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Page 90 of 1291910 · PDF PAGE 144
…, even as early as the writing of ‘““The Questions of King Milinda,” unless the beautiful story of the courtesan Bindu- mati be a latter day interpolation, was highly thought of under the name of an “ Act of Truth.” Thus, though King Sivi gave his eyes to the man who begged them of him, he received others by an Act of Truth, by the gift of Siddhi, or Iddhi as the Buddhists call it. An Act, which is explained by the fair courtesan Bindumati as follows. When King Asoka asked her by what power she had caused the waters of the Ganges to flow backwa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 336
…lower or the fuchsia. In the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, there are three worms, sweet, clean, wavy, little maggots that will one day carry all the charm and delight of the dead back into the world again, will quicken and nourish seeds and roots, so that in the pink glamour of an April almond tree, the glory of the dead woman’s hair shall be returned again. One of these creatures is poised over her mouth, which again, to vulgar and unseeing eyes, looks ugly, though it is really more beautiful now than ever it was, for it is quick with fr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 144
…, even as early as the writing of ‘““The Questions of King Milinda,” unless the beautiful story of the courtesan Bindu- mati be a latter day interpolation, was highly thought of under the name of an “ Act of Truth.” Thus, though King Sivi gave his eyes to the man who begged them of him, he received others by an Act of Truth, by the gift of Siddhi, or Iddhi as the Buddhists call it. An Act, which is explained by the fair courtesan Bindumati as follows. When King Asoka asked her by what power she had caused the waters of the Ganges to flow backwa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 336
…lower or the fuchsia. In the coffin of the beautiful dead woman, there are three worms, sweet, clean, wavy, little maggots that will one day carry all the charm and delight of the dead back into the world again, will quicken and nourish seeds and roots, so that in the pink glamour of an April almond tree, the glory of the dead woman’s hair shall be returned again. One of these creatures is poised over her mouth, which again, to vulgar and unseeing eyes, looks ugly, though it is really more beautiful now than ever it was, for it is quick with fr…
1911 · PDF PAGE 133
…hee, and this shall be thy rule: that thou shalt purify thyself, and anoint thyself with perfume; and thou shalt be in the sunlight, the day being free from clouds. And thou shalt make the Call of the Aethyr in silence. Now, then, behold how the head of the dragon is but the tail of the Aethyr! Many are they that have fought their way from mansion to mansion of the Everlasting House, and beholding me at last have returned, declaring, “ Fearful is the aspect of the Mighty and Terrible One.” Happy are they that have known me for whom I am. And gl…
1915 · PDF PAGE 2
…the Belgians may have got they asked for. . . . We have received and fêted the would-be assassins of their Tsar; we have imagined Red Sunday in St. Pe- tersburg, and fulminated against pogroms, and preached against vodka and brutal Cossacks till anyone who has even been to Russia wants to go away quietly and die. England has spent about nine centuries in hating and despising France, in crying out on her for Atheism and immorality and all the rest of it; Edward VII, one night upon Mont Martre, shwears the French are jolly good shportsh, bigod, a…
1919 · PDF PAGE 166
…ork, he lived during the best part of this year under canvas in a small tent by the sea shore, necessitating some miles of walking every day, and throwing him a good deal more in touch with Na- ture than formerly; also the addition of a ‘little stranger’ to his family had a marked effect on his home affairs, being as it were the key to the solution of certain problems that had been puzzling him in that direction. During the period from March 2nd to September 4th, when we might say he was working on alone, his record shows some 340 Meditation pr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 159
159 Sunday the twenty-third I went aboard S.S. Kapurthala to return to Calcutta. The next day we anchored outside Chittagong, a most uninteresting place. I was to lazy to land. Two days later I got back to Calcutta. Getting my mail, I busied myself in preparing for the great journey. It was now definitely settled that our expedition should meet at Rawalpindi. I only took one day off, when I went to Sodpur snipe shooting with a friend of Thornton's, with whom I was now staying, Lambe having gone off to Australia. I have inserted the record of th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 390
…rly exhausted, physically and in every other way. I hardly know how we ever got back to Bou Saâda. Not till the evening of the following day did I feel strong enough to invoke the ninth Aethyr. A surprise was waiting for me. The nineteenth Key contains the text of the original curse on creation. Each phrase formulates some calamity. I had always shuddered at its horror as I recited it. But now, the Abyss being crossed, and all its horror faced and mastered, the words of the Key suddenly thrilled with a meaning that I had never suspected. Each c…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…ked spirits that Dorebesa, nore-madarida, pa-iotsa kakatreji basasjinu z0diz0Darasa ; obey not, the sons ofiniquity, to remain until the day of judgment ; bamesa-ilasa Dkada jebusoz0da; adoianu Diada bamesa adoianu mM. let the Mercies of God forget thee; let the face of God forget the face of N, Dag iparanu lubiftias, Jada bamesa, gobus, Das tarianu piape balata who will not see light: let God forget, Isay _ that shall be the balance of justice poresa nore jifipabe od telokake od caosagi, Do-perefst. over the sons of living breathand death andt…
