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Page 61 of 791929 · PDF PAGE 129
…he more real body, this real body being a subtle and invisible thing. 2. This substance need not be conceived as “material” in the crude sense of Victorian science; we now know that such phenomena as the rays and émanations of radioactive substances occupy an intermediate position. For instance, mass is not, as once supposed, necessarily imper¬ méable to mass, and matter itself can be only interpreted in terms of motion. So, as to “prana”, one might hypothesize a phenomenon in the ether analogous to isomerism. We already know of bodies chemical…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
… closed. Martin refused to see the Ithacans or to receive the Communion with them, and their fury at this is eloquent testimony of their sense of his power. They appealed to Maximus, who delivered over Martin bound to them. But in the night Maximus sent for Martin, argued, coaxed, persuaded him to compromise. The schism would be great, he persisted, if Martin continued to exasperate the Ithacans. Martin said he had nothing to do with persecutors. In wrath the Emperor let him go, and gave orders to the Tribunes to depart to Spain and carry out a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 308
… closed. Martin refused to see the Ithacans or to receive the Communion with them, and their fury at this is eloquent testimony of their sense of his power. They appealed to Maximus, who delivered over Martin bound to them. But in the night Maximus sent for Martin, argued, coaxed, persuaded him to compromise. The schism would be great, he persisted, if Martin continued to exasperate the Ithacans. Martin said he had nothing to do with persecutors. In wrath the Emperor let him go, and gave orders to the Tribunes to depart to Spain and carry out a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 120
… grave the cradle of the free. TWO SONNETS ON HEARING THE MUSIC OF BRAHMS AND TSCHAIKOWSKY. To C. G. LAMB. I. My soul is aching with the sense of sound Whose angels trumpet in the angry air ; Wild mzenads with their fiery snakes en- wound In the black waves of my abundant hair. Now hath my life a little respite found In the brief pauses exquisite and rare ; In the strong chain of music I am bound, And all myself before myself lies bare. Drown me, oh, drown me in your fiery stream! Wing me new visions, fierce enchanting birds! Peace is less dear…
1944 · PDF PAGE 44
…eads to that conclusion. This is by way of Introduction to a thesis most necessary to the understanding of the Tarot. Each card is, in a sense, a living being; and its relations with its neighbours are what one might call diplo‐ matic. It is for the student to build these living stones into his living Temple.
1929 · PDF PAGE 154
… all things are made up of ten different sorts of vibrations, each with a different gamut, and each corresponding to a "planet." Our own senses being built up similarly, they only register these when they are combined. Hence, a "lunar" being, purified of other elements, would be imperceptible. And if one, by emphasizing the lunar quality in oneself, began to acquire the power of perceiving similar beings, one would begin by perceiving them as tenuous and elusive; just, in fact, as is observed to be the case. We are therefore justified in regard…
1929 · PDF PAGE 111
…should hâve been different from what I actually am, and therefore my relations with him would hâve been otherwise than they are. In this sense, therefore, the letter and the journey are causally connected. “One cannot go farther, and say that in this case I ought to Write the letter even if he had arrived before I did so; for it 75 —
1929 · PDF PAGE 182
…s as though a fight were in progress "in that fell cirque." But nothing ever crossed the path itself, and she would walk along it with a sense of the most curious lightness and pleasure. It was often her intention to go to the towers; but always she was deterred from doing so by the Old Lady. It was at a sharp turn of the path round an immense boulder that this individual usually appeared, coming from a cleft in its face. On the first occasion she had herself greeted the Old Lady, asking if she could assist her. For the Old Lady was seated on t…
1911 · PDF PAGE 175
…ng. A rose dies if you remove the root and stalk, Mr Pryse ! He is unfortunately a poor scholar, and has developed the American literary sense to an incredible point. He translates oiKpaa'm, “ impotence, lack of control,” as “sensuality,” ἄγγελος as “divinity,” and gives us “saucers" for “vials "l Unfortunately, too, he has studied Eastern Mysticism at second-hand, through Theosophical spectacles. Nor has he kept even to Blavatsky the genius, but relied upon her commentators, who had neither her learning nor her experience. But he has the key, …
1911 · PDF PAGE 175
…ng. A rose dies if you remove the root and stalk, Mr Pryse ! He is unfortunately a poor scholar, and has developed the American literary sense to an incredible point. He translates oiKpaa'm, “ impotence, lack of control,” as “sensuality,” ἄγγελος as “divinity,” and gives us “saucers" for “vials "l Unfortunately, too, he has studied Eastern Mysticism at second-hand, through Theosophical spectacles. Nor has he kept even to Blavatsky the genius, but relied upon her commentators, who had neither her learning nor her experience. But he has the key, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 28
