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APPENDIX II 90 The pharynx to Mahabonisbash, the great angel; To seven-and-thirty myriads of legions of planetary spirits the hairs of the moustache, to each one; To ninety and one my riads of the Elohim, the hairs of the beard; to each thirteen, and the oil to ease the world; To Shalach, the archdevil, the chin. So also with the lesser relics; of which are notable only : to the Order, the heart of our Father: to the Book of the Law, his venerable lung- space to s erve as a s hrine thereunto: to the devil Aot, the liver, to be divided: to the a…
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… I find, Are but a mode of my own mind.) As far as normal reasoning goes, I must admit my concepts close Exactly where my worthy friend, Great Mansel, says they ought to end. But here’s the whole thing in a word : Olympus in a nutshell ! I Have 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 philosohers agree ; Claim that the truth must so i…
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…’s clear at least. B ut never mind! Call them idolaters and blind! We’ll talk of Christ. As Shelley sang, “Shall an eternal issue hang * Great slam—a term of Bridge-Whist. Bara is Hindustani for great. † John iii. 18, “He that believeth not is condemned already.” Mysticism does not need Christ. Krishna will serve, or the Carpenter. The Sacred Walrus. God, some Vestments, and Lady Wim- borne. Fearful aspect of John iii. 16. Universalism. Will God get the bara* slam ? Eternal life. Divergent views of its desirability. Buddhist idea. Dogma of Beli…
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… take that stupendous example of literary subterfuge—King Lear. Let my digress to the history of my own conversion. Syllogistically,—all great men ( e.g. Shaw) are agnostics and subverters of morals. Shake- speare was a great man. Therefore Shakespeare was an agnostic and a subverter of morals. À priori this is then certain. But— Who killed Rousseau? I, said Huxley (Like Robinson Crusoe), With arguments true,—so I killed Rousseau! Beware of à priori! Let us find our facts, guided in the search by à priori methods, no doubt; but the result will …
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…nning to place Ale ph over Tau read this reverse, and so beheld Eden, even now and in the flesh. Whence he sojourned far, and cam e to a great Emperor, by whom he was well received, and from whom he gat great gifts . And the Emperor (who is Solomon) told him of Sheba’s Land and of one fairest of women there enthroned. So he journey ed thither, and for four years and seven months abode with her as paramour a nd light-of-love, for she was gracious to him and showed him those things that the Emperor had hidden ; even the cubical s tone and the cro…
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…le effect on it. As Whewell says, in the strange accident by which he anticipates the m etre of In Memoriam: “No force on earth, however great, can s tretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.” The definition of God as infinite therefore denies man implicitly; while if he be finite, there is an end of the usual Christian reasons for worship, though I daresay I could myself discover some reasonably good ones. [I hardly expect to be asked, somehow.] The resulting equilibrium of God and man, destructive …
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…1 should know three was eight, 2 if the circle were but squared; and this also one day shall ye know, my Brethren ! And she gave him the great and perfect gift of Magic, so that he fared forth right comely and well-provided. N ow at that great wedding was a Suggler, 3 a riddler : for he said, “Thou hast beasts : I will give thee weapons one for one.” For the Lion did our Father win a little fiery wand like a flame, and for his Eagle a cup of ever flowing water : for his Man the Suggler gave him a golden-hilted dagger (yet this was the worst of …
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…of Boundless Love. That this love was wrecked is for me, in some sort a relative of his, a real and bitter sorrow. He might have been so great ! He missed Heaven ! Think kindly of him ! 169. Correctly rhymes.41—Such lines, how- ever noble in sentiment, as: “ À bas les Anglais ! The Irish up !” w ill not be admitted to the competition. Irish is accented on the penultimate—bad cess ot the bloody Saxons that made it so ! The same with Tarshish (see Browning, Pippa Passes, II., in the long speech of Blu- phocks) and many others. 173. The liar Cople…
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…roy er, ho ! the Redeemer ! Thunder-stone: whirlpool: lotus-flower: ho ! for the gold of the sages ! Ain Elohim. And he was silent for a great while, and so departed our Father from Him. Forth he went along the dusty desert and met an antient woman bear- ing a bright crown of gold, studded with gem s, one on each knee. Dressed in rags she was, and squatted clumsily on the sand. A horn g rew from her forehead; and she spat black foam and froth. Foul was the hag and evil, y et our F ather bowed down flat on his face to the earth. “ Holy Virgin of…
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…ed compassion), hanging to him in the hope that he would no reverse his banishment and make her (after a bloody victory) sole heiress of great England. And were any doubt left in our minds as to who really was the hero of the play, the partizan- ship of France should settle it. Shakespeare has never any word but ridicule for 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 w ork and insult the English for the benefit of the ridiculed and hated Frenchmen ? Mo…
