disruptive of difficulty phi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
…ons ( 1-5) produce unusual brain-changes; hence their summary (6) is of unusual kind. Its projection back into the apparently phenomenal world is therefore unusual. Herein then consists the reality of the operations and effects of ceremonial magic,† and I conceive that the apology is ample, so far as the “effects” refer only to those phenomena which appear to the magician himself, the appearance of the spirit, his conversation, possible shocks from imprudence, and so on, even to ecstasy on the one hand, and death or madness on the other. But ca…
1904 · PDF PAGE 113
…ritual order with a sim ple statem ent which, if not certain, is at least not im prob- able. There is, he will tell y ou, a “ spiritual” world, or to avoid any (most unjustifiable) misunderstandings, let us say a world of subtler matter than the visible and tangible, which has its own laws (analogous to, if not identical with, those laws of matter with which we are acquainted) and whose inhabi- tants change, and die, and are re-born very much as ordinary mortal beings. But as they are of s ubtler matter, the cy cle is less rapid.1 As a nominali…
1904 · PDF PAGE 98
…ilt not comprehend it, as when under- standing some common thing. ORACLES OF ZOROASTER. IN presenting this theory of the Universe to the world, I have but one hope of making any profound impression, viz.—that my theory has the merit of explaining the divergences between the three great forms of religion now existing in the world—Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity , and of adapting them to ontological science by conclusions not mystical but mathematical. Of M ohamme- dism I s hall not now treat, as , in whatever light we may decide to regard it…
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…nce asssumed In the soul’s splendour ! Hear is peace ; Here earnest of assured release. Here is the formless all-pervading Spirit of the World, rising, fading Into a glory subtler still. Here the intense abode of Will Closes its gates, and in the hall Is solemn sleep of festival. Peace ! Peace ! Silence of peace ! O visionless abode ! Cease ! Cease ! Through the dark veil press on ! The veil Is rent asunder, the stars pale, The suns vanish, the moon drops, The chorus of the spirit stops, But one note swells. Mightiest souls Of bard and music ma…
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… we may expect the final statement of the poet’s mind. The passage that first put me on the track of the amazing discovery for which the world has to thank me is to be found in Act I. Sc. ii. ll. 132-149:— “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit of our own behaviour,—we make guilty
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
THE SWORD OF SONG 54 night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrace the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they w ere lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only sou…
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…All I held dear, and sit alone Still meditating, on my throne Of Kusha-grass,48 and count my beads, Murmer my mantra,49 till recedes The world of sense and thought—I sink 475 480 485 490 495 500 505 510 Fact replacing folklore, the Christian snig- gers. Let him beware. For I speak subtly. Results of prac- tice. The poet abandons all to find Truth.
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…should one day Take me to seek your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know ! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard or acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say ! I practice then, with conscious power Watching my mind, each thought controlling, Hurling…
1904 · PDF PAGE 63
…he native name of “K 2” ; or Mount Godwin-Austen, as C ol. G odwin-Austen w ould call it. It is the second highest known mountain in the world, as Devadhunga is the first. 356. The History of the West.55— De Acosta (José) Natural and Moral His- tory of the Indies. Alison, Sir A. . History of Scotland. Benzoni . . . History of the New World. Buckle . . . H istory of Civilisation. Burton, J. H . . History of Scotland. Carlyle . . . History of Frederick the Great. Carlyle . . . Ol iver Cromwell. Carlyle . . . Pas t and Present. Cheruel, A. . . Dic…
1904 · PDF PAGE 97
… the moustache, to each one; To ninety and one my riads of the Elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world; To Shalach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to s erve as a s hrine thereunto: to the 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 v…
1904 · PDF PAGE 104
…ds the Optimist to keep him company; over their firesides all goes well, but it is a sad shipwreck they suffer on emerging into the cold world. This is why those who seek to buttress up religion are so anxious to prove that the universe has no real existence, or only a temporary and relatively unimportant one; the result is of course the usual self-destruc- tive Advaitist muddle. The precepts of m orality and religion are thus of use, of vital use to us, in restraining the more violent forces alike of nature and of man. For unless la w and orde…
1904 · PDF PAGE 10
… 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.