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Page 38 of 781912 · PDF PAGE 97
HIS SECRET SIN stoutly and even a little sternly rebuked him with the original remark: " To the pure all things are pure.“ It was knowing when to be bold that had made Theodore the fine business man he was. And very bold it was, for conscience makes cowards of us all. The secret shame of his orgies 1 Every week—night— once even on a Sunday l—after everyone had gone to bed, he opened the little safe in the wall at the head of his bed, and drew forth the obscene picture from its envelope marked “ In case of my death or disability THIS PACKET is to…
1912 · PDF PAGE 97
HIS SECRET SIN stoutly and even a little sternly rebuked him with the original remark: " To the pure all things are pure.“ It was knowing when to be bold that had made Theodore the fine business man he was. And very bold it was, for conscience makes cowards of us all. The secret shame of his orgies 1 Every week—night— once even on a Sunday l—after everyone had gone to bed, he opened the little safe in the wall at the head of his bed, and drew forth the obscene picture from its envelope marked “ In case of my death or disability THIS PACKET is to…
1913 · PDF PAGE 552
…a, Burrhus, Thrasea, Corbulon, theirs is the real guilt of that fearful reign ; great men who were either selfish or incapable! The only thing they knew was how to die. If one of the bears of the Zoological Gardens escaped and devoured several people, would one blame him or his keepers ? Whoever frees himself from the common errors of mankind is obliged to pay a ransom proportional to the sum of these errors: Socrates pays for Aneitus, and Jesus was obliged to suffer a torment whose terror was equal to the whole treason of Judas. Thus, by payin…
1913 · PDF PAGE 552
…a, Burrhus, Thrasea, Corbulon, theirs is the real guilt of that fearful reign ; great men who were either selfish or incapable! The only thing they knew was how to die. If one of the bears of the Zoological Gardens escaped and devoured several people, would one blame him or his keepers ? Whoever frees himself from the common errors of mankind is obliged to pay a ransom proportional to the sum of these errors: Socrates pays for Aneitus, and Jesus was obliged to suffer a torment whose terror was equal to the whole treason of Judas. Thus, by payin…
1907 · PDF PAGE 238
…inty ” only means that the human mind is unable to transcend that limitation . Thus metaphysics is a mere branch of psychology , for one thing ; for another , every result 1 What relation is there between our conceptions of rectitude and length ? None , till geometry informs us .
1910 · PDF PAGE 235
MR. TODD your sentiments. I have heard very ill things said of him, I can tell you. mrs. ossory. Who is he? Does any one know? A man of family, I hope. How dreadful for poor Henry if he had been run over by a plebeian ! ossory. Well, we hardly know—I wonder if his credit is good. [Mis voice sinks to a whisper as the awful suspicion that he may be financially unsound strikes him.] carr [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh! Don’t suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It would be too terrible! [This time EUPHEMIA laughs. ossory. My dear bo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 235
MR. TODD your sentiments. I have heard very ill things said of him, I can tell you. mrs. ossory. Who is he? Does any one know? A man of family, I hope. How dreadful for poor Henry if he had been run over by a plebeian ! ossory. Well, we hardly know—I wonder if his credit is good. [Mis voice sinks to a whisper as the awful suspicion that he may be financially unsound strikes him.] carr [sharply, as if pained]. Oh, oh! Don’t suggest such a thing without the very best reason. It would be too terrible! [This time EUPHEMIA laughs. ossory. My dear bo…
1906 · PDF PAGE 271
… a line, but it does not exist. (c) There is more than one line—since it is not straight and so cannot enclose a space—and more than one thing cannot form part of a universe, since unus implies a whole. Af, I should reply : (a) It is true that there is no line of demarcation, but that that non- existing line is after all just as much a part of the (non-exist- ing) universe as any other non- existing thing. We divide the universe into (1) Existing things. (2) Non-existing things. If 4 exists, the line must be zo?-4 - and vice versa. Which we kno…
1904 · PDF PAGE 19
… antithesis implied, The irony, the curse-fruition, The calm assumption of Hell’s fevers As fit, as just, for unbelievers— These are the things that stick beside And hamper my quite serious wish To harbour kind thoughts of the “Fish.”58 Here goes my arrow to the gold ! I’ll make no magpies ! Though I hold Your Christianity a lie, Abortion and iniquity, The most immoral and absurd —(A priest’s invention, in a word)— Of all religions, I have hope In the good Dhamma’s59 wider scope, Nay, certainty ! that all at last, However came they in the past,…
1910 · PDF PAGE 283
