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…like a Sunday-School Teacher at a village treat. In the mouth of this soft-spoken counter-jumper the wildest words take on the smoothest sense. By sheer dint of cadence 396
…uppose then we accept our scepticism as having destroyed our knowledge root and branch—is there no limit to its action? Does it not in a sense stultify itself? Having destroyed logic by logic—if Satan cast out Satan, how shall his kingdom stand? Let us stand on the Mount, Saviours of the World that we are, and answer “Get thee behind me, Satan!” though refraining from quoting texts or giving reasons. Oho! says somebody; is Aleister Crowley here ?—Samson blinded and bound, grinding corn for the Philistines! Not at all, dear boy! We shall put all…
…tian (or any other) religion literally, we are at once over- whelmed by its inherent impossibility. Our credulity is outraged, our moral sense shocked, the holiest foundations of our in- most selves assailed by no ardent warrior in triple steel, but by a loathly and disgusting worm. That this is so, the apologists for the religion in question, whichever it may be, sufficiently indicate (as a rule) by the very method of their apology. The alter- native is to take the religion symbolically, esoterically; but to move one step in this direction is …
…king . ” ] Then working through the Berkeleyan arguments backwards , he arrives at defining . [Thing as a (unknowable ) power to produce sense impressions , which is purely Berkeley or his antithesis according as the power is conceived as God or Matter . ] Here we have struck again the fundamental chain A , B , A , B , A , B. Having now settled with “ Pure Mathematics ,” he turns to “ Pure Natural Science ," again assuming at the outset apodictic laws of nature , which Berkeley also assumed , and which Hume proved to be sceptical ; such as “ su…
…ir was blackening, lapped by a congealing stream. “T withdrew into the room. Since I have learnt that any death brings with it a strange sense of relief. There is a certain finality. La comédie est jouée—and one turns with new life to the next business. “The golden child had never stirred. But now she crouched lower, and fell to soft, sweet crying. “«Your mother is dead,’ I said abruptly. ‘ May I offer you the guardianship of my godmother, the Duchess of Castelnaudary? Come, mademoiselle, let us go.’ “«T thank you, sir, she answered, still sobb…
…ir was blackening, lapped by a congealing stream. “T withdrew into the room. Since I have learnt that any death brings with it a strange sense of relief. There is a certain finality. La comédie est jouée—and one turns with new life to the next business. “The golden child had never stirred. But now she crouched lower, and fell to soft, sweet crying. “«Your mother is dead,’ I said abruptly. ‘ May I offer you the guardianship of my godmother, the Duchess of Castelnaudary? Come, mademoiselle, let us go.’ “«T thank you, sir, she answered, still sobb…
…e stanzas of a poem, Cf. Psalm CXIX. 14. Surely Oriental exaggeration. 15. After all this mere envy must drive us to as- sume a mystical sense for these writings. 16. Hua — He. But it is further the true and secret unpronounceable Name of God, concealed by its obviousness. The 100th name, about which people make such a fuss, is simply Allah [Persian text] itself, the other 99 merely replacing Allah in the sentence Hua Allahu alazi wailaha illa Hua, thus : Hua Arrahmanu alazi etc., and so for the rest. How [Persian text] came to mean God ([Per- …
…ng him to the ropes despite the extra stone and a half. In the furious exchanges both men gave and took a great deal of punishment. In a sense, it was bad boxing. The tenth round showed Joe Marie awake at last. He led repeatedly, and thrice got home on the white man‘s face. Ida was rubbing her body against Edgar’s like a cat. 122
…ng him to the ropes despite the extra stone and a half. In the furious exchanges both men gave and took a great deal of punishment. In a sense, it was bad boxing. The tenth round showed Joe Marie awake at last. He led repeatedly, and thrice got home on the white man‘s face. Ida was rubbing her body against Edgar’s like a cat. 122
… an image of shining waters, glistening in the sun. Unfathomable is their beauty, for they are limpid, and the floor is of gold. Yet the sense thereof is of fruitlessness. And an Angel cometh forth, of pure pale gold, walking upon the water. Above his head is a rainbow, and the water foams beneath his feet. And he saith: Before his face am I come that hath the thirty-three thunders of increase in his hand. From the golden water shalt thou gather corn. 76