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…and shines and dies ere sun be risen and set again.’ “And he hum iliated his heart and sang the following verse: Brahma, and Vishnu, and great Shiva ! Truly I see the Trinity in all things dwell, Some rightly tinged of Heaven, others duly Pitched down the steep and precipice of Hell. Nay, not your glory ye from fable borrow ! These three I see in spirit and in sense, These three, O miserable see ! Sorrow, Absence of ego, and impermanence ! And at the rhythm he swooned, for his old mantra surged up in the long-sealed vessels of sub-conscious mem…
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…a dream, and in that m irific dream it seemed unto him that the walls of all things slid into and acros s each other, s o that he feared greatly, for the stability of the universe is the great enemy; the unstable being the ever- lasting, saith Adhou Bim Aram, the Arab. O Elmen Zata, our Sophic Pilaster ! Further in the dream there was let down from heaven a mighty tessaract, bounded by eight cubes, whereon sat a mighty dolphin having eight senses. Further, he beheld a cavern full of most ancient bones of men, and therein a lion with the voice o…
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…ght50 On that adorable One Light, Divine Savitri ! So may She Illume our minds ! So mote it be ! I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace him oiled and cleaned By the Egyptian Pantheon, The same thing by another name. Thus when of late Egyptian Gods Evoked ecstatic periods In verse of mine, you thought I praised Or worshipped them—I stand amazed. I merely wished to chant i…
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… its organisation, are sadly in need of repair; research must be done, men must be perfected, error must be fought. And if in the West a great Buddhist society is built up of m en of intellect, of the men in whose hands the future lie s, there is then an awakening, a true redem ption, 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 …
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…ther. “He that came before thee.” “Who am I ?” “ He that com eth after m e.” W ith that wors hipped our F ather, and took a present of a great jewel fro m him, and went his way s. And he was bitterly a-cold, for that was th e great W ater he had passed. But our Father’s paps glittered with cold, black light, and likewise his navel. Wherefore he was comforted. Now cam e the sudden twittering of heart lest the firm ament beneath him were not stable, and lo! he danceth up and down as a very cork on waters of wailing. “Woman,” he bade sternly, “ be…
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…ledge. Why retain The husk of flesh, yet seek to merit The influx of the Holy Spirit ? And, swift as caddies pat and cap a tee, Gain the great prize all mortals snap at, he- Roic guerdon of Srotapatti ?35 With calm and philsophic mind, No fears, no hopes, devotions blind To hamper, soberly we’ll state The problem, and investigate In purely scientific mood The sheer Ananke of the mind, A temper for our steel to find Whereby those brazen nails subdued Against our door-post may in vain Ring. We’ll examine, to be plain, By logic’s intellectual pris…
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…my own time and that of my readers by any lengthy discussion of Mr. Herbert S pencer’s “ Transfigured Realis m.” I will not point out in greater detail how he proposes, by a chain of reasoning, to overthrow the conclusions he admits as being those of reason. But his statem ent that Idealism is but verbally intelligible is for m y purpose the most admirable thing he could have said. He is wrong in say ing that idealists are bewildered by their own terminology ; the fact is that idealis t conclusions are pre- sented directly to consciousness, whe…
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…ematical process! 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 = = ⎡ ⎣⎢ ⎤ ⎦⎥ − Multiply by1 = n n Then 0 0 0 1 1 n n × = × ∞. Now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the infinitely sm all results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUMBER EX- TENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES. It happened, when this our Great Inversion took place, from the essence of all nothingness to finity ex- tended in innumerable categories, that an incalculably vas t s ystem was produced. Merely by chance, chance in the trues t sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets , devi…
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…after all, Never attain to heaven and stand (Stephen) or sit (Paul)50 at the hand Of the Most High !—And that alone That question of the Great White Throne, Is the sole point that we debate.” I answer, Here in India wait Christian pre- misses ac- cepted. Severe mental strain involved in reading poem. The Ascension at last ! This is a common feat. Prana- yama. Difference be- tween David Douglas [sic] Home, Sri Swami Sabapati Vamadeva Bhaskara- nanda Sara- swati and the Christ. Latter com- pared to Madame Hum- bert. 300 305 310 315 320 325 330 33…
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…nt, make this our nobler work possible, and it is the graves t pos sible m istake to sneer at those humble but faithful followers of the great minds of the world. What, then, are the bes t, easiest, directed methods to attain our result? And how shall we, in mortal language, convey to the minds of others the nature of a result so bey ond language, baffling even imagina-tion eagle- pinioned? It may help us if we endeavour to outline the distinction between the Hindu and Buddhist methods and aims of the Great Work. The Hindu method is really myst…