FOLLOW A WORD THROUGH THE COLLECTION
Search the corpus.
Phrase search ignores case and repeated whitespace. All-words search finds whole words anywhere on the same page. OCR errors can affect results.
28 matching pages
Page 1 of 21904 · PDF PAGE 89
…im 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 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 t…
1904 · PDF PAGE 32
PENTECOST 25 Still you’re young yet, scarce forty—we’ll hope at three score You’ll be more of a singer, and less of a whore. Each to his trade ! live out your life ! Fondle your child, and buss your wife ! Trust not, fear not, street straight and strong ! Don’t worry, but just get along. I used to envy all my Balti coolies21 In an inverse kind of religious hysteria, Though every one a perfect fool is, To judge by philosophic criteria, My Lord Archbishop. The name of Winchester, Harrow, or Eton22 makes them not two inches stir. 125 They know not…
1904 · PDF PAGE 77
70 1902 THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS “LISTEN to the Jataka!” said the Buddha. And all they gave ear. “Long ago, when King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares,1 it came to pass that there lived under his admirable government a weaver named Suraj Ju 2 and his wife Chandi. 3 And in the fulness of her time did she give birth to a man child, and they called him Perdu’ R Abu. 4 Now the child grew, and the tears of the mother fell, and the wrath of the father waxed: for by no means would the boy strive in his trade of weaving. The loom went merrily, but to th…
1904 · PDF PAGE 79
…than ever to im agine there was one. So the tusker was usually to be found, still as a rock, in s ome secluded place, m editating on the Three Characteris tics. And when Ganesha appeared in all his glory , he found him to his disgust quite free from e lephanto- morphism. In fact, he quietly asked the God to leave him alone. “Now he was still quite a y oung elephant when there came into the jungle, tripping merrily along, with a light-hearted song in its nucleolus, no less than a Bacillus. “And the elephant died. He was only seventeen years old.…
1904 · PDF PAGE 84
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 77 the bulk of cases one should certainly abstain from destroying life, that is, wantonly and wilfully: but I cannot drink a glass of water without killing countless m yriads of living beings. If you knew as I do, the conditions of existence: struggle deadly and inevitable, every form of life the inherent and immiti- gable foe of every other form, with few, few exceptions, you would not only cease to talk of the wickedness of causing death, but y ou would perceive the First Noble Truth, that no existence can be free fr…
1904 · PDF PAGE 91
…arrow in twain ; after that he was silent, for they grew again in sixfold order, so that this latter work was double: but unto the first three he laid not his hand, neither for the first time, nor for the second time, nor for the third time. So to them he added3 that spiritual flame (for they were one, and ten, and fifty , thrice, and again) and that was the Beas t, the Living One that is Lifan. Let us be silent, therefore, my brethren, worshipping the holy sixfold Ox 4 that was our F ather in his peace that he had won into, and that s o hardly…
1904 · PDF PAGE 98
…orld, I have but one hope of making any profound impression, viz.—that my theory has the merit of explaining the divergences between the three great forms of religion now existing in the world—Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity , and of adapting them to ontological science by conclusions not mystical but mathematical. Of M ohamme- dism I s hall not now treat, as , in whatever light we may decide to regard it (and its esoteric schools are often orthodox), in any case it must fall under one of the three heads of Nihilism, Advaitism, and Dvaitism…
1904 · PDF PAGE 92
…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 having brooded upon the ocean, and sm itten with the Sword, and the Py ramid being builded in just p…
1904 · PDF PAGE 94
…thus plainly to y ou. M ark well that y e read me aright ! Our Father (blessed be his name !) en tered the Path on this wise. He cut off three from ten : 2 thus he left seven. He cut and left three: he cut and left one : he cut and became. Thus fourfold. Eightfold.3 He opened his ey es : he cleansed his hear t: he chained his tongue : he fixed 1 Achad, unity, adds to thirteen. Ther e follow attributions of the “ thirteen times table.” 2 These are the Buddhist “paths of enlightment.” 3 The eightfold path. The rest is very obscure. Somnium Auri P…
1904 · PDF PAGE 82
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 75 back and back, like a biograph out of order, and there’s no sort of connection between one and the other. Hullo, what’s that? Why, there’s a holy man near that Bo-Tree. He’ll tell m e what it all means.’ Poor silly old Lord of the Universe ! Had he carried his memory back one more step he’d have known all about Jehjaour and the con- spiracy, and that he was a Srotapatti and had only one more birth; and might well have put in the 311,040,000,000,000 myriads of æons which would elapse before lunch in rejoicing over hi…
1904 · PDF PAGE 27
…ble Pigeon-77 Lamb-and-Old-Gentleman religion Fizzles in smoke, and I am found Attacking nothing. Here’s the ground, Pistols, and coffee—three in one, (Alas, O Rabbi Schimeon !) But never a duellist—no Son, No Father, and (to please us most) Decency pleads—no Holy Ghost! All vanish at the touch of truth, A cobweb trio—like, in sooth, 705 710 715 720 725 730 735 740 Mystical mean-ing o f “Ascen-sion Day.” Futility of whole discus- sion, in view o f facts.
