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…ny the nimble acuteness of mine own dialectic was to me, ye would not envy me, O dullardsl For I fear ever, lest I be replacing truth of thought by mere expertness of mechanic skill. Then, seeing the thought as fear, I quench it masterly. Whence rise other evil things; the thought “ Is this too mere trickery of the mind? ” “ Is this too cowardice? ” and others by the score. So answering one by one, and one and all, reason breaks down, and either deep sleep loosens all my limbs, and darkness falls upon my soul, or else—— But you know well what e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 92
…search, life risked again and again in strange ways, in comprehensible to the swinish multitude, steady purpose ever equili brating each thought with its opposite, had brought him at the end to the mastery of things. So earnestly would he gaze on God, and die, that God had given him of His own life, and sent him among men. But men knew him not. Only the babes could understand his strange grave smile. The fifth man was a classical scholar; much learning had made him mad. Yet, well as he knew Greek and Latin, he had not yet read enough to see ther…
1907 · PDF PAGE 56
… us examine more closely l” Tucking forthwith the Man under his wing, the Angel flew incontinently earthward. “The globe is bigger than I thought,” said the Man. “ Curious illu sion: it is a concave bowl of blue,” said the Man. “Nay! but it is a vast plain; and there go the ships; no doubt, were it only August I should see that great Leviathan, whom Thou (addressing the Almighty) hast made to play therein. But the silly season is long past.” And he cursed it for a barren ocean. Luckily he was not Christ, or Mr. Swinburne would have found it diffi…
1907 · PDF PAGE 60
…ough one might possibly conceive of them as credulous to that extent. One could only harm them, though, by allowing them to possess such thoughts (involving further discrimination) as the perception of the pairs of opposites as real. In fact, my thought “ Bones ” may be allowed to believe that he is real, and that there is no other God but he—for such a thought is hardly an illusion—but Bones must not and shall not think that there is an opposition of black and white, good and evil, truth and falsehood. One of our weaker brethren (and I alas! h…
1907 · PDF PAGE 107
…and kissed it. Like a cat’s tongue that daintily laps, I slipped it in between her paps. At first, of course, the shrieking swerves One’s thought: it irritates the nerves; And out of tone the laughter lies At the poor innocent’s surprise. But soon there triumphs cool and clean The touching pathos of the scene. No word of anger, be assured! A strange soft wonder, long immured Within her, lit her lovely face With something of Our Lady’s grace. “ What did you kill me for, my Lord?” As if my answer must accord
1907 · PDF PAGE 18
…e, I have precious little use For empty-headed Athenians. The birds I have snared shall all go loose; They are empty-headed Athenians. I thought perhaps I might do some good; But it 's ten to one if I ever should— And I doubt if I would save, if I could, Such empty-headed Athenians. So (with any luck) I shall bid farewell To the empty-headed Athenians. For me, they may all of them go to hell, For empty-headed Athenians. I hate your idiot jolts and jars, You monkeys grinning behind your bars I'm more at home with the winds and the stars Than wit…
1907 · PDF PAGE 80
…y’s sublime desire, but, on the contrary, would earnestly pray your brilliant serenity to spit upon his grovelling “ joro." (8) Profound thought assures your beetle-headed suppliant that your glorious nobility must meet him before the controversy can be decided. (9) True. Would your sublimity condescend to defile himself by entering this muck-sweeper’s miserable hovel? "T
1907 · PDF PAGE 97
…it is better to get nearer truth. Ihate all the evil that religion has wrought. As I looked on Granada and its cathedral, this is what I thought. Can you blame me? And from a little leathem pocket-book he began to read these lines: ON A PROSPECT OF GRANADA CATHEDRAL FROM THE ALHAMBRA BROWN bloated toad that squattest in the sun! Loose thankless mouth whose greed is never done!
