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Page 59 of 1061919 · PDF PAGE 379
…s self-contradictory. The Arhat has no self to be blissful. It is much simpler to consider it on the lines given in my commentary to the last verse. 41. To live to benefit mankind is the first step. To prac- tise the six glorious virtues is the second. 42. To don Nirmanakéya’s humble robe is to forego eter- nal bliss for Self, to help on man’s salvation. To reach Nir- vana’s bliss but to renounce it, is the supreme, the final step —the highest on Renunciation’s Path. All this about Gautama Buddha having renounced Nir- vana is apparently all a p…
1919 · PDF PAGE 446
…though she is always talking of the advance of the good Narjol, he never seems to advance in point of view. Now, on the threshold of the last Path, he is still an ordinary person with vague visionary yearnings! It is true that He wishes the unity of all that lives, complete harmony in the parts, and perfect light in the whole. It is also true that He may spend a great deal of time in killing or otherwise instructing men, but He has not got at all the old conception. The ordinary Buddhist is quite unable to see anything but details. Bhikkhu Anan…
1930 · PDF PAGE 5
…osing to inflict upon you my celebrated discourse on Scepticism of the Instrument of Mind. I am not even going to refer to the first and last lecture which I suffered at a dud university some- where near Newmarket, in which the specimen of old red sandstone in the rostrum began by remarking that political economy was a very difficult subject to theorize upon because there were no reliable data. Never would I tell so sad a story on a Monday evening, with the idea of Tuesday already looming darkly in every melancholic mind. I should like to be ju…
1961 · PDF PAGE 194
…st by thy Studies in The Book of the Law, the Word thereof concerning Our Lady Nuith and Hadith that is the Core of every Star. And this last Going upon thy Ladder is easy, if thou be truly Initiate, for the Momentum of thy Force in Transcendental Antithesis serveth to propel thee, and the Emancipation from the Fetters of Thought hat thou hast won in that Praxis of Art maketh the Whirlpool and Gravitation of Truth of Competence to Draw theeunto itself. l
1929 · PDF PAGE 79
…and my heart was lonely, hungry and embittered as only a poet's heart can understand. This determination developed gradually during that last May term. He fought most desperately against my increasing preoccupation with the aspiration in which he recognized the executioner of our friendship. Shortly after I went down, we had a last interview. I had gone down to the Bear at Maidenhead, on the quiet, to write "Jezebel". I only told one person --- in strict confidence --- where I was going; but Pollitt found out that person and forced him to tell …
1906 · PDF PAGE 154
…-species of genus Chris- tian included in’poet’s strictures. THE SWORD OF SONG - We'll have the ham to logic’s sandwich Of indignation : last bread bland, which After our scorn of God’s lust, terror, hate, Prometheus-fired, we’ll butter, perorate With oiled indifference, laughter’s silver : “ Omne hoc verburr _sifet nil, vir”! Let me help Babu Chander Grish up! As by a posset of Hunyadi® . Clear niind ! Was Soudan of the Mahdi Not cleared by Kitchener? Ah, Tchhup! Such nonsense for sound truth you dish up, Were I magician, no mere cad, Not Samu…
1906 · PDF PAGE 171
…ah-like, Mt. Carmel in : 35 All gave me nothing. I slid back To common sense, as reason bids, And “hence,” my friend, “the Pyramids.” At last I met a maniac My Mahatma. With mild eyes full of love, and tresses What price . ‘, Kut Humi? 40 Blanched in those lonely wildernesses Where he found wisdom, and long hands Gentle, pale olive ‘gainst the sand’s Amber and gold. At sight, I knew him ; Swifter than light I flashed, ran to him, 46 And at his holy feet prostrated My head ; then, all my being sated With love, cried “ Master! I must know. Alread…
1907 · PDF PAGE 36
…ffin of my mind , To poison , to corrupt , to strike you there Blind with its horror ." Many other pieces are almost equally grand , the last speech of Tannhäuser to Heinrich is truly magnificent : » 2 | Tannhäuser , vol . i, p . 261 . 2 The Mother's Tragedy , vol . i, p . 160 .
