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Page 41 of 761912 · PDF PAGE 266
…e comes to the Surgery for meals. My wife‘s bringing her up to the Manse to call on Monday. ΜΕΕΚ. Oh! Oh! There, Elder, you see it‘s all right! EEL [aghast]. A’ richt ! ! !- a' v richtl I I [ΜΕΕΚ mm’ DOSE mm’ andþasx Μ, [aug/ling. BEL. He's fair witched‘ He’s the prey ο’ Satan I The meenister was laughing on the Sawbath I Oh, Lord I Lord] An’ I’m left by my lanes to wrastle wi’ the de‘il i’ petticoats I Witchcraft! fair witchcraft! An' sorcery! Whaur’s ony help but in the A’mighty? [He tti/22:021! a flat 76154/??]שבלשand swallows a 6ng drum] VVh…
1916 · PDF PAGE 6
…n to what may be said, but they judge entirely by what is said: they have no standard of atavistic experience to tell them whether it is right or wrong. The most ignorant peasant in Europe, who firmly believes in ghosts and vampires and werewolves, who cannot read or write, has never travelled beyond the radius of twenty miles from his hamlet, and knows nothing of his countrys affairs, much less of the worlds, could never be so insensible to the facts of human nature as Henry Ford. You could argue with him til all was blue, but you would ne…
1922 · PDF PAGE 109
… that, I understand that it’s the dead and gone medical student popping up. But never you mind that. The point is that when you have the right amount of snow in you, you can't feel anything in the ordinary sense of the word. You appreciate it in a sort of impersonal way. There’s a pain, but the pain doesn’t hurt. You enjoy the fact of the pain as you enjoy reading about all sorts of terrible things in history at school. But the trouble about cocaine is this; that it’s almost impossible to take it in moderation as almost any one, except an Ameri…
1937 · PDF PAGE 5
…ern by a mixture of lying and bullying. 3. This desperate resort to archaic weapons is the heritage of hypocrisy. The theories of Divine Right, aristocratic superiority, the moral order of Nature, are all to-day exploded bluffs. Even those of us who believe in supernatural sanctions for our privileges to browbeat and rob the people no longer delude ourselves with the thought that our victims share our superstitions. 4. Even dictators understand this. Mussolini has tried to induce the ghost of Ancient Rome to strut the stage in the image of Juli…
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…ur preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols fo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 240
…com- passion was not dead. Nevertheless, the madness passes, like a dark cloud before the breath of awakening dawn; conscious of his own right- ness, of the manhood which was his, of his own strength, and the righteousness of his purpose, and filled with the over- flowing ambitions of youth, we find him unconsciously sheathe 232
1909 · PDF PAGE 234
…ur preparation to take life seriously begins. Books are given us, and the great wide road of wonderment becomes narrowed to a straitened right-of-way down which it is a privilege and honour to pass. If we are wild, it is naughty; if wanton—immoral; in innocence we lisp the ten commandments on our mothers’ knees, only to break them when we really know what they mean. Then comes manhood and its responsibility, marriage with its one pleasure and its forty thousand plagues, as Heine says. Our birth is a matter of law or chance—equivalent symbols fo…
1909 · PDF PAGE 240
…com- passion was not dead. Nevertheless, the madness passes, like a dark cloud before the breath of awakening dawn; conscious of his own right- ness, of the manhood which was his, of his own strength, and the righteousness of his purpose, and filled with the over- flowing ambitions of youth, we find him unconsciously sheathe 232
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…uld appear at first sight to be self- contradictory and therefore fallacious; for, if to obtain Ojas is so important, how then can it be right to destroy a healthy passion which is the chief means of supplying it with the renewed energy necessary to maintain it? The Yogi’s answer is simple enough: Seeing that the extinction of the first would mean the ultimate death of the second the various Mudra exercises were introduced so that this healthy passion might not only be preserved, but cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…. Decide to do tests on old principle to see how I really stand. to perceive the (pleasant and unpleasant) sensation of a raising of the right foot” being the final form. The Buddha himself said that if a man practises Mahasatipatthana honestly and intelligently a result is certain. 179
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…uld appear at first sight to be self- contradictory and therefore fallacious; for, if to obtain Ojas is so important, how then can it be right to destroy a healthy passion which is the chief means of supplying it with the renewed energy necessary to maintain it? The Yogi’s answer is simple enough: Seeing that the extinction of the first would mean the ultimate death of the second the various Mudra exercises were introduced so that this healthy passion might not only be preserved, but cultivated in the most rapid manner possible, without loss of…
