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…aves a very unpleasant impression wherever he goes. If I were not an Englishman I should say that the feeling I had for him was not very far removed from actual fear! CARR. Well said, sir. Hearts of oak in the City, eh? [ossory glares at him suspiciously, Eurnemia both enjoys the joke and is angry that her father is the butt of tt. EUPHEMIA. Well, I’m not afraid of him—I think I rather like him. I’m sure he’s a good man, when one knows him. IV P 217
1910 · PDF PAGE 235
…aves a very unpleasant impression wherever he goes. If I were not an Englishman I should say that the feeling I had for him was not very far removed from actual fear! CARR. Well said, sir. Hearts of oak in the City, eh? [ossory glares at him suspiciously, Eurnemia both enjoys the joke and is angry that her father is the butt of tt. EUPHEMIA. Well, I’m not afraid of him—I think I rather like him. I’m sure he’s a good man, when one knows him. IV P 217
1910 · PDF PAGE 102
…s is very inferior, and would have to be transferred to the early part of the odes. Which the secret key-number forbids. Habib is by now far too high an adept to fall away from Grace.
1954 · PDF PAGE 394
BEINGS I HAVE SEEN 361 by-law; in fact, I shall ask you to be content with Buer as far as details go; I never saw anything of importance with purely physical sight with anything like the clarity of my adventure on Mont Collon. Yes, as I think it over, that by-law is to thank. This Spring I saw very plainly, on four separate occasions, various beings of another order than ours. I was ass enough to tell one or two pupils about it. ... And I've never been able to see any more. This, however, it is a positive duty to tell you. One can acquire the p…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
… friend ?— But yet with no uncertain trend Unto Nibbana in the end. I do not even dare despise Your doctrines, prayers, and ceremonies ! Far from the word “you’ll go to hell !” I dare not say “you do not well !” I must obey my mind’s own laws Accept its limits, seek its cause : My meat may be your poison ! I Hope to convert you by-and-by ? Never ! I cannot trace the chain60 That brought us here, shall part again Our lives—perhance for aye ! I bring My hand down on this table-thing,61 And that commotion widens thus And shakes the nerves of Siriu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 131
…k, come back, Eurydice.” “ Fling down the foolish lyre, the witless power.” Complains of the antithesis of desire and power --‘' Le¢ the far music of oblivious years,” Laments—'‘ How can one hour dissolve a year's delight,” Tells of his wooing—'"' Jn child-like meditative movd,”’ Eurydice’s song—*' O shape half seen of love, and lost.” Continues the tale of his wooing—'‘‘ Such tune my fulling body snapped.” Invokes Aphrodite—‘' Daughter of Glory, child.” Continues the tale of his wooing—'‘' / caught the lavish lyre, and sate.” Eurydice’s song—‘…
1910 · PDF PAGE 121
…hinks, No worship, but a member-spade.5 1. The Sodom-fable is to be found in the XVth chaper of the Q’uran. Moslems accept the Bible, so far as it goes. Only they regard the Christian as the Christian regards the Jew : as one not up-to- date. Big fleas have small fleas, etc. quoth the bard ; and the modern follower of El Baab and the Baha-i-Ullah says the same to the orthodoxMus- lim. 2. An allusion to a well-known tale, perhaps to be identified in Alf Laylah wa Laylah. A chief re- turning from some expedition, finds his favourite wife in the e…
1911 · PDF PAGE 118
…And there was darkness over all the earth unto the ninth hour. And with that the Angel is withdrawn, and the pyramid of light seems very far off. And now I am fallen unto the earth, exceeding weary. Yet my skin trembles with the impact of the light, and all my body shakes. And there is a peace deeper than sleep upon my mind. It is the body and the mind that are weary, and I would that they were dead, save that I must bend them to my work. And now I am in the tent, under the stars. THE DESERT BETWEEN BOU-SAADA AND BISKRA. December 8, 1909. 7+10-…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
…ll that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, far from being able to impose them on others, does not even impose them on himself. “These,” says religion, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, since …
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…placed her beside some of the Virgins which they dare to exhibit in certain churches. One realizes evil in books of morality ill-written far more than in the poetry of Catullus or the ingenious Allegories of Apuleius. There are no bad books, except those which are badly conceived and badly executed. Every word of beauty is a word of truth. It is a light crystallized in speech. But in order that the most brilliant light may be produced and made visible, a shadow is necessary; and the creative word, that it may become efficacious, needs contradic…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
