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…s speeding Outside—some whence, some whither ? And67 I think we easier understand Where Schelling (to the Buddha leading) Calls real not-self. In any case There is not, there can never be A soul, or sword or armour needing, Incapable in time or space Or to inflict or suffer. We I think are gradually weeding The soil of dualism. Pheugh ! Drop to the common Christian’s view ! This is my point ; the world lies bleeding :— (Result of sin ?)—I do not care ; I will admit you anywhere ! I take your premises themselves And, like the droll deceitful elv…
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… the cosmic plan By symbolising God and man And nature thus? As man contains Cells, nerves, grey matter in his brains, Each cell a life, self-centred, free Yet self-subordinate to the whole For its own sake—expand !—so we Molecules of a central soul, Time’s sons, judged by Eternity. Nature is gone—our joys, our pains, Our little lives—and God remains. Were this the truth—why ! worship then Were not so imbecile for men! But that’s no Christian faith ! For where Enters the dogma of despair ? Despite his logic’s silver flow I must count Caird62 a …
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…sely consider ing, ther e 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 true he gets the notion, ‘I have not a self.’ “As something real and true he gets the notion, ‘By my self, I am conscious of my self.’ “As something r eal and tr ue he gets the notion, ‘By my self, I am conscious of m y non-self.’ “Or again, he gets the notion, ‘This soul of mine can be perceived, it has exper ienced the r esult of good or evil actions com mitted here and there; n…
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…To the sheer needs of your own mind. You cannot bring God in the compass Of human thought ? Up stick and thump ass ! Let human thought itself expand— Bright Sun of Knowledge, in me rise ! Lead me to these exalted skies To live and love and understand ! Paying no price, accepting nought— The Giver and the Gift are one With the Receiver—O thou Sun Of thought, of bliss transcending thought, Rise where divison dies ! Absorb In glory of the glowing orb Self and its shadow ! 755 760 765 770 775 780 785 790 Degradation of symbols. Es- sential identity…
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…at the term It is just Nothing I affirm. The fool (with whom is wisdom, deem The Scriptures—rightly !) in his heart Saith (silent, to himself, apart) This secret : “\yhla }ya”79 See the good Psalm ! And thus, my friend ! My diatribes approach the end And find us hardly quarelling. And yet—you seem not satisfied ? The literal mistranslated thing Must not by sinners be denied. Go to your Chapel then to pray ! (I promise Mr. Chesterton80 Before the Muse and I have done A grand ap-pre-ci-a-ti-on Of Brixton on Ascension Day.) He’s gone—his belly fil…
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…er. But back ! Let once again address Ourselves to super-consciusness ! You weary me with proof enough That all this meditation stuff Is self-hypnosis. Be it so ! Do you suppose I did not know ? Still, to be accurate, I fear The symptoms are entirely strange. If I were hard, I’d make it clear That criticism must arrange Marvellous an- swer to prayer. Prayer and averages. Are the results of meditation due to auto- hypnosis ? 550 555 560 565 570 575 580 585 590
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PENTECOST 37 An explanation different For this particular event. Though surely I my find it queer That you should talk of self-hypnosis, When your own faith so very close is To similar experience ; Lies, in a word, beneath suspicion To ordinary common sense And logic’s emery attrition. I take, however, as before Your own opinion, and demand Some test by which to understand Huxley’s piano-talk,* and find If my hypnosis may not score A point against the normal mind. (As you are please to term it, though ! I gather that you do not know ; Merely in…
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…) These strictures must include the liar Copleston,42 Reverend F. B. Meyer, (The cock of the Dissenter’s midden, he !) And others of the self-same kidney:— How different from Sir Philip Sidney ! But “cave os, et claude id, ne Vituperasse inventus sim.” In English let me render him! ’Ware mug, and snap potato-trap! Or elsely it may haply hap Aim of poet. Indignation of poet. Poet defies his uncle. Whip and spur. Sporting offer. The Times Com- petition outdone. Sub-species of genus Christian included in poet’s strictures. 145 150 155 160 165 170 …
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… man Hovering on delerium’s brink : Shall these be classed his utmost span ? All that he can or ought to think ? No ! the strong man and self-reliant Is the true spiritual giant. I blame no weaklings, but decline To take their maunderings for mine. You see I do not base my thesis On your Book’s being torn to pieces By knowledge : nor invoke the shade Of my own boyhood’s agony. Soul, shudder not ! Advance the blade Of fearless fact and probe the scar ! You know my first-class memory ? Well, in my life two years there are Twelve years back—not so…
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…arene. Where’s the wet towel ? Let us first Destroy the argument of fools, From Paul right downward to the Schools, That the Ascension’s self rehearsed Christ’s Godhead by its miracle. Grand !—but the power is mine as well ! In India levitation counts No tithe of the immense amounts Of powers demanded by the wise From Chela ere the Chela rise To knowledge. Fairy-tales ? Well, first, Sit down a week and hold your breath As masters teach49—until you burst, Or nearly—in a week, one saith, A month, perchance a year for you, Hard practice, and yours…
