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Page 71 of 791929 · PDF PAGE 92
…vitably excreted Shelly and Swinburne. Per contra, seh suited Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde perfectly. Had they been at Cambridge, the nonsense would have been knocked out of them. They would have had to succeed or fail entirely on their own virtues; whereas, as things were, the Oxford atmosphere and the Oxford manner shielded them from the rude blasts of all-round criticism. These ideas receive some support from the consideration of the relations normally obtaining between undergraduates and dons. On the Granta we are no doubt in statu puillari…
1929 · PDF PAGE 297
… faint perfumes stirred the nostrils. The breeze was sweet with burning sandalwood and subtle with the sweat of dainty dancers. Even the sense of touch vibrated with virile joy as one's nerves trembled beneath the beatitude of innocent people swarming on every side. I have noted about this day's march, "Roads everywhere good." "Good" is a relative term. The Chinese have a proverb that a road is good for ten years and bad for ten thousand; most of the particular road I estimated at not less than eight thousand. I actually proposed to being home …
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…he produced some of the finest poetry of which the English language can boast. He had an extraordinary delicacy of rhythm, an unrivalled sense of perception, a purity and intensity of passion second to none, and a remarkable command of the English language. But the other voice was silent, and the noise of waters swept me Back into the world, and I lay asleep on a hillside Bearing for evermore the heart of a goddess, And the brain of a man, and the wings of the morning Clipped by the shears of the silence; so must I wander lonely, Nor know of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 511
…me reward of my immeasurable toils. Fortified and rejoiced by this good news, I began at once to devote myself to research in the strict sense of the word. And then the fun began! I found myself unable to do anything of the sort. I am not quite sure how the circumstances responsible for this fit in with my general situation, but they are well worthy of record for their own sake. I have mentioned elsewhere that in the bosom of the Sanctuary of the Gnosis of the O.T.O. is cherished a magical formula, extremely simple and practical, for attaining …
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…nkind) of what he may expect. There are many magical teachers but in recorded history we have scarcely had a dozen Magi in the technical sense of the word. They may be recognized by the fact that their message may be formulated as a single word, which word must be such that it overturns all existing beliefs and codes. We may take as instances the Word of Buddha-Anatta (absence of an atman or soul), which laid its axe to the root of Hindu cosmology, theology and psychology, and incidentally knocked away the foundation of the caste system; and in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 149
…ion is, of course, absurd, yet a straw will show which way the wind blows as well as the most beautiful and elaborate vane : and in this sense it is my most eager hope that I may not unjustly draw a com- parison between myself and the great re- formers of eighty years ago. * So it is usually supposed. Maybe I shall one day find words to combat, perhaps to overthrow, this position. P.S. As, forexample, page 186. original eleven stone three Peacherine.—A. C. As a promise-keeper I am the } I must apologise (perhaps) for the new note of frivolity i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…TAKES OF MYSTICS I. Since truth is supra-rational, it is incommunicable in the language of reason. II. Hence all mystics have written nonsense, and what sense they have written is so far untrue. III. Yet as a still lake yields a truer reflection of the sun than a torrent, he whose mind is best balanced will, if he become a mystic, become the best mystic. When a friend of mine, or an enemy either, gets into trouble, I go or write to him immediately and put myself entirely at his disposition. I don't so much as ask whether he is in the right or n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…metimes cloudbursts occur and sweep away camps which happen to have been pitched in ravines or depressions; but the most ordinary common sense tells one how to guard against any such accident. They are in terror of brigands and also of numerous varieties of devils. I thought it polite to impress them with my majesty as a Magician. With this object I took Burton's hint that a star sapphire was universally venerated by Moslems, and having bought a very large and fine specimen of this stone in Ceylon and made it into a ring with a gold band of two…
1944 · PDF PAGE 73
…h. In chemistry they appear as acid and alkali, or (more deeply) metals and non‐metals, taking those words in their widest philosophical sense to include hydrogen on the one hand and oxygen on the other. In this aspect, the hooded figure represents the Protean element of car‐ bon, the seed of all organic life. The symbolism of male and female is carried on still further by the weapons of the King and Queen; he bears the Sacred Lance, and she the Holy Grail; their other hands are joined, as consenting to the Marriage. Their weapons are supported…
1929 · PDF PAGE 282
…a man's progress depended upon personal prowess. No doubt this is philosophically absurd, but I still maintain that it is practical good sense. The conversation, nevertheless, turned to considerations of what my Kamma had in store for me. "This might be discovered," he said, "by acquiring the Magical Memory." This is equivalent to Sammasati, Right Recollection, the seventh step on the Noble Eightfold Path. I must explain what this means. The Buddhist theory of metempsychosis does not involve, like the corresponding Hindu idea, the survival of t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 406