…ll that we are not, He is the infinite opposed to the finite by hypothesis. Faith, and consequently hope and love, are so free that man, far from being able to impose them on others, does not even impose them on himself. “These,” says religion, “are graces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, since …
1913 · PDF PAGE 538
…placed her beside some of the Virgins which they dare to exhibit in certain churches. One realizes evil in books of morality ill-written far more than in the poetry of Catullus or the ingenious Allegories of Apuleius. There are no bad books, except those which are badly conceived and badly executed. Every word of beauty is a word of truth. It is a light crystallized in speech. But in order that the most brilliant light may be produced and made visible, a shadow is necessary; and the creative word, that it may become efficacious, needs contradic…
1903 · PDF PAGE 19
…inity by the creation of an absolute, As this cannot be done in reality, the process is illusory, yet itis useful in the early stages—as far at any rate, as the fourth stage of Dhyana, where the Buddha places it, though the Yogis claim to attain to Nirvikalpa- Samadhi, and that Moksha is identical with Nirvana; the former claim I see no reason to deny them the latter statement I must decline at present to accept. The task of the Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows; He must plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, aspira…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
… assisting to us Thy poor servants, both now and for ever. * This explanation, or rather paraphrased prayer, only exists in one codex as far as my knowledge goes. The Qabalist will remark that the orthography of several of the Qabalistical names is incorrect. I give it, however, as it stands.—TRans. [In any case it is worthless ; the names mean nothing of the sort.—ED.| 48
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…r pharmaceutical treatises, though, as this drug is more potent psychologically than physically, all strictly medical accounts of it, so far as I am aware, have been hitherto both meagre and misleading. Deeper and clearer is the information to be gained from the brilliant studies by Baudelaire, unsurpassed for insight and impartiality, and Ludlow, tainted by admiration of de Quincey and the senti- mentalists.* * At the time of writing this article, I had only glanced rapidly through Baudelaire’s essay. When I made the experiments, I knew only L…
1909 · PDF PAGE 44
…r pharmaceutical treatises, though, as this drug is more potent psychologically than physically, all strictly medical accounts of it, so far as I am aware, have been hitherto both meagre and misleading. Deeper and clearer is the information to be gained from the brilliant studies by Baudelaire, unsurpassed for insight and impartiality, and Ludlow, tainted by admiration of de Quincey and the senti- mentalists.* * At the time of writing this article, I had only glanced rapidly through Baudelaire’s essay. When I made the experiments, I knew only L…
1911 · PDF PAGE 101
THE VISION AND THE VOICE her desolation, and greater far is mine, who sought to be my naked self. Knowest thou that in my soul is utmost fear? And such is my force and my cunning, that a hundred times have I been ready to leap, and for fear have missed. And a thousand times am I baulked by them of the City of the Pyramids, that set snares for my feet. More knowledge have I than the Most High, but my will is broken, and my fierce- ness is marred by fear, and I must ever speak, speak, speak, millions of mad voices in my brain. With a heart of fur…
1922 · PDF PAGE 329
…the food seemed to be in keeping! Besides that, we had no time to be critical; we were overwhelmed by the beauty of our surround- -ings. Far away to the west, a line of hills ran out into the sea, the farther peaks were over fifty miles away, yet in that ‘translucent atmosphere of spring they stood out sharply. We could even see in front of the range a small, dark line of crags which jutted out parallel with them and about ten miles nearer. Thence the coast line swept towards us in a complex curve of indescribable beauty and majesty. Telepylus …
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
THE HASHEESH EATER cient for the action of a drama; the last left me in complete ignorance of any point far enough back in the past to date the commencement of the sentence. Its enunciation might have occupied years. I wasnot in the same life which had held me when I heard it begun. And now, with time, space expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distanc…
1910 · PDF PAGE 265
THE HASHEESH EATER cient for the action of a drama; the last left me in complete ignorance of any point far enough back in the past to date the commencement of the sentence. Its enunciation might have occupied years. I wasnot in the same life which had held me when I heard it begun. And now, with time, space expanded also. At my friend’s house one particular arm-chair was always reserved for me. I was sitting in it at a distance of hardly three feet from the centre table around which the members of the fantily were grouped. Rapidly that distanc…