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Page 76 of 831906 · PDF PAGE 274
…well known to bring one no nearer to solution, satisfac- tory or otherwise, of the original problem. Scept. I heartily agree with you so far. We will therefore attack the question ad tnttio: I await you. . Myst. As exordium, therefore, may I ask you to recall what we agreed on yesterday with regard to Zat Sat, the existent, or real? Scept. That it was one, unknowable, absolute. Myst. Objective? Scept. Without doubt. Myst. Did Inot, however,observe that, how- ever that might be, all intuitions, if know- able, were subjective ; if objective, unkn…
1929 · PDF PAGE 33
…ce what they had done was not to form a new sect, but to "Come out of Sect" --- this they maintained in spite of the fact that they were far more {76} exclusive than any other religious body in Europe) was composed of a few of the old guard, my father the last of them all, and the meanest crew of canaille that ever wriggled. With my father's death the small schisms which had hitherto lopped off a few members every year or two were altogether surpassed by the great Raven heresy, which split the body into two nearly equal halves and extinguished …
1929 · PDF PAGE 476
…nce had sufficient of that quality to notice me. I have always been unduly optimistic about England. I know such a lot of people who are far from being fools. But war seems to deaden perception. Men who are in ordinary times quite acute become ready to assume that anyone who is waving a Union Jack and singing "Britannia Rules the Waves" must be an Admiral of the Fleet. Everybody assumed that the irritating {752} balderdash I wrote for The Fatherland must be the stark treason that the Germans were stupid enough to think it was. A person in my po…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
…he bliss which comes from the relief from pain. Later, this bliss disappears and one attains perfect indifference. But we need not go so far into their philosophy or accept it. Thanks partly to William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, I got the idea of employing the methods of Yoga to produce genius at will. James points out that various religious teachers attained their power to influence mankind in hat is essentially the same way; that is, by getting into Samadhi. The trance gives supreme spiritual energy and absolute self-confidence…
1929 · PDF PAGE 468
…int the scorpion as I wrote it. Its devil must excuse its indecorum. The savage contempt of Swift composed an indictment of human nature far exceeding the utmost ordered combination, and my "smashing blows" at my own best friends, at Bottomley, obscure officials in particular, and bureaucratic blockishness, may, I hope, by their very lack of philosophical proportion or aimed animosity, demonstrate into what blind rage my normally imperturbably spirit is whirled when any man whom I consider worth wasting a word on suggests that my loyalty to Eng…
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…ith superhuman strength, and people came from all parts to gaze upon the miracle. I should mention that normally my physical strength is far below the average, especially for work of this kind. It is quite an effort for me to shift a sixty pound load for even a few feet. So much for the sufficiently remarkable truth. Of course imagination improved on the story. I received an indignant letter from New York from the lady who had lent me the cottage, reproaching me for having built a dam right across the lake, to the detriment of navigation! This …
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…ts author's words, it represents ‘an attempt to systematise alike the data of mysticism and the results of comparative religion,” and so far as any book can succeed in such an attempt, this book does succeed; that isto say, it condenses in some sixty pages as much information as many an intelligent reader at the Museum has been able to collect in years, The book proper consists of a Table of *Correspondences,’ and is, in fact, an attempt to reduce to a common denominator the symbolism of as many religious and magical systems as the author is ac…
1910 · PDF PAGE 492
…ts author's words, it represents ‘an attempt to systematise alike the data of mysticism and the results of comparative religion,” and so far as any book can succeed in such an attempt, this book does succeed; that isto say, it condenses in some sixty pages as much information as many an intelligent reader at the Museum has been able to collect in years, The book proper consists of a Table of *Correspondences,’ and is, in fact, an attempt to reduce to a common denominator the symbolism of as many religious and magical systems as the author is ac…
1929 · PDF PAGE 66
…nows how to rebuff the advances of his girl students is an ideal companion on a mountain. Unfortunately, he obtained an appointment in a far country and had to give up climbing in consequence. But we made our mark in the Alps, beginning with the first guideless traverse of the Mönch, the Vuibez Séracs, and the first traverse of the Aiguilles Rouges, climbing all the pinnacles. Travers joined me for a short time in August. We began by making the first guideless traverse of the M"nch. We started for the Guggi hut within two or three hours of his …
1929 · PDF PAGE 555
…from the point of view of the profane. The Spirit of the Lord descended upon him and opened his eyes to a a series of visions of a class far more exalted and intense and intimate than anything he had hitherto experienced. He was inspired to write these down during their actual occurrence, and here is the marvel. His education had been quite elementary. He could neither spell nor construct his sentences correctly, nor had he command of any extended vocabulary. What, then, was my amazement to perceive in his style an originality and power of the …
