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Page 70 of 1151904 · PDF PAGE 14
…l the Bible, shaking Its boards with laughter as you read Each Sunday. Ibsen43 to a full pit May play in the moon. If (lunars they) They thought themselves to be the play, It’s little the applause he’d get. I met a Christian clergyman,‡ The nicest man I ever met. We argued of the Cosmic plan. I was Lord Roberts, he De Wet.44 * Scots legal term for defendant. † A Romany word for woman. ‡ The Rev. J. Bowley. The conversation described actually occurred in Mr. Gerald Kelly’s studio in Paris. 185 190 195 200 205 210 215 Ascension Day. Moral aspect …
1906 · PDF PAGE 150
…ent down ® in the turbid tide Of the metaphysical lotus-eyed,® And I was-—anyhow, what’s the odds? or What isTruth? The life tolive? The thought to think? Shall I take refuge sald jesting In a tower like once Childe Roland {7 found, blind, deaf, huge, 10 ilate: but . Crowley waits Or in that forest of two hundred thousand for an answer.t Trees,® fit alike to shelter man and mouse, and— Shall I say God? Be patient, your Reverence,? I warrant you'll journey a wiser man ever hence! Let’s tap (like the negro who gets a good juice of it, 16 Cares no…
1906 · PDF PAGE 155
…ll the Bible, shaking Its boards with laughter, as you read Each Sunday. Ibsen* toa full pit May play in the moon. If (lunars they) They thought themselves to be the play, It’s little the applause he’d get. I met a Christian clergyman, t The nicest man I ever met. We argued of the Cosmic plan. I was Lord Roberts, he De Wet.* * Scots legal term for defendant. + A Romany word for woman. t The Rev. J. Bowley. The conversation described actually occurred in Mr. Gerald Kelly’s studio in Paris. Ascension Day. Moral aspect of Christianity to be discus…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
… I,hide my blushes in thy breast, O babe! [Does so; the child weeps] Take it, for God’s sakel [Done. The child smiles. Mrs. Bones. But I thought your birthday was in October. Bowley. It is; and why did I arrange it on that date? Because I knew that I was the Messiah—pass the baby, please !—and that people would celebrate the day according to my word. Mrs. Bones. But why? [BONES signals wildly to her, but in vain. Bowley. Because children born in summer thrive best. Mrs. Bones. But why? Bowley. Brother, you waste alarm. They have ears and hear n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
… unless the “ vividness of each impression " is added to the " number of impressions . Scepticus then shows that it would be possible in thought to construct a scale of vividness from a to n, by which we could erect a formula to express all that a man is . “ For example , he might be : 10 a +33125 b + 890 c + 800112 658 e +992 f + .. + + .n , and , if we can find the ratio of a : b : c : d : e:f : n, we can resolve the equation into a single term , and compare man and man .' It therefore follows that “ all states of conscious ness are single un…
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
…efore prepared to believe anything she might say. And accordingly we get a simple, charming, old-fashioned motherly book, full of kindly thought and real piety; that it may have no objective value for the S.P.R. is quite unimportant for the class of readers whom it is intended to reach, Mrs. Davies is a “professional medium "; of such I have said things which only my incapacity for invective prevented from being severe. But though (no doubt) the phenomena recorded in this book are ‘non-evidcntial,’ I do feel the sincerity of the writer. I am co…
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
…efore prepared to believe anything she might say. And accordingly we get a simple, charming, old-fashioned motherly book, full of kindly thought and real piety; that it may have no objective value for the S.P.R. is quite unimportant for the class of readers whom it is intended to reach, Mrs. Davies is a “professional medium "; of such I have said things which only my incapacity for invective prevented from being severe. But though (no doubt) the phenomena recorded in this book are ‘non-evidcntial,’ I do feel the sincerity of the writer. I am co…
1913 · PDF PAGE 543
…easy and inimitable, like fine music and poetry. It is of her that a charming woman, too friendly to be her rival, said after a ball: “I thought I saw the Holy Bible frolicking.” Now look upon the other side of the sheet! See this other woman who affects the most rigid devotion, and would be scandalized if she heard the angels sing; but her talk is malevolent, her glance haughty and contemptuous; when she speaks of virtue she makes vice lovable. For her God is a jealous husband, and she makes a great merit of not deceiving him. Her maxims are d…
1913 · PDF PAGE 543
…easy and inimitable, like fine music and poetry. It is of her that a charming woman, too friendly to be her rival, said after a ball: “I thought I saw the Holy Bible frolicking.” Now look upon the other side of the sheet! See this other woman who affects the most rigid devotion, and would be scandalized if she heard the angels sing; but her talk is malevolent, her glance haughty and contemptuous; when she speaks of virtue she makes vice lovable. For her God is a jealous husband, and she makes a great merit of not deceiving him. Her maxims are d…
1954 · PDF PAGE 184
