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Also a book by Hall and Knight
Quick to the horny growth called life.
On Algebra. I hired wise men
Yoga ? There s danger in the biz !
To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
But, it s the only chance there is !
One of the Hottentots succeeded.
(For life, if left alone, is sorrow,
Few schoolboys know as much as he did !
And only fools hope God s to-morrow.)
The others sank beneath the strain :
It broke, not fortified, the brain.
Up, Guards, and at em!
Second, your facts are neatly put ;
The Bard a Brainy Beggar.
Stay ! In that mouth there lurks a foot !
Now (higher on the Human Ladder)
One surgeon saw so many claps
Lodge is called mad, and Crowley madder.
He thought : One-third per cent., perhaps,
(The shafts of Science who may dodge ?
Of mortals scape its woes that knock us,
I ve not a word to say for Lodge.)
And bilk the wily gonococcus.
Yet may not Crowley be the one
So he is but a simple cynic
Who safely does what most should shun ?
Who takes the world to match his clinic ;
And he assuredly may err
Alpine Analogy.
Who, keeping cats, think birds have fur.
You say : There s Berridge, Felkin,
Take Oscar Eckenstein he climbs
Mathers,
Alone, unroped, a thousand times.
Hysteries, epileptoids, blathers,
He scales his peak, he makes his pass ;
Guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid,
He does not fall in a crevasse !
With ceremonial magic that toyed.
But if the Alpine Club should seek
Granted. Astronomy s no myth,
To follow him on pass or peak
But it produced Piazzi Smyth.
(Their cowardice, their mental rot,
What crazes actors ? Why do surgeons
Are balanced nicely they will not.)
Go mad and cut up men like sturgeons ?
I see the Alpine Journal s border
(The questions are the late Chas. Spur-
Of black grow broader, broader, broader,
geon s.)
Until the Editor himself
Of yogi I could quote you hundreds
Falls from some broad and easy shelf,
In science, law, art, commerce noted.
And in his death the Journal dies.
They fear no lunacy : their on dread s
Ah ! bombast, footle, simple lies !
Not for their noddles doom-devoted.
Where would you then appear in type ?
They are not like black bulls (that shunned
reds
The Poet retires up. His attitude undig-
In vain) that madly charge the goathead
nified, his pleasure momentary, the after
Of rural Pan, because some gay puss
results quite disproportionate. He contem-
Had smeared with blood his stone Priapus.
plates his end.
They are as sane as politicians
Therefore poor Crowley lights his pie,
And people who subscribe to missions.
Maintains : The small-shot kills the snip,
This says but little ; a long way are
But spares the tiger ; goes on joking,
Yogi more sane that such as they are.
And goes on smirking, on invoking,
You have conceived your dreadful bogey,
On climbing, meditating, failing to think
From seeing many a raving Yogi.
of a suitable rhyme at a critical juncture,
These haunt your clinic ; but the sound
Ah ! goes on working, goes on smoking,
Lurk in an unsuspected ground,
Until he goes right on to Woking.
Dine with you, lecture in your schools,
Share your intolerance of fools,
637. No one supposes me a Saint.54 On in-
And, while the Yogi you condemn,
quiry, however, I find that some do.
Listen, say nothing, barely smile.
686. Amrita.55 The Elixir of Life : the
O if you but suspected them
Dew of Immortality.
Your silence would match their awhile !
69
NOTES
688. Christ.56 See Shri Parananda, Com- 755. Heart.61
mentaries on Matthew and John. Heart is a trifling misquotation :
695. Direction x.57 Vide supra, Ascension This poem is for publication.
Day. 810. Mind the dark dorrway there !62 This,
710. Steel-tired.58 like so many other (perhaps all) lines in these
For Dunlop people did not know poems, is pregnant with a host of hidden
Those nineteen hundred years ago. meanings. Not only is it physical, of saying
723. Super-consciousness.59 The Christians good-bye to a friend : but mental, of the dark-
also claim an ecstasy. But they all admit, and ness of metaphysics ; occult, of the mystical
indeed boast, that it is the result of long periods darkness of the Threshold of Initiation : and
of worry and anxiety about the safety of their physiological, containing allusions to a whole
precious souls : therefore their ecstasy is clearly group of phenomena, which those who have
a diseased process. The Yogic ecstasy requires begun meditaiton will recognise.
absolute calm and health of mind and body. It Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic
is useless and dangerous under other conditions key to an entire line of philosophical argument.
even to begin the most elementary practices. If the reader chooses, in short, he will find
742. My Eastern Friend.60 Abdul Hamid, the entire mass of Initiated Wisdom between
of the Fort, Colombo, on whom be peace. the covers of this unpretending volume.
1902
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS
LISTEN to the Jataka! said the Buddha. Now it came to pass that after many years
And all they gave ear. Long ago, when he looked upon his love, the bride of his
King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares,1 heart, the rose of his garden, the jewel of his
it came to pass that there lived under his rosary; and behold, the olive loveliness of
admirable government a weaver named smooth skin was darkened, and the flesh lay
Suraj Ju2 and his wife Chandi.3 And in loose, and the firm breasts drooped, and the
the fulness of her time did she give eyes had lost alike the glream of joy and the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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Also a book by Hall and Knight
Quick to the horny growth called life.
