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Page 107 of 1071904 · PDF PAGE 73
… dunces have solved by a rule of thumb; determining the nature of a bee by stamping on it, and shouting “bee”; while we patiently set to work with microscopes, and say nothing till be know, nor more than need be when we do. But I am myself found guilty of this rôle of schoolmaster : I w ill now therefore shut the doors and retire again into the laboratory where my true life lies. 403, 405. Reason and concentration.45—The results of reasoning are always assailable : those of concentration are vivid and certain, since they are directly presented …
1904 · PDF PAGE 61
THE SWORD OF SONG 54 night, often working forty hours at a time, work which he destined to entrace the world. All England should ring with his praises; by- and-by the whole world should know his name. Of these works none of the longer and more ambitious remains. How they w ere lost, and how those fragments we possess were saved, is best told by relating the romantic and almost incredible story of his life. The known facts of this life are few, vague, and unsatisfactory ; the more definite state- ments lack corroboration, and almost the only sou…
1904 · PDF PAGE 57
…o achieve * Fielding, in “The Soul of a Pe ople,” ha s re - luctantly to confess that he can find no trace of this idea in B uddha’s own work, and called the supersti- tion the “echo of an older Faith.”—A.C. † The argument that the “animals are our brothers” is merely intended to mislead one who has never been in a Buddhist country. T he a verage B uddhist w ould, of course, kill his brothe r for five rupees, or less.— A. C.
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
…80 pp. Price 2s. 6d. Published by BURNS & OATES, 28 Orchard St., W. This wonderful collection of Hymns to the Blessed Virgin Mary is the work (so it is said) of a Leading London Actress. Father Kent writes in “The Tablet” : “ Among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate Christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. But few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled “ Amphora,’ which Massrs. Burns and Oates are ‘a the point o…
1909 · PDF PAGE 409
…80 pp. Price 2s. 6d. Published by BURNS & OATES, 28 Orchard St., W. This wonderful collection of Hymns to the Blessed Virgin Mary is the work (so it is said) of a Leading London Actress. Father Kent writes in “The Tablet” : “ Among the many books which benevolent publishers are preparing as appropriate Christmas presents we notice many new editions of favourite poetic classics. But few, we fancy, can be more appropriate for the purpose than a little volume of original verses, entitled “ Amphora,’ which Massrs. Burns and Oates are ‘a the point o…
1912 · PDF PAGE 422
…ages of ‘ Amphora,' as the little volume was entitled when published anonymously two years ago, by Burns & Oates, we feel them to be the work’ of a recipient ofthe tradition of Vaughan the Silurist, George Yerbert, and Crashaw, although Mr. Crowley is smooth where they are rugged, plain where they are perplexin; . "hese poems indicate a mind full of earnest aspiration towards his spi troubled by the religious and philosophical problems which weary more complex intelligences, This little wor) recommended to Catholic readers,” . . Father Kent wri…
1912 · PDF PAGE 422
…ages of ‘ Amphora,' as the little volume was entitled when published anonymously two years ago, by Burns & Oates, we feel them to be the work’ of a recipient ofthe tradition of Vaughan the Silurist, George Yerbert, and Crashaw, although Mr. Crowley is smooth where they are rugged, plain where they are perplexin; . "hese poems indicate a mind full of earnest aspiration towards his spi troubled by the religious and philosophical problems which weary more complex intelligences, This little wor) recommended to Catholic readers,” . . Father Kent wri…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
…profitable to me without a severe intellectual preparation. I timed to Book Four,” and there I read: "This book fs intentionally not the work of Frater Perdurabo. Experience shows that his writing is’ too concentrated, too abstruse, too occult for ordinary minds to apprehend.” ‘Book Four” seems intended as a kind of introduction to the “Book of Lies.” It has also other objects, It tells one, for example, how to procure certain of the very interesting works of Mr, Aleister Crowley for the insignificant sum of6 guineas, 31 dollars, or 156 francs.…
1913 · PDF PAGE 610
…profitable to me without a severe intellectual preparation. I timed to Book Four,” and there I read: "This book fs intentionally not the work of Frater Perdurabo. Experience shows that his writing is’ too concentrated, too abstruse, too occult for ordinary minds to apprehend.” ‘Book Four” seems intended as a kind of introduction to the “Book of Lies.” It has also other objects, It tells one, for example, how to procure certain of the very interesting works of Mr, Aleister Crowley for the insignificant sum of6 guineas, 31 dollars, or 156 francs.…