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Page 35 of 801910 · PDF PAGE 305
… things’ is good]).” In his book, ‘‘ Sri Brahma Dhara,” which contains some of the most astonishing balderdash ever put in print, may be found his philosophy. This is a stewed-up hash of Yoga, Vedanta, and outrageous verbosity. ‘‘ Love,” he writes, “is the force of the magician Maya, and is the cause of all disorder” (it seems to be so even in his exalted position). ‘This force of love—in the state of circumgyration in the extended world— is the cause of all mental movements towards the feeling of easiness or uneasiness: but the mind enjoys ete…
1910 · PDF PAGE 305
… things’ is good]).” In his book, ‘‘ Sri Brahma Dhara,” which contains some of the most astonishing balderdash ever put in print, may be found his philosophy. This is a stewed-up hash of Yoga, Vedanta, and outrageous verbosity. ‘‘ Love,” he writes, “is the force of the magician Maya, and is the cause of all disorder” (it seems to be so even in his exalted position). ‘This force of love—in the state of circumgyration in the extended world— is the cause of all mental movements towards the feeling of easiness or uneasiness: but the mind enjoys ete…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…us, purified under the veil of Mary, will no more weep for her Adonis. The bridegroom is risen to die no more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virg…
1913 · PDF PAGE 360
…us, purified under the veil of Mary, will no more weep for her Adonis. The bridegroom is risen to die no more, and the infernal boar has found death in its momentary victory. Lift yourselves up again, O Temples of Delphi and of Ephesus! The God of Light and of Art is become the God of the world, and the Word of God is indeed willing to be called Apollo! Diana will no more reign widowed in the lonely fields of night; her silvern crescent is now beneath the feet of the bride. But Diana is not conquered by Venus; her Endymion has wakened, and virg…
1916 · PDF PAGE 9
…ion in their intellect. When they add up two and two it always makes four. Even when you have your true prophet, however, it is commonly found that there are difficulties in using him. Firstly, his uncompromising directness, and the fierce quality
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
34 THE STAR IN THE WEST music there can be no poetry , at best but a kind of poetic prose as found in the Prophetic Books of Blake , and in the works of Walt Whitman . Yet in Blake , I think , we do find many consistent irregularities , which have been entirely misunderstood by many of his editors and critics . However , it was not till Swinburne loomed athwart the conscious regularity of the Tenny sonian era , a poetic pre - Raphaelite , that , strictly speaking , a conscious and musical irregularity became admissible , wedging its way in , an…
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
ATTAINMENT BY YOGA. AccorpinG to the Shiva Sanhita there are two doctrines found in the Vedas: the doctrines of “Karma Kanda” (sacrificial works, etc.) and of “ Jnana Kanda” (science and knowledge). “Karma Kanda” is twofold—good and evil, and according to how we live “there are many enjoyments in heaven,” and “in hell there are many sufferings.” Having once realized the truth of “Karma Kanda” the Yogi renounces the works of virtue and vice, and engages in ‘“‘ Jnana Kanda ”—knowledge. In the Shiva Sanhita we read: * In the proper season, various…
1910 · PDF PAGE 76
ATTAINMENT BY YOGA. AccorpinG to the Shiva Sanhita there are two doctrines found in the Vedas: the doctrines of “Karma Kanda” (sacrificial works, etc.) and of “ Jnana Kanda” (science and knowledge). “Karma Kanda” is twofold—good and evil, and according to how we live “there are many enjoyments in heaven,” and “in hell there are many sufferings.” Having once realized the truth of “Karma Kanda” the Yogi renounces the works of virtue and vice, and engages in ‘“‘ Jnana Kanda ”—knowledge. In the Shiva Sanhita we read: * In the proper season, various…
1909 · PDF PAGE 70
…out”! It would be so easy to write a sun-splendid tale of Adonai my Lord and my lover, so as to convince the world and myself that I had found Him! With my poetic genius, could I not outwrite St. f—John (my namesake) and Mrs. Dr. Anna Bonus Kingsford? Yea, I could deceive myself if I did not train and fortify my scepticism at every point. That is the great usefulness of this record; one will be able to see afterwards whether there is any trace of poetic or otherinfluence. But this is my sheet—anchor: I cannot write a lie, either in poetry or abo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
…tical step in carrying * It will be noticed that this is the third sense in which this hard-working word is employed. + The Sutta of the Foundation of the Kingdom of Truth. ¢ [We respect the following noble attempt to rewrite Buddhism in the Universal Cipher, not unaware that the flatulent Buddhists of to-day will eructate their cacodylic protests. An orthodox Buddhist account is to be found in “The Sword of Song,” by A. Crowley, article “ Science and Buddhism.”—ED.] 143
1910 · PDF PAGE 159
…tical step in carrying * It will be noticed that this is the third sense in which this hard-working word is employed. + The Sutta of the Foundation of the Kingdom of Truth. ¢ [We respect the following noble attempt to rewrite Buddhism in the Universal Cipher, not unaware that the flatulent Buddhists of to-day will eructate their cacodylic protests. An orthodox Buddhist account is to be found in “The Sword of Song,” by A. Crowley, article “ Science and Buddhism.”—ED.] 143