1910 · PDF PAGE 195
…. Decide to do tests on old principle to see how I really stand. to perceive the (pleasant and unpleasant) sensation of a raising of the right foot” being the final form. The Buddha himself said that if a man practises Mahasatipatthana honestly and intelligently a result is certain. 179
1911 · PDF PAGE 135
THE VISION AND THE VOICE golden, with a living, vivid gold. And in each hand he hath a snake; in the right hand a red, in the left hand a blue. And he hath red sandals, but no other garment. And he sayeth: Is not life a long initiation unto sorrow? And is not Isis the Lady of Sorrow? And she is my mother. Nature is her name, and she hath a twin sister Nephthys, whose name is Perfection. And Isis must be known of all, but of how few is Nephthys known! Because she is dark, therefore is she feared. But thou who hast adored her without fear, who ha…
1911 · PDF PAGE 170
…of every song is a fresh flower in the garland of peace. This child danceth not, but it is because he is the soul of the two dances,—the right hand and the left hand, and in him they are one dance, the dance without motion. There is dew on all the fire. Every drop is the quintes- sence of the ecstasy of stars. * There are long intervals between many of these paragraphs, the Seer having been lost to Being. The reader will note that “The Great and Terrible Angel” has not been mentioned, but comes in suddenly. This was because the Seer’s speech wa…
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
…ees.3—Brown- | ing wrote about 200,000 lines. 13. Your Reverence,29—TVhe imaginary Aunt | Sally for the poetic cocoanut.* | 16. ‘' God's right use of tt.”’ %"—'* And many an eel, though no adept In God's right reason for it, kept Gnawing his kidneys half a year.” Shelley, Peter Bell the Third. 17. One tree.A—Note the altered value of. * Crowley confuses two common pastoral amuse: | ments—throwing wooden balls at cocoanuts and sticks | at Aunt Sally. the metaphor, such elasticity having led Prof. Bliimengarten to surmise them to be india- rubber…
1919 · PDF PAGE 251
…y. Each one is free to do as he will; and the luxury of this enjoyment is such that he becomes careful to avoid disturbance of the equal right of others. Yet, the authority of the Abbot of the House being supreme, any failure to observe this rule is met with appropriate en- ergy. The case cannot really arise, unless circumstances are quite beyond the ordinary; for the period of hospitality is strictly limited, and extensions depend upon the goodwill of the Abbot. Naturally, as it takes all sorts to make a world —and we rejoice in that diversity…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
…eremonies, from the evolutions of dancing girls to the austerities of ascetics, have all been devised with the intention of inducing the right medium for the right sort of subconsciousness to rise, move and appear. Zodacare, eca, od zodameranu! Odo kikalé Qaa! Zodoreje, lap Zodiredo Noco Mada, Hoathah IAIDA! {251} 30 We came into contact, on one occasion, with the relations between the people and the government. The British official in Ceylon is a very different person from his Indian colleague. He is not "heaven- born" in the same consecrat…
1903 · PDF PAGE 21
…w are represented in phases, just as 0° and finity are phases of an identical expression, and I have an even chance only of being on the right side of the fence| The Buddhist leaves no chances of this kind; in all his categories he is infinitely unextended; though the * The Hindus see this as well as anyone, and call Atman Sat ~chit~ ananda, these being alone the pairs of opposites, rather on the Hegelian, Vines of the reconciliation (rather than the identity) of opposites in a We have dismissed infinity as the figment of a morbid ‘mathematic: …
1954 · PDF PAGE 437
…ip Crowley. " "Crowley is God then? How did you know?" "Why. it's Captain Fuller that told us so. " "And how do you know that Fuller was right?" "I'm afraid you're a wicked man; good-night. " While this sort of thing is styled success I shall not count failure bitterness. Sometimes, note well! they are even frank about it, and say plainly that there would be no merit in it if there were any reasonable basis for it! This position is at the worst both honest and intelligible; the only trouble is that there is no possible means of deciding which o…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…s into trouble, I go or write to him immediately and put myself entirely at his disposition. I don't so much as ask whether he is in the right or no, unless that knowledge is necessary to efficient help. I can hardly explain why I act in this extraordinary way, but I think the theory is somewhat as follows: I being in relation with {658} the man, he is a part of my individuality, and my duty to myself is to see that he is flourishing. If I sprain my ankle I must use all my resources to put it right, and even if my ankle has damaged me in the co…