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Page 23 of 1591910 · PDF PAGE 288
…ome, probably, about as universal as anybody’s, when I chanced to be called to take care of some one making the experiment for the first time (and I always was called), by the faintest word, often by a mere look, I could tell exactly the place that my patient had reached, and treat him accordingly. Many a time, by some expression which other bystanders thought ineffably puerile, have I recognised the landmark of a field of wonders wherein I have travelled in perfect ravishment. I understood the symbolisation, which they did not. Though as perfe…
1910 · PDF PAGE 288
…ome, probably, about as universal as anybody’s, when I chanced to be called to take care of some one making the experiment for the first time (and I always was called), by the faintest word, often by a mere look, I could tell exactly the place that my patient had reached, and treat him accordingly. Many a time, by some expression which other bystanders thought ineffably puerile, have I recognised the landmark of a field of wonders wherein I have travelled in perfect ravishment. I understood the symbolisation, which they did not. Though as perfe…
1929 · PDF PAGE 24
… MAGDALEN BLAIR PART I I IN my third term at Newnham I was already Profes- sor Blair's favourite pupil. Later, he wasted a great deal of time praising my slight figure and my piquant face, with its big round grey eyes and their long black lashes; but the first attraction was my singular gift. Few men, and, I believe, no other women, could approach me in one of the most priceless qualifications for scientific study, the faculty of apprehending minute differences. My memory was poor, extraordinarily so; I had the ut- most trouble to enter Cambrid…
1922 · PDF PAGE 60
…as equally exquisite. Of course, Paris lays herself out especially to deal with people in just that state of mind. We were living at ten times the normal voltage. This was true in more senses than one. I had taken a thousand pounds in cash from London, thinking as I did so how jolly it was to be reckless. We were going to have a good time, and damn the expense! I thought of a thousand pounds as enough to paint Paris every colour of the spectrum for a quite in- definitely long period; but at the end of the week the thousand pounds was gone, and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 121
ACTUS QUINTUS 23 Of very Time, and plunge success False winged into sure-foot distress! Hail to black Ares! Warrior, hail! Thou glory of the shining sword! What proven armour may avail Against the vengeance of the Lord? Athena’s favour must withdraw Before the justice of thy law! Hail to the Lord of glittering spears The monarch of the mighty name, The Master of ten thousand Fears Whose sword is as a scarlet flame! Hail to black Ares! Wild and pale The echo answers me: All Hail! EXPLICIT ACTUS QUINTUS. CHISWICK PRESS: PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTIN…
1923 · PDF PAGE 3
MIG Some men are lost to every sense of shame : They use to call their country by its name. Abhorred offence ! it was indeed high time For Mussolini to suppress the crime. Perish the wretch whose Tyrolean soul Fails to blot out the accurséd name — Tyrol ! Ah Mussolini ! you have yet to learn What quality of flame is wont to burn In mountain air. ’Twere wiser not to risk Meeting the glacier breed of Basilisk. Tempt not the spirit of the Storm ! Mine eye Sees through the darkness of futurity, The modern Gessler meet a modern Tell — Tyrol ! hunt M…
1912 · PDF PAGE 126
THE EQUINOX these the only good? No; for these benefits absorb only part of the time and energy of man. Is it good to chop wood? Yes, undoubtedly; but it is also good to render woodcutting in art. Then why should not the woodcutter be an artist? Why should he not chop miracles of carving? The Michael Angelo of Fontainebleau? Why not? What does Browning say? “I want to know the butcher paints, the baker rhymes for his pursuit," and so on. Very well ; then what do you do that is truly good? That is, unnecessarily, supererogatively, and therefore s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 126
THE EQUINOX these the only good? No; for these benefits absorb only part of the time and energy of man. Is it good to chop wood? Yes, undoubtedly; but it is also good to render woodcutting in art. Then why should not the woodcutter be an artist? Why should he not chop miracles of carving? The Michael Angelo of Fontainebleau? Why not? What does Browning say? “I want to know the butcher paints, the baker rhymes for his pursuit," and so on. Very well ; then what do you do that is truly good? That is, unnecessarily, supererogatively, and therefore s…
1919 · PDF PAGE 390
… frozen bed of snow- capped heights, heights that are trodden by no sinful foot. We find the talented Author again in difficulties, this time with Botany. By the “boundless Vision” is not meant the stupid Siddhi, but one of the forms of Samadhi, perhaps that upon the snake Ananta, the great green snake that bounds the Universe. 70. No Arhan, O Lanoo, becomes one in that birth when for the first time the Soul begins to long for final liberation. Vet, O thou anxious one, no warrior volunteering fight in the fierce strife between the living and th…
1922 · PDF PAGE 149
… over to me. It was addressed to Laroche. “Urgent bisnes oblige live for Roma night. Pay bill packup join me Museo Palace Hotel Napls in time to cach miday train. Pendragon.” The words were mostly mis-spelt ; but the meaning was clear enough. Some one must be playing a practical joke. Probably that paragraph in the paper was part of the same idea. So I supposed Laroche was in the hotel in Naples wondering why we didn’t turn up. “But where's our luggage ?’”’ cried Lou. “Why,” said the manager, “‘ your Ladyship’s courier paid the bill as usual. T…