…ould say, he is beginning to educate himself. And this is one of the secrets of his immense power of brain. By education in the ordinary sense we mean that an old fool bullies a young fool into agreeing with him. In order to obtain a university degree it is necessary to stultify oneself by agreeing with the particular clique of fifth rate minds who, having been totally unable to carve out any way in the world, have become sodden in the backwater of a university; and taken up teaching as a profession, because they are incapable of learning. One …
…ch everybody in Edinborough in his time had to accept, or fail in the examination, but which every other school in Europe regarded as nonsense. Such training can only serve to unbalance and destroy the mind. Mr. Stuart avoided this tragedy. Instead, he read everything, kept his eyes open, and never allowed the specious arguments of the logician to lure him into conclusions opposed to common sense. Almost every writer falls into some trap. Either he omits a premise, or takes a false one, or commits some logical error unperceived. But with such s…
… quite distinct. For instance, one sinologist calls it "Reason"; another, "The Way"; another "Tat" or "Shiva". These are all true in one sense or another. My own "White Hope" (see The Book of Thoth) is to identify it with the Qabalistic Zero. This last attribution is useful, as I will show presently, for hard practical reasons; it is an assumption which indicates the method of the Old Wise One who approaches the Tao. As you know, the supreme classic of this subject is The Tao Teh King; and I must suppose that you have read this in at least one …
… Knowledge and Being (the Qualities of their Changeless Unity) could be States. O my Son, how pitiful is their Beggary, these Paupers of Sense and of Experience and of Observation! The Emptiness of their Bellies was it that bred Phantoms of Ideal, so that they sought Joy by a crude Denial of what Truth (or rather, Fact) they had perceived concerning he Universe, so that they set up an Idol of Death for their God, in very Rage of Hatred against the Sum of their own Selves. b
…ts thus re- vealed to him ; that he would cheerfully re- nounce years of normal life to obtain minutes of that dream-life; that his time sense is uprooted as never before, and that these influences are permanent. Then, you will say, delirium tremens (and the intoxication of hashish, in respect more particularly of the time sense) afford us a parallel. But the phenomena of delirium tremens do not occur in the healthy. As for the suggestion of auto-hypnosis, the memory of the ‘‘ dream ” is a sufficient reply. Ilowever this may be, the simple fact…
… Brahm, infinite in all dimen- sions and directions—indistinguishable from the Pleroma ‘of the Gnostics—and Maya, illusion. This is in a sense the antithesis of noumenon and phenomenon, noumenon being negated of all predicates until it becomes almost ex- tinguished in the Nichts under the title of the Alles. (of Max Muller on the metaphysical Nirvana in his Dhammapada, Introductory Essay.) ‘The Buddhists express no opinion. Let us consider the force-quality in the existences conceived of by these two religions ‘respectively, remem- bering that …
…lines through my teeth, feeling myself a fire-breathing dragon. ** Horror indeed intense, Seduction ever intenser, Swinging the smoke of sense From the bowl of a smouldering censer ! ”’ We were out of breath. My boy sat on the edge of the bed. I crept up behind him. I shook out my hair all over his face, and dug my nails into his scalp. We were living the heroin life, the life of the world of the soul. We had identified ourselves with the people of the poem. He was the poet, wreathed with poppies, with poisonous poppies that corrupted his blood…
12 by chance, chance in the truest sense of the term, we are found with gods, men, stars, planets, devils, colours, forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos.: and with time, space and causality, the conditions limiting and inyolving them all. Remember that it is not true to say that our 0° existed, nor that it did not exist. The idea of existence ‘was just as much unformulated as that of toasted cheese. But0? is a finite expression, or has a finite phase, and our universe is a finite universe ; its categories are themselves finite, and the e…
…dower ; But ah! they used that fatal power And lost the Spirit in the act. ‘This may be fancy or a fact ; At least it squares with super-sense Or “spiritual experience.” You do not well to swell the list Of horrid things to me imputed By calling me “materialist.” At least this thought is better suited To Western minds than is embalmed Among the doctrines of Mohammed, The dogma parthenogenetic * As told me by a fat ascetic. He said : “ Your worthy friends may lack you late, But learn how Mary was immaculate !” I sat in vague expectant bliss. | T…
…ertainly slightly diverged from 1 The Star and the Garter , vol . iii, p . 10. Nina is not a prosti tute , of course , in the commercial sense .