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…Mr. Raven, stung to the quick, had shaken his fist at the major and yelled, "Brother, you're a sinful old man!" Mrs. Cameron "had always known there was something", and invented a ruined governess. But --- oh the laughter of her husband when the telegraph brought the major's retort, "Brother, have you no sin?" --- spoken with an accent of mildness which belied the purple of his face. In short, the meeting at Oban had split. Mr. Cameron had withdrawn from the Lord's supper!!! It was therefore absolutely necessary for both of them to assure thems…
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
…rs from Strategy. A great general does not think of war in the abstract, but confines his attention to a minute part of his perhaps vast knowledge of the subject by considering the disposition of his forces at a given place and hme, and how best to employ them against his adversary. Thi5 is of course true not only of the Trumps, but of all the other cards; and it must be true of any specialised studies. If one goes into a shop and asks for a map of a certain country, one cannot get a complete map, because any such map would necessarily merge in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 271
…We divide the universe into (1) Existing things. (2) Non-existing things. If 4 exists, the line must be zo?-4 - and vice versa. Which we know to be false. (b) It is true that there isa line, and that it does not exist, but— S. Let us settle (a) first, and return at leisure. You fail utterly to make the im- portant distinction between mere absence of line and presence of a non-existing line, which is as gross a fallacy as to argue that a man who has gone out to lunch has been annihilated. M. But he Aas been annihilated, from the point of view of…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…here was a grave difficulty in his mind—an obstacle right away from the w ord ‘Jump !’ Of course there was really a good deal: he didn’t know where the four elements ceased, for example:3 but his own identity was the real worry . The other questions he could have stilled; but this was too near his pet Chakra. 4 ‘Here I am,’ he meditated, ‘above all change ; and yet an hour ago I was Indra ; and before that his flute-girl ; and then a Nat; and then a parrot ; and then a Hathi—“ Oh, the Hathis pilin’ teak in the sludgy , squdgy creek !” sang Para…
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…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 in its evil sense. 2 Ignorance. 3 Doubt. 4 “Bliss-of-non-existence.” One of Crowley’s eastern names. consider the Universe. More, its consciousness seems ingrained in my very nature, perhaps through my having known this for many incarnations. I have never thought otherwise.” ”Rise, Sir Abhav…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…y Percivale and Molly Tyson. Near the ‘‘ Lord’s Table” a brother is standing and praying; he intersperses his prayer with repeated ‘‘you know’s,” like the Cairene bore in Marryat’s novel. ist AGED SISTER (sotto voce). Ves! it’s all so blesséd and romantic, my dear, thank the Lord! They were both brought to Jesus on one night, Ascension Day, as the poor Pagan® bodies call it, through the ministration of Mr. Hogwash, 1 The lotus” position, in which Buddha is commonly represented as sitting. * By Plymouth Brethren all so-called Chris- tian festiva…
1929 · PDF PAGE 132
…Thomas Hardy was a tall, dignified, venerable figure, with a patriarchal beard and manner equally courteous and authoritative. I had not known he was a clergyman --- as his costume assured me. After a little conversation, I began to surmise dimly that there was something wrong, and might have said something tactless if he had not volunteered an account of his literary career and been quite unaware of the existence of the Mayor of Casterbridge. He was the "great" Thomas Hardy, the only and original bird, the chaplain to the forces at Hong Kong a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 482
… of him; nothing can add to the love I have always had for him, or the honour in which I have always held him. protested that he did not know it himself. It didn't matter much then; it doesn't matter at all now. But I want to recall to Eckenstein that I stood pat! I did not ask him to vindicate himself. I do not empanel a jury of jackals to try a lion. I do not believe that Eckenstein was in full possession of his senses when he signed that silly letter. POSTSCRIPTUM: New Year, 1922; two years less two months since I wrote this paper. I "got it…
1929 · PDF PAGE 7
…-haired lady with traces of beard upon her large flat face and a black dress of what he calls bombasine, though to this hour he does not know what bombasine may be, and thinks that the dress was of alpaca or even, it may be of smooth hard silk. And he remembers the first indication that his mind was of a logical and scientific order. Ladies will now kindly skip a page, while I lay the facts before a select audience of lawyers, doctors and ministers of religion. The Misses Cowper consisted of Sister Susan and Sister Emma; the one large, rosy and…
1929 · PDF PAGE 277
277 I passed through the archway. It was as "dark as the pit". (I don't know what pit may be meant.) The alley beyond was somewhat lighter; the sky loomed dull blue-grey above. I noticed various doorways in the walls; also one at the end of the alley; I was in a cul-de-sac. And then I saw, faint glimpses in the gloom, the waving white of native robes. Men were approaching me and I was aware --- through hardly by sight --- that they moved in a semi-military order, in single file. There was noting to alarm me in this it is the habit of natives to…
1907 · PDF PAGE 136
