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…then we retire up the path, fighting rear-guard actions ; at every moment a soldier is slain by a hunchback; but as we retire there is always a soldier just by us. Until the end. The end? Buddha thought the supply of hunchbacks infinite ; but why should not the soldiers them- selves be infinite in number? However that may be, here is the point; it takes a moment for a hunchback to kill his man, and the farther we get from our base the longer it takes. You may crumble to ashes the dream-world of a boy, as it were, between your fingers; but befor…
1954 · PDF PAGE 39
…n this work; and if I had a thousand times that amount today it would all go in the same direction. It is only when one is built in this way, to stand entirely aloof from all considerations of twopence halfpenny more or fourpence halfpenny less, that one obtains perfect freedom on this Plane of Discs. All the serious Orders of the world, or nearly all, begin by insisting that the aspirant should take a vow of poverty; a Buddhist Bhikku, for example, can own only nine objects-his three robes, begging bowl, a fan, toothbrush, and so on. The Hindu…
1929 · PDF PAGE 523
…amateur kind. This period was inexpressibly distressing; apart from other unpleasantnesses, my health broke down in a quite inexplicable way. There was no satisfactory diagnosis; the symptoms were confined to a spiritual and physical malaise which deprived me alike of ambition and energy. (I have good reason to suspect that this was partly due to the reaction from my experiment in reviving youth.) And there were other trials. At one time I {825} was so poor that I had to lie on the sofa of a friend in the garret which he called his studio to ha…
1929 · PDF PAGE 263
…re all perfectly restored. The alarming symptoms were all due to the glare. I sent down to Pache to come up to Camp 3 as better in every way than Camp 2. I asked Tartarin and Reymond if they had any messages to send. They were too exhausted to reply to their names. I was utterly bewildered. The previous day had been a bare hour, and the march to Camp 4 perfectly easy and by no means long or trying for men without loads. I myself, though I had borne the burden and heat of the day more than anyone, was as fresh as paint and as fit as a fiddle. I …
1907 · PDF PAGE 249
…e marks , by which we measure intervals .” So that Time is wholly and solely founded on experience , or response to stimulus ; and in no way on any à priori judgement as postulated by Kant . Berkeley has shown us that it is impossible to form an abstract idea of motion distinct from the body moving ,' also that “ motion being only an idea , it . 2 lbid . 1 Time , vol . ii, p . 273 . 4 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 274 . 3 Ibid . vol . ii, p . 273-274 . 5 Principles of Human Knowledge , p . 11 .
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
…ts. She will soon be acclaimed as a popular author. lt is refreshing indeed to find somebody writing direct from the heart without in any way striving after originality, Excepting as to their length, these stories do not in any manner resemble those of Baudelaire. Buuco. THE (?םיחOF LIGHT. By W. L. GEORGE. Constable, ös. A VERY adequate and even thorough study of French bourgeois life as it really is. As a picture, it is better than anything Zola ever did, though (for the 253
1912 · PDF PAGE 295
…ts. She will soon be acclaimed as a popular author. lt is refreshing indeed to find somebody writing direct from the heart without in any way striving after originality, Excepting as to their length, these stories do not in any manner resemble those of Baudelaire. Buuco. THE (?םיחOF LIGHT. By W. L. GEORGE. Constable, ös. A VERY adequate and even thorough study of French bourgeois life as it really is. As a picture, it is better than anything Zola ever did, though (for the 253
1930 · PDF PAGE 19
…s, sympathetic to the operation, attracted to the Circle. These must be duly dispersed, or thev will degenerate and become evil. It is always easy to do this where invocations are concerned; the mere removal of the strain imposed by the will of the magician will restore things to their normal aspects, in accordance with the great law of inertia. In a badly-managed évocation, however, this does not always obtainj the spirit may refuse to be controlled, and may refuse to départ — even after having sworn obedience. In such a case extreme danger ma…
1929 · PDF PAGE 140
… state of consciousness definitely distinct from the normal. Its characteristic is that whereas in normal consciousness two things are always present --- the percipient and the perceived --- in Dhyana these two have become one. At first this union usually takes place with explosive violence. There are many other characteristics; in particular, time and space are abolished. This, however, occurs with almost equal completeness in certain states of normal abstract thought. {242} The attainment of this trance is likely to upset the whole moral bala…
1929 · PDF PAGE 228
228 {379} have forced my way to him in five minutes. He went off quietly and I never had a chance for a shot. One elephant whose track I followed took the camp of a Frenchman in his morning stroll. The man's wife had taken him out to Ceylon to keep him way for alcohol, but prohibition forgot the proverb, "Out of the frying-pan into the fire". The elephant got him before I got the elephant. One of our most beautiful camps was a sort of dak baghla near the shores of a superb lake. Open on its principal arc, the further shore merged into marshes. …
