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Page 58 of 871929 · PDF PAGE 56
…an is compelled by the monogamic system to develop his character by means of corrupt society vampires or women of the lower classes, and though he may learn a great deal from these sources, it cannot but be unfortunate that he has no opportunity to learn from women of his own birth, breeding, education and rank in society. Now, monogamy has very little to do with mongyny; and should have less. Monogamy is only a mistake because it leaves the excess women unsatisfied and unprovided for. But apart from this, it provides for posterity, and it is g…
1904 · PDF PAGE 34
…is bashful head, and no god altered the dread fiat, uttered even below half- cock : Thus far, and no farther ! My own modest arborvitae, though, as you may guess, shared no such disabilities. Advancing, I showed its quiet dignity to the first lady. This woman, who had so great an influence upon my after life, merits a few words of description. By race a full-blooded Ne- gress, by profession a threepenny-uprighter, by education a woman of singular charm and spiritu- ality, by inclination a sapphist and cocksucker, by disease a barrel, she was as…
1919 · PDF PAGE 127
… as in all other effort to name it, is the root of every fal- sity and misapprehension, since all words imply some dual- ity. Therefore, though I call it Light, it is not Light, nor absence of Light. Many also have sought to describe it by contradictions, since through transcendent negation of all speech it may by some natures be attained. Also by images and symbols have men striven to express it: but always in vain. Yet those that were ready to apprehend the nature of this Light have understood by sympathy: and so shall it be with you who read…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…e not guillo- tined? I was not, sir, retorted the other passionately. At that time capital punishment was never inflicted in France, though not officially abrogated. I may say, he added, with the pride of a legislator, that my action lent considerable strength to the agitation which led to its reintroduction. No, sir, I was not guillotined. I was sentenced to perpetual imprisonment in Devils Island. He shud- dered. Can you imagine that accursed Isle? Can your fancy paint one tithe of its horror? Can nightmare itself shadow that infern…
1929 · PDF PAGE 47
…an- dle, or else takes monstrous forms. Here was the overwhelming truth; in death man lives again, and lives for ever. Yet we might have thought of it; the phantasmagoria of life which throng the mind of a drowning man might have suggested something of the sort to any man with a sympathetic and active imagination. Worse even than the thoughts themselves was the apprehension of the thoughts ere they arose. Carbun- cles, boils, ulcers, cancers, there is no equivalent for these pustules of the bowels of hell, into whose seething convolutions Arthu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 320
… spiritually stronger than you. You should have dominated her by your superior strength on other planes. She will give you much trouble, though eventually she may become a great aid. But your shorter path lies by Egypt and S. W. (Ouarda) though she is not spiritually your equal. S. W. has been your enemy; but you have conquered, she is bound to aid you as your will. She has been your enemy and that of F. but you returned her hatred, hence her seeming power over you in the present. (Qy. this hearing.) (Qy. was F. hearing correctly) I will give y…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…l, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though Hatha Yoga is the physical Yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control his body, yet is it also Raja Yoga * Vivekananda, “ Karma-Yoga,” p. 62. t As in the case of Jesus, the aspirant, for the joy that is set before him, must dave to endure the cross, despising the shame; if he would be “set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews, xii, 2. ¢ “If there be no interpreter, let him keep sile…
1910 · PDF PAGE 89
…l, seek it of Him, for there is none other that can open for thee the door. Now to dare much is to will a little, so it comes about that though Hatha Yoga is the physical Yoga which teaches the aspirant how to control his body, yet is it also Raja Yoga * Vivekananda, “ Karma-Yoga,” p. 62. t As in the case of Jesus, the aspirant, for the joy that is set before him, must dave to endure the cross, despising the shame; if he would be “set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews, xii, 2. ¢ “If there be no interpreter, let him keep sile…
1922 · PDF PAGE 268
… powers of the man. Could he have divined the reason for our coming to the café? I had the absolute certainty that he knew all about it, though it was humanly impossible that he should. “A very strange theory, that about death,” he said. “I wonder if there’s anything in it. It would really be too easy if we could get out of our troubles in so simple a fashion. It has always seemed to me that nothing can ever be destroyed. The problems of life are really put together ingeniously in order to baffle one, like a chess problem. We can’t untie a real…
1922 · PDF PAGE 326
