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Page 82 of 831929 · PDF PAGE 27
…with the result that he would be bowled out at the very gate of glory. Here was another impossibility to catch my youthful fancy; I must find out what that sin was and do it very thoroughly. For (evidently) my position was exceedingly precarious. I was opposed to an omnipotent God; and for all I knew to the contrary, He might have predestined me to be saved. No matter how much I disbelieved in Jesus, no matter how many crimes I piled up, He might get me in spite of myself. The only possibility of outwitting Him was to bring him up against His o…
1906 · PDF PAGE 199
… that I consider the subject unpleasant—far from it !— but since the English section of my readers, having unclean minds, will otherwise find a fulcrum therein for their favourite game of slander. Let it suffice if I say that the Buddha—in spite of the ridicu- lous membrane legend, * one of those foul follies which idiot devotees invent only too freely— was a confirmed and habitual adulterer. It * Membrum virile illius in membrana inclusum esse aiunt, ne copulare posset, VOL. II, would be easy to argue with Hegel-Huxley that he who thinks of an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 519
…ricts, and these would be economically impossible unless supported by the forcible suppression of local competition. When, therefore, we find the newspapers indignant at Mohammedan morality, we may suspect the real trouble is that American hatters see no hope of disposing of their surplus stock, as long as the wicked Oriental sticks to his turban or tarbush. The exquisite, dignified and comfortable clothes of remote people, from Sicily to Japan, must give way to the vile shoddy products of foreign factories, and the motive is supplied by a worl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…ou been a sectary astronomical? oo | Scept. Exr—what? Myst, You are then an astronomer? opponent—who would be wiser to surrender— that I find myself compelled to despatch half a squadron (no more !) to take him in flank. Our Author’s main argument for the Christian religion is that it is hated. To bring me as a witness to this colossal enthymeme, he has the sublime courage to state that my ‘‘ Sword of Song” begins with an effort to expound Buddhism, but that my hatred of Christianity overcame me as I went on, and that I end up literally raving.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 375
…ary sequence of the ordeals described in each section. The last section, in which Sir Palamedes, after achieving every possible task and finding that all his attainments did not bring him to the end of his Quest, abandons the following of the Questing Beast; he returns, discomfited, to the Round Table, only to find that, having surrendered, the Questing Beast comes to him of its own accord. I could not pretend that this was more than a tour de force, an evasion of the issue. I know now that the true solution is this: there is no goal to be atta…
1904 · PDF PAGE 58
…t that I consider the subj ect unpleasant—far from it!—but since the English section of my readers, having unclean minds, will otherwise find a fulcrum therein for their favourite game of slander. Let it suffice if I say that the Buddha—in spite of the ridicu- lous membrane legend,* one of those foul follies which idiot devotees invent only too freely— was a confirmed and habitual adulterer . It * Membrum virile illius in membrana inclusum esse aiunt, ne copulare posset. would be easy to argue with Hegel-Huxley that he who thinks of an act comm…
1929 · PDF PAGE 522
…ure, as to protest against the present. I took everything as it came almost without comment, confident that at the right moment I should find myself in the right position to do what was right. Having witnessed the bedevilment of New Orleans, I was sent to Titusville, Florida, to complete my contemplation of the unspeakable degradation of humanity which is constantly being wrought by Christianity and commerce. I saw my cousin Lawrence, as decent a lad as one could wish to see, spiritually stunted and corrupted in every way by savage superstition…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
…he Secret Way of the Initiate, the Path of Poetry and Philosophy, and the Open Sea of Romance and Adventure. It is indeed not unusual to find the first two, or the last two, elements in the molecule of a man: Byron exemplifies this, and Poe that. But is is rare indeed for so strenuous and out-of-doors a life to be associated with such profound devotion to the arts of the quietist; and in this particular instance all three careers are so full that posterity might well be excused for surmising that not one but several individuals were combined in…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…. net per volume, The “New Thought Library” has been designed to include only the best works in this class of literature. No volume will find a place in this series unless it has already an established position in the popular favour. The first ten volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By CHARLES Goprrry LeLanb. Third and enlarged Edition, containing the Celebrated Borrespondence between Kant and Hufela…
1911 · PDF PAGE 310