1913 · PDF PAGE 579
…k to life with the most tender words. After an hour and a half of these attentions, Leriche held a mirror before the patient’s face, and found the glass slightly clouded. They redoubled their efforts, and soon ob- tained a still better marked sign of life. They then put him in a well warmed bed, and a few hours afterwards he was entirely restored to life. The name of this person was Candy. He lived from that time without ever being ill. In 1845 he was still alive, and was living at Place du Chevalier du Guet, 6. He would tell the story of his r…
1913 · PDF PAGE 579
…k to life with the most tender words. After an hour and a half of these attentions, Leriche held a mirror before the patient’s face, and found the glass slightly clouded. They redoubled their efforts, and soon ob- tained a still better marked sign of life. They then put him in a well warmed bed, and a few hours afterwards he was entirely restored to life. The name of this person was Candy. He lived from that time without ever being ill. In 1845 he was still alive, and was living at Place du Chevalier du Guet, 6. He would tell the story of his r…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…as they were to Fra Lippo Lippi in Brownings im- mortal poem, and Art seemed a halfway house. Suiting the action to the thought, I soon found my- self in Paris, and rooms in a dirty little basement in the Montparnasse Quarter. My next-door neighbours were photographers, one, by name L..s, calling himself an artist, and his partner H...s, pluming himself upon his business capacity. L..s was the son of a charlatan parson once well known in Eng- land as a mountebank, while his mother, disgusted that he was a boy, brought him up as a girl, as far …
1907 · PDF PAGE 120
…gs like soap and eating, Till he could give the world a bisque, ten spells in thirty, and a beating. Well, at the age of eighty-eight he found himself the One-horse Wire For the Iehannum Maiden Plate—by Satan, out of Lake 0’ Fire. So, calling Iblis of the jinn (a god among the damned Ghebersl) He offered up a final sin to play a last joke on the neighbours. The deed was signed in fire and blood; and ere the mom was dewy wet An hog for the Muezzin upstood, and chanted from the Minaret. “ There is no God! no God! (he sware) Mohammed was a charlatan…
1907 · PDF PAGE 149
…her on in this same series of poems we come across an almost more lurid description of this Mes saline in “ The Jilt,” in which her new -found lover feasts off the agony of her last victim , which still moistens her blood -red lips : His death lends savour to our passionate life ; His is the heart I taste upon your tongue ; His death -spasms our love -spasms , my wife ; His death -songs are the love -songs that you sung ! Ah ! Sweet , each kiss I drink from you is warm With the dear life -blood of a man-a man ! The scent of murder lures me , li…
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…mb, all giddy and vibrant with perfume and emotion. “And once an old mother’s head, gray and weary with its long rolling down the years, found on me the unexpected peace and happiness of the old. For the old are so lonely, and no one is their friend. . . . So, my brothers, I give you the key of all her secrets except that secret which she shares with Time and herself. “T can make all plain except my own mystery, which is the tragedy of everyone, worm, or man, or God. “Blaspheme no more in such childish, imitative fashion! 323
1910 · PDF PAGE 341
…mb, all giddy and vibrant with perfume and emotion. “And once an old mother’s head, gray and weary with its long rolling down the years, found on me the unexpected peace and happiness of the old. For the old are so lonely, and no one is their friend. . . . So, my brothers, I give you the key of all her secrets except that secret which she shares with Time and herself. “T can make all plain except my own mystery, which is the tragedy of everyone, worm, or man, or God. “Blaspheme no more in such childish, imitative fashion! 323
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…ded. The bullet broke his jaw, tore away four molars, smashed the cheek-bone, pulped the right eye, and, glancing from the frontal bone, found its billet in the ceiling. He lost consciousness and fell. His head struck the grate where yet smouldered the ashes of the photograph. It was three months before he recovered, and then with only half a face to face the world with. He still thinks that Gertrude gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus." But he is wrong; the boys have their aesthetic reasons for the name. Ger…
1912 · PDF PAGE 101
…ded. The bullet broke his jaw, tore away four molars, smashed the cheek-bone, pulped the right eye, and, glancing from the frontal bone, found its billet in the ceiling. He lost consciousness and fell. His head struck the grate where yet smouldered the ashes of the photograph. It was three months before he recovered, and then with only half a face to face the world with. He still thinks that Gertrude gave him away, for the street-boys have taken to calling him “old Venus." But he is wrong; the boys have their aesthetic reasons for the name. Ger…