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Page 102 of 1121929 · PDF PAGE 15
… who are with God's blessing, going to try & help others & speak to them about their souls. I will write soon again. Write quick please. Good bye Yr loving son Alec He was thoroughly happy at this school; the boys liked and admired him; he made remarkable progress in his studies and was very proud of his first prize, White's Selborne, for coming out top in "Religious Knowledge, Classics and French". But to this day he has never read the book! For certain lines of study he had {9} a profound, instinctive and ineradicable aversion. Natural histor…
1906 · PDF PAGE 205
… moon. 380. The subtle devilish omission.5'— But what are we to say of Christian dialecticians 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 to make him rue His work in Jena’s clinic. They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic: He had scoffed at God's battue, T…
1907 · PDF PAGE 29
… The twilight dangers of a boy’s dim way, His dragons to confront, his minotaurs to slay. Yet, when he knew himself the baronet, He took good order for the house, and bore Him as beseemed the master ; none may fret All are as well bestowed as aye before. His father’s eighty was with him fourscore. His father’s old advisers well he groups Into a closer company ; their lore He ardently acquires—he loops no loops,} But— Bacon “grapples them to’s soul with steely hoops ! You, lass, may see here for this Boy’s com- panions Virtue and Peace of Mind, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
… Now, Samadhi, whatever it is, is at least a state of mind exactly as are deep through, anger, sleep, intoxication and melancholia. Very good. Any state of mind is accompanied by corresponding states of the body. Lesions of the substance of the brain, disturbances of the blood supply, and so on, are observed in apparently necessary relation to these spiritual states. Furthermore, we already know that certain spiritual or mental conditions may be induced by acting on physico- and chemico- physiological conditions. For instance, we can make a man…
1906 · PDF PAGE 234
…e in the hollow of their very tree. And little Perdu’ R Abu used to keep the mosquitoes away with the gossamer of his wings, so that the good man might be at peace. ‘‘Now the British Government abodein that land, and when it heard that there was a Bhikkhu living in a tree, and that the village folk brought him rice and onions and gramo- phones, it saw that it must not be. ‘‘And little Perdu’ R Abu heard them talk; and learnt the great secret of Imper- manence, and of Sorrow, and the mystery of Unsubstantiality. ‘And the Government evicted the B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
… experience proved invaluable. Without it, I might have been {247} frightened into giving up the practice. But he told me the result was good, showing that I was approaching the state of what is called "neighbourhood concentration". Another experience was this: I found myself at one and thee same moment conscious of external things in the background after the object of my concentration had vanished, and also conscious that I was not conscious of these things. To the normal mind this is of course sheer contradiction, but Buddhist psychology ment…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…ny: or, How We Mesmerise Each Other. Thought Currents. Uses of Diversion. “Lies breed Disease; Truths bring Health.” Woman’s Real Power. Good and Ill Effects of Thought. Buried Talents. The Power of Honesty. Confession. The Accession of New Thought. These four volumes constitute the cheapest and best edition of the Essays of Prentice Mulford published in the English language. Special care has been taken to eliminate the errors and mistakes with which the American edition abounds. Write forfull Catalogue to WILLIAM RIDER AND SONS, Ltd., 164, Ald…
1910 · PDF PAGE 500
…ny: or, How We Mesmerise Each Other. Thought Currents. Uses of Diversion. “Lies breed Disease; Truths bring Health.” Woman’s Real Power. Good and Ill Effects of Thought. Buried Talents. The Power of Honesty. Confession. The Accession of New Thought. These four volumes constitute the cheapest and best edition of the Essays of Prentice Mulford published in the English language. Special care has been taken to eliminate the errors and mistakes with which the American edition abounds. Write forfull Catalogue to WILLIAM RIDER AND SONS, Ltd., 164, Ald…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…nless by long practice and conversation I shall know him thoroughly, well examining whether such an one really intendeth to work for the Good or for the Evil. I will punctually observe, in granting it, the same fashion which was used by Abra-Melin to Abraham. Otherwise, let him who receiveth it draw no fruit therefrom. I will keep myself as from a Scorpion from selling this Science. Let this Science remain in me and in my generation as long as it shall please the Most High. As all these points I generally and severally swear to observe under th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 25