…lence, the authorities decided to mutilate Epstein's work. They employed a sculptor, who must, by the way, have been utterly lost to all sense of shame, to fix a bronze butterfly over the "objectionable" feature of the monument. This feature had been quite unnoticeable to any but the most prurient observer. The butterfly, being of different material and workmanship, clamoured for attention to exactly that which it was intended to make people forget. This incidentally is a characteristic of puritan psychology. Nobody would notice that side of na…
1929 · PDF PAGE 541
…mate freedom by setting them tasks for which their nature fits them. In the past, the mob without will or mind have been treated without sense or scruple; a mistake socially, economically and politically, no less than from the humanitarian point of view. We must remember that each man and woman is a star, it is our duty to maintain the order of nature by seeing to it that his orbit is correctly calculated. The revolutions and catastrophes with which history is crammed are invariably due to the rulers having failed to find fitting functions for …
1907 · PDF PAGE 246
… idolaters, ii. 156 But now (you say) broad-minded folk, ii. 156 But, surely, (let me corner you!), ii. 180 But then you argue, and with sense, ii, 180 But thou, O Lord, O Apollo, ii. 35 But to-night the lamp must be wasted, il. 36 But why revile, ii, 147 By palm and pagoda enchaunted, il. 121 By Wisdom framed from ancient days, ii. 97 CALL down that star whose tender eyes, i. 171 Can you believe the deadly will’s decree, i. 254 Chaldean fools, who prayed to stars and fires, lil, 19 Clear, deep, and blue, the sky, i. 49 Cloistral seclusion of t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 102
…to finity ex- tended in innumerable categories, that an incalculably vas t s ystem was produced. Merely by chance, chance in the trues t sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets , devils , colours , forces , and a ll the materials of the Cosm os: and with tim e, space, and causality , the conditions lim iting and involving them all.1 Remember that it is not true to say that our 0 0 existed; nor that it did not exist. The idea of exis tence was just as much un- formulated as that of toasted cheese. But 00 is a finite expres…
1904 · PDF PAGE 123
…in T yndall’s “Scientific Materialism” which I had not previously read: “ Two-thirds of the rays em itted by the sun fail to ar ouse the sense of vision. The rays exist, but the visual or gan requisite for their translation into light does not exist. And so, from this r egion of dar kness and m ystery which now surrounds us, r ays m ay now be darting, which require but the developm ent of the pr oper intellectual organs to translate them into knowledge as far sur passing our s as our s surpasses that of the wallowing reptiles which once held po…
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…e to arrest it, I slo w the process, and render it tem porarily painless, by eating. T his is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat r eally in or der to check change, or to m aintain m y ego- consciousness? Change I desire, for my present condition is sorrow. I really desire the im- possible; completely to retain m y present egoity with all its conditions reversed.—A. C. 2 For an able and luminous exposition of “The Four Noble T ruths” I r efer the r eader to the pam phlet bearing that title by by old friend Bikkhu Ananda M…
1904 · PDF PAGE 112
…nce his fundamental idea to be forced round in a vicious circle of absurdities.1 The Buddhist makes a clean sweep of all this sort of nonsense. He analy ses the phe- nomena of mind, adopting Berkeley ’s para- dox that “matter is immaterial,” in a sane and orderly way. The “common-sense Phi- losopher,” whom I leave to chew the bitter leaves of Professer Huxley ’s Essay “On Sensation and the Unity of the Structure of Sensiferous Organs,” observes, on lifting h is arm, “I lift my arm.” The Buddhist ex- amines this proposition closely, and begins: …
1929 · PDF PAGE 72
…never he finds himself a few yards off the beaten track or is overtaken by bad weather. Scientifically trained minds frequently lose all sense of judgment and logic. There is an account, hardly a century old, of a party of quite distinguished men who ascended Saddleback. They speak of precipitous cliffs and yawning {137} gulfs, though as a matter of fact there is not a rock on the mountain which a child of three years old could call scrambling. They were, in fact on ponies! Shelley's descriptions of Mont Blanc are comically exaggerated; his pow…
1906 · PDF PAGE 274
…n, a savage.” And indeed we are too apt to think of you only as red-faced, drunken, beef-eating boors and ruffans, with no soul and less sense, as if you were all soldiers; or as prim, con- ceited, supercilious, opinionated prigs, as if you were all civilians; or as unspeakable stupidity incarnate in greedy oiliness, as if you were all missionaries. Your highest placed women make virtuous our courtezans by a comparison of costume and manners; if our advices be true, the morality test is suill in favour of our light ones. Your law wisely forbids…
1907 · PDF PAGE 230
…f you have a spark of religion in you, that is, if you are properly a human being, that you will (at the very least) experience a deeper sense of spiritual communion than youghave ever obtained by any course of church-going. After which you will, if you are worth your salt, devote your life to the development of this communion, and to the search for an instructed master who can tell you more than I can. Now the earlier paganism is simply over- flowing with this spirit of communion. The boy goes down to the pool, musing, as boys will; is it stra…