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Page 52 of 871954 · PDF PAGE 78
… hold water! In the last resort, I shall have to maintain that we are justified by experience, by the empirical success in communicating thought which has attended, and continues to attend, our endeavors. But to give a complete answer, I shall have to go back to the beginning, and restate the original problem; and I beg that you will not suppose that I am evading the question, or adopting the Irish method of answering it by another, though I know it may sound as if I were. Let me set out by restating our original problem; what we want is Truth;…
1909 · PDF PAGE 301
…on of superficial knowledge, and the harnessing of the Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion under the dazzling lash of the Spirit. And we find that though these rituals enabled P. to master a language, they in many ways hindered his otherwise natural progress by helping largely to obsess his Nephesh by the Qliphoth—his passions and emotions being stirred up by a continuous pageant of 293
1909 · PDF PAGE 328
…s ourselves in; not so the latter, which is particularly vague. In considering these visions and future ones, it must be remembered that though we now insist on a continuous chain of ideas as proof of their validity, and equally so with such as we may deal with later on, we at present find, above all else, that simplicity is our most certain guide; for we are as yet solely dealing with the visions of a student, who, as such, like a school-boy, is expected to work out all his visions in full as if they were mathematical problems. The master may …
1909 · PDF PAGE 301
…on of superficial knowledge, and the harnessing of the Bull, Eagle, Man and Lion under the dazzling lash of the Spirit. And we find that though these rituals enabled P. to master a language, they in many ways hindered his otherwise natural progress by helping largely to obsess his Nephesh by the Qliphoth—his passions and emotions being stirred up by a continuous pageant of 293
1909 · PDF PAGE 328
…s ourselves in; not so the latter, which is particularly vague. In considering these visions and future ones, it must be remembered that though we now insist on a continuous chain of ideas as proof of their validity, and equally so with such as we may deal with later on, we at present find, above all else, that simplicity is our most certain guide; for we are as yet solely dealing with the visions of a student, who, as such, like a school-boy, is expected to work out all his visions in full as if they were mathematical problems. The master may …
1910 · PDF PAGE 204
…ferent from the world he lived in as the world of awakenment differs from the world of dreams. Further, did he grow to understand, that, though as a sustenance to the tree itself one root might not be as im- portant as another, yet that they all drew their strength from the self-same soil, and ultimately united in the one trunk above. Some were rotten with age, some dying, some again but feeders of useless shoots, but more sympathetically, more scientifically, they were all of one kind, the roots of one actual 188
1910 · PDF PAGE 204
…ferent from the world he lived in as the world of awakenment differs from the world of dreams. Further, did he grow to understand, that, though as a sustenance to the tree itself one root might not be as im- portant as another, yet that they all drew their strength from the self-same soil, and ultimately united in the one trunk above. Some were rotten with age, some dying, some again but feeders of useless shoots, but more sympathetically, more scientifically, they were all of one kind, the roots of one actual 188
1910 · PDF PAGE 34
…or)7 The latter is a small matter, and we are justified in concluding that as far as gross gratifications go, the advantage, substantial though slight, rests with the woman. The supreme pleasures are common to both, except cunnilingism (especially during the monthly courses) on the one side, and passive sodomy on the other. Both are pleasures of a somewhat masochistic order, and if we had definitely to choose, it would be hard. Glory to the Creator whose bounty has not forced us to this al- ternative ; aye ! blessed for ever be His holy name, a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 193
…y automati- cally. I found myself at home without knowing how I got here. Something told me that the real cause of her death was heroin, though, as a matter of fact, septic pheumonia can happen to any one at any moment. I’ve known two or three people go off like that. As my Uncle John used to say, conscience makes cowards of us all. King Lamus was always saying that as long as one has any emotion about any thing, love or fear or any- thing else, one can’t observe things correctly. That’s why a doctor won't attend his own family, and I can see c…
1909 · PDF PAGE 73
…e symbol of the Despair and Terror of the Universe and of the Self. Yet on all the paths is He, ready to smite whoso falters or swerves, though he have attained almost the last height. How many have I known, like Childe Roland and his peers, who have come to that Dark Tower! One young, one brave, one pure—lost! lost! penned in the hells of matter, swept away in the whirling waters of insane vision, true victims of the hashish of the soul. What poignant agony, what moaning abjectness, what self- disgust! What vain folly (of all true hope forlorn…
1909 · PDF PAGE 73
