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…our honourable self, and why has your excellency pa us cattle the distinguished compliment of a visit? (2) This disgusting worm is great Tao. l humbly beg of your su lime radiance to trample his slave. (3) Regret great toe unintelligible. (4) Great Tao—T. A. O.—Tao. (5) What is the great Tao? (6) The result of subtracting the universe from itself. (7) Good, but this decaying dog cannot grant your honourable excellency’s sublime desire, but, on the contrary, would earnestly pray your brilliant serenity to spit upon his grovelling “ joro." (8) Pr…
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(THIEN TAo) A POLITICAL ESSAY
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THIEN TAO; OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 67 voracious species of sharks (which Japanese patriotism had spent such enormous sums in breeding) is responsible for the fact that he has never again been heard of. The Mikado wept; but, brightening up, exclaimed: “ Kwaw found us a confused and angry mob; he left us a diverse, yet harmonious, republic; while let us never forget that not only have we developed men of genius in every branch of practical life, but many among us have had our equilibrium crowned by that supreme glory of humanity, realization o…
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CONTENTS DEDICATION AND COUNTER-DEDICATION . THE WAKE WORLD Au SLOPER . . . . . . . . THIEN TAO . THE STONE OF Aamcnus . . . . . . . PAGE vii 25 53
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64 KONX OM PAX these men, while yet unbalanced, seek to attain to unity with the great Tao. But for those whose intellect is purified and co-ordinated, for those whose bodies are in health, and whose passions are at once eager and controlled, it shall be lawful to choose their own way to the One Goal; wkielicet, identity with that great Tao which is above the antithesis of Yang and Yin.” Even Kwaw felt tired, and applied himself to saké-and-soda. Refreshed, he continued: “ The men who are willing by this means to become the saviours of their cou…
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… God. Who is Mr. Jones? asked Denzil. We have heard of him from our friend here already. Mr. Jones, said the big man, is the Unutterable Tao. Mr. Jones, said the doctor, is (on this illusory plane of Maya) one of the wonders of the world. He is never seen or heard, felt or smelt. Nor hath he been at any time tasted of any. Yet he is everywhere; in all, and causer of all, and apart from all. By profession he is a curator in the British Museum; but that is going very low indeed upon the plane of Maya. I have already told you, said the big man, th…
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THIEN TAO; OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 61 (to) Expect leprous dragon with beri beri at your high mightiness’s magnificent heavenly palace to-morrow (Thursday) afternoon at three sharp. Thus met Kwaw, the poet-philosopher of China; and Juju, the godfather of his country. Sublime moment in eternity! To the names of Joshua and Hezekiah add that of Kwaw! For though he was a quarter of an hour late for the appointment, the hands went back on the dial of Juju’s chronometer, so that no shadow of distrust or annoyance clouded the rapture of that supreme …
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…eu. DANIEL HEINZ. Dianae sumus in fide Puellae et pueri integri Dianam pueri integri Puellaeque canamus. CATULLUS. Yllllfihtét¥ ‘fiiilfila2¥ TAO TEH KING (HWAINAN’S V.L.) ’Aa'rtprg per 'p-pi xaAaw o'sitawav diL oivroupu-rrrow'i oarwov r130; o'nirora m0...“ palm-rot Aapmli you Em nacrav. SAPPHO. B
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…crity of a steam-roller, and the direct and purposeful vigour of a hypnotized butterfly. “Man is perfected by his identity with the great Tao. Subsidiary to this he must have balanced perfectly the Yang and the Yin. Easier still is it to rule the sixfold star of Intellect ; while for the base the control of the body and its emotions is the earliest step. “ Equilibrium is the great law, and perfect equilibrium is crowned by identity with the great Tao.” He emphasized this sublime assertion by adeliberate blow upon the protruding abdomen of the wo…
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THIEN TAO; OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 59 NAHARIAMA A Q 1-1 E A Q R 1 A Q M QA A that he succeeded in his famous attempt to outdo the feats of Captain Webb. Nor was his reception less than a triumph. So athletic a nation as the Japanese still were could not but honour so superb an achievement, though it cost them dear, inasmuch as the Navy League (by an astute series of political moves) compelled the party in power to treble the Navy, build a continuous line of forts around the sea-coast, and expend many billions of yen upon the scientific breedi…
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…the trigrams of Fo-hi and the hexagrams of King Wu. In the last year be abolished the Yang and the Yin, and became united with the great Tao. All this was very satisfactory to Kwaw. But even his iron frame had become somewhat impaired by the unvarying diet of tinned pro visions; and it was perhaps only by virtue of this talisman
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THIEN TAO; OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 65 Kwaw tapped the gong. “ I have achieved my task,” said he to the obsequious major-demo, “I pray leave to retire from the Presence.” “ I beg your excellency to follow me," replied the gorgeous functionary, “ his lordship has commanded me to see that your holiness is supplied with everything that you desire.” Then the sage laughed aloud. IV f1 1% (“THINGS TO BE Banana”) Stx months passed by, and Juju, stirring in his sleep, remembered the duties of politeness, and asked for Kwaw. “ He is on your lordship’s…
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THIEN TAO; OR, THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN 57 very bitter against the Upper House; and those who had failed in examinations wrote appalling diatribes against the folly of the educa tional system. The trouble was that they were right; the government was well enough in fact, but in theory had hardly a leg to stand on. In view of the growing clamour, the official classes were perturbed; for many of their number were intelligent enough to see that a thoroughly irra tional system, however well it may work in practice, cannot for ever be maintained against…
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…two months in every year each member of your governing classes shall undergo this training under skilled advice. “ But what of the Great Tao? For one month in every year each of these men shall seek desperately for the Stone of the Philosophers. By solitude and fasting for the social and luxurious, by drunkenness and debauch for the austere, by scourging for those afraid of physical pain, by repose for the restless, and toil for the idle, by bull-fights for the humanitarian, and the care of little children for the callous, by rituals for the rat…