... is unaffected by their crimes and virtues, irresponsible and free. The Lord [ sentence left incomplete ] What then? Is this analogy anything more than poetic fancy, or is not after all, the whole idea of Brahman and Maya itself a mere poetic fancy? Perhaps, but not more fanciful or unreal, in that case, than the Universe itself and its motions; for the principle & working of the two are identical ...
... us. We may therefore admit the profundity & subtlety of the subjective distinction, but we shall be apt to regard the belief in objective worlds & beings unseen by our senses as either an early poetic fancy or a crude superstition of savages. But the Vedic mentality, although perfectly rational, stood at the opposite pole of ideas from the modern and its subjective consciousness admitted a class of ...
... seizing them perfectly and absolutely they get the sense of the infinite reality of which these are the outer symbols. To the rational mind and the ordinary sense-experience this may well seem only a poetic fancy or a mystic hallucination; but the absolute satisfaction Page 426 and sense of illumination which it gives and alone can give is really a proof of its greater validity; we get by that ...
... was an automatic shuddering and quailing,¹ an overpowering of the conscious parts by the dark subconscious energies. "And the boat passed and the gold god vanished." This tragedy is not a poetic fancy, but a fact enacted in almost every life that aspires to a high self-fulfilment. It happens sometimes that the conscious part of a man's being finds itself ready for a great venture—the will is ...
... itself and out of conceited-ness by the higher tone at which the inspiration arrives there." (What do you think of this is attempt at expressing inner mystical fact by what may seem to be poetic fancy?) WHITE MURDER A quick stiletto's smile of poignancy, The pang of paradise cletves through the heart, Committing against our human blood's career A lustrous crime ...
... which visualises strongly the mental and emotional impressions they have the power to start in the mind; the imagination which deals in the play of mental fictions and to which we give the name of poetic fancy; the aesthetic imagination which delights in the beauty of words and images for their own sake and sees no farther. All these have their place in poetry, but they only give the poet his materials ...
... itself and out of conceitedness by the higher tone at which the inspiration arrives there." (What do you think of this attempt at expressing inner mystical fact by what may seem to be poetic fancy ?) Page 103 ...
... the impact. Otherwise, an undue suppression may undermine all your future. Etc., etc." Readers should not think that the imaginary fears we have detailed above are mere creations of our poetic fancy. They are not. The failures of many sadhakas to advance on the path of self-consecration and self-surrender have behind them such and allied misgivings whispered into their consciousness by their ...
... To a presto of bomb and shell and the aeroplanes' fatal humming, We march, lit by Truth's death-pyre, to the world's satanic age. 5 It was much more than just human foresight or poetic fancy and imagination - it was really yogic vision that saw so vividly and described so arrestingly the full implications of Nazi world dominion. The words came under a terrific compulsion as it were ...
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