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Page 101 of 1041907 · PDF PAGE 233
…and He died of dysentery.” The fact being that it is within the personal experience of all these persons that men yet live and walk this earth who live in all essentials the life that Christ lived, to whom all His miracles are commonplace, who die His death daily, and partake daily in the Mysteries of His resurrection and ascen- sion. Whether this is scientifically so or not is of no importance to the argument. I am not addressing the man of science, but the man of intelligence: and the scientist himself will back me when I say that the evidenc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
…h part is true of the whole. Natural knowledge tends more and more to the conclusion that ‘‘all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth” are the transitory forms of parcels of cosmic substance wending along the road of evolution, from ‘nebulous potentiality, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite, through all varieties of matter ; through infinite diversities of' life and thought, possibly, through modes of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are competent to form any, back to the indefinable latency from wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 27
…o mist. No tropic rapture strikes awake The grim soul’s candour to insist The pen reluctant. Beauty’s task Is but to praise the peace of earth ; If Horror’s contrast that should ask, Off from this Paradise of mirth ! Let andy Lake, the white soul, mirror The generalised concept, limn clear England, a memory clean of error, A royal reason to be here. Therefore no reminiscence stirs My heart of when I lived in Kandy. Europe’s the focus now ! that blurs The picture of my Buddhist dandy, 1 } de vol. ii. p. 203, supra. 2“T promise Mr. Chesterton | A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 462
… training on the lines which their tendencies indicate. The worst thing they can do is what is done in America, to disenchant the man of earth with his destiny; to fill him with the facts and fancies that enthral etiolated and degenerated idealists and unfit him for his evident purpose, that of supplying society with supermen. It is not only impossible to try to make a silk purse our of a sow's ear. It is an idealistic imbecility. The demand for silk purses is extremely limited, whereas sows' ears always come in handy. America is seething with …
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
…s s the floor of that Sea unutterable. Him he followed; “for I wit well,” thought the Adept, “that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. And if the sun hath become a beetle, m ay the beetle tr ansform unto a bird.” Wherewith he came to land. Night shone by lamp of wining moon upon a misty land- scape. Two paths led him to two towers; and jackals howled on either. Now the jackal he knew; and the tower he knew not y et. Not two would he conquer—that were easy : to victory over one did he aspire. Made he therefore toward the m oon. Rough wa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
… have no possible effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the m etre of In Memoriam: “No force on earth, however great, can s tretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
…The low vitality of the working classes, the national deterioration caused by the privations of wartime, scream their warning. Anyone on earth except a member of the English Alpine Club would take it to heart. When I went to Kanchenjunga three years later I had got everything down to a fine point. I trained at Darjeeling by feeding up as much as possible (the diet at the Drum Druid Hotel was slow starvation), by having myself massaged by an "educated" Bengali who was a Seventh Day Adventist and stole ten pounds. I arrived at twenty-one thousand…
1929 · PDF PAGE 475
…om relativey reasonable attack on England to extravagances which achieved my object of revolting every comparatively sane human being on earth. I proved that the Lusitania was a man-of-war. I dug up all the atrocities of King Leopold of Belgium, from mutilated niggers in the Congo to Cléo de Mérode and Anna Robinson. I translated atrocity, not merely into military necessity, but into moral uplift. I put haloes on the statue of von Hindenburg with his
1929 · PDF PAGE 127
127 I went on to San Francisco. The city is famous in history for the earthquake of 1906; and for having starved Stevenson, who has described it admirably in The Wrecker. It was a glorified El Paso, a madhouse of frenzied money-making and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situated and the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh. At that time it possessed a real interest and glory --- its Chinatown. During the week I was there, I spent most of my time in that quarter. It was the first time that I h…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…e Book of the Law is careful to indicate the nature of the formula implied by the assertion that the residing officer of the temple (the earth) is Horus, the Crowned and Conquering Child. And again, Egyptology and psychology help us to understand what is implied, and what effect to expect, in the world of thought and action. Horus avenged his father Osiris. We know that the sun (indeed, every element of nature) does not suffer death. {399} The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then …
1929 · PDF PAGE 100
