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Page 22 of 1081954 · PDF PAGE 333
…e specific gravity and other physical properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through all this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the schoolmen of old believed, making all things for man's benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is inertia. And in these meditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any speculations sentimental or fantastic . Second Method-The Practice Proper. Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging …
1898 · PDF PAGE 106
…god, And based my forehead for thy pride And took thy bastard for my bride, Subdued my shoulders to thy rod, Casting before thy feet the things, The virtues that thou didst hate ; I trod A bloody winepress, and went shod
1904 · PDF PAGE 54
…at him.) And what if it were ? ANGELA. My carriage waits — yonder. SIR PERCY. Ah come, come, come ! ANGELA. Dare I ? SIR PERCY. Dare all things ! I will this delight ; it shall be. And in five years we can marry, or my guardian will consent before. ANGELA. Come ! (They go off slowly, closely entwined, kissing and whispering.) SIR PERCY. You are faint with passion, love. You walk heavily. ANGELA. Ay, love, it is to feel your strength support me ! (Aside.) Will the doctors never catch up with the coiffeurs ? GHREUMOCH, coming forward, as he sees …
1911 · PDF PAGE 12
…hat is Thou. For blazing in Thy blessed womb Glitters the CHRIST, a star of doom To cast the stars of evil kings Into the blind abyss of things. Hail, Mary, hail ! Thou didst conceive The Holy Child whom we believe. Draw Thou our loyal spirits hence In rapture and in reverence ! Still be the beatific balm To heal, to comfort, and to calm ! Still make to bud the barren rod, And bring our spirits back to GOD ! Amen. W 5
1916 · PDF PAGE 17
greatest social and international problems are equally deep and dulcet. He would not put anything right. He would gently rearrange things so that they went right of their own accord. Evidences of such proposals are to be found in these amazing letters. Let the reader then consider carefully this matter. Let him understand that in Mr. Stuart we have not merely the wise man, or the strong man, or the good man, but the necessary man. The eyes are clear, the heart is pure, and the hand works in entire harmony with them. When the anarchy which exist…
1938 · PDF PAGE 11
…h with the fire of His blood, that transforms them to these: At His feet is only the Earth, and that He breaks up into flowers; but all things that live are assumed to the Heart of the Master. With that I cease to be myself at all: I am absorbed into His adorable essence, and my life is equally shed throughout the endless Aeons of Creation. Ay!there is nothing separate any more at all; wherefore the Vision faileth, the Seer being one with the Seen.
1905 · PDF PAGE 94
…rife With loftier dew— I know the deep truth in myself ; see acacia in cypress and yew. Death is not at all! ’Tis a mask or a dream! The things that befall Only slumber or seem ! They fear; they appal— They are not as ye deem! Death died when I dipped my lyre in the sweet Heli- conian stream! Give praise to your lord, All souls that draw breath, All flowers of the sward! For the song of me saith: 95
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…rbaric seas Ringing the icy North Thus suddenly sprung forth Come ye to mar mine — ease ? For I was nigh at peace With the great soul of things. IST SATYR Hail, king of Kings ! It is our Master’s will That thou partake Of — this ! So do the goat and snake Dance on the pavement of sapphire To the sound of the wind-haunted lyre. And the light of a lewd understanding Shines in them, and they lick their lips, and spill Slaver of the stars ! Hail, king ! With Him fulfil The sacrament of earth Imperiously commanding That leaps again to birth At the d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 227
…1 The music swings me , lying slack And limp and tired ; and now it's day , And now it's night , and I'm away With queer inconsequential things , While still the music swings and swings . I hardly listen to the sound Which yet slips in and laps around Work - sodden brain and listless sense . . . “ An ecstasy for eighteenpence " I think — and then I wonder why I thought of that . Perhaps I try To listen , and I watch the flies Dancing about the light , till eyes Grow dazed and numb . . . Then suddenly The music grips me , thrills to me With litt…
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…urselves in vain speculations of profit- less subtleties,” says the Dhammapada, “let us surrender self and all selfish- ness, and as all things are fixed by causation, let us practise good so that good may result from our actions.” Just as if it could possibly be done if “ all things are fixed.” The Buddhist, in theory having postulated that all fowls lay hard- boiled eggs, adds, the ideal man is he who can only make omelettes. 132
1910 · PDF PAGE 148