1919 · PDF PAGE 169
A MASTER OF THE TEMPLE Mind must have been well concentrated as time passed quickly. (Sounds rather good. O.M.) July 7. Note. This afternoon, while reclining in an easy chair, nearly fell asleep; instead, however, I concentrated for some while. On being asked by R. to go and do some little thing for her, I put hands over eyes before rising, and saw a light so peculiar that it is worth mentioning. It had the appearance of being three distinct things at once. Dead black, a beautiful night-sky-blue, but at the same time the very essence of it was …
1922 · PDF PAGE 325
Out of Harm's Way 311 feeling grew that we had somehow strayed into an enchanted country. At the same time the country was enchanting. Dionysus was all on fire to get us up to the Abbey, and tugged at our arms. | ““ Now Di,” said Hermes, “ you know it’s wrong to pull at people like that. It’s one of the rules,” he explained to Lou, “ not to interfere with people. Big Lion says that every one would get on all right if only he were left alone.” He seemed to think the statement required explana- tion. ‘“‘ Cypris is reading Gibbon to us this week ;…
1929 · PDF PAGE 38
Time for your medicine, eh? No, I explained, he means that he is in the sev- enth circle of Dante's Hell. At that instant he entered on a period of noisy delir- ium. Wild and prolonged howls burst from his throat; he was being chewed unceasingly by Dis; each howl sig- nalled the meeting of the monster's teeth. I explained this to the doctor. No, said he, he is perfectly uncon- scious. Well, said I, he will howl about eighty times more. Doctor Kershaw looked at me curiously, but began to count. My calculation was correct. He turne…
1907 · PDF PAGE 270
…atigues To build another stupid soul For fools to call another world ? Where then thy fame, O soul sublime ? Where then thy victory over Time ?? Some few work out its gigantic columns of intricate fractional figures , and close for ever the huge volume before them ; yet the multitude works on , and though individually they may falsify and erase , scribble over , or blot out ; yet never at any moment is the inaccu racy of one single mite discounted in the general balance ; so the bitter tears of one man go to blot out the sweet laughter of anoth…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
… and so on—through countless ages of insane hallucination. The same criticism applies to space; for in practice we judge of space by the time required to pass through it, either by the small angular or focussing movements of the eye or by our general experience. So that if I cross a room, and think a million thoughts on the way, the room seems immense. It is by the tedium of the journey, not by any hallucination of the physical eye, that this illusion is produced. In writing my notes on one occasion I found that my right arm (which of course is…
1909 · PDF PAGE 57
… and so on—through countless ages of insane hallucination. The same criticism applies to space; for in practice we judge of space by the time required to pass through it, either by the small angular or focussing movements of the eye or by our general experience. So that if I cross a room, and think a million thoughts on the way, the room seems immense. It is by the tedium of the journey, not by any hallucination of the physical eye, that this illusion is produced. In writing my notes on one occasion I found that my right arm (which of course is…
1930 · PDF PAGE 16
…nged operation. They thought nothing of exposing some unknown substance to the rays of the sun and moon for periods of three months at a time, in the hope that in some mysterious way the first stage of some dimly-visaged operation might be satisfactorily accomplished. And even if they sacrificed a child every day, it would have taken a matter of two and a half years to dispose of 800 children. Besides, it must have taken more than a few minutes to kidnap a child with the secrecy obviously required. Did the disappearance of the first four hundre…
1907 · PDF PAGE 241
…s of the pure Reason . To each accordingly is opposed a contradictory assumption (p . 87 ). Thesis Antithesis I The world is infinite in time The world has a beginning ( boundary ) in time and space . and space .
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…he Finished Work. Buddha. 33m. The best Meditation I have so far done. I regard this as a veal medi- tation; for 13 minutes quite forgot time. Rose on planes of n''b-n‘3"3 * from Malkuth to Kether. August 5th. Meditated on Thoth concerning Frater I.A. 6th. Arrived at Colombo. We now arrive at another turning-point in the progress of P. Up to the first of this year 1901 he had studied Western methods of Magic alone, from this date, at first under the tuition of D. A., and then solely under his own mastership, he had begun to study Raja Yoga, pra…
1910 · PDF PAGE 139
…he Finished Work. Buddha. 33m. The best Meditation I have so far done. I regard this as a veal medi- tation; for 13 minutes quite forgot time. Rose on planes of n''b-n‘3"3 * from Malkuth to Kether. August 5th. Meditated on Thoth concerning Frater I.A. 6th. Arrived at Colombo. We now arrive at another turning-point in the progress of P. Up to the first of this year 1901 he had studied Western methods of Magic alone, from this date, at first under the tuition of D. A., and then solely under his own mastership, he had begun to study Raja Yoga, pra…