1907 · PDF PAGE 113
THE STONE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS 93 —Christ and the Church, and that stuff—faughl—I should certainly have thought he was trying to palm off his purulence under the guise of religion. An Oriental Kensitl cried the scholar. Just so, and the pious prurient would buy it and taboo “Dolores,” added Arthur Gray. Well, judge thisl concluded Basil. It’s a pretty free adaptation from the Arabic—or what passes for Arabic in Marocco! he con temptuously added. And diving into his shooting-jacket, he produced and read: INSPIRATION O DESERT sand! how still and p…
1907 · PDF PAGE 117
…of spending life, his fingers fold So subtly on that face of gold that all its peace is perfected. 1- * a» i- i- it And there it hangs, a thought obscene, to haunt our love with damned ghosts— Hark to their execrable hosts exulting as I kiss Katrine! It conquers? We will show it things memorial of its splendours gone, Things grosser than it looked upon where Neva rolls or Tiber swings. We shall exceed: its lips unclean shall answer at the Judgment Day: “ The greatest of them all, I say, were this my poet and his queen l ” Ah, God! we look upon t…
1907 · PDF PAGE 51
… I,hide my blushes in thy breast, O babe! [Does so; the child weeps] Take it, for God’s sakel [Done. The child smiles. Mrs. Bones. But I thought your birthday was in October. Bowley. It is; and why did I arrange it on that date? Because I knew that I was the Messiah—pass the baby, please !—and that people would celebrate the day according to my word. Mrs. Bones. But why? [BONES signals wildly to her, but in vain. Bowley. Because children born in summer thrive best. Mrs. Bones. But why? Bowley. Brother, you waste alarm. They have ears and hear n…
1907 · PDF PAGE 35
…ically Regent of course. You must never forget that I am really He; only one generation back is not so far, and I entirely represent his thought. Soon," he whispered ever so softly, “you will be a mother; there will be a Fairy Prince again to run away with another pretty little Sleepy head. Then I saw S mbola odos Chamelionis S bola G ius et Serpens Mons Abiegnus v. Cnvernarum Cnput candidum NDN erit ND‘N
1907 · PDF PAGE 58
…ng that either answer is in some sense or other a lie—then see to it, I say, that thou lie not to the Holy Ghost! Shakespeare is perhaps thought by some (may it be credited?) to have written the lines: To thine own self be true, And it will follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. ’Tis a worthy aphorism. Let the consciousness be ever directed towards the Self—by whatever Name I call Thee, Thou art Nameless to all Eternity !—and the possibility of lying is avoided. For one speaketh not, nor, if one spake, is there any…
1907 · PDF PAGE 15
…, both true, transcend with B. But whatever B is, it is as false and true as b ; we reach C. So from C to c, and for ever. Not, as Hegel thought, until we reach an idea in which no seed of self-contradiction lurks; for that can never be. The thinkable is false, then? (once more!) _Yea, but equally it is true. So also the old mystics were right who saw in every phenomenon a dog-faced demon apt only to seduce the soul from the sacred mystery; right, too, they who “interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with the soul.” Yet the l…
1907 · PDF PAGE 112
…nd the Uniting of the Lingam and the Yoni! All, mind you, by a most elaborate ritual. But, on the other hand, there is perfect purity of thought in much of the avowedly Phallic symbolism of the world. For just as the sexual pleasure is entirely in a class by itself among (or rather, above) physical pleasures; so is Samadhi—union with God—in a class by itself among (or rather, above) mental pleasures. Who, therefore, would make an hieroglyph of the latter formless ecstasy can do no better than by drawing a picture of the former, under the image …
1907 · PDF PAGE 14
… which, first master ing and then transcending the reason, illumines all the darkness caused by the interference of the opposite waves of thought; not by destroy ing their balance, and thereby showing a false and partial light, but by overleaping their limitations. Let not the pedant exclaim with Newman that I avoid the Scylla of Ay and the Charybdis of Nay by the Straits of No-meaning. Athing is not necessarily A or not-A. It may be outside the universe of discourse wherein A and not-A exist. It is absurd to say of Virtue either that it is gree…
1907 · PDF PAGE 67
…magician.” Thus, one may take hold of a hot iron, or coal, saying “ It does not hurt ” and it doesn’t. 80101:]. I have tried that. But I thought it a question of courage and will. The Hindus have a game they call the Act of Truth. I remember one time King Brahmadatta or some ass wanted to cross the Ganges with his army and like a fool hadn’t brought pontoons; so he damned around for a hell of a time like a cat when you pepper her nose, and by and by up comes “well, I won’t say a —-, but a lady of no reputation,” and says, By Gosh, king, why don…
1907 · PDF PAGE 41
…s which you have always worn, and which make you what you are. After that you take off your consciousness clothes, which you have always thought were your very own self, and you leap out into the cold abyss, and you can’t thi how lonely it is. There isn’t any light, or any path, or anything Nomen Nifl‘222 aath: 418: Abrahadabra Via l v. Gladium Via quae non C5! Vagina: Quinque Animae
1907 · PDF PAGE 38
…er one comes to bite at you, there is a lovely lady who puts her hands in its mouth and shuts it. So we went through quite safely, and I thought of Daniel in the lions’ den. The Fourth House is the most wonderful of all I had ever seen. It is the most heavenly blue mansion; it is built of beryl and amethyst, and lapis lazuli and turquoise and sapphire. The centre of the floor is a pool of purest aquamarine, and in it is water, only you can see every drop as a separate crystal, and the blue tinge filtering through the light. Above there hangs a ca…
1907 · PDF PAGE 43
…irgin with an open book, and always, always reads beautiful words therein, smiling mysteriously through her shining veil, woven of sweet thoughts and pure kisses. And there is the way by which I always go to the King, my Father, and that passage is built of thunder and lightning; but there is a holy Magician called Hermes, who takes me through so quickly that I arrive sometimes even at the very moment that I start. Last of all is the most mysterious passage of them all, and if any of you saw it you would think there was a foolish man in it bein…