…ass ablaze with flowers and rolled over and over, tearing up tufts of grass and biting them to overcome our emotions. Dionysus evidently thought it was a game and began to romp; but Hermes, though evidently eager to join in the fun, was held back by his sense of responsibility. “‘ Where on earth did you learn such extraordinary language ? ”’ cried Lou at last, the tears running down her cheeks. Hermes became more serious than ever. “It’s from the Book of the Law. Change not so much as the style of a letter,” he said. We began quite seriously to…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…g on Sunday. But if these expedients salved his conscience, they did nothing to quell Gertrude's incipient tendency to in- dependence of thought and action. There had been a very unpleasant scene when he threw into the fire a book from Mudies (I thought one could have trusted Mudies!) called The Stolen Bacillus, which he under- stood to be of a grossly immoral tendency. (Nasty filth about free love or something, isn't it?) Theodore Bugg was not a sensitive man; excess of intuitive sympathy had not made his life a hell; but he felt that his …
1954 · PDF PAGE 95
…e incarnations, because he knows he will come through unchanged. Therefore you can have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly indestructible. This is also the only explanation of how a "Perfect Being" could create a world in which war, evil, etc., exist. God is only an appearance, because (/ike "good") it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as mystic monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things …
1954 · PDF PAGE 415
…rooted by some form of psycho-analysis. Generally speaking, it is up to you to invent a practice to meet each specific case. One moment, though, about the fear of death. The radical cure is the gaining of the magical memory. (See also AL, I: 58.) The more previous incarnations one can remember, the less important appears the moment when the curve of life dips below the horizon. (One very curious point: when one looks back at the moment of one of one's deaths, one exclaims: "By love! that was a narrow escape, and no mistake!" Escape from what? M…
1929 · PDF PAGE 272
…Hindu much better than I could have done in Calcutta, where the corrosion of civilization has eaten into primitive practice. Moharbhanj, though only thirteen hours from Calcutta, is as far from it morally as it is from London. The people were unspoilt. For the first time I liked Hindus. The maharajah was away for the day. He had sent his Minister of Public works to meet me and entertain me until his return. This gentleman, whose name was Martin, had taken a high degree at Oxford, and had studied science and engineering very thoroughly. No one c…
1922 · PDF PAGE 122
…dven- ture in the fairy tale which we were living. Lou herself was all gush and giggles to an extent which a month earlier I should have thought a shade off. But everything was equally exquisite on this grand com- bination honeymoon. Feccles appeared extremely amused by the encounter. I asked him with the proper degree of concern if he had had my note. He said no, he’d been called suddenly away on business, I told him what I had written, with added apologies. The long journey had tired me deep down. I took things more seriously, though the coca…
1922 · PDF PAGE 158
…oy us? I never took much stock in all those stories about the infernal cunning of the Hun. We heard a“lot about the underground traffic, though, and I think we ought to be able to get it pretty easily.. I don’ t know what’s the matter with us both. It made us a bit better to meet the old crowd, and we thought we'd celebrate.
1929 · PDF PAGE 181
…ction. (German professors two hundred years hence are requested not to confuse the name of this parau with the "little-go" at Cambridge, though both are alike first stages on a lonely climb leading to nowhere.) The glacier was a complete revelation to me. The difference in scale had merely multiplied one's difficulty accordingly in previous matters; but there they become more formidable in a geometrical progression with a big f. In Switzerland one does not seem any moraines over a hundred feet high. Here they run to a thousand or fifteen hundre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 524
…roperty, and it was accordingly sold to a man who was so stupid as not to know that its sole asset was myself, and so fat-headed that he thought he could run it himself. He would not even accept a contribution from me, though I offered him one out of pure kindness. He pretended to be a great friend of mine and I had not realized the dirtiness of the intrigues against me. Well, he had his way and got out just one number. As soon as people found my name absent they would not buy it. Its sudden destruction was the greatest compliment I had ever re…
1904 · PDF PAGE 12
…sgrace downstairs, like a whipped hound outside its masters door. The subject of conversation did not mat- ter. A fool reveals himself, though he talk but of greasing gimlets, in such a fierce light as beat [8]
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…t a thoroughly irra tional system, however well it may work in practice, cannot for ever be maintained against the attacks of those who, though they may be secretly stigmatized as doctrinaires, can bring forward unanswerable arguments. The people had power, but not reason; so were amenable to the fallacies which they mistook for reason and not to the power which they would have imagined to be tyranny. An intelligent plebs is docile; an educated canaille expects everything to be logical. The shallow sophisms of the socialist were intelligible; t…