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THE SWORD OF SONG 36 So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer ? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer51—tests its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. “O God,” I prayed, “for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times—what a thumping trout ! (This is the only true fish-story I ever heard—give G…
1930 · PDF PAGE 13
…peoples greed. For everyone knew that even if the Jews had wealth, they managed to hide it very successfully, and that they had a nasty way of arranging for protection with people who were too powerful to be bullied, and too good business men to be fooled into killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. So the only motive available was fear, and in those ages where ignorance was fostered with infinite devotion, it was even easier to create a scare about bogies than our propaganda in the recent scrap found it. I was in Venice just before the w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 81
…ime we must win or die.’ ‘Goetia1 expects every God to do his duty,’ he excitedly lunographed to Swarga.2 But Ganesha was already on his way. “The elephant-headed God was in great spirits. ‘Never say die !’ he cried genially , on beholding the downcast appearance of his fellow-conspirator. ‘This’ll break the slate. There is no change in the Arupa- Brahma-Loka !’3 ‘Rupe me no rupes!’ howled the necromancer. ‘Get up, fool!’ roared the God. ‘I have got Perdu R’ Abu elected M aha Brahm a.’ ‘Oh Lord, have you really ?’ said the wizard, looking a lit…
1906 · PDF PAGE 184
…yer. Prayer and averages, Are the results of meditation due to auto- hypnosis ? So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer ®!—test its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. ‘ O God,” I prayed, “‘ for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times--what a thumping…
1909 · PDF PAGE 29
…s. It is terribly annoying, in 3 sense, because this con- ditionis just the opposite of Dharana; yet one knows that it is a stage on the way to Samadhi. So I rise and give confidently the Sign of Apophis and Typhon, and will then regard the reflection of the sweet October Sun in the kissing waters of the fountain. (RS.—I now remember that I forgot to rise and give the Sign.) In vain do I regard the Sun, broken up by the lips of the water into countless glittering stars—abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud—for He whom my soul seeketh…
1913 · PDF PAGE 258
… to a bookshelf in the library of his seat at South Ealing for a copy of his Strange Houses of Sleep when his aged but saintly legs gave way. The aged saint clutched at the bookshelf for support, and a copy of Azoth fell, and narrowly missing the inflamed organ, struck the nobler portions of his body, bruising both great toes severely. So critical did the condition of the aged saint become that Sir Coote O. Key Coote was called in, and found himself obliged to resort to amputation, for unluckily a friend of the aged saint had been offered a cop…
1913 · PDF PAGE 258
… to a bookshelf in the library of his seat at South Ealing for a copy of his Strange Houses of Sleep when his aged but saintly legs gave way. The aged saint clutched at the bookshelf for support, and a copy of Azoth fell, and narrowly missing the inflamed organ, struck the nobler portions of his body, bruising both great toes severely. So critical did the condition of the aged saint become that Sir Coote O. Key Coote was called in, and found himself obliged to resort to amputation, for unluckily a friend of the aged saint had been offered a cop…
1916 · PDF PAGE 3
…omes useless at such times for the very reason that he is an expert. Temporary expedients will not serve. As a matter of fact, this is always more or less subconsciously recognized by the good sense of the people. The hopes which were excited by the election of Mr. Wilson to the presidency were based entirely on the fact that he was not a professional politician. In the same way, in England, to take a recent example, Edward VII was trusted and respected by the people principally because he had won the Derby. The instinct of democracy is always …
1916 · PDF PAGE 7
…ditions of the moment. But, even there, the best epithet that can be applied in praise of such a man is that he is far- sighted; and the way to be far-seeing is to refuse to be obsessed by the expediencies of the hour. And while it is of course impossible to make every particular conform to the general, it can at least be arranged that it should not be in flagrant contradiction to the first principles. As a concrete example, the annexation of conquered countries. Economic or military reasons have often been allowed to over-ride considerations o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
THE EQUINOX LAYLAH. The equerry of Prince Slimanl Out of the way, girl ! [She pus/1e: LEDMIYA roughly/”ram the window] Booty! He must be well and victorious! Bring him in! Now we shall know—good tidings! good tidings! [Shepaces?שקand down .]/?!”שמשמ /”?[6711631151 with a young girl. ACHMET. The duty of my Lord! Good tidings from the battle. The spoils of my lord's spear! He prays you to keep her among the women until he return and place her in his harem. LAYLAH. A man! He is a man! I have borne a man- child, a lion, a conqueror! ACHME'I‘. Indee…
