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… they were not damned. The millennium seems to have been thought of as a fulfilment of god's promise to Abraham; but apparently it had nothing to do with "eternal life". However, even this modified beatitude as not open to Gentiles who had rejected Christ. The child was consequently very much relieved by the reappearance of some of the inmates of the house whom he could not imagine as having been lost eternally. The lot of the saved, even on earth, was painted in the brightest colours. It was held that "all things work together for good to them…
1944 · PDF PAGE 55
tial doctrine of the Qabalah; and the thing most difficult to understand about the later de‐ based Old Testament tradition,1 is that it represents Tetragrammaton as masculine, in spite of the two feminine components. Zeus became too popular, and, in consequence, too many leg‐ ends gathered around him; but the important fact for this present purpose is that Zeus was peculiarly the Lord of Air.2 Men who sought the origin of Nature in the earliest days tried to find this origin in one of the Elements. (The history of philosophy describes the contr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 272
…l fissures are identical with themselves? S. I admit it, for they are ambidextrous. _A/, His hypertrophied constrictor Cunni will feel nothing? S. No; it is medial. Af. Then how is he changed? Dollar wheat ! - Dollar 1 The mathematical proof of this is simple. A surface is composed of an infinite number of parallel straight lines touching each other. Now for parallel straight lines place a single convoluted chortoid with a parabolic direction of r#-94 9-7 At all the foci will be (2 --1)(2+m+1) /-1 (p+v) +sin®-*cosa— Now since #+17 is in this ca…
1929 · PDF PAGE 8
8 {37} 1. He has never been able to pronounce "R" properly --- like a Chinese! One day he said something to his mother which elicited from her the curious anatomical assertion: "Ladies have no legs." Shortly afterwards, when the Misses Cowper were at dinner with the family, he disappeared from his chair. There must have been some slight commotion on deck, leading to the question of his whereabouts. But at that moment a still small voice came from beneath the table: "Mamma! Mamma! Sister Susan and Sister Emma are not ladies!" This deduction was …
1944 · PDF PAGE 23
…Evil is only an appearance, because (like “Good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monotheism; but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presuppose many elements, their interplay is natural.” These ideas of Being, Thought and Bliss constitute the minimum possible qualities which a Point must possess if it is to have a real sensible experience of itself. These corre‐ spond …
1929 · PDF PAGE 15
…rly school life at Cambridge: Dear Papa & Mama, For my holiday work prize I have got a splendid knife, 2 blades, a saw, a screwdriver, a thing to pull out thorns, another to get stones out of horse's shoes, another I don't know what for, a leather piercer, a gimlet & a corkscrew and name plate. It is nicol plated in some parts, but the handle is ivory. The asphalt2 gave way near the middle. We were nearly blown hup bu the hoiler3 a little while ago, no jokes. We had a ý holiday given us on Friday. Please send me a little money for fireworks. Se…
1907 · PDF PAGE 245
…rt, a silken petticoat, ii, 52 A faint sweet smell of ether haunts, ili. 9 A fool indeed! For why complain, iii. 2 A foolish and a cruel thing is said, i. 182 Again the unveiled goddess of delight, ii. 73 Against the fiat of that God discrowned, ii. 64 Age and despair, poverty and distress, ili, 112 A good stout song, friend Argus, ii. 92 Ah! Christ ascends? Ascension day? ii. 163 Ah me! no fruit for guerdon, iii. 192 Ah! ten days yet to Pentecost, ii. 163 Ah! there be two sides to all shapes of truth, li, 85 | Alas! that ever the dark place, i…
1907 · PDF PAGE 116
IIo RODIN IN RIME given to understand that something of the sort described above does sometimes take place in the naming of a statue (of the allegorical de- scription especially). But that is a question of felicity, of epigram ; never of subject. In ‘‘ La Main de Dieu,” for example, the meaning is obvious, and not to be wrested or distorted. What does it matter if we call it as at present, or (2) The Hand of Creation, (5) The First Lovers, (c) The Security of Love, (2) The invisible Guard —anything in reason? ‘These are only ways of looking at …
1929 · PDF PAGE 231
…s not this alone that decided us to turn our faces to the West. We still intended to go to Rangoon and apparently there was absolutely nothing to stop us. But we couldn't go, any more than if it had been the moon. Throughout my life I have repeatedly found that destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say "No". I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible. …
1906 · PDF PAGE 147
…; but to move one step in this direction is to start on a journey whose end cannot be determined. The religion, ceasing to be a tangible thing, an object uniform for all sane eyes, becomes rather that mist whereon the sun of the soul casts up, like Brocken spectre, certain vast and vague images of the beholder himself, with or without a glory encompassing them. The function of the facts is then quite passive: it matters little or nothing whether the cloud be the red mist of Christianity, or the glim- mering silver-white of Celtic Paganism; the …
1906 · PDF PAGE 260
