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…sava Sutta, ro. ‘‘In him, thus unwisely considering, there springs up one or other of the six (absurd) notions. ‘**As something real and true he gets the notion, ‘I have a self.’ ‘‘As something real and notion, ‘I have not a self.’ ‘*As something real and notion, ‘By my self, I am self,’ ‘‘As something real and notion, ‘ By my self, I am non-self,’ : ‘Or again, he gets the notion, ‘ This soul of mine can be perceived, it has experienced the result of good or evil actions committed here and there; now this soul of mine is permanent, lasting, ete…
1906 · PDF PAGE 139
THE GOD-EATER 133 Maurya. Then, is the power that makes me in the end True Goddess Maurya, yours, yours only? Criospa. [Solemuly.] No! Stop! ask no more! Therelies the awful crux. Blind are fate’s eyes, and pinioned are will’s wings, In you the whole chance lies. MAURYA. In me? CRIOSDA. In you. Maurya. I will do all to win! CRIOSDA. Do all? MAURYA. Do all. Criospa. Ah then! No, no, it is not yet enough. Not definite yet. Stop! fool, shall I hint and ruin all with a word? Backwards or forwards, the blow goes home either way. [Looks at her wrth k…
1906 · PDF PAGE 186
…Unconscious, when you work the best. I carry on one step firm-pressed Further than you the path, and you For all my trouble, comment : “ True! 635 “ Auto-hypnosis. Very quaint!” No one supposes me a Saint—* Some Saints to wrath would be inclined With such a provocation pecked ! But I remember and reflect , 640 That anger makes a person blind, And my own “ Chittam” I’d neglect. Besides, it’s you, and you, I find, Are but a mode of my own mind. Objectivity of But then you argue, and with sense ; 645 universe not ‘‘T have this worthy evidence disc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 248
…east) have the opportunity. In any case what the Easterns call ‘‘ one- pointedness ” is an essential preliminary to even early stages of true meditation. And iron will-power is a still earlier qualifica- tion. By meditation I do not mean merely. ‘‘thinking about’’ anything, however pro- foundly, but the absolute restraint of the mind to the contemplation of a single object, whether gross, fine, or altogether spiritual. Now true magical ceremonial is entirely directed to attain this end, and forms a magnificent gymnasium for those who are not al…
1906 · PDF PAGE 182
…kery in a wink. I can dismiss with sneers as cheap As yours this fabric of my own, One banner of my mind o’erthrown Just at my will. How true and deep Is Carroll *’ when his Alice cries : “It’s nothing but a pack of cards !” There’s the true refuge of the wise; To overthrow the temple guards, Deny reality. And now (111 quote you Scripture anyhow) What did the Sage mean when he wrote (I am the Devil when I quote) “The mere terrestrial-minded man Knows not the Things of God, nor can Their subtle meaning understand ?” A sage, I say, although he me…
1906 · PDF PAGE 267
…s mess of medieval superstition, | and we may just as well have vital principle, and creative power as not, for Science’ cannot help us. True, if we do not use. all the methods at our disposal! But we. go beyond. We admit that all mental methods known are singularly liable to, illusion and inaccuracy of every sort. So_ were the early determinations of specific: heat. Even biologists have erred. But to: the true scientist every failure is a stepping- : And the history of our Science is the history of all Science. If you choose to ape Christendom…
1906 · PDF PAGE 262
… West a great Buddhist society is built up of men of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lies, there is then an awakening, a true redemption, of the weary and forgetful Empires of the East. X THE NOBLE EIGHTFOLD PATH. To return from our little digression to the original plan of our essay. It is time to note the ‘‘ Noble Eightfold Path,” referred to, and its consideration deferred, in Sec- tion III. In this Fourth Noble Truth we approach the true drection of Buddhism; progress is but another word for change; is it possible to move in…
1906 · PDF PAGE 276
…ostic about Christianity. He always tries to prove something about it—that it is un- philosophical or immoral or disastrous—which is not true. He can never say simply that it does not convince him—which is true. - A casual carpenter wandered about a string of villages and suddenly a horde of rich men and sceptics and Sadducees and respectable persons rushed at him and nailed him up like vermin; then people saw that he was a god. He had proved that he was not a common man, for he was murdered. And ever since his creed has proved that it is not a…
1906 · PDF PAGE 195
…e poet's faith is still strong: wound up as his muse is to tragedy, he retains in Edmund the sublime heroism, the simple honesty, of the true Christian; at the death of his beloved mistresses he cries, **T was contracted to them both: all three Now marry in an instant At the moment of death his great nature (self-accusatory, as the finest so often are) asserts itself, and he forgives even the vilest of the human race,—“‘ I pant for life: some good I mean to do Despite of mine own nature.! Quickly send, Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ…
1906 · PDF PAGE 190