… the Dignity of Scientific Research." There was no need to press home the bitterness of [43] his speech; Lisa was already conscious of a sense of shame at assisting at such degrading imbecilities. "Baby" relinquished the bottle, and began to crawl after one of the celluloid balls, which had rolled off the table when they moved it. She found
1907 · PDF PAGE 121
…ailing past ! Live, love for ever, now, in every deed ! DESESPOIR. INTO the inmost agony of things She sees, through glamour of untrusty sense, The full corruption of omnipotence, The infinite rage of fishes to have wings, The lust of beasts for tentacles; caught thence Corollary, syllogism, she strides tense Into the inmost agony of things. So, fearless, amid gods and evil kings, She sits, poor wretch, eternal scientist, Straining mild muscles, leaving to its list The spasm-shaken body. So she flings The teeth-set fate of Fortune’s face un kis…
1905 · PDF PAGE 111
…nce of all thought : No sorrier sexton in a grave inters The nobler children of a poet’s mind Of wine and gold well wrought. By the poor sense of touch they judge that this Or that is real or not. Have they divined This simplest spirit-bond, The joy of some bad woman’s deadly kiss ; The thought-flash that well tunes a lover’s mind Seas and gray gulfs beyond? So that which is impalpable to touch, They judge by touch; the viewless they decide By sight; their logic fails, Their jarring jargon jingles—even such An empty brazen pot—wise men deride T…
1905 · PDF PAGE 185
…s gibber as the brands burn low ; Old shapes of hate, young phantoms of desire More hateful yet, shatter and change and grow. There is a sense of terror in the air, And dreadful stories catch my breath and bind me, Soft noises as of breathing: unaware What devils or what ghosts may lurk behind me! Even my horse is troubled : vain it is Invoking memory for sweet sound of youth ; The song, the day, the cup, the shot, the kiss ! This night begets illusion—ay ! the truth. I know the deep emotion of that birth, When chaos rolled in terror and in thu…
1907 · PDF PAGE 183
…adly shrine, Pour the dark stream of blood, A sleepy and reluctant river Even as thou drawest, with thine eyes on mine, To me across the sense-bewildering flood That holds my soul for ever ! The night falls back ; The shadows give place; The threefold form Appears in the black, As a direful face Half seen in the storm. I worship, I praise The wonderful ways Where the smitten rays Of darkness sunder. The hand is lifted ; The gates are rifted ; The sound is as thunder ! She coines to the summons, Her face as a woman’s, Her feet as a Fear’s, Turne…
1929 · PDF PAGE 18
…eat difficulty with regard to spiritualism? It is that of proving the identity of the dead man. In practice, since we [28] have lost the sense of smell on which dogs, for instance, principally rely, we judge that a man is himself either by anthropometric methods, which have nothing to do with the mind or the personality, or by the sound of the voice, or by the handwriting, or by the contents of the mind. In the case of a dead man, only the last method is available. And here we are tossed on a dilemma. Either the 'spirit' says something which he…
1939 · PDF PAGE 6
… its slime. The mind hath not even a mist to excuse philosophic pretence Of a substance; at most it distorts some few of the phantoms of sense. Its reason is ever astray, its ignorance straitens its span; It ends in the mystery-night whence its clumsy creation began. It observes, it reflects, it decides as the slave of unconscious desires, Knows neither the world nor itself, nor stands for an hour but it tires. It struts in its pageant of pride, yet at heart is aware it is vain, And its summit of proof is to prove nothing proven, and itself but…
1929 · PDF PAGE 194
… show him how to be rid of Douglas! Instantly the plan came to him; he remembered that "Annie" was high-priestess of Hecate in a greater sense than himself; for she was notorious as an open advocate of this kind of murder; indeed, she had narrowly escaped prison on this charge; he would tempt Douglas to rid himself of "Annie" — and then betray him to her. So powerful was the emotion that consumed him that he trembled with excitement and eagerness. To-night was a great night: it was a step in his initiation to take part in so tremendous a ceremo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 53
… conquered. Never cease thou from the fight. Alas! ere long a useless log, this body on the earth will lie Contemned of all, and void of sense and understanding’s unity. What foe may wreak on foe, or hate work on the hated from the hater, Surely an ill directed mind on us will do a mischief greater. Father and mother, kith and kin, of these can none do service kind So great to us, as to ourselves the good direction of the mind. IV. FLOWERS. O who shall overcome this earth, the world of God’s and Yama’s ! power ! Who find the well taught Path as…
1929 · PDF PAGE 42
…fled Theology. "Science advances; we now find that all things are subject to law. There is no need of any mysterious creator, in the old sense; we look for causes in the same order of nature as the effects they produce. We no lounger propitiate ghosts to keep our fires alight. "Now, at last, I and a few others are asking whether the whole universe be not illusion, in exactly the same way as a true surface is an illusion. "Perhaps the universe is a four-dimensional object, or collection of objects, quite sane, and simple, and intelligible, manif…