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Page 134 of 2251954 · PDF PAGE 506
… total result is that the mental as well as the physical system is quite unable to grasp the situation with any accuracy , and the whole man is temporarily engulphed in what is naturally not far from a condition of insanity. In-shall I say "Anglo-Saxondom," or "Teutonic breeds," or "bourgeoisie ," so as to include some of the French whom when they are good are very good indeed , but when they are bad, they are horrid? - the presiding God/Gods of this Trinity is/are: l. Sex, 2. Religion, 3. "Drugs" ; and the greatest of these is Sex, actually th…
1909 · PDF PAGE 24
…tte and drunk a little water, in case the headache is from hunger. (P.S.—It was so; the food cured it at once.) I now lie down as Hanged Man and say mantra in Visuddhi. I must really note the curious confusion in my mind between the Visuddhi Cakkram and that part of the Boulevard Edgar Quinet which opens on to the cemetery. It seems an identity. In trying to look at the Cakkram, I saw that. Query: What is the connection, which appeared absolute and essential? I had been specially im- pressed by that gate two days ago, with its knot of mourners.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 51
…that all these people are mad when they do these things, and their standard 01 pleasure and pain consequently so different from the sane man’s as to be incomprehensible. Look at my Uncle Toml who goes about the world bragging of his chastity. The maniac is probably happy—a peacock who is all tail! And squawk. Look at the Vegetarians and Wallaceites and all that crew of lunatics. They are paid in the coin 01 self- conceit. I shall waste no pity on them! υ 49
1909 · PDF PAGE 64
… good—bones—truth—lights—liver—mind—blessing —heart——-one and not of a series—ante and pass the buck." The common sense of the practical man of the world is good enough {or me! Will G. R. S. Mead or somebody wise like that tell me why it is that if I get out of my body and face (say) East, I can turn (in the “ astral body") as far as West-Sou’-West or thereabouts, but no further except with very great difficulty and after long practice? In making the circle, just as I got to West, I would swing right back to West—Nor’-West: turn easily enough, i…
1910 · PDF PAGE 105
…, we know ; let, then, the writing go ! That, in the very deed, we do not know. 14. It may be in the centuries of our life Since we were man and wife There stirs some incarnation of that love.
1912 · PDF PAGE 83
…sed upon most persons by doubt, modesty, and diffidence,1 further there15, one may suppose, a real clarification. In any case, the mass of mankind is always ready to be swayed by anything thus authoritative and distinct. History is full of stories of officers who have walked unarmed up to a mutinous regiment, and disarmed them by the mere force of confidence. The power of the orator over the mob is well known. It is, probably, for this reason while that the prophet has been able to constrain mankind to obey his law. It never occurs to him that any …
1912 · PDF PAGE 89
…ng, and if (on the whole) ordinary life is something, how much more mus that be by whose light ordinary life seems nothing! The ordinary man sees the falsity and disconnectedness and purpose-
1913 · PDF PAGE 381
… same. Like the Jews, we believe Him to be present everywhere, but, as they ought to do, we believe Him living, thinking and loving in humanity, and we adore Him in His works. We have not changed His law, for the Jewish Decalogue is also the law of Christians. The law is immutable because it is founded on the eternal principles of Nature; but the worship necessitated by the needs of man may change, and modify itself, parallel with the changes in men themselves. This signifies that the worship itself is immutable, but modifies itself as language…
1913 · PDF PAGE 381
… same. Like the Jews, we believe Him to be present everywhere, but, as they ought to do, we believe Him living, thinking and loving in humanity, and we adore Him in His works. We have not changed His law, for the Jewish Decalogue is also the law of Christians. The law is immutable because it is founded on the eternal principles of Nature; but the worship necessitated by the needs of man may change, and modify itself, parallel with the changes in men themselves. This signifies that the worship itself is immutable, but modifies itself as language…
1954 · PDF PAGE 253
… a very long time! And what you expect is to see my middle stump break the wicket-keeper's nose, with the balls smartly fielded by Third Man and Short Leg! I admit that it looks like a strong case. Here (you put it in your more elegant prose) we have a Yogi, nay more, a Paramahamsa, a Bodhisattva of the best; yea, further, we have a Master of the Temple-and is not his Motto Vi Veri Vniversum Vivus Vici? and yet we find him fussing like an old hen over the most trivial of troubles ; we find him wrapped in the lacustrine vapours of Avernus, frett…
1954 · PDF PAGE 256
… born a few hours earlier, with Aries rising, its lord Mars aggravated by the square of Sol and Venus, you would indeed have been a Wild Man of the Woods, arrogant, bigoted, domineering, incapable of seeing a second side to any question, headstrong, haughty, a seething hell-broth of hate; and this fact disables your judgment." All perfectly true. My equable nature is congenitally hostile to extreme measures, except in imagination. I cannot bear sudden violent movements. Climbing rocks, people used to say that I didn't climb them, that I oozed o…