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 73 a family of Nats in a big tree at A nuradhapura had a little stranger, very welcome to Mamma and Papa Nat. “Blessed indeed was the fam ily. Five- and-forty feet1 away stood a most ancient a nd holy dagoba: and the children of light would gather round it in the cool of the evening, or in the misty glamour of dawn, and turn f orth in love and pity towards all mankind—nay , to the smallest grain of dust tossed on the utmost storms of the Sahara ! “Blessed and more blessed ! For one day came a holy Bikkhu from the land …
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…m Your silence would match their awhile ! A Classical Research. [Protectionists may serve if the supply of Hottentots gives out.] I took three Hottentots alive. Their scale was one, two, three, four, five, Infinity. To think of men so I could not bear : a new Colenso I bought them to assuage their plight, Also a book by Hall and Knight On Algebra. I hired wise men To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One of the Hottentots succeeded. Few schoolboys know as much as he did ! The others sank beneath the strain : It broke, not fortified, the …
1904 · PDF PAGE 111
…cessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets with regard to the Cosm os; and, in particular, to man.2 IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteris tics (which we may predicate of all known existing things: (a) Change. Anikka. (b) Sorrow. Dukkha. (c) Absence of an Ego. Anatta. 1 Change is the great enem y, the im mediate cause of pain. Unable to arrest it, I slo w the process, and render it tem porarily painless, by eating. T his is a concession to weakness, no doubt, in one sense. Do I eat r eally in or der to…
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
… who has realised the fact that depends from that understanding, namely that all the constituents of bein are by nature endowed with the Three Character-istics of Sorrow, Transitoriness, and Absence of any immortal principle or Atma—such a one is said to be Sam maditthi, to hold right views, and the term has com e to m ean one of the Buddhist Faith. We may not have taken the other and higher steps on the Noble Eightfold Path; but must have rea- lised those Four Truths and their sequential three Characteristics. He who has attained Sammaditthi h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 93
APPENDIX II 86 Ain Elohim. The Chariot. Four hundred and eighteen. Five are one, and six are diverse, five in the m idst and three on each side. The Word of Power, double in the Voice of the Master. Ain Elohim. Four sounds of four force. O the Snake hath a long tail ! Amen. Ain Elohim. Sudden death: thick darkness: ho ! the ox ! One, and one, and one: Creater, Preserver, Destroy 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 Fa…
1904 · PDF PAGE 85
…MAGI HORTUS ROSARUM* Translated into English by Christeos Lu ciftias. Printed by W. Black, at the Wheatsheaf in Newgate, and sold at the Three Keys in Nags-Head Court, Gracechurch St. IT is fitting that I, Am brose, called I.A.O., should set down the life of our great Father (who now is not, yet whose name must never be spoken among men), in order that the Brethren may know what journey s he undertook in pursuit of that Knowledge whose attainment is their constant study. It was at his 119th year,1 the S tar Suaconch2 being in the sign of the Li…
1904 · PDF PAGE 124
…by no Hegelian word-juggle ; but by direct apperception as clear as the sun at noon. Therefore; no work more, but—to the work ! XII. THE THREE REFUGES. Buddham Saranangachami. Dhammam Saranangachami. Sangham Saranangachami. I take my refuge in the Buddha. I take my refuge in the Dhamma. I take my refuge in the Sangha. This formula of adhesion to Buddhism is daily repeated by countless millions of humanity; what does it mean? It is no vain profession of reliance on others; no c owardly shirking of burdens—burdens which cannot be shirked. It is a…
1904 · PDF PAGE 78
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS 71 II “Jehjaour1 was a mighty magician; his soul was dark and evil; and his lust was of life and power and of the wreaking of h atred upon the innocent. And it came to pass that he gazed upon a ball of crystal wherein were shown him all the fears of the time unborn as yet on earth. And by his art he saw Perdu’ R Abu, who had been his friend : for do what he would, the crystal showed always that sensual and frivolous youth as a Fear to him : even to him the Mighty One ! But the selfish and evil are cowards; they fear sh…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
… my inquiries, and at last the appalling question is answered, and the pas t ceases to intrude its problems upon my mind. Here y ou are! Three s hies a penny ! Change all bad arguments. I ASSERT THE ABSOLUTENESS OF THE QABALISTIC ZERO. When we s ay that the Cos mos s prang from 0, what kind of 0 do we mean ? By 0 in the ordinary sense of the term we mean “absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say “No cat has two tails,” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs , that “Absence-of-cat possesses two tails” ; but that “In the categor…