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… life is the best Of all your memories? They say You paint—I think you should one day Take me to see your Studio— Tell me, when all your work goes right, Painted to match some inner light, What of the outer world you know! Surely, your best work always finds Itself sole object of the mind’s. In vain you ply the brush, distracted By something you have heard a7 acted. Expect some tedious visitor— Your eye runs furtive to the door ; Your hand refuses to obey ; You throw the useless brush away. I think I hear the Word you say! I practice then, with…
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ACTUS SECUNDUS 93 THESEUS. Tell me, friend master, how the work goes on. When shall our gallant vessel breast the deep? When shall we see the sun sink o’er the Poop, And look toward moonrise, and the land be lost, And the perched watcher on the mast behold The melting mirror of the ocean meet The crystallising concave of the sky? ARGUS. All this shall happen when the work is done. JASON. How many moons, friend fool, before that day? ARGUS. These things are known not even to the Gods, Except the Father only.? HERACLES. Fools must talk. ARGUS. I …
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…7 ALCESTIS MEDEA: ° ° Nothing. Ai Ai! Ah, dear queen, lament, lament ! onngs VAI I am undone by my own ALCESTIS. MEDEA. Al Ai! What! the work? CHORUS. ALCESTIS. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Alas! Alas! the work! JASON. MEDEA. Thy father? ALCESTIS. Slain ! CHORUS. Ai Ai! the old man slain ! MEDEA. Ai Ai! ALCESTIS, Ai Ai! MEDEA. The strong spell broken? ALCESTIS. Nay, but thoughts arose, So many thoughts—or ever I was ware— And he—the caldron seethes —— MEDEA. He rises not? . ALCESTIS. Nought but moist smoke springs up. MEDEA. Alas! for me! All is but lost. ALC…
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…inctpit. (2) This, to a scientist, is apparently anathema. But it only means, I think, that if we are not settled in our minds we cannot work. And this is unquestionable. Suppose a chemist to set to work to determine the boiling-point of a new organic substance. Does he stop in the midst, struck by the fear that his thermometer is inaccurate? No! he has, unless he is a fool, tested it previously. We must have our principia tixed before we can do research work. (3) A scientist hardly requires conviction on this point ! (4) Do you think to combin…
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…niverse. Closely connected with this question is that of the will of God. People argue that an Infi- nite intelligence must have been at work on this cosmos. I reply No! There is no intelligence at work worthy of the name. The Laws of Nature may be generalised in one—the Law of Inertia. Everything moves in the direction determined by the path of least resistance; species arise, develop, and die as their collec- tive inertia determines; to this Law there is no exception but the doubtful one of Free- will; the Law of Destiny itself is formally an…
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… a profound watchfulness kept up lest the thought should for a moment stray.t. The latter portion is, to my mind, the essential one. The work is comparable to that of an electrician who should sit for hours with his finger on a delicately adjusted resistance- box and his eye on the spot of light of a galvanometer, charged with the duty of keeping the spot still, at least that it should never move beyond a certain number of degrees, and of recording the more impor- tant details of his experiment. Our work is identical in design, though worked wi…
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…ture And destroy the House of pain for ever, Leave its laughter and its tears, and shatter All the causes of its mockery, master All the workings of its will, and vanish Into peace and light and bliss, whose nature Baffles so the little tongues of mortals That we name it not, but from its threshold, From the golden word upon its gateway, Style ‘‘ Cessation”; that whose self we guess not. Thus the wise most mystically interpret Into wisdom the worst folly spoken By the mortal of a god deluded. So, the last wise word rejected, Pentheus Cries, ‘‘ …
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… to play so dangerous a trick. ARGUS. True, Theseus—if he had but hit his thumb ! CASTOR. Cease this fool’s talk. The moon waits not the work. POLLUX. The sun will sink no later for your pleasure. On to thy work, man. THESEUS, He that traps a lion And baits him for an hour, and‘lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothing is but wisdom—and myself Think strongly that no other thing exists But strength: so with his subtleties of mind He baffles me ; and I lift up my club…
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…adictions fly As when men talk of gods—that never were ! ARGUS. Thou wouldst do better to leave men alone. The wisest talk is folly when work waits. Look ! how these sturdy villains gape around, Fling down their task, and hang upon the words That flow like nectar from your majesty. 1 The gibe in these twenty lines is against Rudyard Kipling’s silly vitalisation of machinery, and his ignorance even of the correct terms, CASTOR. In truth, my friend, if you would wear your crown This side of Orcus, you should go away. POLLUX. Ay! let the men work!…
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…harmless passion and her own great worth. She could not be offended: and moreover— When at the nightfall I sought Heaven’s light, All my work grew unspotted, done aright ! The high Gods came above my head to hover, Because I worked with a diviner might, The perfect sage being the periect lover. THE NINTH DAY. ‘** How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit Before thou make a trial of her love?”’ 1 Henry VI, I wAs most weary of my work: the mind Shuddered at all the wonders it had written, And the whole body by the spirit smitten Groaned : so I w…