…urselves in vain speculations of profit- less subtleties,” says the Dhammapada, “let us surrender self and all selfish- ness, and as all things are fixed by causation, let us practise good so that good may result from our actions.” Just as if it could possibly be done if “ all things are fixed.” The Buddhist, in theory having postulated that all fowls lay hard- boiled eggs, adds, the ideal man is he who can only make omelettes. 132
1954 · PDF PAGE 384
…rowning, Titian, and Mozart in terms of lutchers' meat. We might alter that incorrect truism "money annot buy anything worth having" to "Things worth having annot be estimated in terms of money." You see, no ounting. The operation to save your child's life: do you are if the surgeon wants five pounds or fifty? Of course, you [lay not have the fifty, or be obliged to retrench in other vays to get it; but it makes no odds as to what you feel bout it. What is the value of a University Education? The nswer is that it is a pure gamble. The student m…
1903 · PDF PAGE 66
…above. I ask not, and will take no share With you in what mankind call love. We know each other: you and I Have nought to do with lesser things. With them—'tis chance or destiny : With us, we should but burn our wings. 64
1913 · PDF PAGE 217
…e a fan that 's silver rounded , For the bay is sandy bounded , Stretching to the flowery highlands Of the heart of Old Japan . Here are things that Westerns share not , Here business , time and haste compare not In the dull or in the clever With the peace of mind of man ; Here with joy in mist and glamour , Droning chant and ringing clamour , Naked children play for ever Simple games of Old Japan . 198
1954 · PDF PAGE 267
…Reason," "The Way," "TO ON." None of these convey any true conception of the Tao. The Tao is Reason in this sense, that the substance of things may be in part apprehended as being that necessary relation between the elements of thought which determines the laws of reason. In other words, the only reality is that which compels us to connect the various forms of illusion as we do. It is thus evidently unknowable, and expressible neither by speech nor by silence. All that we can know about it is that there is inherent in it a power (which however …
1922 · PDF PAGE 190
176 The Diary of a Drug Fiend of the things that attracted me most about him was his being so spruce and well-groomed and alert. He has changed altogether, since we came to London. I feel there is some bad influence at work on him... . This place is full of vermin. I found what had been annoying me. I think I shall bob my hair. I’m awfully proud of its length, but one must be practical. . . I am lying down for a bit. It was a frightful nuisance getting ready to go out. Cockie nagged and bullied all the time. I’m stiff all over, and it seems suc…
1922 · PDF PAGE 237
Cold Turkey 223 Besides, the things he says he sees are all horrible and disgusting. But he says nothing at all now, any more. He begins to speak to me and checks himself... . It is very dark to-night. Rain is falling. Peter has gone down to the lake with his gun. I have taken this book from its hiding place. I am horribly frightened. I had no appetite at lunch, and Peter wouldn’t eat. He burst out in a hysterical appeal to me, reminded me of our love, and said he couldn’t believe it was all a sham. Why had I gone into the plot to drive him to …
1930 · PDF PAGE 76
…henomena which inform those perceived projections, and détermine their particular char- acter. “Dry land” is the place of dead “material things”, dry (i.e. unknowable) because unable to act on our minds. “Water” is the vehicle whereby we feel such things; “air” their menstruum wherein these feelings are mentally apprehended. It is called “whirling” because of the instability of thought, and the fatuity of reason, on which we are yet dépendent for what we call “life”, “Rush- ing Fire” is the world in which wandering thought burns up to swift-dar…
1901 · PDF PAGE 14
xi PROLOGUE Lord of the Gods! O Thou, the King of Kings! To me a sinner, me, Lowest of all that be, Be merciful, O Master Soul of things! Show me thy face of ruth, And in thy way of truth, Guide my weak youth, That stumbles while it walks, makes discord when it sings! So, Mighty Mother! Pure, Eternal Spouse, Isis, thou Star, thou Moon, thou Mightiest, Lead my weak steps to thine Eternal House! Rest my vain head on thine Eternal Breast! Spread wide the wings divine Over this shadowy shrine, Where in my heart their hovering lendeth Light! Bend do…
1903 · PDF PAGE 12
…hrill voice rose in a great curse. The hoarse anger of drunken harlotry snarled back. “ Not a drop more,” shouted my friend, adding many things*. It was time for my return. “ I will let them know,” I whispered. “ Good- bye.” “ ‘ There is not one thing with another ; But Evil saith to Good : ‘ My brother—’ ” he went on unheeding. I left him to his peace. My re-appearance restored harmony. The * The substance of his remarks, and subsequent adven- tures are detailed in my “ Three Screams at Mid- night.”—ED.