1961 · PDF PAGE 216
…etter, for it is mine especial Gift, and hath Radiance of the Light of my Wisdom, and flameth, being the Blood of my Love of thee and of Mankind. Also, it is the Word of my Will, the Charter of the Liberty of my Soul, and thine, and that of every Man, and every Woman; for we are Stars. O my Son, for many Days was I silent, until thou wast fearful lest thou hadst, by Ignorance or by Inadvertance, enkindled the Fire of my Wrath. But I spake not, because I knew in my Wisdom that thou must pass a certain Ordeal of thine Initiation by thine own Virt…
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…s none other God than He." Oh how the good converted Fiend Worries those Postulants unweaned! Though now he dances deosil He pounds them many a purging pill. He cleans them from their piggish food; He brings them to beatitude. “ Hua is God!" quoth Asmodee: “ There is none other God than He.” A silence ensued. At last, from Denzil: You mean very much what the Hindus mean by their doctrine of Maya? Exactly so; but of course they cannot mean what they say. The thinkable is false. All our attempts to crystallize Truth in words are just as futile as…
1907 · PDF PAGE 132
…linging to the Chaste often reacts , hurling its unfortunate aspirant into the arms of Lubentina . The lust after God and the lust after man are near akin . A woman crossed in love and debarred from enjoying the sweet em braces of her lover , will embrace in his stead the sour feet of her God . Similarly , Magdalene , having passionately sought love , and having lost the skein of her desires in the labyrinthine byways of lust , threw her weeping form at the feet of Him in whom she found the ideal of her affection , washing those dusty feet with…
1909 · PDF PAGE 132
… tion of The Utmost God Hid i’ th’ middle 0’ matter, the inscrutable mystery of the nature of common things. With what awe does the wise man approach a speck of dust! And it is this Mystery that I approach! For Thou, Adonai, art the immanent and essential Soul of Things ; not separate from them, or from me; but That which is behind the shadow—show, the Cause of all, the Quintessence of All, the Transcender of all. And Thee I seek insistently; though Thou hide Thy- self in the Heaven, there will I seek Thee out ; though Thou wrap Thyself in the …
1909 · PDF PAGE 8
… EQUINOX it thought ?” The Buddhist may find it easy to image an act without an agent; I am not so clever. It may be possible for a sane man; but I should like to know more about his mind before I gave a final opinion. But apart from purely formal objections, we may still inquire: Is this Cogétatur true? Yes; reply the sages; for to deny it implies thought; Negatur is only a sub-section of Cogitatur. This involves, however, an axiom that the part is of the same nature as the whole; or (at the very least) an axiom that Ais A. Now, I do not wish …
1910 · PDF PAGE 107
…k ? Enough ; I see This I can answeror Ernst Haeckel can ! Now, God Almighty, rede this mystery ! What of the love that is the heart of man ? Take stars and airs, and write it down ! Fill all the interstices of space With myriad verseown Thy disgrace ! Diminish Thy renown ! Approve my riddle ! This Thou canst not do. 17. O living Rose ! O dowered with subtle dew Of love, the tiny eternities of time, Caught between flying seconds, are well filled With these futilities of fragrant rime ; In Loves retort distilled, In sunrays of fierce loathing…
1912 · PDF PAGE 182
…EQUINOX [Goes to cupboard and hrings ale and glasses. Seeing himself alone, he whispers, Safe ! Safe| dropping into the furtive, gleeful manner. Then suddenly HE seems to listen intently. All this time the others are heard of talking and laughing. HE goes R, shuts door, goes to place where corpse is, listens with ear to floor. With great terror, rising to his knees] JACK. It is—it is—low, slow, and solemn, but it is— again—again! God! Great God! they will hearl [Voiees louder, returning. JACK resumes hisfolly manner and shufiles about, pouring ou…
1912 · PDF PAGE 182
…EQUINOX [Goes to cupboard and hrings ale and glasses. Seeing himself alone, he whispers, Safe ! Safe| dropping into the furtive, gleeful manner. Then suddenly HE seems to listen intently. All this time the others are heard of talking and laughing. HE goes R, shuts door, goes to place where corpse is, listens with ear to floor. With great terror, rising to his knees] JACK. It is—it is—low, slow, and solemn, but it is— again—again! God! Great God! they will hearl [Voiees louder, returning. JACK resumes hisfolly manner and shufiles about, pouring ou…
1913 · PDF PAGE 356
…t die! The proof of it is the enthusiasm of our children, who mean, one day, to be also soldiers of the old guard! Napoleon is no more a man: he is the very genius of France, he is the second saviour of the world, and he also gave for a sign the cross to his apostles. St. Helena and Golgotha are the beacons of the new civilization; they are the two piles of an immense bridge made by the rainbow of the final deluge, and which throws a bridge between the two worlds. And can you believe that a past without aureole and without glory, might capture …