184 THE SWORD OF SONG Christian mystics not true Christians, What think ye of Crowley? His interlo- cutor dis- missed, not with a jest, but with a warning. Poet yawns. cum ! Now who dares Call me no Christian? And, who cares? Read ; you will find the Master of Balliol, Discarding Berkeley, Locke, and Paley, ’Il Resume such thoughts and label clear “My Christianity lies here !” With such religion who finds fault? Stay, it seems foolish to exalt Religion to such heights as these, Refine the actual agonies To nothings, lest the mystic jeer ‘‘ So l…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
…The consciousness of the Absolute- wala! is really extended infinitely rather than diminished infinitely, as he will himself assure you. True, Hegel says: ‘‘ Pure being is pure nothing!” and it is true that the infinite heat and cold, joy and sorrow, light and darkness, and all the other pairs of opposites,” cancel one another out: yet I feel rather afraid of this Absolute! Maybe its joy and sorrow are represented in phases, just as 0° and finity are phases of an iden- tical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side …
1906 · PDF PAGE 250
…s of Buddhism have been summed up by the Buddha himself. To me, of course, what the Buddha said or did not say is immaterial; a thing is true or not true, whoever said it. We believe Mr. Savage Landor when he affirms that Lhassa is an important. town in Tibet. Where only probabilities are concerned we |are of course influenced by the moral char- 1 See Childers, Pali Dictionary, s.v. Nibbana. 244
1906 · PDF PAGE 277
…ough Christ’s ‘‘It is finished” were subjectively but the cry of his physical weakness, like Burton's ‘‘ I am a dead man,” it is no less true that millions have regarded it as indeed 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 ver…
1906 · PDF PAGE 122
…reath Destroys all life CHORUS. Thou dealest in such arts? ‘THIRD WOMAN. Ay ! for this hate’s sake. Herein? Are we sisters all CHORUS. _ True sisters ! THIRD WOMAN. The familiar soul Sucks at her mouth—She sickens not nor dies ; More poisonous than he. FIRST WOMAN. Ah! beast of hell ! What may avail us? SECOND WOMAN. Jason is quite lost In her black sorceries. FOURTH WOMAN. Our chance gone ! FIRST WOMAN. Our life Degraded to her service. SECOND WOMAN. We, who are Born nobly, are become her minions. THIRD WOMAN. Slaves, not handmaidens ! ALCESTI…
1906 · PDF PAGE 179
…mpus in a nutshell! | Jdave a superior faculty To reasoning, which makes absurd, Unthinkable and wicked too, A great deal that I know is true } In short, the mind is capable, Besides mere ratiocination, Of twenty other things as well, The first of which is concentration ! Here most philosophers agree ; Does truth Claim that the truth must so intend, make itself in- aes _ stanily appa- Explain at once all agony rent? Not Of doubt, make people comprehend reason.
1906 · PDF PAGE 288
… ing. Let us pull down the church and the Free Library ;! with each stone torn thence let us build the humble and practical homes of the true ‘‘ holy men” of our age, the 1 The sarcasm is perhaps against the popu- larity of the worthless novel, as shown in Free Library statistics ; or against the uselessness of any form of reading to a man not otherwise educated. austere and single-minded labourers in the fields of Physics and Physiology. Myst. Here, moreover, is the foundation of race harmony ; here the possible basis for a genuine brotherhood…
1906 · PDF PAGE 271
…annot enclose a space—and more than one thing cannot form part of a universe, since unus implies a whole. Af, I should reply : (a) It is true that there is no line of demarcation, but that that non- existing line is after all just as much a part of the (non-exist- ing) universe as any other non- existing thing. We divide the universe into (1) Existing things. (2) Non-existing things. If 4 exists, the line must be zo?-4 - and vice versa. Which we know to be false. (b) It is true that there isa line, and that it does not exist, but— S. Let us set…
1906 · PDF PAGE 184
…! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times--what a thumping trout ! (This is the only true fish-story I ever heard—give God the glory !) The thing seems cruel now, of course. Still, it’s a grand case of God’s force ! But, modern Christians, do you dare With common prudence to compare The efficacity of prayer? Who will affirm of Christian sages That prayer can alter averages? The individual case allows Some chance to operate, and thus Destroys its value quite for us. So that is why I knit my bro…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
… is the expression of a transitory adjustment of contending forces, a scene of strife, in which all the combatants fall in turn. What is true of each part is true of the whole. Natural knowledge tends more and more to the conclusion that ‘‘all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth” are the transitory forms of parcels of cosmic substance wending along the road of evolution, from ‘nebulous potentiality, through endless growths of sun and planet and satellite, through all varieties of matter ; through infinite diversities of' life and tho…
1906 · PDF PAGE 103
…ARGUS. Thou! The good ship Where’s my daily wage? But see me, I am ruined. Is finished ! JASON. Be sure I pay thee treble if thy tale be true. ARGUS, Ay! treble nothing! I shall buy a palace. JASON. ‘Treble thine utmost wish. ARGUS, Two evils then Thou pilest on one good! But come and see ! [Zhe Argo ts discovered. CHORUS OF HEROES. By Wisdom framed from ancient days The stately Argo stands above ; Too firm to fear, too great to praise, The might of bright Athena’s love! Oh! ship of glory! tread the foam, And bring our guerdon from its home! G