1919 · PDF PAGE 242
… gave the best chance to develop rulers of the desired type. Chivalry failed principally because it was confronted with new problems; to-day we know per- fectly what those problems were, and are able to solve them. It is generally understood by all men of education that the general welfare is necessary to the highest development of the particular; and the troubles of America are in great part due to the fact that the men in power are often utterly devoid of all general education. I would call your attention to the fact that many monastic orders…
1922 · PDF PAGE 193
…ddenly from under my feet. ‘‘ I’m afraid it’s impossible, madame,’’ he said, mis- understanding me altogether. “‘ She was buried yester- day morning.” So that was why she hadn’t sent the stuff! I stood as if I wasinatrance. I heard him explaining, mechani- cally. I did not take in what he was saying. It was like a record being made on a gramophone. ‘“‘ She was only ill two days,” the man said. ‘ The doctors called it septic pneumonia.” I suppose I thanked him, and went away automati- cally. I found myself at home without knowing how I got here.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 7
…Surely we who await the Advent of our bles- sed Lord are emboldened to trust that this fren- zy of wickedness is a sure sign of the last days ; that He will shortly come — whose fan is in His hand, wherewith He shall throughly purge His floor — and take us His saints — however failing and humble we may be — to be with Him in His glory for ever and ever, while those who have rejected Himburn in eternal torment, with wailing and gnashing of teeth, in that Lake of Fireand Brimstone trom which — thank God! He in Hisinfinite mercy hath delivered us.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
… force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. IfI lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. 27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not under- stand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall dow…
1913 · PDF PAGE 60
… force another, King against King! Love one another with burning hearts; on the low men trample in the fierce lust of your pride, in the day of your wrath. 25. Ye are against the people, O my chosen! 26. I am the secret Serpent coiled about to spring: in my coiling there is joy. IfI lift up my head, I and my Nuit are one. If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one. 27. There is great danger in me; for who doth not under- stand these runes shall make a great miss. He shall fall dow…
1919 · PDF PAGE 243
…le as well in nature as in name, and thought it foul shame to themselves if any retainer met unnecessary mis- fortune. The upstart of to-day lacks this feeling; he must try constantly to prove his superiority by exhibiting his power; and harshness is his only weapon. In any society where each person has his allotted place, and that a place with its own special honour, mutual respect and self-respect 229
1930 · PDF PAGE 14
…It is satisfied that nobody can disprove it any more than they can prove it. Take a concrete example. A nice young gentle- man the other day wanted (very properly) to earn his living, and not being peculiarly endowed by Nature in the matter of original invention, he thought he might make a story out of the idea of a Suicide Club. In this he was evidently correct. Robert Louis Stevenson had in fact proved the point. So he took Stevensons story and transferred it to Germany, and drivelled on about the ace of spades, and quoted statistics of suic…
1929 · PDF PAGE 171
…ousands of people, to country squires or even headmen of a tribe of gypsies. We reached Skardu on the fourteenth of May, and put in four days making {292} arrangements for the next stage of the journey. We could no longer depend on finding enough coolies, the villages beyond Shigar being poorly populated. We took much credit to ourselves, and gave more to the efficiency of government officials, that we had come through from Srinagar without a day's halt, we the largest party of Europeans to have made the journey. Central Asia, by the way, is th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 356
…ancs and twenty- five centimes. We then went to our respective hotels to bed and the reaction began. He was in bed the whole of the next day, and when I called on him the morning of the day after that I found nothing had been done to cast a veil over the natural results of his indiscretion. But that was Neuburg all over. He was physically the filthiest animal that I have ever known. His gifts were supernatural. I remember giving him a saucer to clean: it had a very small quantity of yellow oil pint in it, left over from painting some talisman. …
1907 · PDF PAGE 23
THE WAKE WORLD Y name is Lola, because I am the Key of Delights, and the other children in my dream call me Lola Daydream. When I am awake, you see, I know that I am dreaming, so that they must be very silly children, don’t you think? There are people in the dream, too, who are quite grown up and horrid; but the really important thing is the wake-up person. There is only one, for there never could be any one like him. I call him my Fairy Prince. He rides a horse with beautiful wings like a swan, or sometimes a strange creature like a lion or a …