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Page 95 of 1031906 · PDF PAGE 285
…e do not put what little we have saved into the wildcat stock Iaith, as Mansel counsels us; but add little to httle, and hoard it in the old: stocking of Science. Myst. Well if no holes! Scept. We expect little, even if we hope for much. Weare pretty safe; ‘tis the plodding ass that is Science, and the fat priest rides us still. Myst. We offer you a Bank, where your intellectual coin will breed a thousandfold. Scept. What security do you offer? Once bit, twice shy ; especially as your business is known to be patronised by some very shady custom…
1907 · PDF PAGE 52
…one would say an habitual reader of the Dazly Mail watching nobility at lunch. In front of the board, around the table, are several dear old ladies and gentlemen, a beautiful, overdressed, languid woman, some oilily lousy, lop-eared, leprous, lack- brained, utterly loathsome tradespeople who gurgle and grin, and a sprinkling of horny- handed sons of toil, very shiny. Above, with an olive-branch in one hand and a copy of the Dazly News in the other, floats Mr. G. K. Chesterton in the position Padmasana,! singing ‘‘ Beneath the Cross of Jesus” wi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 252
… desire is the cessation of sorrow, This is a simple logical inference from the second Truth, and needs no comment. (4) THE NosLeE EIGHTFOLD ParH.— There f a way, to be considered later, of realising the Third Truth. But we must, before we can perceive its possibility on the one hand, or its necessity on the other, form a clear idea of what are the Buddhist tenets with regard to the Cosmos; and, in particular, to man.? IV. THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS. The Three Characteristics (which we may predicate of all known existing things): (a) Change. Ani…
1944 · PDF PAGE 16
…e Farringdon Road, or whether it was the Far‐ ringdon Road to which they went; but there is no doubt whatever that one of them bought an old book, either from an obscure bookseller, or off a barrow, or found it in a library. This hap‐ pened about 1884 or 1885. There is no dispute that in this book were some loose papers; that these papers turned out to be written in cipher; that these cipher manuscripts contained the material for the foundation of a secret society purporting to confer initiation by means of rit‐ ual; and that among these manusc…
1944 · PDF PAGE 25
…d with the doctrine of the Fool of the Tarot, the legendary Wanderer, who wins the King’s daughter, a legend which is connected with the old and exceedingly wise plan of choosing the successor to a king by his ability to win the princess from all competitors. (Frazer’s Golden Bough is the authority on this subject.) It has been thought better, for the present pack, to adopt the term “Knight”, “Queen”, “Prince” and “Princess”, to represent the series Father, Mother, Son, Daughter, because the doctrine involved, which is extraordinarily complex a…
1929 · PDF PAGE 253
…the heliograph, by which means we intended to signal our progress to observers on Signal Hill, above the station, to collect some of our old Kashmir shikaris if possible, to learn a little Nepali, and perhaps to enlist the assistance of enterprising individuals on the spot. I left for London on May 6th and made such preparations with regard to my personal equipment as seemed desirable, and on May 12th left England for the East by the P & O S.S. Marmora. Eckenstein maintained constantly that the adventure was foolhardy; that, for his own part, h…
1904 · PDF PAGE 101
…nary sense of the term we mean “absence of extension in any of the categories.” When I say “No cat has two tails,” I do not mean, as the old fallacy runs , that “Absence-of-cat possesses two tails” ; but that “In the category of two-tailed things, there is no extension of cat.” Nothingness is that about which no posi- tive proposition is valid. We cannot truly affirm: “Nothingness is green, or heavy, or sweet.” Let us call tim e, space, being, heaviness, hunger, the categories. 1 If a man be heavy 1 I cannot her e discuss the pr opriety of repr…
1906 · PDF PAGE 251
…cards the Story of Hasisadra or of Noah. In justice to Buddhism, let us not charge its Scripture with the Sisyphean task of seriously upholding the literal interpreta- tion of obviously fantastic passages.2 May our Buddhist zealots be warned by the fate of old-fashioned English orthodoxy! But when Buddhism condescends to be vulgarly scientific; to observe, to classify, to ¢hzzk ; -I conceive we may take the matter seriously, and accord a reasonable investigation to its assertions. Examples of such succinctness and clarity may be found in The Fo…
1929 · PDF PAGE 16
…ach and Giessbach, Basle and the Rhine, the Dance of Death. Two points only concern us: he objected violently to being taken out in the cold morning to see the sunrise from a platform on the Rigi-Kulm and to illumination of a waterfall by coloured lights. He felt acutely that nature should be allowed to go her own way and he his! There was plenty of beauty in the world; why make oneself uncomfortable in order to see an extra? Also, you can't improve a waterfall by stagecraft! There is the skeleton of quite a philosophy of life in this. As to th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 230
… if the very idea of sunlight was an infernal terror. I called on the khansamah to tell me if I was suffering from delirium tremens. He told me no; what I saw was really there, and it was some kind of committee from Scotland, and that was all he knew. After lunch I discovered that the Great Heart of Scotland refused to admit that any member of the Kirk could have acquiesced in the amenities of the Anglican clergy. The elders had therefore sent out a committee to vindicate the innocence of MacDonald. I could no less in courtesy than make them fe…
