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…prettily-told fairy-story ‘for babes and sucklings’ has ‘explanatory notes in Hebrew and Latin for the wise and prudent’—which notes, as far as we can see explain nothing —together with a weird preface in scraps of twelve or fifteen languages. The best poetry in the book is contained in the last section—‘The Stone of the Philosophers.’ Here is some fine work.”
… since the evidence of the senses and the mind cannot confirm its statements. The evidence from prophecy and miracle is valid only in so far as it goes to the credit of the man through whom the communication is made. It establishes that he is in possession of knowledge and power different, not only in degree but in kind, from those enjoyed by the rest of man kind. The history of mankind teems with religious teachers. These may be divided into three classes. 1. Such men as Moses an Mohammed state simply that they have received a direct communica…
…ophy. Then, especially from the angle of Mathematical Physics, its own generals betrayed its dogmatism. The essence of Science to‐day is far more mysterious than the cloudiest speculations of Leibnitz, Spinoza or Hegel; the mod‐ ern definition of Matter reminds one irresistibly of the definition of Spirit given by such mys‐ tics as Ruysbroek, Boehme and Molinos. The idea of the Universe in the mind of a modern mathematician is singularly reminiscent of the ravings of William Blake. But the mystics were all wrong when they were pious, and held t…
…ng time, conversed of the weather, the crops, the affaire Hum bert, and the law in relation to motor-cars, with ease and affability. But far was it from Indra’s pious m ind to flirt with his distinguished guest ! Rather, he thought of the hollow nature of the Safe, the change of money and of position; the sorrow of the too confiding bankers, and above all the absence of an Ego in the Brothers Crawford. “While he was thus musing, Bhavani got fairly mad at him. The Spretæ Injuria Formæ gnawed her vitals with pangs unassuageable : so, shaking him …
… our Father being cunning to place Ale ph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he sojourned far, and cam e to a great Emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts . And the Emperor (who is Solomon) told him of Sheba’s Land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. So he journey ed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour a nd light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden ; even the cubica…
…. However, that comes later. 1. Oxford was anathema maranatha to my Uncle Tom. Keble! Manning!! Newman!!! Procurers to the lords of hell far subtler and more fearful than Darwin, Huxley and Tyndall. 2. One might surely argue that His most generous device was the adaptation of tobacco to the nerves of taste and smell. 7 "The best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley." Even so cunning a combination of rat and ape as my Uncle Tom made occasional mistakes, and one of these was very fortunate for me. He engaged a tutor names Archibald Douglas, …
…usness,”’ as they style it, is the very purpose of the Universe. Myst. They were so enamoured of the Ananda—the bliss Scept. Presumably. Far be it from me to set myself up against them; but I may more modestly take the position that ‘‘self- consciousness” is a mere phenomenon; a bye-product, and no more, in the laboratory of life. Afyst. Alas: I can think no better of you for your modesty : whoso would make bricks without straw may as well plan pyramids as hovels. Sevpt. Your stricture is but too just. Teleo- logy * isa science which will make …
) WHY JESUS WEPT What follows ts strictly by request in the interest of “healthy optimism.” So far my pen has touched with vivid truth The constant story of the eternal struggle Of age and sense with flatulence and youth. Now—-see the venal poet start to juggle ! Young ladies, you desire to see a comedy ! ‘The poet’s master pen shall twist the river Of song into a simple to-and-from eddy, And you shall laugh where once you feared to shiver. So listen to the happy termination Of this apparently so sad relation ! Twill suit your rosy dreams to ad…
246 SCIENCE AND BUDDHISM shriek of a peripheral anguish. Here we leave the domain of fact; but at least as far our knowledge extends, all or nearly all the operations of Nature are vanity and vexation of spirit. Consider food, the desire for which periodically arises in all conscious beings.! The existence of these desires, or rather necessities, which I realise to be mine, is unpleasant. It is this desire inherent in me for continued consciousness that is responsible for it all, and this leads us to the Third Noble Truth. (3) SoRROW’S CEASING.…
…ourse our relations "were" rather peculiar, when all was said and done. Anyhow, there was nothing to say. Rose was a charming woman, but far from an intellectual companion. Her brother's friends being for the most part addicted to art or literature, it was her custom to carry a volume of Browning in her dressing- case, and she would ask people to fetch it for her, which impressed them. She didn't have to read it. Again, whenever a conversation flagged, she would remark thoughtfully: Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! "Twas all she…
