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Page 163 of 1731906 · PDF PAGE 65
…From its own wreck the thing it contem- plates ; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent : This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great, and joyous, beautiful, and free: This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Vic- tory,” 3 The last phrase pealed trumpet-wise: he sank back into thought. ‘‘ Yes,” he said slowly, ‘‘ neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.” I moved forward, and he saw me. ‘Who are you?” he asked. . ‘‘T am travelling in the East,” I said. ‘‘T love Man also; I have come to see you. Who are you?” 1 See “Tristam Shandy,” by Lau…
1906 · PDF PAGE 284
… other hand, if it be so reckoned, if that and that alone has in death no awakening, no change, then is it not certain that there is the Great Peace? Disprove immortality, reincarnation, all survival or revival of the identical Scept. Identical? Hm! Myst.—of the consciousness which the man calls “I” Scept. Which Haeckel has pretty effectively done. Myst. And Nirvana is ours for the price of 1 The re’erence, presumably ironical, is to the late Oscar Wilde. a packet of arsenic, and a glass of Dutch courage. Scept. In a poem called ‘‘ Summa Spes,”…
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…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 s ecret of Imper- manence, and of Sorrow, and the my stery of Unsubstantiality. “And the Government evicted the Bhikkhu ; and set guard, quite like the end of Genesis iii., and cut down the tree, and all the Nats perished. “Jehjaour heard and trembled. Perdu’ R Abu was only three years old. VIII. “It really seemed as if fate was agains t him. Poor Jehjaour ! In despair he cried to his partner, ‘O Ganesha…
1906 · PDF PAGE 246
…fill their hearts with devotion for the beloved Saviour, and this process is, in its ultimation, so similar to the earlier stages of the Great Work itself, that some confusion has, stupidly enough, arisen; but for all that the practice has been the means of bringing some de- votees on to the true Path of the Wise, un- promising as such material must sound to intelligent ears. The esoteric Christian or Hindu adopts a middle path. Having projected the Abso- lute from his mind, he endeavours to unite his consciousness with that of his Absolute, an…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…y well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoBert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr. Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to s…
1912 · PDF PAGE 427
…y well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoBert Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr. Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.” —Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to s…
1929 · PDF PAGE 179
…ours, enlivened only by the feelings that we were getting somewhere. The narrowness of the valleys and the steepness of the spurs of the great range prevent one getting any view of the high peaks. On this day's march we had our first glimpse of a giant, the Mustagh Tower, and the sublimity 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 i…
1906 · PDF PAGE 275
…stianity. Mr. Crowley begins his poem, I believe, with an earnest intention to explain the beauty of the Buddhist philosophy; he knows a great deal about it; he believes in it. But as he went on writing one thing became stronger and stronger in his soul — the living hatred of Christianity. Before he has finished he has descended to the babyish ‘‘ difficulties”’ of the Hall of Science — things about ‘‘the plain words of your sacred books,” things about “‘the panacea of belief’”—things, in short, at which any philosophical Hindoo would roll about…
1929 · PDF PAGE 44
… all. During the day I worked at Eastbourne College in the chemical laboratory under Professor Hughes, and was privileged to assist that great man in several researches which go to prove that no two substances can combine in the absence of a third. It seems strange that I should have seen the bearings of this upon philosophy. One very significant incident is stamped upon my memory. I was spending an evening with the professor and in the course of some discussion I said, "The Bible says so." These words dripped with the utmost irony from my lips…
1929 · PDF PAGE 126
…ontier. The shrieks of the mutilated man were answered by universal uproar. Some followed on foot, others ran to their bronchos, but the great majority maintained an attitude of philosophical indifference. It was no business of theirs, except so far as it might remind them to visit the barber. {222}
1904 · PDF PAGE 86