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…olles, “I accept your kind invita— tion; I abandon the Church for the Tavern." They turned into the Taverne du Pantheon, threading their way through the professors and their mistresses, a clever, incurious,domestic, fascinating crowd. “I kiss your hands and your feet, and I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1911 · PDF PAGE 96
THE EQUINOX LAYLAH. The equerry of Prince Slimanl Out of the way, girl ! [She pus/1e: LEDMIYA roughly/”ram the window] Booty! He must be well and victorious! Bring him in! Now we shall know—good tidings! good tidings! [Shepaces?שקand down .]/?!”שמשמ /”?[6711631151 with a young girl. ACHMET. The duty of my Lord! Good tidings from the battle. The spoils of my lord's spear! He prays you to keep her among the women until he return and place her in his harem. LAYLAH. A man! He is a man! I have borne a man- child, a lion, a conqueror! ACHME'I‘. Indee…
1911 · PDF PAGE 124
…olles, “I accept your kind invita— tion; I abandon the Church for the Tavern." They turned into the Taverne du Pantheon, threading their way through the professors and their mistresses, a clever, incurious,domestic, fascinating crowd. “I kiss your hands and your feet, and I will tell you the joke before lunch; so that you may repent in time if it is not amusing In your ear, enchantressl The truth is—I am a great man.” She saw it in a flash. ”Then, my friend, I must bury you I" " In your hair I ” he cried. She had huge rolling masses of 116
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
…te man. So that we must understand that this “black insanity" of which Fra. P. speaks was a private little insanity of his own; it in no way interfered with the normal working of his magnificent and heroic brain. Not to be turned aside from any purpose, however trivial, once he had formulated it, we find him leaving Tengyueh-Ting {or the wildest mountains and deserts of Western China. 12
1912 · PDF PAGE 52
…te man. So that we must understand that this “black insanity" of which Fra. P. speaks was a private little insanity of his own; it in no way interfered with the normal working of his magnificent and heroic brain. Not to be turned aside from any purpose, however trivial, once he had formulated it, we find him leaving Tengyueh-Ting {or the wildest mountains and deserts of Western China. 12
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
…oligan, as one might picturesquely call him, sketches on the hoardings as he whistles, a further proof of our hypothesis, that wit in no way presides at those mani- festations, and that it would be above all sovereignly absurd to recognize in them the intervention of spirits released from the bondage of matter. The Jesuit, Paul Saufidius, who has written on the manners and customs of the Japanese, tells us a very remark- able story. A troop of Japanese pilgrims one day, as they were traversing a desert, saw coming towards them a band of spectre…
1913 · PDF PAGE 528
…oligan, as one might picturesquely call him, sketches on the hoardings as he whistles, a further proof of our hypothesis, that wit in no way presides at those mani- festations, and that it would be above all sovereignly absurd to recognize in them the intervention of spirits released from the bondage of matter. The Jesuit, Paul Saufidius, who has written on the manners and customs of the Japanese, tells us a very remark- able story. A troop of Japanese pilgrims one day, as they were traversing a desert, saw coming towards them a band of spectre…
1954 · PDF PAGE 320
…re eager to make appointments to be received in audience; then you break them without warning, explanation, apology or regret. You are always going to have ample time to devote to the Great Work; but that time is always somewhere after the middle of next week. If you put half as much enthusiasm into what you quite rightly claim to be the most important factor in life as other old ladies do into Culbertson Contract, you might get somewhere. What you need, in the way of a Guru, is some fat, greasy
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…sonian era , a poetic pre - Raphaelite , that , strictly speaking , a conscious and musical irregularity became admissible , wedging its way in , and splitting up the metrical structure of perfect scansion . In “ Atalanta in Calydon we find a further break ing away from the dramatic formalities inaugurated during the post - restoration era : Swinburne seeking a more perfect model in the old Tragedies of Greece . This had already been partially carried out by Keats , who definitely broke away from the Miltonic style of Wordsworth and Coleridge ,…
1909 · PDF PAGE 15
…’s the taste I like. And the more I munch, the more complacent I feel, until I go so far as to offer my critics a bite. This sounds in a way like the “ Interior Certainty ” of the common or garden Christian; but there are differences. The Christian insists on notorious lies being accepted as an essential part of his (more usually her) system; I, on the contrary, ask for facts, for observation. Under Scepticism, true, one is just as much a house of cards as the other; but only in the philosophical sense. Practically, Science is true; and Faith i…