…d my comprehension. The DAILY CHRONICLE says: Here is a master-voice in song, and none the less masterly because of its being entirely unknown. At the fact of its masterliness some persons will cavil; others will doubt it, blaming me in their minds as an injudicious optimist who, in uncut stones, sees finished gems of finest brilliance. But these stones from the mine of true poetry are cut in a manner that says: Here is a hand which has “ waked to ecstasy the living lyre." .4 Crowded Shelf —It has rarely fallen to the lot of a man—so far as my re…
1929 · PDF PAGE 491
…d by half and quarter tones imperceptible to most European ears. His idea was to bring her out to New York. He introduced himself to me, knowing my reputation on Asiatic religions and Magick. I invited them to dine and to pass the evening at my apartment, so that she might sing to the tamboura her repertoire of Kashmiri and other Indian songs. I was charmed and promised to do all I could to make her a success. {773} I introduced them to several influential people and wrote a prose poem about her singing for Vanity Fair. She and I lost no time a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
…aged. They told me that the prosecution had the affidavits of no less than seventy-seven native witnesses. "Ah well," I said. "You don't know much of Ceylon. If there were seven times seventy-seven, I wouldn't swing a cat on their dying oaths. The more unanimous they are, the more it is certain that they have been bribed to lie." I am really glad to think I cheered to old boys up; and I hope that the succeeded in fixing their hero with a halo, though I never heard what happened. I always hated Colombo. My diary reads "Weariness. Dentist." "More…
1944 · PDF PAGE 182
…enign rays, but dealing the sharp rain of death! The Wand has conquered; it has done its work; it has done its work too well; it did not know when to stop; Government has become Tyranny. One thinks of the Hydra when one reflects that King Charles was beheaded in White hall! The Ten of Cups is called Satiety. its attribution is Mars in Pisces. The watery sign has sunk into a stagnant dream, but in it broods and breeds the violent quality of Mars, to putrefy it. As it is written: “Until a dart strike through his liver.” The pursuit of pleasure ha…
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
… has finished the Path—he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become Arahan, a Saint, a Buddha himself.” But none knows better than the venerable Bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps Sammavayamo and above, that these interpretations are but reflections of those upon a higher plane— the scientific plane. They are (I have little doubt) for those who have attained to them mnemonic keys to whole classes of pheno- mena of the- order anciently denominated magical, phenomena which, since the human m…
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…inite Space". Very good: and what is the message? What shall I teach men? And like lightning from heaven fell upon him these words: "THE KNOWLEDGE AND CONVERSATION OF THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL." So again we read (in the diary) on February 11th: "Made many resolutions of a G. R. (Great Retirement). In dream flew to me an angel, bearing an ankh, to comfort me." We may now transcribe the diary. We find the great mind, the complex man, purged through and through of thought, stripped of all things human and divine, centred upon one single aspiration, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
… themselves, r eserves all gr ound within 50 feet of a dagoba. The incident described in this section actually occurred in 1901. 2 Siam. know a thing or two about Indra, for example——’ “It was done. Beautiful was the young girl’s face as s he s prang mature from the womb of Matter, on her life-journey of an hundred thousand y ears. Of all Indra’s flute-girls she played and sang the sweetest. Yet ever some remembrance, dim as a pallid ghost that fleets down the long avenues of deodar and moonlight, stole in her brain; and her song was ever of lo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…ss have done so, whatever name I had chosen. {141} 17 I began my last year at Cambridge with my moral decks cleared for action. I didn't know where I was going, but I was on the way. I was thus quite ready for the perception of the First Noble Truth, but also for an entirely new current to influence my life. Towards the end of the October term I met a man named Herbert Charles Jerome Pollitt. He was an M.A., ten years older than myself, and had merely come up to Cambridge to dance for the F.D.C. (Footlights Dramatic Club). I saw him only once o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 462
…arentage. Few indeed of the first class have been born of intellectually developed families. The conditions of genius are not accurately known. But we may divide the class into two great groups; those in whom the development is a system of degeneration, and those who, though sometimes exhibiting the most exquisite fruition, fail to attain full development and achieve the work of which they should be capable through their frailty. The men whose achievement is uniform are always constitutionally robust; despite all difficulties they attain a grea…
1929 · PDF PAGE 49
… thing they knew about climbing. But I was amazed beyond measure to find that I was a much better rock climber than my guide. He did not know what rock climbing was, judged by Cumberland standards! I had no experience of snow and ice; so here, of course, I was the reverent disciple. Imagine my astonishment, then, when after two or three days Pingerra slipped and fell on a perfectly easy snow slope. He was entirely unable to do anything to save himself and I had to pull him up on the rope. I retained my faith in Badminton by saying to myself tha…