1944 · PDF PAGE 94
…hange are carried out completely in the figure itself; the white woman has now a black bead; the black king, a white one. She wears the golden crown with a silver band, he, the silver crown with a golden fillet; but the white head on the right is extended in action by a white arm on the left which holds the cup of the white gluten, while the black head on the left has the black arm on the right, holding the lance which has become a torch and pours forth its burning blood. The fire burns up the water; the water extinguishes the fire. The robe of…
1906 · PDF PAGE 264
… has been made even to attain to Sammaditthi.! And this power being gained by its use he is enabled to concentrate all his thoughts and hold them always upon one object -- waking or sleeping, he remembers who he is and what his high aim in life—and this constant recollection ‘and keeping in mind of holy things, is the Seventh Stage, 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 th…
1929 · PDF PAGE 6
…rom left to right in the exact form of a Swastika2. He was baptised by the names of Edward Alexander, the latter being the surname of an old friend of this father's, deeply beloved by him for the holiness of his life --- by Plymouth Brethren standards, one may suppose. It seems probable that the boy was deeply impressed by being told, at what age (before six) does not appear, that Alexander means "helper of men". He is still giving himself passionately to the task, despite the intellectual cynicism inseparable from intelligence after one has re…
1944 · PDF PAGE 52
…fish, and this shape is continually exhibited in many church windows and in the episcopal ring.1 In the mythology of Yucatan it was the “old ones covered with feathers that came up out of the sea”. Some have seen in this tradition a reference to the fact that man is a marine animal; our breathing apparatus still possesses atrophied gills. HoorPaKraat.2 Arriving at highly sophisticated theogony, there appears a perfectly clear and concrete symbol of this doctrine. Harpocrates is the God of Silence; and this silence has a very special meaning. …
1906 · PDF PAGE 65
…the stem of her short clay pipe. She added that he was dying. Curiosity, Compassion’s Siamese prompted a desire to see the sufferer. The old lady rose, not without difficulty, lifted the curtain, and let it fall behind me as I entered the gloom which lay beyond. On a bed, in that half-fathomed twilight, big with the scent of joss-sticks smouldering in a saucer before a little bronze Buddha- rupa,” lay a man, still young, the traces of rare beauty in his face, though worn with suffering and horrid with a week’s growth of beard. He was, murmuring…
1904 · PDF PAGE 80
…e end of Genesis iii., and cut down the tree, and all the Nats perished. “Jehjaour heard and trembled. Perdu’ R Abu was only three years old. VIII. “It really seemed as if fate was agains t him. Poor Jehjaour ! In despair he cried to his partner, ‘O Ganesha, in the world of Gods only we shall be safe. Let him be born as a flute-girl before Indra’s throne !’ ‘Difficult is the task,’ replied the alarm ed deity, ‘but I will use all m y influence. I 1 The Gover nment, in th e intersts of Bud- dhists themselves, r eserves all gr ound within 50 feet …
1929 · PDF PAGE 409
409 golden showers of sparks, that the envious stars determined to rival the display. Every cloud disappeared as by magic. But the fire remained the popular favourite! All night I toiled to dry myself and my clothes, refreshing the old Adam with coffee, potted pheasant and Garibaldi biscuits at not infrequent intervals. The morning was ecstasy. The light came over the sand, wave upon wave {651} of grey. The desert was dry. There was no water in the stream, save in rare pools. We struck camp early. We glanced up at the path which we had travelle…
1929 · PDF PAGE 462
… attain a great age and produce continuously. Rodin, Browning, {731} Carlyle, Pasteur, Lister, Kelvin, Gladstone, Whitman were all grand old men. (That Carlyle was an invalid merely emphasizes this essential figure.) To insure the supply, we need only plant a prosperous and prolific peasantry, watch the children for indications of genius, and pick out any promising specimens for special training on the lines which their tendencies indicate. The worst thing they can do is what is done in America, to disenchant the man of earth with his destiny; …
1929 · PDF PAGE 503
…nnected with such "gods" as Dionysus, Osiris, Baldur, Marsyas, Adonis, Jesus, and other deifications of the unknown Magus concerned. The old pagan worship of the Mother-idea was superseded by the word IAO or its equivalents, which asserted the formula of the Dying God, and made the Male, dying to himself in the act of love, the engineer of the continued life of the race. This revolution cut at the root of all previous custom. Matriarchy vanished; self-sacrifice became the cardinal virtue, and so through infinite ramifications. This idea of acco…
1929 · PDF PAGE 453
…tly my existence depended on inspiration. The city, from a crashing chorus of magical music, a pageant of passionate pleasure, became a cold chaos of inanity. The bells no longer sang; the sun and moon were stagnant, soulless spectres in a senseless sky --- like a ghost on the gusts of the gale. I went from miraculous Moscow into a world of inarticulate impressions. St Petersburg failed to rekindle the wonder and worship which it had awakened in me of old. The Nevski Prospekt seemed narrower, meaner; a mere street. St Isaacs no longer enthralle…