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… category,1 a circumstance which gives room for a fractional am ount of freewill. If this be not so, it m atters little; for if I find myself in a good state, that merely proves that my destiny took me there. We are, as Herbert Spencer observes, self-deluded with the idea of freewill; but if this be so, nothing matters at all. If, however, Herbert Spencer is mistaken (unlikely as it must ap- pear), then our reason is valid, and we should seek out the right path and pursue it. The question therefore need not trouble us at all. Here then we see t…
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…n : he made good grist of it :— And here, my Christian friend, ’s the gist of it ! First, here’s philosophy’s despair The cynic scorn of self. I think At times the search is worth no worry, And hasten earthward in a hurry, Close spirit’s eyes, or bid them blink, Go back to Swinburne’s19 counsel rare, Kissing the universe its rod, As thus he sings “For this is God ; Be man with might, at any rate, In strength of spirit growing straight And life as light a-lving out !” So Swinburne doth sublimely state, And he is right beyond a doubt. So, I’m a p…
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… of Desire ; nor is a task so formidable accomplished b y a ny t hreepenny- bit-in-the-plate-on-Sunday morality, the “deceive others and self-deception will take care of itself” uprightness, but by the severe roads of austere self-mastery, of arduous scientific research, which constitute the Noble Eightfold Path. 101-105. Theres one. . . Six Six Six.31— This opinion has most recently (and most oppor- tunely) been confirmed by the Rev. Father Simons, Roman Catholic Missionary (and head of the Corner in K ashmir Stamps), Baramulla, Kash- mir. 10…
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…en- delenburg he drives the reeking fangs of his im- agination into the palpitating vitals of his own grim masterpiece of reconcilement, self-deluded and yet self-conscious of its own delusion. History affirms that such a deadlock is invariably the prelude to a new enlightenment: by such steps we have advanced, by such we shall advance. The “horror of great darkness” which is scepticism must ever be broken by some heroic master-soul, intolerant of the cosmic agony. We then await his dawn. May I go one step further, and lift up my voice and prop…
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…he twenty-fifth day, a sigh; The twenty-sixth day, a refusal; The twenty-seventh day, a consent ; and the last night she gave him all herself, so that the moon was e clipsed and earth was utterly darkened. And the marriage of that virgin was on this wise: She had three arrows, y et but two flanks, and the wise men s aid that who knew two was three,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 c…
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…gha. H atred. 6. Ruparaga. Desire for bodily im mortality. 7. Aruparaga. Desire for spiritual i mmortality. 8. Mano. Pride. 9. Udha kka. Self-righteousness. 10. Avigga. Ignorance. (1) For this is a petitio principii. (2) This, to a scientist, is apparently anathema. But it only means, I think, that if we are not settled in our m inds we cannot work. And this is unquestionable. Suppose a chemist to set to work to determ ine the boiling-point of a new organic substance. Does he stop in the midst, struck by the fear that his therm ometer is inaccu…
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…sun drove away the rain, and the Star shone in the day-time, making it Night. After the last day came his Mother, his Redeem er, and Him self ; and joining together they were even as I am who write unto y ou. Seventeen they were, the three Fathers : with the three Mothers they were thirty -two, and sixfold therein, being as countenance and countenance. Yet, being seventeen, they were but one, and that one none, as before hath been showed. And this enumera- tion is a great Mysterium of our art. Whence a light hidden in a Cross. Now therefore hav…
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…hilation. “ ‘Venerable Sir!’ said Mahabrahma, who had assumed the guise of a cowherd, ‘I kiss y our worshipful Trilbies :1 I prostrate myself before y our em inent respectability .’ ‘Sir,’ said the holy man, none other than Our Lord Him self ! ‘thou seekest illumina- tion!’ Mahabrahm a sm irked and admitted it. ‘From negative to positive,’ explained the Thrice-Honoured One, ‘through Poten- tial Existence eternally vibrates the Divine Absolute of the Hidden Unity of proces- sional form m asked in the Eternal Aby ss of the Unknowable, the synthet…
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…ctual lack of experi- ence in the m ind of the reader of the phenomena discussed. I will go so far as to say that perhaps Mr. Spencer himself is so bitter because he him self has actual ex- perience of “Transfigured Realis m” as a directly presented phenomenon; for if he supposes that the normal healthy mind can perceive what he perceives, Berkeley’s argu- ments must se em to him mere wanton stupidity. I class the Hindu philosophy with the Idealist; the Bhuddistic with that of Mr. Herbert S pencer; the great difference be- tween the two being t…
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tycarb 92 joss of Genesis to the intangible, but self- contradictory spectre of to-day. But if G be infinite, the other forces can have no possible 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 …