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Page 69 of 941954 · PDF PAGE 197
…p the character , profession, story from the nativity. It sounds incredible; but more than a score of times I have been actually able to name him! By the time you have got good at this game-and a most amusing game it is-you may call yourself a very competent astrologer . Sometimes , even now, you may assign the figure of the Archbishop of York to Jabez Balfour or Catherine de Medici; or mix up Moody and Sankey with Brown and Kennedy : don't be discouraged; perhaps there may be something to be said for you after all! I believe, as I hope, that y…
1907 · PDF PAGE 40
THE LOOKING -GLASS 33 worthy pupil of the great masters we have had occa sion to name . Now that I have pointed out these certain influences , illustrating them by means of a few quotations , I intend to enter more into the history of his poetry and also the place it fills in the history of English poetry generally . This is not altogether an easy matter . Firstly , in selecting distinctive specimens it is difficult not to help being guided by individual taste ; secondly , the labour of sorting the finest out of the fine is a work which needs n…
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The first veil against which we must warn the aspirant is the entanglement of language, of words and of names. The merest tyro will answer, “of course you need not explain to me that, ifI call a thing ‘A’ or ‘B,’ it makes no difference to that thing in itself.” And yet not only the tyro, but many of the astutest philosophers have fallen into this snare, and not only once but an hundred times; the reason being that they have not remained silent* about that which can only be “known” and not “believed in,” and that w…
1910 · PDF PAGE 67
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON THE KING The first veil against which we must warn the aspirant is the entanglement of language, of words and of names. The merest tyro will answer, “of course you need not explain to me that, ifI call a thing ‘A’ or ‘B,’ it makes no difference to that thing in itself.” And yet not only the tyro, but many of the astutest philosophers have fallen into this snare, and not only once but an hundred times; the reason being that they have not remained silent* about that which can only be “known” and not “believed in,” and that w…
1906 · PDF PAGE 125
ACTUS QUINTUS 119 JASON. To Corinth! MEDEA. Creon bears The name of favourable to suppliants. ACASTUS. liow virtue tames these tameless ones! To-day I am indeed a man. MEDEA. Thou brainless boy ! Thus, thus, and thus I smite thee on the cheek— Thus, thus I spit upon thy face. Out, dog! SEMICHORUS I. His patience shows as something marvellous. SEMICHORUS 2. Virtue takes insult from the fortuneless. MEDEA. The curse of Ares dog you into Hades! I have my reasons [dowdtfully), ay, my reasons ‘plain ! Going, not forced. CHORUS. Yet going—that is goo…
1910 · PDF PAGE 17
…C... s country, during two successive summers. Some two months after the completion of trans- lation, I fell in with the gentleman whose name ap- pears with mine on the title-page. He represented
1910 · PDF PAGE 78
…eer- fully. “ Why this glee, brother dog ? ” “ Passing near a dunghill (probably Abubekr’s house is in- tended) I met a beautiful virgin named Ayeshah, who was as firm and as tight as it is impossible to believe.” The ass trots off, all on fire, but suddenly falls headlong into a deep pit. He is about to bear witness that there is no God but God, and Mo- hammed is his prophet (i.e. about to resign himself to death), when he is lifted out by a woman’s hand and set on solid earth again. “ O ass ! how dost thou dare awaken Ayeshah the promised wif…
1919 · PDF PAGE 122
…ould not do thus to the hindrance of your true prog- ress, because all these enjoyments are dependent upon dual- ity, so that their true name is Sorrow of Illusion, like that of the normal life of man, which you have set out to transcend. Be it according to your Will, but learn this, that (as it is written) they only are happy who have desired the unattain- able. It is then best, ultimately, if it be your Will to find alway your chiefest pleasure in Love, that is, in Conquest, and in Death, that is, in Surrender, as I have written to you alread…
1904 · PDF PAGE 16
…ened and she saw his boyish face she had only one word It isnt true then ? Oh my God, it isnt true ? And fell to murmuring his name with every accent of infinite love and tenderness. At his house my astonishment was ten- fold. Ready and waiting for us were hot drinks of every kind, blankets toasting before a splendid fire, a bright open bed in the luxurious room in ten minutes he had her nude and dry and warm and happy. He dismissed me queerly : I suppose I must follow, he laughed, lifting her tenderly into bed with yet another k…
1904 · PDF PAGE 53
…Aunt was a noteworthy figure in her way. She it was who conceived the idea of taking a Web- sters Unabridged Dictionary and erasing the name of any thing which could not be introduced into [51]