1909 · PDF PAGE 47
…ser forms; and in England the difficulties were hardly to be overcome. I found it impossible to meditate in the cold, and fires will not last equably. Gas stinks abominably; heating apparatus does not heat; electricity has hitherto not been available. When I build my temple, I shall try it. The food difficulty could be overcome by Messrs. Fortnum and Mason, the noise difficulty by training, the leisure difficulty * The period of the rule of Apophis in the mystic regenerative process Isis Apophis Osiris I A O; or the Black Dragon in the alchemic…
1909 · PDF PAGE 47
…ser forms; and in England the difficulties were hardly to be overcome. I found it impossible to meditate in the cold, and fires will not last equably. Gas stinks abominably; heating apparatus does not heat; electricity has hitherto not been available. When I build my temple, I shall try it. The food difficulty could be overcome by Messrs. Fortnum and Mason, the noise difficulty by training, the leisure difficulty * The period of the rule of Apophis in the mystic regenerative process Isis Apophis Osiris I A O; or the Black Dragon in the alchemic…
1919 · PDF PAGE 439
… it suddenly boils. You may get the tempera- ture to 99° and keep it at 99° for a thousand years, and the water will not boil. It is the last step that does the trick. One remark in this connection may be useful: “A watched pot never boils.” The student must practise complete de- tachment—must reach the stage when he does not care two- pence whether he attains or not, while at the same time he pursues eagerly the Path of attainment. This is the ideal attitude. Itis very well brought out in ‘Parsifal.’ Klingsor, on having his error pointed out t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 311
…nk. “‘ This is the latest fashion in the studio,” said Lala gaily. She was obviously trying to relieve the tension. ‘* Basil invented it last night. We call it Kubla Khan 297
1929 · PDF PAGE 39
…. It was the gnashing of the teeth of a damned soul. III The demon-shape, which I now clearly recognized as that which had figured in my last dream at Cam- bridge, seemed to gulp. At that instant a convulsion shook the dying man and a coughing eructation took the demon. Instantly the whole theory dawned on me, that this demon was an imaginary personification of the disease. Now at once I understood demonology, from Bodin and Weirus to the moderns, without a flaw. But was it imaginary or was it real? Real enough to swal- low up the sane …
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
… Sammasati. And by the power of this transcendent faculty, rising through the Eight High Trances to the very threshold of Nirvana, he at last, in the Trance called Nirodha Samapatti, attains, even in this life, to the Deathless Shore of Nirvana, by the power of Sammasamadhi, Right Concentration. Such a one has finished the Path—he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become Arahan, a Saint, a Buddha himself.” But none knows better than the venerable Bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps Sammava…
1907 · PDF PAGE 205
…juring . “ Proceed ! " Nay ! I'll go back . The exposition Above , has points . But simple fission Has reproduced a different bliss , At last a heterogenesis !? Many roads lead to Philosophy and branch forth from it, as Crowley above shows , and in a short essay like this we intend but to travel through the labyrinthine mysteries of all by the silken clue of one , handed us by Aleister Crowley . And as there are many by - ways , corridors , and blind alleys in this great labyrinth of Parnassus , so in this clue , which has been given us , we sh…
1910 · PDF PAGE 296
…ul of the song it seemed as if she was exhausted: as if she was trying to sound a particular phrase, and always fell back baffled at the last moment. Nor did any light infuse her eyes. There was intentness, there was weariness, there was patience, there was alertness. And the room was strangely silent, unsympathetic to her mood. She was the dimmest thing in that gray light. Still she strove. She grew more tense, her mouth tightened, an ugly compression. Her eyes flashed with—was it hate? The soul of the song was now all anguish, all pleading, a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 296
…ul of the song it seemed as if she was exhausted: as if she was trying to sound a particular phrase, and always fell back baffled at the last moment. Nor did any light infuse her eyes. There was intentness, there was weariness, there was patience, there was alertness. And the room was strangely silent, unsympathetic to her mood. She was the dimmest thing in that gray light. Still she strove. She grew more tense, her mouth tightened, an ugly compression. Her eyes flashed with—was it hate? The soul of the song was now all anguish, all pleading, a…
1913 · PDF PAGE 557
…eath by a fatal gravitation; the one drags the other, as the divine Michel Angelo has made us see so clearly in his great picture of the Last Judgment; they are clinging and tenacious like drowning men, and free spirits must struggle energetically against them, that their flight may not be hindered by them, that they may not be pulled back to Hell. This war is as ancient as the world; the Greeks figured it under the symbols of Eros and Anteros, and the Hebrews by the antagonism of Cain and Abel. It is the war of the Titans and the Gods. The two…
1913 · PDF PAGE 588
…upright souls, and thou knowest if ever I thought myself pure in thy sight! Like all men I have been the plaything of human passions. At last I conquered them, or rather thou hast conquered them in me; and thou hast given me for a rest the deep peace of those who have no goal and no ambition but Thyself. I love humanity, because men, as far as they are not insensate, are never wicked but through error or through weak- ness. Their natural disposition is to love good, and it is through that love that thou hast given them asa support in all their …
1913 · PDF PAGE 557
…eath by a fatal gravitation; the one drags the other, as the divine Michel Angelo has made us see so clearly in his great picture of the Last Judgment; they are clinging and tenacious like drowning men, and free spirits must struggle energetically against them, that their flight may not be hindered by them, that they may not be pulled back to Hell. This war is as ancient as the world; the Greeks figured it under the symbols of Eros and Anteros, and the Hebrews by the antagonism of Cain and Abel. It is the war of the Titans and the Gods. The two…