…ere he was working turned upon childbirth. What he heard disgusted him. He became furiously angry and said that children were brought to earth by angels. The other students laughed at him and tried in vain to convince him. He maintained their theory to be a bestial blasphemy. The next day one of the boys turned up with an illustrated manual of obstetrics. He could no longer doubt the facts. But his reaction was this: "Did the Omnipotent God whom he had been taught to worship devise so revolting and degrading a method of perpetuating the species…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
… one of his hundreds of devoted followers --- and they were extravagantly devoted, thought he was no less than Jesus Christ come back to earth, and allowed him to mock, bully and swindle them to the limit without losing faith in him --- had stuck to him in his misfortune. I went to him and affirmed my belief in his innocence (he had been "framed up" on a false charge) and offered to go bail for him and help him in every possible way. He was acquitted and we resumed our enmity. I am glad to say that, some time afterwards, when some would-be magi…
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
…e and female principles in Nature; they are therefore equally, in various stages of manifestation, Sun and Moon, Fire and Water, Air and Earth. In chemistry they appear as acid and alkali, or (more deeply) metals and non‐metals, taking those words in their widest philosophical sense to include hydrogen on the one hand and oxygen on the other. In this aspect, the hooded figure represents the Protean element of car‐ bon, the seed of all organic life. The symbolism of male and female is carried on still further by the weapons of the King and Queen…
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
…easts, where the sepulchral ocean sobs, i. 178 Even as the traitor’s breath, i. 148 Evoe! Evoe Ho! Iacche! Iacche! iii. 203 Exalted over earth, from hell arisen, i. 122 Exile from humankind, i. 118 Existence being sorrow, ii. 200 Exquisite fairy, flower from stone begotten, ili, 118 FAIRER than woman blushing at the kiss, i. 21 Farewell, my book, ii. 8 Farewell! O Light of day, i. 263 First. ‘‘ Here's a johnny with a cancer, ii. 209 First, here’s philosophy’s despair, ii. 166 First word of my song, ili, 131 Fivefold the shape sublime that lifts…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…h part is true of the whole. Natural knowledge tends more and more to the conclusion that “ all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth” are the transitory forms of parcels of cosmic substance wending along the road of evolution, from nebulous potentiality, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite, through all varieties of matter; through infinite diversities of life and thought, possibly , through mo des of being of which we neither have a conception, nor are com petent to form any, back to the indefinable latency from wh…
1907 · PDF PAGE 115
…akes a study: people see it in his studio: A. goes up and says to the Master: ‘* Ah, how beautiful,” &c., ad mauseam-—‘ I suppose it is ‘Earth and the Spring.’” B. follows, and suggests ‘‘ Hercules and Cacus”’; C. thinks “ The Birth ofa Flower”; D. calls it “ De- spair”; E. varies it with ‘‘ Moses breaking the ‘Tables of the Law”; F. cocks his eye warily, and asks if it is not meant for ‘“ Mary Magdalene”; G. votes for ‘The LBeetle- Crusher and his Muse,” and so on, day after day, till Z. comes round and recognises it for Balzac. odin shakes hi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…. I realized the whole of Kubla Khan, including the parts that Coleridge forgot. I understood the exclamation of the Persian poet: If on earth is a heaven of bliss, It is this, it is this, it is this. Radcliffe and I went shooting bears occasionally, but I could not get up much enthusiasm. I was still suffering from occasional bouts of fever; and besides, was oppressed with a certain lassitude. I felt admirably well, but disinclined for necessary exertion. The strain of the journey was making itself felt. I wanted to lounge about and indulge in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 337
…secrated to particular purposes, whereas it is entirely without conscience. It consists of galbanum for air, onycha for water, storax of earth and olibanum for fire. It represents the blind force of the four elements and by its use one can bring them to manifestation. Being in itself neither good nor evil, it is extraordinarily dangerous. {546} I may regard, by the way, that what we call "good" and "bad" are both extremely limited. The greatest disasters arise from what we call indifference. I once examined the horoscopes of a number of murdere…
1905 · PDF PAGE 230
…glamour of Life’s lotus, The flower that falls from this our stronger sight, We dwell, eternal shapes of shadowy light. Only the love on earth that shook and smote us Begets new stars—truth’s flowers fallen through night Beyond the gold and glamour of Life's lotus! Eternal bliss of Love in birthless bowers ! Light, the gemmed robes of Love! Life, lifted breath, Ageless existence deifying death ! Love, the sole flower beyond these lesser flowers !— In thee at last the live fruit quickeneth ? Eternal bliss of Love in birthless bowers ! There, sec…
1929 · PDF PAGE 336
…overy of his Relation with the Absolute. His power of expression is extraordinary; his kite flies, but he never fails to jerk it back to earth with some touch of ridicule or pathos which makes it still an open question whether he will excite that life-giving animosity on the part of Public Opinion which, as we have hinted, is only accorded to the most dangerous thinkers. I was enormously encouraged by this article. I knew how serious my purpose was. She had reassured me on the point where my faith wavered. I had become so accustomed to columns …