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…e Buddha, now similarly went back to Vedic times and to the wisdom of the old Rishis. But, fearing the evil asso- ciations clinging to a name, he, anathematizing the Atman, in * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iv, 1, 48. See also the story of the Holy Quail in Rhys Davids’ “ Buddhist Birth Stories,” p. 302. These Iddhis are also called Abhijnyds. There are six of them: (1) clairvoyance; (2) clairaudience; (3) powers of transformation; (4) powers of remembering past lives; (5) powers of reading the thoughts of others; (6) the knowledge of compr…
1910 · PDF PAGE 145
…e Buddha, now similarly went back to Vedic times and to the wisdom of the old Rishis. But, fearing the evil asso- ciations clinging to a name, he, anathematizing the Atman, in * “The Questions of King Milinda,” iv, 1, 48. See also the story of the Holy Quail in Rhys Davids’ “ Buddhist Birth Stories,” p. 302. These Iddhis are also called Abhijnyds. There are six of them: (1) clairvoyance; (2) clairaudience; (3) powers of transformation; (4) powers of remembering past lives; (5) powers of reading the thoughts of others; (6) the knowledge of compr…
1929 · PDF PAGE 430
… certain facts. As luck would have it the test was even more conclusive than I had arranged for. In one of the questions a certain man's name occurred. According to my arrangement with Reece, he should have answered that this man was not to be trusted. The name bears a distinct resemblance to my own. He jumped to the conclusion that I was meant and praised the man up to the skies. There was still one more sitting. He was to do his utmost to persuade his consultant to adopt a certain course of action. He tried every trick for the best part of an…
1929 · PDF PAGE 4
My name, said the other, is Duguesclin. Does that tell you my story? he asked impressively. Does that convey anything to your mind? Nothing at all. I knew it, said the man from the tropics. Then I must tell you all. In my veins boils the fiery blood of the greatest of the French warriors, and my mother was the lineal descendant of the Maid of Saragossa. Bevan was startled, and showed it. After the siege, sir, she was honourably married to a nobleman, snapped Duguesclin. Do you think a man of my ancestry will permit a stranger to …
1954 · PDF PAGE 314
…djectives, not nouns. They are merely sensible manifestations of the elements to which they are attributed , and to the letters of their name. Now, on the othe: hand, there is an entirely different type of angel; and here we must be especially careful to remember that we include gods and devils, for there are such beings who are not by any means depend en t on one particular element for their existence. They are microcosms in exactly the same sense as men and women are. They are individuals who have picked up the elements of their composition a…
1954 · PDF PAGE 322
… Operation, and being warned that serious opposition might come from his own friends, family, etc., he abandoned his career, changed his name, cut himself off completely from the past, and allowed no alien interest of any sort to interfere with his absorption in the Work. His journey to see the Head seemed at that time a fatal interruption; at the least, it involved the waste of one whole year. He was wrong; his gesture of setting the interests of the Order before his personal advancement was counted unto him for righteousness. There should be …
1919 · PDF PAGE 127
…ists, for It is homogeneous: and therefore have men called it Silence, and Darkness, and Nothing. But in this, as in all other effort to name it, is the root of every fal- sity and misapprehension, since all words imply some dual- ity. Therefore, though I call it Light, it is not Light, nor absence of Light. Many also have sought to describe it by contradictions, since through transcendent negation of all speech it may by some natures be attained. Also by images and symbols have men striven to express it: but always in vain. Yet those that were…
1930 · PDF PAGE 54
…hy that were and are and are to corne. May their Essence be here présent, potent, puissant, and paternal to perfect this feast! (At each name the DEACON signs -f- with thumb between index and médius. At ordinary mass it is only necessary to comme¬ morate those whose names are italicisedy with wording as is shown.) y The PEOPLE. So mote it be. — 354 —
1954 · PDF PAGE 317
…heir forces, blackmailed the Church into supporting them, and began a senseless string of prosecutions. Notable in infamy stands out the name of Mrs. Ormiston Chant. So here we had the trial of some harmless girl for "accosting"; it was a scene from this that inspired Raven Hill's admirable cartoon. A "pale young curate" is in the witness box . "The prisoner," he drawled, "made improper proposals to me. The actual words used were: 'Why do you look so sad, Bertie?' " The magistrate : "A very natural question!" Now, fifty years later, here am I i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 195
…nane, terrible, inexorable, maker of horror and desolation, hater of the house that prospereth," and devoting "the signified and sealed, named and unnamed" to destruction. Then he turned to Balloch, and bade him act. Three minutes later the surgeon gave a curse, and blanched, as a scream, despite herself, burst from the bitten lips of the brave woman who lay upon the altar. "Why couldn't you let me give an anaesthetic?" he said angrily. "What's wrong? Is it bad?" "It's damned ugly. Curse it; not a thing here that I need!" But he needed nothing;…