… of the Maremma, with the words: "And moreover , in my opinion, Carthage ought to be destroyed." Got it? You teach the mind to push your thought automatically to the very thing from which it was trying to wander. "Yes, I get you Stephen! ... But, Uncle Dudley, come clean, do you always do all this yourself? Don't you sometimes feel embarrassed, or fear that you may destroy the effect of your letter, or 'create a scene' in the public street when you suddenly stop and perform these incomprehensible antics, or simply forget about the whole thing?"…
1906 · PDF PAGE 261
…arn.” This is the corner-stone of Buddhism ; can scien- tific men deny their assent to these words when they look back on the history of Thought in the West; the torture of Bruno, the shame of Galileo, the obscurantism of the Schoolmen, the ‘‘ mystery” of the hard- pressed priests, the weapons carnal and spiritual of stake and rack, the labyrinths of lying and vile intrigue by which Science, the child, was deformed, distorted, stunted, in the interest of the contrary proposition? If you ask me why you should be Buddhists and not indifferentists…
1929 · PDF PAGE 228
…hes were festooned with legions of flying foxes, as they call the species of bat whose breast is furred with marvellous red and white. I thought I would kill a few dozen and make my wife a toque and myself a waistcoat. We went out in a boat not unlike a clumsy variety of punt to catch them in their sleep. They keep no guard; but at the firs gunshot they awake and the air literally becomes dark with their multitude. One has merely to fire into the mass. One of the bats, wounded, fell right on my wife and frightened her. It may have been thirty s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 468
…t of heartbreak, when, after my work had been crowned with success, I found that my two oldest friends understood me so little that they thought it their duty to urge me to justify my conduct to the world by bringing an action against the most scurrilous blackmailing weekly in London. I was the angrier because at the moment I was practically {740} penniless, and because I hoped by submitting in silence a little longer to calumny, to make myself again useful to England in a similar capacity if certain eventualities, which I then thought not impo…
1919 · PDF PAGE 460
… concerned there is in this volume something more than mere promise; the performance is at times remarkable; there is beauty not only of thought and invention—and the invention is of a positive kind—but also of expression and rhythm. There is a lilt ir, Neuburg’s poems; he jas the impulse to sing, and makes his readers feel that impulse.”—The Morning Post. “There is a certain grim power in some of the imaginings concerning death, as ‘The Dream’ and ‘The Recall,’ and any reader with a liking for verse of an unconventional character will find sev…
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…I therefore engaged her to come out every morning an take dictation. I had with me a copy of Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion and bethought myself that I would criticize the preface. The almost unparalleled knowledge of the text of the Bible which I had acquired in early childhood was shocked by Shaw's outrageously arbitrary selection of the texts that sustained his argument. His ignorance of Asiatic life and thought had led him into the most grotesque misapprehensions. I set out to criticize his essay, section by section; but the work gre…
1929 · PDF PAGE 338
…han a touch of mysticism, and a really deep insight into the Cabbala, which he understood although he knew little or nothing about it. I thought I could cure him and undertook the task. My plan in such cases is not to undeceive the patient. I proposed to treat his story as literally true in every way and to fight fire with fire. I said to him: "What you must do is to develop your own magical powers so as to beat your mother at her own game." He had considerable capacity for Magick and understood the object of the measures which I proposed. We b…
1906 · PDF PAGE 99
…iple beauty, and to shape the oars, To raise the mast—— ARGUS. Thy knowledge staggers me! IIow wast thou thus instructed? JASON. By much thought. To clamp the decks—— 1 Argus is wittily characterised as a Scottish shipbuilder.
1909 · PDF PAGE 237
…ver tempting him from the right path. Now he is overcome by a great loneliness, he is cold, he is hungry, he thirsts; the skyline he had thought the summit is but a ridge, and from it he sees ridge upon ridge in endless succession above him. On he toils, at length it is the summit —no! but another ridge and a myriad more. A thousand fiends enter him, a thousand little sleuth-hounds that would tear him back—comfort, home, children, wife; then he says to himself: What a fool am I! At this stage many turn back and crawling into the valley of illus…
1909 · PDF PAGE 368
…lties I cut my own right arm. Having no arm, I could no more kill my wife with an axe. God rewarded me by giving me the power of reading thought, which constitutes an extra sense for me; and to my nose He gave a voice of its own. I was a dentist. Indeed, I have found a new way of extracting teeth without gas. You merely press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—frien…
1909 · PDF PAGE 237
…ver tempting him from the right path. Now he is overcome by a great loneliness, he is cold, he is hungry, he thirsts; the skyline he had thought the summit is but a ridge, and from it he sees ridge upon ridge in endless succession above him. On he toils, at length it is the summit —no! but another ridge and a myriad more. A thousand fiends enter him, a thousand little sleuth-hounds that would tear him back—comfort, home, children, wife; then he says to himself: What a fool am I! At this stage many turn back and crawling into the valley of illus…