…e symbol of the Despair and Terror of the Universe and of the Self. Yet on all the paths is He, ready to smite whoso falters or swerves, though he have attained almost the last height. How many have I known, like Childe Roland and his peers, who have come to that Dark Tower! One young, one brave, one pure—lost! lost! penned in the hells of matter, swept away in the whirling waters of insane vision, true victims of the hashish of the soul. What poignant agony, what moaning abjectness, what self- disgust! What vain folly (of all true hope forlorn…
1910 · PDF PAGE 307
…d the room, I sat down next to him; for, knowing, in case a scrimmage should occur, that a Hindoo cannot stomach a blow in the spleen, I thought it wisest to be within striking distance of him. The Mahatma opened the evening’s discussion by saying: “Humph ... I am Agnostic, you are believers. I say ‘I don’t know,’ you contradict me.” And during the next hour and a half more Bunkum was talked in that room than I should say in Exeter Hall during the whole course of the last century. At last it ended, and though I had made various attempts to draw…
1910 · PDF PAGE 307
…d the room, I sat down next to him; for, knowing, in case a scrimmage should occur, that a Hindoo cannot stomach a blow in the spleen, I thought it wisest to be within striking distance of him. The Mahatma opened the evening’s discussion by saying: “Humph ... I am Agnostic, you are believers. I say ‘I don’t know,’ you contradict me.” And during the next hour and a half more Bunkum was talked in that room than I should say in Exeter Hall during the whole course of the last century. At last it ended, and though I had made various attempts to draw…
1929 · PDF PAGE 171
…led tells one so little as to what remains to be done, for the reasons given above. On some of these marches we were able to get ponies, though the Austrians disdained such effeminacy. The Indian hill pony compares very unfavourably with the Mexican. He is neither so swift, so strong, nor so surefooted. More often than not, too, he is in bad condition and sometimes actually lame. The best of them stumble at almost every other step, though ti is said that they never lose their footing completely. I could never rid my self altogether of nervousne…
1907 · PDF PAGE 77
…n without injury to others , of those desires which are natural to all healthy adult beings .” The reason for this idea of uncleanliness though certainly obscure is traceable more particularly to the utter mystery man saw in this supreme function , and also , that all hygienic laws being unknown to him , any disease resulting from the act was attributed indirectly to the woman -instead of to his own want of know ledge - and directly to the supernatural manifesting its wrath through her as a medium ; for the super natural to primitive man's unde…
1907 · PDF PAGE 279
… p . 192 . 4 It would be easy to argue with Hegel - Huxley that he who thinks of an act commits it ( cf. Jesus also in this connection , though He only knows the creative value of desire ), and that since A and not -A are mutually limiting , therefore interde pendent , therefore identical , he who forbids an act commits it. Vol . ii, p . 193 .
1907 · PDF PAGE 329
322 THE STAR IN THE WEST Nevertheless , though at heart one , many extraneous differences do exist , and it behoves any true searcher after Truth to discover for himself the straightest road towards his ultimate home which he long ago first left ; to ask help of none , to live alone , as he will have to die alone , to heed no man , to work out his own salvation , to see that his staff is stout , and that his lamp burns brightly , lest he fall into that great slough of rational dung -wallowing which besets his path . To voyage like our father Am…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…mpelled to use their strength if you refuse to follow me. We are off to Brighton, and I shall there put you in your proper place. Oh, my thoughts, my lofty thoughts,” he went on, “you shall to-night be seques- tered from the world of your enemies !” I should like to know, dear unknown being to whom my winged friend will bring this letter, what you would have done in my place! How was I to escape? There was cer- tainly not the slightest doubt that the man was a lunatic. Now, as it happens, lunatics have always been exceedingly interesting to me.…
1909 · PDF PAGE 367
…mpelled to use their strength if you refuse to follow me. We are off to Brighton, and I shall there put you in your proper place. Oh, my thoughts, my lofty thoughts,” he went on, “you shall to-night be seques- tered from the world of your enemies !” I should like to know, dear unknown being to whom my winged friend will bring this letter, what you would have done in my place! How was I to escape? There was cer- tainly not the slightest doubt that the man was a lunatic. Now, as it happens, lunatics have always been exceedingly interesting to me.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 152
THE EQUINOX neither Flame nor Air; nor the vast Aether nor the Infinity of Thought, not Utter Void nor the co-existence of Cognition and Non-cognition is there:—not this World nor Another, neither Sun nor Moon. That, Brothers, I declare unto you as neither a Becoming nor yet a Passing-away:—not Life nor Death nor Birth; Unlocalised, Unchanging and Uncaused:—That is the end of Sorrow.* Gotama therefore had to hedge. Unquestionably the Soul- idea must go, but in order to account for the Universal law of Causation Karma must remain, and further, s…