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Page 101 of 1081906 · PDF PAGE 240
…othing. In any category, infinity excludes finity, unless that finity be an identical part of that infinity. In the category of existing things, space being infinite, for on that hypothesis we are still working, either matter fills or does not fill it. If the former, matter is infinitely great; if the latter, infinitely small. Whether the matter-universe be 10! light-years in diameter or half a mile makes no difference; it is infinitely small—in effect, Nothing. The unmathematical illusion that it does exist is what the Hindus call Maya. If, on…
1944 · PDF PAGE 43
…d magical, and Printing (as it is) an invention of the Devil, people should regard hi‐ eroglyphs (whether written or pictured) as living things having power in themselves. It may be that, even to‐day, there are houses in darkest Shropshire where anyone who put another book on the top of the Family Bible would be told never to darken those doors again. Auto‐ matic action is everywhere ascribed to inanimate objects; for instance, Horseshoes on doors. There is an entire class of such superstitions. The problem of how any given superstition arose h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…handra.56—Anglicé, shot the moon. 388. The subtle devilish omission.87—But what are w e to say of Christian dialectitians who quote “All things work together for good” out of its context, and call this verse “Chris- tian optimism ?” See Caird’s “Hegel.” Hegel knew how to defend himself, though. As Goethe wrote of him : “ They thought the master too Inclined to fuss and finick. The students’ anger grew To frenzy Paganinic.* They vowed they’d make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic : He had sco…
1904 · PDF PAGE 88
…her, 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 cros s beneath the triangle that were his and un-revealed. And on the third day he left her and came to Her who had initiated him before he was initiated ; and with he he abode eight days and twenty days :3 and she gave him gifts. 1 Lamed means ox-goad; Aleph, an ox. Lamed Aleph means No, the denial of Aleph Lamed, El, God. 2 Read reverse, th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 32
…he dangers of excess from the athletic standpoint. He introduced me to racing, billiards, betting, cards and women. He told me how these things might be enjoyed without damaging oneself or wronging others. He put me up to all the tricks. He showed me the meaning of honour. I immediately accepted his standpoint and began to behave like a normal, healthy human being. The nightmare world of Christianity vanished at the dawn. I fell in with a girl of the theatre in the first ten days at Torquay, and at that touch of human love the detestable myster…
1944 · PDF PAGE 102
…th, while in life, upon death; peace unutterable, rest, ecstasy; nor do I demand aught in sacrifice.” “But to love me is better than all things: if under the night‐stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be will‐ ing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour. Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; ye shall wear rich jewels; ye shall exc…
1906 · PDF PAGE 251
…to some of these antique philosophers -than to the fathers of modern philosophy that suffering is the badge of all the tribe of sentient things; that it is no accidental accompaniment, but an essential constituent of the Cosmic Process.’’ And in the same essay, though he is disposed to deny more than the rudiments of consciousness to the lower forms of life, he is quite clear that pain varies directly (to put it loosely) with the degree of consciousness. Cf. also ‘* Animal Automatism,” pp. 236-237. (2) SorRow’s CauseE.—The cause of sorrow is de…
1944 · PDF PAGE 118
…nd Seqence, until by their Movement was the Universe churned into the Quintessence of Light. Moreover at an‐ other Time did I behold all things as Bullae, iridescent and luminous, self‐shining in every Colour and every Combination of Colour, Myriad pursuing Myriad until by their perpetual Beauty they exhausted the Virtue of my Mind to receive them, and whelmed it, so that I was fain to withdraw myself from the Burthen of that Brilliance. Yet, O my Son, the Sum of all this amounteth not to the Worth of one Dawn‐Glimmer of Our True Vision of Holi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
… -- waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life—and this constant recollection ‘and keeping in mind of holy things, is the Seventh Stage, Sammasati. And by the power of this transcendent faculty, rising through the Eight High Trances to the very threshold of Nirvana, he at last, in the Trance called Nirodha Samapatti, attains, even in this life, to the Deathless Shore of Nirvana, by the power of Sammasamadhi, Right Concentration. Such a one has finished the Path—he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 316
…rt me." We may now transcribe the diary. We find the great mind, the complex man, purged through and through of thought, stripped of all things human and divine, centred upon one single aspiration, as simple as the love of a child for its father. Like lightning from heaven? Not lest swift flashed back the obvious question of the practical man, how? The answer was immediate: "INVOKING OFTEN". I need not have asked. They were the words of Zoroaster indeed, but they were also my own. I had used them in my paraphrase of {516} Zoroaster in Tannhuse…
1906 · PDF PAGE 65
