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…aking state and the state of slumber, it constitutes a sort of straddle between two worlds. The soul moves the springs of the particular life while bathing itself in the universal life, and experiences an inexpressible sense of well-being; it will then willingly let go the nervous branches which hold it suspended above the current. In ecstasies of every kind the situation is the same. If the will plunges into it with a passionate effort, or even abandons itself entirely to it, the subject may become insane or paralysed, or even die. Hallucinati…
1913 · PDF PAGE 411
…aking state and the state of slumber, it constitutes a sort of straddle between two worlds. The soul moves the springs of the particular life while bathing itself in the universal life, and experiences an inexpressible sense of well-being; it will then willingly let go the nervous branches which hold it suspended above the current. In ecstasies of every kind the situation is the same. If the will plunges into it with a passionate effort, or even abandons itself entirely to it, the subject may become insane or paralysed, or even die. Hallucinati…
1907 · PDF PAGE 157
…n ; Shrieked , crawled to die ; delirium abates By some good chance her terror in its season , Her ravings picture the cessation of Such life as she had known : her mind conceives A God of Mercy , Happiness and Love ; Reverses life and fact : and so believes .' This last line practically contains the fundamental basis of all religion . Man finding that Nature was but 1 The Temple of the Holy Ghost , vol . i, p . 179 .
1910 · PDF PAGE 98
…seen I stand And look to seaward still : We would not look upon the land Again, had I my will. The ship is trim : to sea ! to sea ! Take life in either hand, Crush out its wind for you and me, And drink, and understand !
1939 · PDF PAGE 10
… THOUGHTS ARISE ; BODY AND MIND GROW SICK. DISGRACE AND FEAR GROW YEAR BY YEAR TO THEIR CLIMACTERIC. WILD, THEY ARE TOSSED ABOUT THROUGH LIFE AND DEATH ; THEY QUIVER, SUNK IN SEA-STRESS OF BITTERNESS, AND LOSE THE TAO FOR EVER. THE TRUE, THE ABIDING TAO ! WHO UNDERSTANDETH HATH ; WHO HATH THE TAO IS HERE AND NOW IN SILENCE OF THE PATH.
1907 · PDF PAGE 95
…m as magic gums that melt . ' I am a man , nor fear to drain the bowl.2 Now some old devil, dead no doubt and damned , But living in her life , had wisely crammed Her fierce bronze throat with such a foul device As made her belly yearn for sacrifice . She leered like love on me , and smiled , and shammed , And did not pity for all her breast of spice.3 Man though he was , he is thrust into her Moloch arms . When lo ! a miracle ! he is plucked by his own fearlessness from the horrid maw , “ Free , where the blood of other men is wet ,” mingling …
1929 · PDF PAGE 136
…gha. These men are not priests or monks, as we understand the words; it is hard for European minds to understand the conditions of their life. They have renounced the world and live as mendicants; but it may be stated roughly that the rules of their Order, which are very complex and often seem irrational or frivolous, are all devised in the interest of a single idea. Each rule meets some probably contingency. But in every case the object is to enable the bhikkhu to carry out his programme of spiritual development. There are no superstitious ter…
1905 · PDF PAGE 132
…n ! Sights of impetuous floods, Foam like the daisy at even, Folding o’er passionate gold petals that sun- rise had riven ! See, like my life is the stream Now its desire is grown quiet ; Life was a passionate dream Once, when light fancy ran riot, Now, ere youth fades, flows in peace past woody bank and green eyot. Highest, white heather and rock, Mountain and pine, with young laughter, Breezes that murmur and mock Duller delights to come after, Wild as a swallow that dives whither the sea wind would waft her. Lower, an ocean of flowers, Trees…
1905 · PDF PAGE 189
…ed all night by my dead Jover’s bed. I saw the spirit; heard the motionless Lips part in uttering a supreme caress : **T care not or for life or death ;”* they said, ‘Only for love.’ ‘* What difference ?” said I, ‘¢Dead or alive, I love thee utterly.” THE PESSIMIST’S PROGRESS.! MORTAL distrust of mortal happiness Is born of madness and of impotence ; A miserable and distorted sense, Defiant in its hatred of success. Even where love’s banners flame, and flowers bless . The happy head; all faith and hope immense Fly, for possession dwells supreme…
1922 · PDF PAGE 293
…s the slumber of time as we swoon With the sun half asleep in the blue. You’re a dream, you're a mystery, empress and slave, You're like life, the inscrutable beat of its wave, You are always the all-unexpected ! When you've promised yourself, then you push me away; When you scorn me, you suddenly kindle and slay ; You hate truth as the lies She rejected! I love you because you are gallant and proud, (Your soul is a sun and your body a cloud) And you leap from my arms when I woo you ; Because you love earth and its worms, you caress The stars a…
1905 · PDF PAGE 36
…ds me, Nor Space, nor Time. Above, the Supernal ! Below, the infernal! Of all am I master. On Earth, the diurnal! In all things eternal! Life, love, or disaster! Abiding unshaken, I sleep and I waken On wonderful wings ; In depth and in height, In darkness and light, In weakness and might, In blindness and sight, In mercy and spite, In day and in night, Averse or aright, For dule or delight, I am master of things. ORPHEUS O mother, I fear me! The might of the lyre! 37
1913 · PDF PAGE 57
KE®AAH MB DUST-DEVILS In the Wind of the mind arises the turbulence?! called I. It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts. All life is choked. This desert is the Abyss wherein is the Uni- verse. The Stars are but thistles in that waste. Yet this desert is but one spot accurséd ina world of bliss. Now and again Travellers cross the desert; they come from the Great Sea, and to the Great Sea they go. As they go they spill water; one day they will irrigate the desert, till it flower. See! five footprints of a Camel! V.V.V. V. V.
