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Page 101 of 1051929 · PDF PAGE 154
…sion. The road had become level, and appeared to be the same for the next two hundred yards, so I turned back to light a pipe. Without a word of warning the driver swung round his oxen off the road into an adjoining paddy field, at least three feet below, and we got the nastiest shaking of our lives. The last seven miles were particularly irritating, as there was little or no shade, and it was out of the question to relieve oneself by walking for more than a short distance. On arrival at Mindon, we summoned the headman and told him to get men f…
1929 · PDF PAGE 456
…etected, that I was even then, by means of the working itself, being prepared for the initiation thereto. The actual ceremony (using the word in its widest and deepest sense) extended over some years and is in fact the sole key to the events of that period. An outline therefore must consequently form a separate chapter, for without the light thereby thrown upon the facts of my career, they must appear incoherent, inconsequential and unintelligible. I was destined to undergo a series of experiences which apparently contradict the whole tendency …
1906 · PDF PAGE 66
…is name and all references sufficiently precise to give pain to any person still living.? His handwriting was abominably difficult, some words quite indecipherable. I have spent long and laborious hours in conjecture, and have, I hope, restored his meaning in almost every case. But in the Sonnets of the 12th, 18th, 23rd, 24th, 29th, 35th, 41st, 43rd, and 48th days, also in ‘‘ At Last,” ‘* Love and Fear,” and ‘‘ Lethe,” -one or more whole lines have been almost impossible to read. The literary student will be able readily to detect my patchwork …
1929 · PDF PAGE 182
…ace" beyond that; the atmosphere of restfulness is paramount. There was here quite a lot of grass; even some flowers. I accordingly sent word to bring our flocks along. It was the last oasis of any account and in fact the only place of its kind that we found on the whole glacier. The day after, I crossed the glacier to Lhungka. It was a very nervous business picking one's way across the moraines, especially as I had to build stone men to guide the other parties, and I had only the vaguest ideas as to what point on the other bank of the glacier …
1929 · PDF PAGE 575
…y expected I saw in a paper a notice that he had arrived, and went at once to the office of the English Review expecting him to call. No word had arrived so we thought we would hunt him up, and assuming he would be staying at the Savoy, telephoned. "Mr Mencken is at lunch. Please hold on!" Presently he came to the 'phone. I welcomed him warmly after telling him who I was and made the usual kind inquiries. Yes, he had had a pleasant voyage. Thank you, his health was excellent. Well, of course he was very busy. He couldn't possibly dine that nigh…
1929 · PDF PAGE 229
…in the Regina. He was a great simple lion-hearted man with the spirit of a child; with all his experience in the Army, he still took the word honour seriously, and the open scandal of the accusation had struck down his standard. One incredible detail must be told. The hotel communicated at once with the British Embassy, and the attaché who went down to see the body told Gerald Kelly that MacDonald's pockets were stuffed with obscene photographs! Inquiry showed that he had gone out and bought them that very morning, apparently with no other pur…
1907 · PDF PAGE 134
…filched from Thomas Moore’s grandson: Take care, my friend, do not display thy wit! For what the people want to-day is But alasl the last word ofthe line is lost, and who shall find it? How much more so to-day, eighty years since that lusty decadent (l) swam the Hellespont; in this period, in which the blue blow-flies of Rational Rot have been stirred from the privies of our laboratories by such experts as Oliver Haeckel and Ernest Lodge, and which now batten on the sumptuous princeliness of mediaeval pedom. This age which has replaced the clashin…
1929 · PDF PAGE 251
…of appreciating so much as a funny story, even an improper one if there were any touch of wit in it. But if anyone introduced an obscene word into the conversation on any pretext soever, he would rock with laughter and continue to titter for an indefinite period. {416} He was the first masochist I had ever met; in fact I have only met one other, and it is not for me to decide which was the filthier fool. Gormley claimed to have been flagellated by over two thousand women. I rather suspect him of vaingloriousness: it seems a very large number. H…
1929 · PDF PAGE 85
…on with his hostess, simply because he could not imagine any other possibility. I can offer no explanation whatever, but I believe every word of the story, and what is most strange is that I possess an impenetrable conviction that something almost exactly the same must have happened to me. I am reminded of the one fascinating episode which redeems the once- famous but excessively stupid and sentimental novel Called Back from utterly abject dullness. There is also an admirable scene in one of Stevenson's best stories, "John Nicholson". A similar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 381
… not mentioning the letter, which Dee found and wrote down from the "table" before him. This seems to imply that Kelly did not know what words would be formed. If he did, we must assume that he knew the position of each of the 2,401 letters in each of the tables, which seems a somewhat surprising accomplishment. When the angel had finished, the message was {611} rewritten backwards. (It had been dictated backwards as being too dangerous to communicate forwards --- each word being in its nature so powerful that its direct communication would hav…
1904 · PDF PAGE 122
