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Page 101 of 1141939 · PDF PAGE 67
…ons which are so readily shaken by the first breath of the wind of intellectual analysis? Well, to answer first of all in a common-sense way, the difference is simply that the impression is deeper, is less to be shaken. Men of sense and education are always ready to admit that they may have been mistaken in the quality of their observation of any phenomenon, and men a little more advanced are almost certain to attain to a placid kind of speculation as to whether the objects of sense are not mere shadows on a screen. I take off my glasses. Now I…
1904 · PDF PAGE 56
…English. 94. I cannot write.29—This is not quite true. For instance: This, the opening stanza of my masterly poem on Ladak, reads :—“The way was long, and the w ind was cold : the Lama was infirm and advanced in years ; his prayer-wheel, to revolve which was his only pleasure, was carried by a disciple, an orphan.” There is a reminiscence of some previous incarnation about this : European critics may possibly even identify the passage. But at least the Tibetans should be pleased.* * They were ; thence the pacific character of the British expedi…
1929 · PDF PAGE 421
…in the madness of the drug, attacks the Papal legate. She follows and, defending the old man, kills her husband. This last scene, by the way, fulfils my idea of true comedy; the dressing up of a man as a king or god, and inducing him to preside at a hunting of which he is in reality to be the quarry. I have shown in my essay "Good
1939 · PDF PAGE 59
… the body, which was never numerically important, has yet been one of the greatest influences in the development of Europe. It has not always worked perfectly, but that has not been the fault of the system; and, even as it is, its record has been extraordinary. And one of the most remarkable things about it is that its greatest and most important achievements have been in the domain of science and philosophy. It has done nothing in religion; or, rather, where it has meddled with religion it has only done harm. What a mistake! And why? For the s…
1944 · PDF PAGE 117
…f this Mystery. Understand thou this, O my Son, as I take leave of thee in this Epistle, that the Summit of Wisdom is the Opening of the Way that leadeth unto the Crown and Essence of all, to the Soul of the Child Horus, the Lord of the Aeon. This is the Path of the Pure Fool. DE ORACULO SUMMO And who is this Pure Fool? Lo, in the Sagas of Old Time, Legend of Scald, of Bard, of Druid, cometh he not in Green like Spring? O thou Great Fool, thou Water that art Air, in whom all complex is resolved! Yea, thou in ragged Raiment, with the Staff of Pr…
1919 · PDF PAGE 299
…arly everybody except Mr. Bishop. He would however deny furiously that the God who willingly and knowingly created the devil, was in any way responsible for him. This Kaiserlich-Chautauquameri- canisch-Bishopisch God is therefore an illogical impossibility and absurdity. But this doesn’t detract from the unmetaphysical conception of him as a monster. Mr. Bishop is one of the best known philanthropists in England. Let us see how he acts within his family circle. Here is a quotation from a bill of costs sent in to his nephew by the family solicit…
1939 · PDF PAGE 25
…tance of all possible experience, and the transcendental assumption of all particular experience into the one experience. Oh yes, by the way, don't forget this. In a lesser sense Venus represents tact. Many of the problems that confront the Yogi are impracticable to intellectual manipulation. They yield to graciousness. 13. Our next planet is Mercury, and the Niyama which correspond to him are as innumerable and various as his own qualities. Mercury is the Word, the Logos in the highest; he is the direct medium of connection between opposites; …
1939 · PDF PAGE 68
…own in a waking life. But they are quite capable of criticising this illusion by memory, and they admit the deception. Well, in the same way the phenomena of high Magick and Samadhi have an authenticity, and confer an interior certainty, which is to the experience of waking life as that is to a dream. But, apart from all this, experience is experience; and the real guarantee that we have of the attainment of reality is its rank in the hierarchy of the mind. 13. Let us ask ourselves for a moment what is the characteristic of dream impressions as…
1906 · PDF PAGE 197
…cea Ame qe aeNe ged T+ x5 + pK =a He 4 BLeaeWia- in gy 5: 3° gw || This, the opening stanza of my masterly poem on Ladak, reads :—‘‘ The way was long, and the wind was cold: the Lama was in- firm and advanced in years; his prayer-wheel, to revolve which was his only pleasure, was carried by a disciple, an orphan.” There is a reminiscence of some previous incarnation about this: European critics may possibly even identify the passage. But at least the Tibetans should be pleased.* * They were; thence the pacific character of the British expeditio…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
…is not yet enough. Not definite yet. Stop! fool, shall I hint and ruin all with a word? Backwards or forwards, the blow goes home either way. [Looks at her wrth keen fierce eyes.| Ah! Maurya. [A @ttle frightened.| Come, O my brother ! It is time to go. CrIOsSDA. No! leave me. It is but an hour. [MAURYA smiles ; leaves her hand a little i his, and so passes out slowly through the open door wrth her eyes fixed in love and trust on him. CRIOSDA Starts up and pulls fiercely at a second lever, and the door clangs to with the same nerve- shattering s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 315