1909 · PDF PAGE 322
…re I had been standing I was led to the Northern entrance, where crowded a great concourse of people, and as I approached them they gave way before me. Then a voice whispered to me ‘Smite’; thereupon, drawing my sword with fury I smote three times, upon which a great wailing arose. “Having smitten down many with those three blows, I descended among them, but left my sword behind me. Thinking I had forgotten it, in vain I tried to return, and in my strivings was of a sudden armed with many potent lightnings; then at my feet there fell away a gre…
1909 · PDF PAGE 322
…re I had been standing I was led to the Northern entrance, where crowded a great concourse of people, and as I approached them they gave way before me. Then a voice whispered to me ‘Smite’; thereupon, drawing my sword with fury I smote three times, upon which a great wailing arose. “Having smitten down many with those three blows, I descended among them, but left my sword behind me. Thinking I had forgotten it, in vain I tried to return, and in my strivings was of a sudden armed with many potent lightnings; then at my feet there fell away a gre…
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
THE EQUINOX shall beget the day succeeding.” With increasing rapidity they sang in this way, day by day, the genealogy of a thousand years, and I traced on the successive generations, without a break in one link, until the rush of their procession reached a rapidity so awful as fully to typify eternity itself; and still I fled on through that burning genesis of cycles. I feel that I do not convey my meaning, but may no one else ever under- stand it better. Withered like a leaf in the breath of an oven, after millions of years I felt myself toss…
1910 · PDF PAGE 276
THE EQUINOX shall beget the day succeeding.” With increasing rapidity they sang in this way, day by day, the genealogy of a thousand years, and I traced on the successive generations, without a break in one link, until the rush of their procession reached a rapidity so awful as fully to typify eternity itself; and still I fled on through that burning genesis of cycles. I feel that I do not convey my meaning, but may no one else ever under- stand it better. Withered like a leaf in the breath of an oven, after millions of years I felt myself toss…
1913 · PDF PAGE 507
…an, and it was certainly not the English alone who burned her. When one exercises an apparently superhuman power, one must exercise it always, or resign oneself to perish. The world always avenges itself in a cowardly way for having believed too much, admired too much, and above all, obeyed too much. We only understand magic power in its application to great matters. If a true practical magician does not make himself master of the world, it is that he disdains it. To what, then, would he degrade his sovereign power? ‘I will give P 209
1913 · PDF PAGE 507
…an, and it was certainly not the English alone who burned her. When one exercises an apparently superhuman power, one must exercise it always, or resign oneself to perish. The world always avenges itself in a cowardly way for having believed too much, admired too much, and above all, obeyed too much. We only understand magic power in its application to great matters. If a true practical magician does not make himself master of the world, it is that he disdains it. To what, then, would he degrade his sovereign power? ‘I will give P 209
1922 · PDF PAGE 134
…- line. Somehow they suggested the jagged contour of a score of Debussy. But all this, exquisite as it was, gripping as it was, was in a way superficial. At the bottom of our hearts there seethed and surged a white hot volcanic lake of molten, of infernal, metal. We did not know what hideous, what monstrous abominations were in store for us at the Gatto Fritto. - I have set down how the action of the drugs had partially stripped off the recent layers of memory. It had achieved a parallel result much more efficiently on the moral plane. The toil…
1929 · PDF PAGE 512
…nstrument for moving this was a wooden pole. The tree had fallen about a hundred yards from the bank; and though it was downhill all the way to the lake, the ground was very uneven and the path so narrow that it was impossible to roll the log at all. Nevertheless, I moved it singlehanded into the lake, where I fixed it by driving piles. Passers- by spread the story of the hermit with superhuman strength, and people came from all parts to gaze upon the miracle. I should mention that normally my physical strength is far below the average, especia…
1909 · PDF PAGE 368
…thought, which constitutes an extra sense for me; and to my nose He gave a voice of its own. I was a dentist. Indeed, I have found a new way of extracting teeth without gas. You merely press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—friend or master—bade him keep silent for a while, and we journeyed in silence. When we came in sight of Brighton the motor-car stopped sudden…
1909 · PDF PAGE 368
…thought, which constitutes an extra sense for me; and to my nose He gave a voice of its own. I was a dentist. Indeed, I have found a new way of extracting teeth without gas. You merely press the neck of your patient, who faints in consequence, and you can then safely operate. How did you come to this? What caused you to take the attire of a man in place of the usual brown coat of a cover ?” His companion—friend or master—bade him keep silent for a while, and we journeyed in silence. When we came in sight of Brighton the motor-car stopped sudden…