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… is formally identical with this, ii. 249 is abroad. His spectre The life, by angels’ touch divinely lifted, i. 3x The life to live? The thought to think, ii. 144 The light streams stronger through the lamps of sense, ill. 95 The little money that we had to spend, ii. 83 The magical task and the labour is ended, ill, 200 The Meeting-Hoise of the Brethren Gathered Together To The Name Of The Lord Jesus, ili. 46 The mere result of all this was a dream, ii, 67 The metaphysics of these verses, ii. 170 The mighty sound of forests, i. 51 The mind wit…
1929 · PDF PAGE 283
…mber of tropical complaints. I felt that my poetry had been undergoing a transition and I was not sure of my feet. Allen told me that he thought the most magical line in English was Coleridge's "And ice, mast high, went floating by." The comparison is not with mountains or cathedrals, though they are taller than masts. The imminence of the ice is expressed by the phrase chosen and the reader is put upon the deck of a ship. He becomes, maugre his teeth one of the companions of the Ancient Mariner. This conversation led to my endeavouring to put …
1929 · PDF PAGE 399
… side of London life which till that time I had hardly suspected: that certain newspapers rely for their income upon blackmail. And they thought me a suitable victim. In particular Horatio Bottomley, in John Bull, published a page of the foulest falsehoods. There is a
1929 · PDF PAGE 536
…famous astrologer in the States, who makes fifty thousand dollars a year, did not know that the solar system was essentially a disk. She thought the planets were stuck at random in the sky like so many plums in a suet pudding. In thirty years of daily use of the Ephemeris, she had never observed that Neptune takes fifteen years or so to pass through a sign of the zodiac, and told her clients that Neptune being in such and such a sign at their birth, they must possess various curious powers. When I pointed out that this applied to everyone born …
1929 · PDF PAGE 562
…nnoyed but amused. But why should they waste so {888} much energy and public money on watching a man year after year when one would have thought that the most elementary common sense would have told them anyhow, after the first few months, that I was no more likely to infringe the law than the Archbishop of Canterbury? I vaguely assume some connection between this puerile policy of halfhearted pinpricks and the perennial flowering of the fantastic falsehoods about me. It suggests that I possess some quality which attracts the attention of the h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 69
…y you so ? I can, and will. The spirits of the G oetia are portions of the human brain. Their seals therefore represent (Mr. Spencer’s * Thought is a secr etion of the br ain ( Weiss- man). Consciousness is a function of the brain (Huxley).—A. C. † Apart from its value in obtaining one- pointedness. On this subject consult tycarb, infra.—A. C. projected cube) methods of stimulating or regu- lating those particular spots (through the eye). The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish: (a) General control of the brain. (Establish- ment…
1906 · PDF PAGE 210
…y you so? I can, and will. The spirits of the Goetia are portions of the human brain. ' Their seals therefore represent (Mr. Spencer's * Thought is a secretion of the brain (Weiss- mann). Consciousness is a function of the brain (Huxley).—A. C. t Apart from its value in obtaining one-pointedness. On this subject consult FWRI, infra.—A. C. projected cube) methods of stimulating or ey those particular spots (through the eye). The names of God are vibrations calculated to establish : (z) General control of the brain. (Establish- ment of functions …
1929 · PDF PAGE 313
…ctly, too, as they have been obliged to recognize the existence of a new logic. I found it necessary to create a new code of the laws of thought. One example pertinent to this period will illustrate the strangeness of the world revealed by the development of Neschamah. The human consciousness is primarily distinguishable from the divine by the fact of its dependence on duality. The divine consciousness distinguishes a peach from a pear, but is aware all the time that the difference is being made for its own convenience. The human accepts the di…
1929 · PDF PAGE 419
… and poverty to amuse themselves by whipping and otherwise ill-treating her. It was not honest sadism on Skene's part; it was a pose. He thought it very glorious to be a character in Krafft-Ebing. They asked me to drink and introduced me to Fenella. Her pathetic beauty set me suddenly aflame with an idea to make her the heroine of a little play. My mind was swept clean of "Adonis". Then minutes later I was back in my room, furiously at work on "The Ghouls". The Ghouls is possibly the most ghastly death-dance in English literature. If Oscar Wild…
1904 · PDF PAGE 103
…aning either; for change, to our minds, involves the idea of tim e. But the whole thing is inconceivable—to ratiocination, though not to thought. Note well too that if I say “Absence-of-books is not on the table,” I cannot convert it only “All books are on the table” but only to “some books are on the table.” The proposition is an “I” and not an “A” proposition. It is the Advaita blunder to make it so; and many a schoolboy has fed off the m antelpiece for less. There is y et another proof—the proof by exclusion. I have shown, and meta- physicia…
1929 · PDF PAGE 152