315 As I trod the trackless way Through sunless gorges of Cathay, I became a little child, By nameless rivers, swirling through Chasms, a fantastic blue, Month by month, on barren hills, In burning heat, in bitter chills, Tropic forest, Tartar snow, Smaragdine archipelago, See me --- led by some wise hand That I did not understand. Morn and noon and eve and night I, the forlorn eremite, Called on Him with mild devotion, As the dewdrop woos the ocean. I had all the innocence and helplessness if a child at the period when it gropes instinctively …
1939 · PDF PAGE 34
…e good and which are bad, the why and the what and all the other questions. It all comes to the same thing in the end. There is only one way to still the body in the long run, and that is to keep it still. It's doggèd as does it. 18. The irritations develop into extreme agony. Any attempt to alleviate this simply destroys the value of the practice. I must particularly warn the aspirant against rationalising (I have known people who were so hopelessly bat-witted that they rationalised). They thought: 'Ah, well, this position is not suitable for …
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
…shadow her!)”" Lieut,-Col, Gormley writes—“The hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and’a pleasure ‘to read the volume of hymns to the Vi gin Mary which has just been published by Messrs. Burns & Oates. ‘hese hymns to: the Virgin Mary are in the best style, they are devot…
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
…shadow her!)”" Lieut,-Col, Gormley writes—“The hymns ordinarily used in churches for devotional purposes are no doubt excellent in their way, but it can scarcely be said, in the case of many of them, that they are of much literary merit, and some of them indeed are little above the familiar nursery rhymes of our childhood; it is therefore somewhat of a relief and’a pleasure ‘to read the volume of hymns to the Vi gin Mary which has just been published by Messrs. Burns & Oates. ‘hese hymns to: the Virgin Mary are in the best style, they are devot…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…e to count, but we have never seen the corpse surrounded by “ fag-ends” and a gay pyjamaed mob, Perhaps one of the passengers was on his way to the bath-room, in a Swan and Edgar “sleeping suit,’ when you went to have your own little peep—or have you borrowed a leaf from your former Jesuit brothers and write all this for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected…
1910 · PDF PAGE 351
…e to count, but we have never seen the corpse surrounded by “ fag-ends” and a gay pyjamaed mob, Perhaps one of the passengers was on his way to the bath-room, in a Swan and Edgar “sleeping suit,’ when you went to have your own little peep—or have you borrowed a leaf from your former Jesuit brothers and write all this for the greater glory of God RPA? We are travellers as well as mystics, we have been a score of journeys as long as yours and longer, right round the world twice—think of that, Jo! and all the cockle shells you could have collected…
1907 · PDF PAGE 137
…as throughout the whole of his work there is the ringing note of mastery. But when he has seen the wisdom of not flinging splendid lines away on those subjects which wiser men remember only to themselves, when he has ceased to prefer the lurid and quickly evanescent gems of the rubbish-heap of sensations for the enduring and unsurpassable beauty of the stars, then will he give us more and better even than Hush—the music swells apace, Rolls its silver billows up Throu h the void demesne of space To l. e heavens' azure cup! Hush, my love, and Slee…
1929 · PDF PAGE 201
… apologizing for him in detail I brushed aside the nonsense --- "a plague o' both your houses!" --- and wrote a sonnet, which is, in its way, to conventional criticism exactly what the Balzac was. It was translated into French by Marcel Schwob and made considerable stir in Paris. Even at this length of time, I attach a certain importance to it. For one thing, it marks a new stage in my own art. BALZAC Giant, with iron secrecies ennighted, Cloaked, Balzac stands and sees. Immense disdain, Egyptian silence, mastery of pain, Gargantuan laughter, s…
1939 · PDF PAGE 22
… the work?' Then, having complied with the theoretically best conditions, you have to tackle each fresh problem as it arises in the best way you can. 6. We are now in a better position to consider the meaning of Niyama, or virtue. To most men the qualities which constitute Niyama are not apprehended at all by their self-consciousness. These are positive powers, but they are latent; their development is not merely measurable in terms of quantity and efficiency. As we rise from the coarse to the fine, from the gross to the subtle, we enter a new …
1944 · PDF PAGE 97
…t to do thy will. Do that, and no other shall say nay. For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.” AL. I, 42‐4. It is further to be remarked that the trunk of the Tree pierces the heavens; about it is indicated the ring of the body of Nuith. Similarly, the shaft of the Wand goes down indefinitely to the centre of earth. “If I lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If 1 droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.” (AL. II, 26). The fo…