…W.C. Near to Chancery Lane, the Inns of Court, and First Avenue Hotels. A GREEN GARLAND vV. B. NEUBURG Green Paper Cover 2s. 6d. net “As far as the verse is 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 in Mr Neuburg’s poems; he has the impulse to sing, and makes his readers feel that impulse.”—Zhe Morning Post. “There is a certain grim power in…
…W.C. Near to Chancery Lane, the Inns of Court, and First Avenue Hotels. A GREEN GARLAND vV. B. NEUBURG Green Paper Cover 2s. 6d. net “As far as the verse is 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 in Mr Neuburg’s poems; he has the impulse to sing, and makes his readers feel that impulse.”—Zhe Morning Post. “There is a certain grim power in…
…Dr. Wynn Westcott, a London coroner; a Dr. Woodford, and a Dr. Woodman. There is a lit‐ tle dispute as to which of these men went to the Farringdon Road, or whether it was the Far‐ ringdon Road to which they went; but there is no doubt whatever that one of them bought an old book, either from an obscure bookseller, or off a barrow, or found it in a library. This hap‐ pened about 1884 or 1885. There is no dispute that in this book were some loose papers; that these papers turned out to be written in cipher; that these cipher manuscripts containe…
…lonel had to fork out for a dispensation from Rome. Crowley himself squandered a lot of cash in one way or another. But he never fell so far as to waste a farthing on the three-card trick, or the three-God trick. He has also the clearest visualization of some of the people who surrounded him in the first six years of his life, which were spent in Leamington and the neighborhood, which he has never revisited. In particular, there was an orange-coloured old lady named Miss Carey who used to bring him oranges. His first memory of speech is his rem…
… extended to its fullest length, would stand two silver urns of tea. Into one of these young Alick emptied Mr. Sherrall's caster oil. So far, so good. The point is this, that the people served from that urn were too polite or overawed either to call the attention of their hostess or to abstain from the accursed beverage. The only precaution necessary was to prevent that lady herself from seeing one of the doctored cups. A rather similar jest was played at a prayer meeting at the house of a Brother named Nunnerley. Refreshment was offered before…
…nergy; it is away from the “formative world” altogether, where things are elastic. There is now no planetary attribution to consider. So far as the Sephira is concerned, it is right down in the world of Assiah. By the mere fact of having devised four elements, the current has derogated from the original perfec‐ tion. The Tens are a warning; see whither it leads‐to take the first wrong step! The Ten of Wands is called Oppression. This is what happens when one uses force, force, and nothing else but force all the time. Here looms the dull and hea…
… an asset which is notoriously of no value whatever in itself. The Star and the Garter deals frankly with this problem, among others. As far as sexual charm is concerned, it is only reasonable to expect the expert to be more satisfactory than the new chum; and even, class for class, the professional than the amateur. The desire for exclusive possession is one of the most idiotic and bestial pieces of vanity in human psychology. But love can exist between man and woman entirely independent of any sexual relations between them. The condition of t…
… upon itself, if we add a sixth sense to the futile five? Myst. It is resolved after all into a simple impression, indistinguishable, so far as I can see, from any other. That is, logically. Scept. Animpression, moreover, on what? It is not the (c) that is really examined ;. for (c) is the examiner: and you have merely formulated a (@) expressible by the ratio 1 See p. 200. 2 This (4) may be divided and subdivided into certain groups ; some, perhaps all of them, liable, in the event of the suppression of (a), to become (automatically ?) active,…
…nity by the creation of an absolute. As this cannot be done in reality, the process is illusory; yet it is useful in the early stages—as far, at any rate, as the fourth stage of Dhyana, where the Buddha places it, though the Yogis claim to attain to Nirvikalpa-Samadhi, and that Moksha is identical with Nirvana; the former claim I see no reason to deny them; the latter statement I must decline. at’ present to accept. The task of the Buddhist recluse is roughly as follows. He must: plunge every particle of his being into one idea: right views, as…
…y feet high, under the two overhanging sides of which a little wall has bee built by the shepherds who occasionally lead their flocks so far afield. One wonders why; for even at Korophon itself the vegetation is extremely sparse and scrubby. The next day I went on to Bardumal at the foot of the spur. There are actually a few trees at this place. On this march one has to cross the Punmah, a broad and shallow stream which I found easy enough to ford. The alternative --- to which we were reduced on our return --- is to trudge about six miles up st…