…cated their good faith. He had gone to Akyab on the western coast of Burma, and was living in a monastery called Lamma Sayadaw Kyoung. I thought I would drop in on him and pass the time of day; and proposed to combine with this act of fraternity the adventure of crossing the Arakan hills, the range which forms the watershed between the valley of the Irrawaddy and the sea. This journey, very short in measured miles, is reputed so deadly that it has only been accomplished by very few men. These left most of their party to moulder in the mountains…
1929 · PDF PAGE 508
…also 31 as the value of AL and LA, whose importance in the Book I understood perfectly. The text literally teems with hints; yet I never thought of 31 as the Key. Such blindness is a miracle more surprising than any amount of {801} perspicacity.) And in actual fact he did so discover that Key, two and a half years later. Those unacquainted with our methods may ask for the basis of the assurance that the key in question really fitted the lock. The answer is that the moment it was communicated to me, I applied it to a number of obscure passages i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 323
…r. The full moon was high in the sky, but there were clouds and mist. You were standing in front of me, sahib; quite motionless, lost in thought, as you always are, but you seemed to be waiting for someone. Now there was a rustling in the reeds, and out of them came a boat rowed by two beautiful women with long fair hair, and in the front of the boat stood another woman, taller and fairer even than her sisters. The boat came slowly across to you; and then I saw that the woman held in her hands a great sword, long and straight, with a straight c…
1929 · PDF PAGE 19
…ures of an inscrutable Providence as Coote and Torrey, he surpassed the one in sanctimoniousness, the other in bigotry, though he always thought blackmail too risky and slander a tactical error1. No more cruel fanatic, no meaner villain, ever walked this earth. My father, wrong-headed as he was, had humanity and a certain degree of common-sense; he had a logical mind and never confused spiritual with material issues. He could never have believed, like my uncle, that the cut and colour of "Sunday clothes" could be a matter of importance to the D…
1929 · PDF PAGE 279
…rushed, and parted exactly in the middle. MacNair remembered what his ancestors (who, at the time of the Flood, had a boat of their ain) thought about caution. "Go to Garth," was his considered opinion. Garth was one of the most brilliant barristers in Calcutta. I brought out my indignation again, but its hair got slightly ruffled, and I am not sure but what there was a speck of dust on its collar. I protested violently that I wanted to go to the police. "Well," said Garth, "Curzon and Fraser are busy with the partition of Bengal, for reasons o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 328
…cly my proper place among my peers of the past without difficulty had it not been of one fatal fact. My point of view is so original, my thoughts so profound, and my allusions so recondite, that superficial readers, carried away by the sheer music of the words, found themselves, so to speak, intoxicated and unable to penetrate to the pith. People did not realize that my sonorous similes possessed a subtle sense intelligible only to those whose minds were familiar with the subject. It is, in fact, necessary to study almost any poem of mine like …
1929 · PDF PAGE 458
…afterwards to record the observed facts which influence my human consciousness to be so antagonistic to almost every feature of life and thought as I found it. I definitely appeal to my American readers to stand apart from their natural gratification at the first and their natural indignation at the second of these sections of my work, and to understand that my spiritual apprehension {725} of truth represents my real self, while my intellectual perceptions are necessarily coloured by my nationality, caste, education and personal predilection. I…
1929 · PDF PAGE 20
…s health broke; and he returned to England to live with the family. He was a typical hardy out-door man with all the colonial freedom of thought, speech and manner. He found himself in the power of his half-brother's acrid code. He had to smoke his pipe by stealth and he was bullied about his soul until his mind gave way. At family prayers he was perpetually being prayed at; his personality being carefully described lest the Lord should mistake his identity. The description would have suited the average murderer as observed by a singularly unch…
1929 · PDF PAGE 222
…en Vistigia had gone, I realized that I had not introduced her to my wife. She did not ask me who it was. I told her. "Oh," said she, "I thought it was some model that you knew in the old days." The words came as a terrific shock. Vestigia had been our ideal of refinement, purity, spirituality and the rest. And then my mind informed me of what my eyes had seen, that Vestigia was painted thickly to the eyes --- did I say painted? I mean plastered. Where the camouflages stopped, there was a neck which could not have been washed for months. I lear…
1929 · PDF PAGE 405
… am reminded of an interesting circumstance which occurred in 1912. Epstein had made a Sun-God. Hearing this, I hurried to his studio. I thought it a sign that the ideas which moved me were independently penetrating other minds. "Hullo," said I, as I entered the studio; "you've been doing the Man of Vitruvius, have you?" "Man of what?" said Epstein. "Vitruvius; you know --- the Microcosm?" I might have been talking Choctaw. I could not believe that Epstein did not know all about it. But he did not know even which of his statues I was talking ab…