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Page 78 of 1211996 · PDF PAGE 186
…efore be utterly different to any thing we know of; the “girders” of their souls in other spheres may be other than ours. The above argument is a case of a “girder”; we are bound mentally by our race-experience of the environment in which our own lives flourish. A pioneer choosing a camp must look for wood, water, perhaps shelter, perhaps game. In another planet he might not need any of these. The “girders” which determine the “form” of our souls are therefore limitations to our thought, as well as supports. In the same way, rails help a train…
1929 · PDF PAGE 278
278 I had fired without aim, in pitch blackness; I could not even see the white robes of the men who held me. In the lightning moment of the flash I saw only that whitnesses were falling backwards away from me, as if I had upset a screen by accident. The blackness which followed the flash was Cimmerian. My eyes are naturally very slow to accommodate themselves to change of illumination --- I have never met any man equally helpless in case of sudden diminution of light. I had no thought soever as to whether my shot might have hit anybody. There …
1929 · PDF PAGE 295
…sy and goodwill; but when he disclosed his intention of proceeding northwards, it created panic. They told him that to the north were no men but devils only; accursed races of the pit whose only methods of communicating ideas were envenomed arrows, pitfalls and the poisonous fluff of the bamboo which acts more subtly than ground glass. I thought this story extraordinarily typical of human thought in general. Everyone admits that we have reached the summit of wisdom, scaled the {481} loftiest pinnacles of morality, put the crown of perfection up…
1907 · PDF PAGE 310
…om and divine Will , man reaches the stage when he ceases to think empirically under the schemata of Time and Space . The mind at such moments reaches heights wherein another light suc ceeds to the light of experience ; there is a mental “ whirl " which , though irrational to pure reason , has an incalculable value , probably depending on certain higher laws unknown to the rational world . When the soul has reached this point , law , in the rational sense of the term , has ceased to have any existence , and it henceforth enters into direct comm…
1911 · PDF PAGE 147
… us that a plaster mould is truer to nature than the greatest masterpiece of Phidias; so does science, with her gross calipers. Sensible men prefer a good photograph of nature to a bad landscape. The photograph shows them the view of their own normal eye through the medium of an accepted symbolism; the picture shows the view of an indifferent bad soul through a medium of mud. But Corotl But Whistler! But Morrice ! Corot sees a wood, and paints Pan; Bougereau sees a pretty model, and paints a pretty model. He doesn’t paint Woman. Morrice paints …
1911 · PDF PAGE 147
… us that a plaster mould is truer to nature than the greatest masterpiece of Phidias; so does science, with her gross calipers. Sensible men prefer a good photograph of nature to a bad landscape. The photograph shows them the view of their own normal eye through the medium of an accepted symbolism; the picture shows the view of an indifferent bad soul through a medium of mud. But Corotl But Whistler! But Morrice ! Corot sees a wood, and paints Pan; Bougereau sees a pretty model, and paints a pretty model. He doesn’t paint Woman. Morrice paints …
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…derstand now what Lucifer is? Js 2t not the very genius of ancient Prometheus, that force which sets in motion the world, life, even movement, and which regulates the course of successive forms? This force, by its resistance, equilibrated the creative principle. It is thus that the Elohim gave birth to the earth. When, sub- sequently, men were placed upon the earth by the Lord, as intermediate spirits, in their enthusiasm, which led them to search Nature in its depths, they gave themselves over to the influence of that proud and powerful genius…
1913 · PDF PAGE 582
…ourish their airy bodies with a vapour of shed blood, and they fear the point of the sword. Frequently they attach themselves to vicious men and live upon their lives, as the embryo lives in its mother’s womb. In these circumstances, they are able to take the most horrible forms to represent the frenzied desires of those who nourish them, and it is these which appear under the figures of demons to the wretched operators of the nameless works of black magic. These larvee fear the light, above all the light of the mind. A flash of intelligence is…
1913 · PDF PAGE 451
…derstand now what Lucifer is? Js 2t not the very genius of ancient Prometheus, that force which sets in motion the world, life, even movement, and which regulates the course of successive forms? This force, by its resistance, equilibrated the creative principle. It is thus that the Elohim gave birth to the earth. When, sub- sequently, men were placed upon the earth by the Lord, as intermediate spirits, in their enthusiasm, which led them to search Nature in its depths, they gave themselves over to the influence of that proud and powerful genius…
1913 · PDF PAGE 582
…ourish their airy bodies with a vapour of shed blood, and they fear the point of the sword. Frequently they attach themselves to vicious men and live upon their lives, as the embryo lives in its mother’s womb. In these circumstances, they are able to take the most horrible forms to represent the frenzied desires of those who nourish them, and it is these which appear under the figures of demons to the wretched operators of the nameless works of black magic. These larvee fear the light, above all the light of the mind. A flash of intelligence is…