…s Anglo-Saxon-blasted corner of Japan, here, at the very outpost of the East. He spoke my thought. ‘Here I lie,” he said, ‘‘ east of all things. All my life I have been travelling eastward, and now there is now no further east to go.” ‘‘ There is America,” I said. I had to say something. ‘Where the disappearance of man has followed that of manners: the exit of God has not wished to lag behind that of grammar. I have no use for American men, and only one use for American women.” ‘“*Of a truth,” I said, ‘‘the continent is accursed—a very limbo.” …
1929 · PDF PAGE 412
…f the rhythm and rime is extremely complex and the execution extraordinarily fluent. For sheer verbal music {656} it was one of the best things that I had done. I found myself able to introduce internal rimes at very short intervals, without in any way interfering with the rhythm or the sense. There is no distortion of grammar, no difficulty in reading. Hush! hush! the young feet flush, The marble's ablush, The music moves trilling,
1929 · PDF PAGE 179
…y of the sight made up for the monotony of the march. There are many phenomena of extraordinary interest, had we not been surfeited with things stupendous and strange. At one part of this journey, we were literally walking for hours on garnets. Another marvel is a range of stratified eruptive rocks which stand out brilliantly black against the greys and browns of the background. Near Paiyu there is a regular range of mountains composed of consolidated glacial mud. Again, there is a row of pinnacles capped by enormous boulders on the principle o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 75
…h infinite pity for his spiritual disenchantment. It was infinite because it could not even imagine a goal and dwelt wholly amid eternal things. To him I was a mind --- no more. He never manifested the slightest interest in any of my occupations. He had no sympathy with any of my ambitions, not even my poetry, except in a very peculiar way, which I have never thoroughly understood. He showed an instinctive distrust of my religious aspirations, because he realized that sooner or later they would take me out of his reach.
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…golden, that throng it, and they cry: Holy, Holy, Holy art thou, that art not shaken in the earthquakes, and in the thunders! The end of things is come upon us; the day of Be‐with‐us is at hand! For he hath created the Universe, and overthrown it, that he might take his pleasure thereupon. And now, in the midst of the Aethyr, I behold that god. He hath a thousand arms, and in each hand is a weapon of terrible strength. His face is more terrible than the storm, and from his eyes flash lightnings of intolerable brilliance. From his mouth run seas…
1904 · PDF PAGE 99
…othing. In any category, infinity excludes finity, unless that finity be an identical part of that infinity. In the category of existing things, space being infinite, for on that hy pothesis we are still working, either m atter fills or does not fill it. If the form er, m atter is infinitely great; if the latter, infinitely small. Whether the matter-universe be 1010000 light-years in diameter or half a mile makes no difference; i t is infinitely sm all—in effect, Nothing. The unm athematical illusion that it does exist is what the Hindus call M…
1907 · PDF PAGE 234
…genius does come along, his results will likely be as empirical as the facts they cover. Evolution is no better than creation to explain things, as Spencer showed. The truth of the matter appears to be that as reason is incompetent to solve the problems of philosophy and religion, @ fortiori science is incompetent. All that science can do is to present reason with new facts. To such good purpose has it done this, that no modern scientist can hope to do more than knowa little about one bud on his pet twig of the particular branch he has chosen: …
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
… on comparing notes, we found that our reports of the conversation agreed. But I was not able to act on "matter". I used to try to knock things off the mantelpiece, but in vain. On the other hand, when I reached Hong Kong, I recognized the place perfectly and picked out her house on the hillside, thought I had never seen so much as a photograph. These numerous practices were assigned to a regular schedule. Five different periods of the day were to be devoted to one or the other. On May 3rd I left for Honolulu on the Nippon Maru, arriving on the…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
…dge, the nonsense would have been knocked out of them. They would have had to succeed or fail entirely on their own virtues; whereas, as things were, the Oxford atmosphere and the Oxford manner shielded them from the rude blasts of all-round criticism. These ideas receive some support from the consideration of the relations normally obtaining between undergraduates and dons. On the Granta we are no doubt in statu puillari; the Oxonian is in statu quo pupillari. He is taught, trained and, if necessary, trounced, to respect the principle of autho…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…ry feeble trickle of poetry and a very vehement gust of fads. He was an agnostic, a vegetarian, a mystic, a Tolstoyan, and several other things all at once. He endevoured to express his spiritual state by wearing the green star of Esperanto, though he could not speak the language; by refusing to wear a hat, even in London, to wash, and to wear trousers. Whenever addressed, he wriggled convulsively, and his lips, which were three times too large for him, and had been put on hastily as an afterthought, emitted the most extraordinary laugh that ha…