On Algebra. I hired wise men
Yoga ? There s danger in the biz !
To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
But, it s the only chance there is !
One of the Hottentots succeeded.
(For life, if left alone, is sorrow,
Few schoolboys know as much as he did !
And only fools hope God s to-morrow.)
The others sank beneath the strain :
It broke, not fortified, the brain.
Up, Guards, and at em!
Second, your facts are neatly put ;
The Bard a Brainy Beggar.
Stay ! In that mouth there lurks a foot !
Now (higher on the Human Ladder)
One surgeon saw so many claps
Lodge is called mad, and Crowley madder.
He thought : One-third per cent., perhaps,
(The shafts of Science who may dodge ?
Of mortals scape its woes that knock us,
I ve not a word to say for Lodge.)
And bilk the wily gonococcus.
Yet may not Crowley be the one
So he is but a simple cynic
Who safely does what most should shun ?
Who takes the world to match his clinic ;
And he assuredly may err
Alpine Analogy.
Who, keeping cats, think birds have fur.
You say : There s Berridge, Felkin,
Take Oscar Eckenstein he climbs
Mathers,
Alone, unroped, a thousand times.
Hysteries, epileptoids, blathers,
He scales his peak, he makes his pass ;
Guttersnipe, psychopath, and mattoid,
He does not fall in a crevasse !
With ceremonial magic that toyed.
But if the Alpine Club should seek
Granted. Astronomy s no myth,
To follow him on pass or peak
But it produced Piazzi Smyth.
(Their cowardice, their mental rot,
What crazes actors ? Why do surgeons
Are balanced nicely they will not.)
Go mad and cut up men like sturgeons ?
I see the Alpine Journal s border
(The questions are the late Chas. Spur-
Of black grow broader, broader, broader,
geon s.)
Until the Editor himself
Of yogi I could quote you hundreds
Falls from some broad and easy shelf,
In science, law, art, commerce noted.
And in his death the Journal dies.
They fear no lunacy : their on dread s
Ah ! bombast, footle, simple lies !
Not for their noddles doom-devoted.
Where would you then appear in type ?
They are not like black bulls (that shunned
reds
The Poet retires up. His attitude undig-
In vain) that madly charge the goathead
nified, his pleasure momentary, the after
Of rural Pan, because some gay puss
results quite disproportionate. He contem-
Had smeared with blood his stone Priapus.
plates his end.
They are as sane as politicians
Therefore poor Crowley lights his pie,
And people who subscribe to missions.
Maintains : The small-shot kills the snip,
This says but little ; a long way are
But spares the tiger ; goes on joking,
Yogi more sane that such as they are.
And goes on smirking, on invoking,
You have conceived your dreadful bogey,
On climbing, meditating, failing to think
From seeing many a raving Yogi.
of a suitable rhyme at a critical juncture,
These haunt your clinic ; but the sound
Ah ! goes on working, goes on smoking,
Lurk in an unsuspected ground,
Until he goes right on to Woking.
Dine with you, lecture in your schools,
Share your intolerance of fools,
637. No one supposes me a Saint.54 On in-
And, while the Yogi you condemn,
quiry, however, I find that some do.
Listen, say nothing, barely smile.
686. Amrita.55 The Elixir of Life : the
O if you but suspected them
Dew of Immortality.
Your silence would match their awhile !
69
NOTES
688. Christ.56 See Shri Parananda, Com- 755. Heart.61
mentaries on Matthew and John. Heart is a trifling misquotation :
695. Direction x.57 Vide supra, Ascension This poem is for publication.
Day. 810. Mind the dark dorrway there !62 This,
710. Steel-tired.58 like so many other (perhaps all) lines in these
For Dunlop people did not know poems, is pregnant with a host of hidden
Those nineteen hundred years ago. meanings. Not only is it physical, of saying
723. Super-consciousness.59 The Christians good-bye to a friend : but mental, of the dark-
also claim an ecstasy. But they all admit, and ness of metaphysics ; occult, of the mystical
indeed boast, that it is the result of long periods darkness of the Threshold of Initiation : and
of worry and anxiety about the safety of their physiological, containing allusions to a whole
precious souls : therefore their ecstasy is clearly group of phenomena, which those who have
a diseased process. The Yogic ecstasy requires begun meditaiton will recognise.
absolute calm and health of mind and body. It Similarly, a single word may be a mnemonic
is useless and dangerous under other conditions key to an entire line of philosophical argument.
even to begin the most elementary practices. If the reader chooses, in short, he will find
742. My Eastern Friend.60 Abdul Hamid, the entire mass of Initiated Wisdom between
of the Fort, Colombo, on whom be peace. the covers of this unpretending volume.
1902
THE THREE CHARACTERISTICS
LISTEN to the Jataka! said the Buddha. Now it came to pass that after many years
And all they gave ear. Long ago, when he looked upon his love, the bride of his
King Brahmadatta reigned in Benares,1 heart, the rose of his garden, the jewel of his
it came to pass that there lived under his rosary; and behold, the olive loveliness of
admirable government a weaver named smooth skin was darkened, and the flesh lay
Suraj Ju2 and his wife Chandi.3 And in loose, and the firm breasts drooped, and the
the fulness of her time did she give eyes had lost alike the glream of joy and the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]