…in the prime of early manhood, free from all the fetters of the body and the mind, do I curse the memory thereof unto the ages. It was a good enough school from the point of view of examiners, I dare say. Morally and physically, it was an engine of destruction and corruption. I am just going to put down a few facts haphazard as they come to my memory; you may form your own judgment. 1. We were allowed to play cricket, but not to score runs, lest it should excite the vice of "emulation". 2. Champeny told me, a child of not yet twelve years old, …
1929 · PDF PAGE 215
… is secured (story of the play). Hence, attacks on the mystics of history need not cause us to condemn mysticism. Also, the knowledge of good and evil is a tree whose fruit man has not yet tasted: so that the devil cheated Eve indeed; or (more probably) Eve cheated Adam. Unless (most probable of all) God cheated the devil and the fruit was a common apple after all. ("Cf". H. Maudsley, Life in Mind and Conduct.) The influence of The Golden Bough and the Spencerian philosophers whom I was reading is apparent. In the last paragraphs, too, is evide…
1907 · PDF PAGE 231
…u come back from the celebration of the Eucharist and say, ‘‘ Mr. Hogwash was very dull to-day,” you will never get to heaven, where the good poets live, and nobody else ; nor to hell, whose inhabitants are exclusively bad poets. There is more hope for a man who should go to Lord’s and say he saw the angels of God ascending and descending upon C. B. Fry. It is God who sees the possibility of Light in Chaos ; it is the Churches who blaspheme the superb body of Truth which Adepts of old enshrined in the Cross, by degrading the Story of the Crucif…
1944 · PDF PAGE 38
…erive the French word “atout” from the ATU meaning House. It may seem simpler to suggest that “atout” is short for “bon atout”, meaning “good for anything”, because a Trump will take any card of any suit. The Atu of Tahuti, who is the Lord of Wisdom, are also called Keys. They are guides to conduct. They give you the map of the Kingdom of Heaven, and also the best way to take it by force. A complete understanding of any magical problem is necessary before it can be solved. Study from outside, and action from outside, are ways abortive. It is of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 484
…ould of course be necessary to publish an explanation of the proposal with a questionnaire covering the principal points, and asking for good photographs to be sent with the filled up form. One final remark. I found myself able, as my experience increased, to divine not only the rising sign and the position of the sun, but both points {764}
1944 · PDF PAGE 40
…ay to many people mere superstitious ignorance and nonsense; but it is not altogether so. The old system of classification was sometimes good and sometimes bad, as far as it went. But in no case did it go very far. The natural ingenuity of their natural phi‐ losophers did compensate very largely for the weakness of their theory; and it did ultimately lead them (especially through Alchemy, where they were forced by the nature of the work to add real to their ideal observation) to introduce the idea of Measure. Modern Science, intoxi‐
1906 · PDF PAGE 240
…le 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 of worship, is of course absurd. We must reject it, unless we want to fall into Positivism, Materialism, or something of the sort. But if, then, we call God infinite, how are we to regard man, and Satan? (the latter, at the very least, surely no integral part of him). The fallacy lies not in my demonstratio…
1929 · PDF PAGE 204
…- O rich with Bacchus frenzy and his wine's Atonement for the infinite woes of man! And here his mighty and reverend high priest Bade me good cheer, an eager acolyte, Poured the high wine, unveiled the mystic feast ... Roast lamb and an excellent Chablis which had been sent to him by Lord Northcliffe --- thus does the poet transfigure conceptions apparently commonplace. I was much touched by Henley's kindness in inviting me. I have never lost {344} the childlike humility which characterized all truly great men. Modesty is its parody. I had to w…
1904 · PDF PAGE 64
…he 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 scoffed at God’s battue, The…
1929 · PDF PAGE 379
…he scrap. I had to hold him down for an hour and a half when another guest turned up and restored peace. We sat down to dinner perfectly good friends. On second thoughts he realized that his suspicions had been absurd. But his wife got hot as he got cool. During the meal she tried to kill him, first by throwing the soup tureen and a few dishes at him across the table, and secondly with the carving knife. It was one of the most delightful dinners I ever ate. The story has no sequel. They squabbled and scrapped and scratched for some years, and t…
1929 · PDF PAGE 445
…ny of the corruptions which had crept in, and there was no doubt that my conclusions were not mere conjectures, since they made coherent good sense out of disconnected nonsense. (I am naturally unable to publish any of these discoveries; but {705} 1. The ignorance of masons is quite boundless. In the Red Cross of Rome and Constantine Degree, for example, we read, "Lord God of Sabbath". No one knows the difference between HB:Taw HB:Bet HB:Shin and HB:Taw HB:Aleph HB:Bet HB:Tzaddi ! I am always ready to communicate them to inquiring Brothers. Whe…