1937 · PDF PAGE 5
…orant as no illiterate peasant is ignorant; he has no power of independent thought. He is the prey of panic. But he has the vote. 2. The men in power can only govern by stampeding him into wars, playing on his fears and prejudices until he acquiesces in repressive legislation against his obvious interests, playing on his vanity until he is totally blind to his own misery and serfdom. The alternative method is undisguised dragooning. In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying. 3. This desperate resort to archaic weapons is the herita…
1907 · PDF PAGE 227
…ters with benefit (such is the revivifying force of our Elixir) by seeking the esserce in the Iirst Matter of the Work; and we could» commend many of them, notably St. Ignatius and even the rationalising Mansel and Newman, if they would only concentrate upon spiritual truth, instead of insisting on the truth of things, material and therefore immaterial, which only need the touch of a scholar’s wand to crumble into the base dust from which their bloodstained towers arose. Whoso has been crucified with Christ can but laugh when it is proved that …
1929 · PDF PAGE 168
…hree pounds. As a beast of burden, a mule is less efficient than a man, and a man that an woman. In Kashmir, however, one does not use women as coolies. The people are Mohammedans governed by a ruling caste of Hindus. This leads to complications; for one thing, though the river is full of mahsir, one is not allowed to fish for them, because one of them had swallowed the soul of the maharajah in his youth! Another inconvenience is that one cannot bet beef to eat, for Kashmir is theoretically an independent state. The Mohammedan has, of course, n…
1909 · PDF PAGE 18
…don’t). Why then, do you not wear boots on your head and hats on your feet ? I can only answer that I the man in Kether (‘tis but an argument) am out of all relation as much with feet and heads as with boots and hats. But why should I (from my exalted pinnacle) stoop down and worry the headed and footed gentle- man in Malkuth, who after all doesn’t exist for me, by these drastic alterations in his toilet? There is no distinction whatever ; I might easily put the boots on his shoulders, with his head on one foot and the hat on the other. In shor…
1913 · PDF PAGE 539
…er, and from their union will be born the practical truth, the real and progressive word. It is necessity which should constrain the workmen to choose for the corner-stone that which they had at first despised and rejected. Let contradiction, then, never discourage men of initiative! arth is necessary for the ploughshare, and the earth resists because it is in labour. It defends itself like all virgins; it conceives and brings forth slowly like all mothers. You, then, who wish to sow a new plant in the field of intelligence, understand and resp…
1913 · PDF PAGE 539
…er, and from their union will be born the practical truth, the real and progressive word. It is necessity which should constrain the workmen to choose for the corner-stone that which they had at first despised and rejected. Let contradiction, then, never discourage men of initiative! arth is necessary for the ploughshare, and the earth resists because it is in labour. It defends itself like all virgins; it conceives and brings forth slowly like all mothers. You, then, who wish to sow a new plant in the field of intelligence, understand and resp…
1907 · PDF PAGE 70
…, and he wins his freedom at the price of Charicles ' liberty. Nature breaks into a welcome chant of joy , the lovers are reunited , the men's praise is for Archais , and the eyes of the maidens are fixed on Charicles . The tale is nearly ended , the lovers wend their way through the joyous throng midst song and chorus , then from the lips of Archais rises : Light and dark are wed together Into golden weather : Sun and moon have kissed , and built Palaces star -gilt Whence a crystal stream of joy, love's eternal wine , is spilt. ' Such is one o…
1911 · PDF PAGE 121
…er feet, enormous deserts studded with great rocks; and I see little lonely souls, running helplessly about, minute black creatures like men. And they keep up a very curious howling, that I can compare to nothing that I have ever heard; yet it is strangely human. And the voice says: These are they that grasped love and clung thereto, praying ever at the knees of the great goddess. These are they that have shut themselves up in fortresses of Love. Each plume of the peacock is full of eyes, that are at the same time 4x 7. And for this is the numb…
1911 · PDF PAGE 160
… her first. Despair! Despair! (Yet he cried thus as he fled:) Iam Leviathan, the great Lost Serpent of the Sea. I writhe eternally in torment, and I lash the ocean with my tail into a whirlpool of foam that is venomous and bitter, and I have no purpose. I go no whither. I can neither live nor die. I can but rave and rave in my death agony. I am the Crocodile that eateth up the children of men. And through the malice of BABALONI hunger, hunger, hunger. All this while the Stone is more inert than ever yet; a thousand times more lifeless than when…
1916 · PDF PAGE 13
before you. The placid power of the man gives place to elemental energy. Both aspects remind one of the sea. It seems almost as if he grew physically much bigger. His personality fills the room. I have heard many of the great orators of the day, never one with one tithe of the passion and power of Mr. Stuart. Ben Tillett comes nearest. But Ben Tillett wastes his power in furious gesture. With Mr. Stuart the thunder of his tread and of his voice shake the house; but there is no loss of self-control. The speech is not diffuse, but extraordinarily…