1929 · PDF PAGE 165
…mit the existence of the conquered races; by consenting to argue; by trying to find a value for incommensurables. Indian civilization is far superior to our own and to enter into open competition is to invoke defeat. We won India by matching our irrational, bigoted, brutal manhood against their etiolated culture. We cannot even plead that we have lacked a prophet. The genius of Rudyard Kipling, however aesthetically abominable, has divined the secrets of destiny with cloudless clarity. His stories and his sermons are equally informed by the bra…
1929 · PDF PAGE 258
…le is to prevent them from poisoning themselves with wild aconite. The scenery along the while of his ridge is extraordinarily grand, so far as the mist permits one to see anything. Some of the Himalayan trees are superb. But the prevailing vegetation is the rhododendron, a plant which has little in common with its English cousin. It grows to a height of fifteen feet or more and the stems are often as thick as a man's thigh. It grows in unbroken forests and the worst Mexican chaparral I ever saw was not worse to have to cut one's way through. A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 493
…f one's surroundings. In Europe, the cure is easy. One toddles along to the next place sure of finding some novelty. In America, however far one goes, the same hideous homogeneity disappoints one. The relief conferred by the old quarter of New Orleans threw me instantly into an ecstasy of creative energy. I wrote day and night continuously --- poems, essays and short stories. My principal invention was the detective "Simon Iff" whose method of discovering the solution of a problem was calculation of the mental and moral energies of the people c…
1906 · PDF PAGE 259
… no psychologist of any standing will quarrel with this.! Reasoning in fact leads us to this analysis; the Buddhist goes further only so far as he may be said to knock down the scaffolding of reasoning processes, and to assimilate the actual truth of the matter. It is the difference between the schoolboy who painfully construes ‘“ Balbus murum zedi- ficavit,”’ and the Roman who announces that historic fact without a thought of his grammar. I have called this meditation the most famous of the Buddhist meditations, because it is stated by the Bud…
1929 · PDF PAGE 301
…he claws of commerce, but it will survive the collapse of Europe. And in Yunnan the contamination of the foreign devil had not gone very far; in fact, it had not yet reached the asymptote of its own curve. However, the clearing of the ground had long been complete. There are practically no wild animals in the province. I did not even see one of those famous pheasants which I was anxious to shoot. I had hitherto bagged nothing but occasional pigeons for the pot. At Talifu, nevertheless, there is great sport to be had. From the great deserts to t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 325
… our guard against egocentric implications; they do not even exalt the ego as they pretend to do, they limit it. We become great just so far as we are able to liberate ourselves from the constriction of our normal conception that we are man. When one has crossed the Abyss, especially, one should be altogether free from the prepossession that one's body and mind are more than inconvenient instruments through which we perceive the universe. To increase our understanding of the cosmos, we must constantly endeavour to counteract the limitations whi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 55
…ge holder of Westralians. 47. Something easier.18—Christmas Eve and Easter Day. 51. Newton.19—Mathematician and physicist of repute. 51. Faraday.20—See Dictionary of National Biography. 64. I, of the Moderns, have let alone Greek.21— As far as they would let me. I know some. 74. Beard.22—“150. A Barba Senioris Sanc- tissimi pendet omnis ornatus omnium : & in- fluentia ; nam omnia appellantur ab illa barba, Influentia. “151. Hic est ornatus omnium ornatuum : Influentie superiores & inferiores omnes respi- ciunt istam Influentiam. “152. A b ista …
1906 · PDF PAGE 287
…acked on scientific: lines, and if the pioneers fall,—well, who expects more from a forlorn hope? Time will show. Myst. We have wandered far from this question of time. Scept. Even from that of consciousness; itselfa digression, though a necessary one. Myst. An elusive fellow, this conscious- ness! Is he continuous, you, who declare him permanent? Scept. Do I, indeed? I gave a possible reason for thinking so; but my adhesion does not follow. The lower consciousnesses, which I called (a), are of course rhythmic. The biograph is a sufficient proo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 114
… intellectual impressions. I became the vehicle of the divine forces invoked and so experienced Godhead. My results were satisfactory so far as they went; but they did not aid my personal progress very much, {203} since I had not formulated an intellectual link between the divine and human consciousness.
1929 · PDF PAGE 288
… deal. He expected us to scream if hot water and cold water was not laid on in every Chinese inn, and to take down every Chinese coolie, farmer or merchant for a murderer with a special "down" on "foreign devils". He thought the we would be very much upset by that natural curiosity of the natives at seeing a white woman and interpret their interest as intentional insult. When he found with what practical common sense I travelled, he realized immediately that there was going to be no trouble. During this lunch he gave me more genuinely valuable …