…. net per volume, The “New Thought Library” has been designed to include only the best works in this class of literature. No volume will find a place in this series unless it has already an established position in the popular favour. The first ten volumes are now ready. HAVE YOU A STRONG WILL? How to Develop and Strengthen Will Power, Memory, or any other Faculty, or Attribute of the Mind by the Easy Process of Self-Hypnotism. By CHARLES Goprrry LeLanb. Third and enlarged Edition, containing the Celebrated Borrespondence between Kant and Hufela…
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…d a cry of triumph. That is so, subjectively for them, but no more, and the one fact does not alter the other. Surely Our Fid. Def. will find little support in this claim on behalf of death. We all die; it was the Resurrection and Ascension which stamped Christ as God. Our Philosopher will, I think, fight shy of these events. The two thieves were ‘‘nailed up like vermin”’ on either side of Christ by precisely the same people; are they also gods? To found a religion on the fact of death, murder though it were, is hardly more than African fetichi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 214
…on.* It has one quality apparently not essential, that of ex- ceeding impermanence. If we. examine what we call steady thought, we shall find that its rate of change is in reality inconceivably swift. To consider it, to watch it, is bewildering, and to some people becomes intensely terrifying. It is as if the solid earth were suddenly swept away from under one, and there were some dread awakening in outer space amid the rush of incessant meteors—lost in the void. All this is old knowledge; but who has taken steps toalterit? The answer is forbid…
1906 · PDF PAGE 202
…of the Lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. At first he supposed that she had been translated, but, finding that she had not left the traditional mantle behind her, he abandoned this suppo- sition in favour of quite a different, and indeed a more plausible one. He now believed her to be the scarlet woman in the Apocalypse, with variations. On arrival in Egypt he hired an old native nurse, and sailed for Odessa. Once in Russia he could find Gog and Magog, and present to them the child as Antichrist. For he wa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 73
…ion.* It has one quality apparently not essential, that of ex- ceeding impermanence. If we examine what we call steady thought, we shall find that its rate of change is in reality inconceivably sw ift. To consider it, to watch it, is beweildering, and to some people becomes intensely terrifying. It is as if the solid earth were suddenly swept away from under one, and there were some dread awakening in outer space amid the rush of incessant meteors—lost in the void. All this is old knowledge; but who has taken steps to alter it ? The answer is f…
1906 · PDF PAGE 193
…ave you been a sectary astronomical ?”"' ll. 169, 170)—and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. In Scene iii. we find lear’s senile dementia taking the peculiarly loathsome forms familiar to alienists—this part of my subject is so un- pleasant that I must skim over it; I only inention it to show how anxious Shakespeare is to show his hidden meaning, otherwise his naturally delicate mind would have avoided the depiction of such phenomena. All this prepares us for Scene iv., in which we get a glimpse of the way Lear's atte…
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
…of the Lord, was not a little perplexed by the sudden disappearance of his wife. At first he supposed that she had been translated, but, finding that she had not left behind the traditional mantle behind her, he abandoned this suppo- sition in favour of quite a different, and indeed a more plausible one. He now believed her to be the scarlet w oman of the A pocalypse, with variations. On arrival in Egypt he hired an old native nurse, and sailed for Odessa. Once in Russia he could find Gog and Magog, and present to them the child as Antichrist. …
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
… have you been a sectary astronomical ?” ll. 169, 170)—and the bastard hero, taking alarm, gets right down to business. In Scene iii. we find Lear’s senile dementia taking the peculiarly loathesome form familiar to alienists—this part of my subj ect is so un- pleasant that I must skim over it ; I only mention it to show how anxious Shakespeare is to show his hidden meaning, otherwise his naturally delicate mind would have avoided the depiction of such phenomena. All this prepares us for Scene iv. , in which we get a glimpse of the w ay Lear’s a…
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
… body and the soul; and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the Kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecst…
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
… body and the soul; and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the Kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes of self and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecst…
1913 · PDF PAGE 593
…e body and the soul and the student of psychology is continually being reminded of the kinship between saint and sinner. Now and then we find the extremes ofself and selflessness in the same soul. Dante tells us how the lover kissed. the trembling mouth, and with the same thrill describes his own passionate abandonment before the mystic Rose. In our own day, the greatest of French lyric poets, Verlaine, has given us volumes of the most passionate love songs, and side by side with them a book of religious poetry more sublimely credulous and ecst…