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…ghtly-ordered mind, Here and hereafter doth he mourn, him suffering doth doubly irk, Who doeth evil, seeing now at last how evil was his work. The virtuous man rejoices here, hereafter doth he take delight, Both ways rejoices, both delights, as seeing that his work was right. Here and hereafter suffers he: the pains of shame his bosom fill Who thinks ‘‘I did the wrong,” laments his going on the Path of III. Here and hereafter hath he joy: in both the joy of rectitude Who thinks ‘‘I did the right” and goes rejoicing on the Path of Good. A-many v…
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… drug conceals the portent? Mystery! Mystery ninefold closed upon itself That matter should move mind—Ay ! darker yet - That mind should work on matter? And the proof . Extant, implicit in the thought thereof ! Else all our work were vain. These twain be one ; And in their essence? Deeper, deeper yet I dive. [He draws the dirk and tests the point. And will to-morrow show me aught? [He extinguishes the lamps, goes to the door and opens it. The clang startles him. I hate that door! air Should bring back manhood! pitiest her ! Man, thou art whelme…
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…is unfortunately himself a Western, ahd in the same quagmire of mis- apprehension as Prof. Max. Miiller and the rest. Madame Blavatsky’s work was to remind the Hindus of the excellence of their own shastras,* to show that some Westerns held identical ideas, and thus to countermine the dishonest representations of the mission- aries. Iam sufficiently well known as a bitter opponent of ‘‘ Theosophy ” to risk nothing in making these remarks. I trust that the sense of public duty which inspires these strictures will not be taken as incompatible wit…
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… the French; never aught but praise of England and love for her: are we to suppose that in his best play he is to stultify all his other work and insult the English for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated Frenchman? Moreover, Cordelia reckons without her host. The British bulldogs make short work of the invaders and rebels, doubtless with the con- nivance of the King of France, who, with great and praiseworthy acuteness, foresees that Cordelia will be hanged, thus liberating him from his ‘‘most filthy bargain”: there is but one alarum, and t…
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NOTES TO ASCENSION DAY AND PENTECOST ‘‘ Blind Chesterton is sure to err, And scan my work in vain; I am my own interpreter, And I will make it plain.” NOTE TO INTRODUCTION 1 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. AN APPRECIATION. BY ALEISTER CROWLEY.* Ir isa lamentable circumstance that so many colossal brains (W. H. Mallock, &c.) have been hitherto thrown away in attacking what is after alla problem of mere academic interest, the authorship of the plays our fathers accepted as those of Shakespeare. Ta me it seems of immediate and vital importance to do for Shak…
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…ocial life of any kind to tread these paths of Research. Is the Way very hard? Is the brain tired? The results slow to come ? Others are work- ing, failing, struggling, crowned here and there with rare garlands of success. Success for ourselves, success for others; is it not Compassion that binds us closer than all earthlier ties? Ay, in joy and in sorrow, in weakness and in strength, do I take my refuge in the Sangha. XITT. CONCLUSION. Let me give a rapid resumé of what we have gone through. (a) We have stripped Science and Bud- dhism of their…
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180 THE SWORD OF SONG Destroying passion, feeling, thought, 630 The very practice you have sought 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. Objec…
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…nsactions, Vols. I.- DCLXVI. A Footnote to History. History of the Jesuits. The Real History of the Rosicrucians. Marlborough. The above works and many others of less importance were carefully consulted by the Author before passing these lines for the press. Their substantial accuracy is further guaran- teed by the Professors of History at Cambridge, Oxford, Berlin, Harvard, Paris, Moscow, and London. | 366. Shot his Chandra.*6—Anglicé, shot the moon. 380. The subtle devilish omission.5'— But what are we to say of Christian dialecticians who qu…
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…f Being a shadowy sort of test ; thought. A verbal lusus at the best, At worst a wicked lie devised To bind men’s thoughts ; but we must work With our own instruments, nor shirk Discarding what we erstwhile prized ; Should we perceive it disagree With the first-born necessity. I come to tell you why I shun Impermanence The sight of men, the life and fun of the soul. You know I can enjoy so well, The Nature that I love as none (I think) before me ever loved. You know I scorn the fear of Hell, By worship and all else unmoved.
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…t Ve wa B ayfas AMA Bobbie| Zi ATS WTATH | AARTT ATA fant 4 ata a fear 2 zat ara Bra Vo 1 ea eas 65 faal a ae emu ztasaid 1: ‘Pm game to work through all eternity, Your holiness the Guru Swami!”* ‘Thus I studied with him till he told me 7a y He taught the A B C of Yoga: a0 lasked fae areata" aut ata” In strange and painful attitude," I sat, while he was very rude." With eyes well fixed on my proboscis, J soon absorbed the Yogi Gnosis. 65 He taught me to steer clear of vices, The giddy waltz, the tuneful aria, Those fatal foes of Brahma-charya ;…