…ves are pure has no need to conceal the Truth—he who truly loves and who has a m alice towards none, will ever speak only fair and s oft words. By a man’s speech do we learn his nature, and that one whose Right Aspirations are b earing fruit attains to the Third Step, Right Speech, Sammaváca. S peaking only the Truth in all things, never speaking harshly or un- kindly, in his speech realising the love and pity that is in his heart—that man has attained to Stage the Third. “And becaus e of the great power of a man’s thoughts and words to change …
1929 · PDF PAGE 167
…quakes and the future of his family is pure gambling. Such is the price of what we call progress. We cannot even assign a meaning to the word; because no one has any idea of where we are going. The most stupid and tyrannical system ever devised is better than our present position, provided it be stable. We are in a nightmare in which we cannot calculate the result of any action. It was an affectation of poetry and romance in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to let itself go about the vale of "Cashmere": "Whom, not having seen, we a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 208
…s conceive the problem of progress as depending merely on enlightenment. I do not believe in original sin except in this sense that "The word of Sin is Restriction."; and our normal conscious selves are inevitably restricted by the categories of space, time and causality, which are essential conditions of the manifestation of separate individualities. But I cannot get it into my head that any single human being can be really hostile to another. I regard all such passions as the symptoms of a definite deformity of nature produced by its inadequa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 576
…ition was that on leaving London I had about twenty pounds on hand after paying my fare and allowing for bare subsistence on the pledged word of Collins, Hammond and Austin Harrison. All three failed me! If I have survived, it is that the gods have some further use for me. My own efforts break down every time, and that in circumstances such that the improbability of their doing so is enormous. The one miracle matches the other. If I were even tempted to doubt that my career is planned in every detail by my spiritual superiors with the precision…
1929 · PDF PAGE 130
…done, that I might come to the perfect Illumination, and thereby being made free from all the fetters of falsehood, being to mankind the Word of Wisdom and magic that hath might to enlighten their eyes, to heal their hearts, and to bring them to a stage of spiritual evolution such that their poets could not longer lament, as I: Nothing is stranger to men Than silence, and wisdom, and kindness. I inquired as to the possibility of settling down on one of the neighbouring monasteries; but somehow my instinct opposed my intention. The Inmost knew t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 223
…fix a conventional label, I should probably say pale lilac. But the quality of the light is much more striking than the colour. Here the word phosphorescence occurs to the mind. It is one of the mysteries of physics that the total light of the sky is very much greater than can be accounted for by the luminous bodies in the heavens. There are various theories, but I personally believe that the force now called radio-activity {372} which we know to be possessed in some degree by every particle of matter, is responsible. Our eyes are affected with…
1929 · PDF PAGE 510
…ature of her mission; which ended as strangely as it began, at the close of the Chokmah day. She disappeared into the Ewigkeit without a word and all my efforts to trace her were fruitless. This day of repose and reward had prepared me for my next ordeal. At the beginning of the eighth day appeared a Monkey and an Owl. Once again I was confronted with the necessity of choosing between two ideas. The Monkey had all the insensate passion, volubility and vanity of the less developed primates. She was a great artist and a great lover; yet in each o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 551
…l appetite sharpened by a few days of starvation can wreck your intellect, sweep every decent instinct overboard and make you treat your word of honour as idle." He had then just enough sense to understand me; but the foul fiend tore him the more terribly at the least effort of his sanity and decency to asset itself. I saw them off by the train, very heavy at heart. I was sorry for Sylvia buried alive in a south coast village without a soul to speak to and no resource in herself but her music. Yet after all she did not much matter. She {870} wa…
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
…. The Power of the Mind to Master Disordered Feelings as set forth by Kant. Paracelsus, his Teaching with regard to Self-Hypnotism. Last Words. _. “Why can we not will ourselves to do our very best in all matters controllable by the individual will? Mr, Leland answers triumphantly that we can.”—Tie Literary World. “An earnestly written work entirely free from charlatanism.'"—Birmingham Post. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of UrsuLa N. GEstTEreLp. ConTEents.—Preface. Part I. How we Master our fate—The Inventor and th…
1910 · PDF PAGE 493
…. The Power of the Mind to Master Disordered Feelings as set forth by Kant. Paracelsus, his Teaching with regard to Self-Hypnotism. Last Words. _. “Why can we not will ourselves to do our very best in all matters controllable by the individual will? Mr, Leland answers triumphantly that we can.”—Tie Literary World. “An earnestly written work entirely free from charlatanism.'"—Birmingham Post. THE SCIENCE OF THE LARGER LIFE. A Selection from the Essays of UrsuLa N. GEstTEreLp. ConTEents.—Preface. Part I. How we Master our fate—The Inventor and th…