1905 · PDF PAGE 245
…ren sea? Thy lotus set beneath thee for a bower, Thine eyes awakened, lightened, fallen on me? O Goddess, queen, and wife ! O Lady of my life! Who set thy stature as a wood to wave? Whose love begat thy limbs? Whose wave-washed body swims That nurtured thee, and found herselfa grave? ‘But thou, O thou, hast risen from the deep! All mortals mourn and weep To see thee, seeing that all love must die Beside thy beauty, see thee and despair ! Deadly as thou art fair, I cry for all mankind—they are slain, even as I! [TANNHAUSER pauses, bends eagerly …
1919 · PDF PAGE 309
…mimic and have a singing voice. You are not as fond of literary and scientific pursuits as you should be. You prefer the lighter side of life, which is all very well in its way, but the serious side must have its innings also.” On July 23rd, Mr. Bernart tells Cardinal Gibbons that he is religious but not orthodox. It is also new to me that the Cardinal ‘likes candy to an unusual degree.’ A great many of these delineations are evidently taken straight from the peo- ple who are mentioned as being born. For example, October 22nd, “You are emotiona…
1913 · PDF PAGE 577
…ng; when she plies the whip, it is that danger is imminent. Woe, then, to him who does not reflect! When we are ripe for death, we leave life without regret, and nothing would make us take it back; but when death is premature, the soul regrets life, and a clever thaumaturgist would be able to recall it to the body. The sacred books indicate to us the proceeding which must be employed in such a case. The Prophet Elisha and the Apostle St. Paul em- ployed it with success. The deceased must be magnetized 279
1913 · PDF PAGE 577
…ng; when she plies the whip, it is that danger is imminent. Woe, then, to him who does not reflect! When we are ripe for death, we leave life without regret, and nothing would make us take it back; but when death is premature, the soul regrets life, and a clever thaumaturgist would be able to recall it to the body. The sacred books indicate to us the proceeding which must be employed in such a case. The Prophet Elisha and the Apostle St. Paul em- ployed it with success. The deceased must be magnetized 279
1929 · PDF PAGE 457
…haracter; my environment seems incomprehensibly unnatural; in short, the effect of the narrative is to suggest that by some jugglery the life of a totally different individual has intruded upon my own. Now, years afterwards, it still seems to me as if for the whole period of the initiation I had been transported into an unfamiliar world; their history is a magical history in the most comically complete sense. Its events are neither real nor rational --- save only in relation to the condition of an experiment, exactly as a candidate in freemason…
1907 · PDF PAGE 169
…ath , There brooded on the waters the strange breath Of an incarnate hatred . Darkness fell And chaos , from prodigious gulphs of hell . Life , that rejoiced to travail with a man , Looked where the cohorts of destruction ran , Saw darkness visible , and was afraid , Seeing . There grew like Death a monster shade , Blind as the coffin , as the covering sod Damp , as the corpse obscene , the Christian God . So to the agony dirges of despair Man cleft the womb , and shook the icy air With bitter cries for light and life and love . But these , beg…
1919 · PDF PAGE 271
… adoreth is also Thou. Thou art That, and That am I. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. Iam Life, and the giver of Life; yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. Iam alone; there is no God where I am. The DEAcON and all rise to their feet, with the Hail- ing sign. Tue Deacon. But ye, O my people, rise up and awake. Let the rituals be rightly performed with joy and beauty. There are rituals of the elements and feasts of the times. A feast for the first night of the Prophet and his …
1919 · PDF PAGE 383
…he Karma of the cycle of thy births, the destiny of those who, in their pain and sorrow, are born along with thee, rejoice and weep from life to life, chained to thy previous actions. 47. Act thou for them “to-day,” and they will act for thee “to-morrow.” These verses confirm what was said above with regard to perseverance. Every cause has its effect. There is no waste. There is no evasion. 48. ’Tis from the bud of Renunciation of the Self, that springeth the sweet fruit of final Liberation. This is again obscure, as the word “Self” means so ma…