…were. Now loosed they his body ; he bade it leap the wall. The giant flower of ocean bloom ed above him! He had fallen headlong into the great deep. As the green and crimson gloom disparted somewhat before his eyes, he was aware of a Beetle that s teadily and earnes tly m oved acros s the floor of that Sea unutterable. Him he followed; “for I wit well,” thought the Adept, “that he goeth not back to the gross sun of earth. And if the sun hath become a beetle, m ay the beetle tr ansform unto a bird.” Wherewith he came to land. Night shone by lamp…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…y well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoserT Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr, Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.”—Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to sa…
1913 · PDF PAGE 599
…y well-known riddle propounded by the late Elizabeth Barrett Browning. You remember she asked in one of her poems, ‘What was he doing to Great God Pan: Down in the reeds by the River?’ Well, Mr. Victor Neuburg has discovered the answer, for he was obviously wandering near the river if he was not hidden in the reeds. . . .”—RoserT Ross in The Bystander. “There is no question about the poetic quality of much of Mr, Neuburg’s verse. . . . We are given visions of love which open new amorous possibilities.”—Daily Chronicle. “Sheer ennui is apt to sa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
453 From early boyhood my imagination had been excited by accounts of the Great Fair at Nijni Novgorod. Finding "the time and the place and the {716} loved one all together", at the cost of a slight effort, I decided to trot off and see "The Fun of the Fair", by which title I called the poem in which I describe my excursion. The way in which I wrote it is, I imagine, unique in literature. I wrote down in heroic couplets every incident of the adventure exactly as it occurred and when it occurred. The only variation is that occasionally I permit …
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…tence. But though, always on the original hypo- thesis of the infinity of space, &c., the Ad- vaitist position of the Vedantists and the great Germans is unassailable, yet on practical grounds the Dvaitists have all the advantage. Fichte and the others exhaust themselves trying to turn the simplé and obvious posi- tion that: ‘‘ If the Ego alone exists, where is any place, not only for morals and religion, which we can very well do without, but for the most essential and continuous acts of life? Why should an infinite Ego fill a non-existent bod…
1929 · PDF PAGE 235
…onsciously wondering whether there was not something in her remarks, and wanted to be enlightened. The record says, "Thoth, invoked with great success, indwells us." But this strikes me as to some extent "written up" in a spirit of complacency, if not arrogance. I remember nothing of any result. March 18th. Possibly I repeated the invocation. The record says, "Revealed that the waiter was Horus, whom I had offended and ought to invoke." {393} "Waiter" sounds like a sneer. I thought is was sheer impudence of Ouarda to offer independent remarks. …
1944 · PDF PAGE 123
…a cataract into Hell. And upon his head the evil talis‐ man, blasphemy and blasphemy and blasphemy, in the form of a circle. That is the greatest blasphemy of all (i.e., that the circle should be thus profaned. This evil circle is of three con‐ centric rings). On his feet hath he scythes and swords and sickles; daggers; knives; every sharp thing‐a millionfold, and all in one. And before him is the Table that is a Table of wicked‐ ness, the forty‐two‐fold Table. This Table is connected with the forty‐two Assessors of the Dead, for they are the A…
1906 · PDF PAGE 247
… Buddha of hurling his Arahats (and himself) from Samma Samadhi to annihilation. Pray observe in the first place that my solution of the Great Problem permits the co-existence of an indefinite number of means: they need not even be compatible; Karma, rebirth, Providence, prayer, sacri- fice, baptism, there is room for all. On the old and, I hope, now finally discre- dited hypothesis of an infinite being, the supporters of these various ideas, while ex- plicitly affirming them, implicitly denied. Similarly, note that the Qabalistic idea of a sup…
1929 · PDF PAGE 188
… or iron in which charcoal is burnt. The natives put it under their blankets and squat on it. It is alleged that this habit explains the great frequency of cancer of the testicles or scrotum in the country. The analogy is with "chimneysweep's cancer".) After cancelling out all the excrescences of the equation, the situation amounts to this; that you cannot live permanently in conditions unsuited to your organism. It is pitiful to have to make statements of this kind, seeing that it is no more than a recapitulation of the main proposition of Dar…
1929 · PDF PAGE 92
… to say that no Cambridge man would ever dream {167} of adducing authority in the course of an argument. He might indeed bring forward a great name on his side, but never without being ready to support it with the heavy artillery of patent proof. No fame is fixed with us as it is with them. The spirit of criticism never sleeps. We see accordingly much stricter discipline with them than with us. We tend to trust the good sense and good will of the fluffiest fresher. Our dons never get nervous lest a rag should go too far, and we never betrayed t…