THE HASHEESH EATER longer anything to do with horizons, and the boundary which was at once our barrier and our fortress is removed, until we almost perish from the inflow of perceptions. It would be no hard task to prove, to a strong probability, at least, that the initiation to the Pythagorean mysteries, and the progressive instruction that succeeded it, toa considerable extent consisted in the employment, judiciously, if we may use the word, of hasheesh, as giving a critical and analytic power to the mind, which enabled the neophyte to roll u…
1910 · PDF PAGE 283
THE HASHEESH EATER longer anything to do with horizons, and the boundary which was at once our barrier and our fortress is removed, until we almost perish from the inflow of perceptions. It would be no hard task to prove, to a strong probability, at least, that the initiation to the Pythagorean mysteries, and the progressive instruction that succeeded it, toa considerable extent consisted in the employment, judiciously, if we may use the word, of hasheesh, as giving a critical and analytic power to the mind, which enabled the neophyte to roll u…
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
THE RITE OF SATURN And now at last authentic word I bring, Witnessed by every dead and living thing ; Good tidings of great joy for you, {or all : There is no God ; no Fiend with names divine Made us and tortures us ; if we must pine, It is to satiate no Being’s gall. It was the dark delusion ofa dream, That living Person conscious and supreme, Whom we must curse for cursing us with life; Whom we must curse because the life He gave Could not be buried in the quiet grave, Could not he killed by poison or by knife. This little life is all we must…
1911 · PDF PAGE 199
THE RITE OF SATURN And now at last authentic word I bring, Witnessed by every dead and living thing ; Good tidings of great joy for you, {or all : There is no God ; no Fiend with names divine Made us and tortures us ; if we must pine, It is to satiate no Being’s gall. It was the dark delusion ofa dream, That living Person conscious and supreme, Whom we must curse for cursing us with life; Whom we must curse because the life He gave Could not be buried in the quiet grave, Could not he killed by poison or by knife. This little life is all we must…
1916 · PDF PAGE 2
opposite. Money appears to them the only thing of value, whereas in reality it has no value whatever. It is merely a convenient medium of exchange of commodities which have value. If it were not for this, the present system could never have been created. As things are, a piece of paper is just as good as a piece of gold; but, as everyone knows, even the financiers, ninety five per cent of the gold never existed. The possibility of calling for gold has so frightened those very people who have been screaming for years that gold was the only basis…
1919 · PDF PAGE 87
…finite preciousness. 61. I have gone down, O my God, into the abyss of the all, and I have found Thee in the midst under the guise of No Thing. 62. But as Thou art the Last, Thou art also the Next, and as the Next do I reveal Thee to the multitude. 81
1919 · PDF PAGE 363
… the beautiful verses, “It is only the sorrows of others Cast their shadows over me.” The Master has learnt the first noble truth: “Everything is sorrow,” and he has learnt that there is no such thing as separate existence. Existence is one. He knows these things as facts, just as he knows that two and two make four. Consequently, although he has found the way of escape for that fraction of consciousness which he once called “I,” and although he knows that not only that consciousness, but all other consciousnesses, are but part of an illusion, …
1904 · PDF PAGE 43
THE SWORD OF SONG 36 So to the laws all bards obey I bend, and seek in my own way By false things to expound the real. But never think I shall appeal To Gods. What folly can compare With such stupidity as prayer ? Some years ago I thought to try Prayer51—tests its efficacity. I fished by a Norwegian lake. “O God,” I prayed, “for Jesus’ sake Grant thy poor servant all his wish ! For every prayer produce a fish !” Nine times the prayer went up the spout, And eight times—what a thumping trout ! (This is the only true fish-story I ever heard—give G…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
…aces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, since the object of faith is outside the universe of reason. If one asks me :—‘‘Is there a God?” I reply, “I believe it.” “But are you sure of it?”—“If I were sure of it, I should not believe it, I should know it.” The formulation of faith is to agree upon t…
1913 · PDF PAGE 313
…aces.” Now, is it con- ceivable that grace should be subject to demand or exaction; that is to say, could any one wish to force men to a thing which comes freely and without price from heaven? One must not do more than desire it for them. To reason concerning faith is to think irrationally, since the object of faith is outside the universe of reason. If one asks me :—‘‘Is there a God?” I reply, “I believe it.” “But are you sure of it?”—“If I were sure of it, I should not believe it, I should know it.” The formulation of faith is to agree upon t…
1909 · PDF PAGE 6
…k wall—what is mind ? Even so, the relation between the two ideas is unthink- able; causality is itself unthinkable; it depends, for one thing, upon experience—and what, in God’s name, is experi- 114