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Page 106 of 1141929 · PDF PAGE 387
… yet both awful in themselves and like enchantments encompassing my essence with an energy mighty to work on my will in some inscrutable way. I began to feel --- well, not exactly frightened; it was the subtle trembling of a maiden before the bridegroom. My ardour increased with every vision and every vision became intenser and more intimate. I fortified myself by magical practices. Two or three times I had found it difficult to get into the Aethyr; there were bars which I understood as not to be passed by the profane. The progressive sublimity…
1929 · PDF PAGE 278
…even see the white robes of the men who held me. In the lightning moment of the flash I saw only that whitnesses were falling backwards away from me, as if I had upset a screen by accident. The blackness which followed the flash was Cimmerian. My eyes are naturally very slow to accommodate themselves to change of illumination --- I have never met any man equally helpless in case of sudden diminution of light. I had no thought soever as to whether my shot might have hit anybody. There was not the faintest sound; but the alley seemed somehow empt…
1944 · PDF PAGE 22
… ideas. Here is the number Six, the centre of the system: self‐conscious, capable of experience. At this stage it is convenient to turn away for a moment from the strictly Qabalistic symbolism. The doctrine of the next three numbers (to some minds at least) is not very clearly expressed. One must look to the Vedanta system for a more lucid interpretation of the numbers 7, 8 and 9 although they correspond very closely with the Qabalistic ideas. In the Hindu analysis of existence the Rishis (sages) postulate three qualities: Sat, the Essence of B…
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
…xviii. 13, and SO on. See the Hebrew Dictionary of Gesenius (trans. Tregelles), Bagster, 1859, s.v., for proof that the Author is on the way to the true in- terpretation of these conflicting facts, as now established—see Huxley, H. Spencer, Kuenen, Reuss, Lippert, and others—and his orthodox translator's infuriated snarls (in brackets) when he suspects this tendency to accept facts as facts. 6, Svul went down.’— The Questions of King Milinda, 40-45, 48, 67, 86-80, 111, 132. , 7. The metaphysical lotus-eyed.6—Gautama| Buddha. 10. Chtlde Roland.?…
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
91 I was little of him and George Moore. I have always been nauseated by pretentiousness; and the Celtic revival, so-called, had all the mincing, posturing qualities of the literary Plymouth Brother. They pretended to think it an unpardonable crime not to speak Irish, though they could not speak it themselves; and they worked in their mealymouthed way towards the galvanization of the political, ethnological and literary corpse of the Irish nation. Ireland has been badly treated, we all know; but her only salvation lay in forgetting her nonsense…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
…meared with blood his stone Priapus. They are as sane as politicians And people who subscribe to missions. This says but little ; a long way are Yogi more sane than such as they are. You have conceived your dreadful bogey, From seeing many a raving Yogi. These haunt your clinic; but the sound Lurk in an unsuspected ground, Dine with you, lecture in your schools, Share your intolerance of fools, And, while the Yogi you condemn, Listen, say nothing, barely smile. : Oif you but suspected them Your silence would match theirs awhile ! A Classical Re…
1929 · PDF PAGE 447
…l, legal and similar expenses; to solve the problem of rent, and so on. We offered all the fabled advantages of socialism without in any way interfering with individual dignity and independence. I can hardly be blamed for the catastrophe which has temporarily suspended the work. During the war the Grand Treasurer became insane. His character changed completely. He developed a form of persecution mania, in which his oldest and best friends seemed to him to be conspiring against him. Abetted by a dishonest solicitor, he alienated the whole of the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…ism than the carnival at Nice is Christianity. Iota Omega Pi Alpha Nu ! But the matter does not end there. Official science, which can always be relied upon to discover at last what everybody has always known, has just proclaimed the fact that certain states of mind possess the property of performing what used to be called miracles, and that such states may be evoked by the constant repetition of formulae and similar practices. The whole of Eastern ceremonies, from the evolutions of dancing girls to the austerities of ascetics, have all been de…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…meared with blood his stone Priapus. They are as sane as politicians And people who subscribe to missions. This says but little ; a long way are Yogi more sane that such as they are. You have conceived your dreadful bogey, From seeing many a raving Yogi. These haunt your clinic ; but the sound Lurk in an unsuspected ground, Dine with you, lecture in your schools, Share your intolerance of fools, And, while the Yogi you condemn, Listen, say nothing, barely smile. O if you but suspected them Your silence would match their awhile ! A Classical Res…
1929 · PDF PAGE 31