…ns he admits as being those of reason. But his statement that Idealism is but verbally intelligible is for my purpose the most admirable thing he could have said. He is wrong in saying that the idealists are bewildered by their own terminology; the fact is that idealist conclusions Are pre- sented directly to consciousness, when that consciousness is Dhyanic. (Cf. Section XI.) Nothing is clearer to my mind than that the great difficulty habitually experienced by the normal mind in the assimilation of meta- physics is due to the actual lack of e…
1907 · PDF PAGE 226
… whose methods were drink, dance, and Studio Murder.2. Why is Procopius cleaner than Petronius? Even a Julian could confute this sort of thing; but are we to rest for ever in negation? No: a Robinson minimus ipse will turn, and it is quite time that science was given a chance to measure itself against bulk. I shall not be content with giving Christian apologists the lie direct, but proceed to convict them of the very materialism against which they froth. In a_ word, 1 ‘ Gather ye roses!’ is the masterpiece of a Christian clergyman.—.4. ©. 2 A p…
1929 · PDF PAGE 143
…his hot breath from?" I was forced to think before I could answer "my nose". Then I pinched myself and remembered at once; but again breathing, the same thing happened again. Therefore the"Dharanization" of my nose dividualizes me and my nose, affects my nose, disproves my nose, abolishes, annihilates and expunges my nose. I was very alarmed one day to find that I had completely lost the object of concentration. I could not think what I wished to find or where to find it. I naturally thought something was very wrong. Here was an occasion when A…
1929 · PDF PAGE 108
…romise and swear: to acquire this Holy Science in the manner prescribed in the Book of Abra-Melin, without omitting the least imaginable thing of its contents; not to gloss or comment in any way on that which may be or may not be, not to use this Sacred Science to offend the Great God, not to work ill unto my neighbour: to communicate it to no living person, unless by long practice and conversation I shall know him thoroughly, well examining whether such an one really intendeth to work for the Good or for the Evil. I will punctually observe, in…
1929 · PDF PAGE 34
…the quick, had shaken his fist at the major and yelled, "Brother, you're a sinful old man!" Mrs. Cameron "had always known there was something", and invented a ruined governess. But --- oh the laughter of her husband when the telegraph brought the major's retort, "Brother, have you no sin?" --- spoken with an accent of mildness which belied the purple of his face. In short, the meeting at Oban had split. Mr. Cameron had withdrawn from the Lord's supper!!! It was therefore absolutely necessary for both of them to assure themselves that the bedri…
1929 · PDF PAGE 226
…p with him. The track was easy to follow. He was bleeding profusely and going slowly. Again and again I fired, but he always got away. Nothing seemed to cripple him, though one would have thought that he must have been more hole than bull by this time. At last he turned at a small clearing. As I came out from the thick jungle, I saw him not ten yards away. He lowered his head to charge. My bullet struck him again in the Ajna Cakkra, if a bull has such a thing; anyway, in {377} 1. At that time headquarters of Evangelicalism. the middle of the fo…
1944 · PDF PAGE 40
into nothing, which is mathematically absurd. The principle of Carnot (the Second Law of Thermodynamics) is only true in finite Equations. The card which must be exchanged for “The Star” is “The Emperor”, who bears the number IV, which signifies Power, Authority, Law, and is attributed to the sign Aries. This proves very satisfactory. But it became infinitely more so as soon as it was seen that this sub‐ stitution cleared up the other mystery about Strength and Justice. For Leo and Libra are, by this exchange, shown as revolved about Virgo, the…
1904 · PDF PAGE 83
…h and Light and P eace and Love; deeper and deeper enmeshed in the net of Circumstance, bogged in the mire of Tanha1 and Avigga2 and all things base and vile. False Vichi-Kichi 3 had caught him at last ! XIII. “Aye! The hour was at hand. Perdu R Abu was reincarnated as a child of Western parents, ignorant of all his wonderful past. But a strange fate has brought him to this village.” The Buddha paused, probalby for effect. A young man there, sole among them not yet an Arahat, turned pale. He alone was of Western birth in all that multitude. “Br…
1906 · PDF PAGE 280
…f doing this. Myst. But you leave out this -‘‘ vividness.”’ He is greater who generalised the data of evolution than he who did the same thing tor heraldry: not only because of the number of facts covered, but because of the greater intrinsic value and interest of each fact. Not only, moreover, is the philosopher who can sum up the observations ‘‘ All men are mortal,” “ All horses are mortal,” ‘‘ All trees are mortal,” and their like, into the one word Anicca, as did Buddha, a wise and great man; but Aeschylus is also wise and great, who from t…
1906 · PDF PAGE 283
…swer me that? Myst. A woodcock to mine own springe, indeed. I am justly caught with mine own metaphysic. 1 The science of the Purpose of Things. Certain of : Scept. Throw metaphysic to the dogs! I'll none of it. I will resolve it to you, then, on your own principles. The term, so con- stantly in use, or rather abuse, by your de- votees as by ours, is meaningless. All they can mean is a state of consciousness which is never changed—that is, one unit of time, since time is no more than a succession of states of consciousness, and we have no means…