…ery hard to remember the order in which they occurred. There are, moreover, {72} curious contradictions in myself against which I seem always to be stumbling. For example, as late as 1894, I think it must be, I find myself writing hymns of quite acceptable piety. One was published in "The" "Christian;" it began: I am a blind man on a helmless ship Without a compass on a stormy sea. I cannot sink, for God will hold me up, etc. Again, I wrote a poem on the death of my Aunt Ada, which I thought good enough to include in my Songs of the Spirit, and…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…I have named is unintentional, though perhaps unavoidable; and though the presumption is, of course, absurd, yet a straw will show which way the wind blows as well as the most beautiful and elaborate vane : and in this sense it is my most eager hope that I may not unjustly draw a com- parison between myself and the great re- formers of eighty years ago. * So it is usually supposed. Maybe I shall one day find words to combat, perhaps to overthrow, this position. P.S. As, forexample, page 186. original eleven stone three Peacherine.—A. C. As a pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 101
…a month than anyone else in five years. He was living in great discomfort and penury. I offered him the hospitality of my flat. I have always felt that since the occult sciences nourish so many charlatans, it should be one's prime point of honour not to make money in any way connected with them1. The amateur status above all! Hospitality is, however, always allowable. But I was careful never to go beyond the strict letter of the word. Iehi Aour came to stay with me and under his tuition I made rapid progress. He showed me where to get knowledge…
1929 · PDF PAGE 340
…e would suspect a bad motive, put one down as a blasphemer and cut one down with unhesitating cheerfulness. And serve one right! In this way I passed the sentinels and mingled with the crowd. It was a wild tribe from Seoul. The women were present, thought they took no active part, and merely helped to keep the ring. The circle was some thirty feet across. Squatting on its edge were the usual musicians, playing as usual for dear life, while dancing and yelling were a number of men, armed with very small light axes of peculiar workmanship. They w…
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
…direction they wanted to develop, having given them the greatest possible variety of facts from which to choose. We helped them in every way to carry out their choice, but refrained from any efforts to persuade them to pursue any line of study, however necessary it might seem to ourselves. Extending this principle to the world at large, my plan would be to classify children in infancy according to the subtle indications afforded by their gestures and reactions to various stimuli. Any child who showed a desire to read and write would be given ev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 172
…hloroform. The doctor said "No --- the boy will faint with the pain in a few seconds," and he went on washing out the dirt and snipping away loose pieces of flesh, and ultimately stitching up the whole fourteen inches of wound. The game went on for an hour and a half. But the boy never lost consciousness, and never moaned or so much as murmured. We heard nothing from him except a perfectly calm request, about half way through the job, for a drink of water. I did not content myself with admiring the lad's stoicism. His conduct made me suspect th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 433
…nd. I got a friend of mine to enclose it with a letter to say that it was the work of her daughter at Cambridge. (The story ends, by the way, with the widow, unable to endure the horror of knowing what was in store for her and the rest of humanity, urging everybody to blow
1906 · PDF PAGE 244
…”? I imply that the black pig is in the sty. All I have done is to represent the con- version as a change, rather than as merely another way of expressing the same thing. And ‘‘change”’ is really not my meaning either; for change, to our minds, involves the idea of time. But the whole thing is inconceivable—to ratiocination, though not to thought. Note well too that if I say ‘© Absence-of-books is not on the _ table,” I cannot convert it into ‘‘ All books are on the table” but only to ‘‘some_ books are on the table.” The proposition is an ‘“*T”…
1944 · PDF PAGE 50
…red, a little embarrassed, it has been thought a salutary custom to externalise the subcon‐ scious impulse by ceremonial means. It was a way of making confession easy. Of all these fes‐ tivals it may be said that they are representations in the simplest form, without introspection, of a perfectly natural phenomenon. In particular are to be noted the custom of the Easter Egg and the “Poisson d’avril”. (The Saviour Fish is discussed elsewhere in this essay. The preces‐ sion of the Equinoxes has made Spring begin with the entry of the Sun into Ari…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…on of sorrow. This is a simple logical inference form the second Truth, and needs no comment. (4) T HE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH.— There is a way , to be cons idered later, of realising the Third Truth. But we must, before we can perceive its possibility on the one hand, or its necessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets with regard to the Cosm os; and, in particular, to man.2 IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteris tics (which we may predicate of all known existing things: (a) Change. Anikka. (b) Sorrow. D…
1904 · PDF PAGE 112
…ort of nonsense. He analy ses the phe- nomena of mind, adopting Berkeley ’s para- dox that “matter is immaterial,” in a sane and orderly way. The “common-sense Phi- losopher,” whom I leave to chew the bitter leaves of Professer Huxley ’s Essay “On Sensation and the Unity of the Structure of Sensiferous Organs,” observes, on lifting h is arm, “I lift my arm.” The Buddhist ex- amines this proposition closely, and begins: “There is a lifting of an arm.” By this terminology he avoids Teutonic discussions concerning the Ego and Non- ego.2 But how do…