“Rightly have the Burmans termed their Monks Hpongyi, ‘Great Glory’; for they have made of them the pattern and ensamplar of their lives”

The Thāthanābaing By Ananda Maitriya. (Allan Bennett)

“Rightly have the Burmans termed their Monks Hpongyi, ‘Great Glory’; for they have made of them the pattern and ensamplar of their lives” [via]

Consider also:

  1. New article about Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes claims the villain, Lord Blackwood, is inspired by Aleister Crowley
  2. Recent Wall Street Journal review of After Lives
  3. Recent review of Crowley’s The Book of Lies
  4. “We had quarrelled about philosophy and physics. His mind was intensely positive, brutally matter-of-fact, but capable of appreciating subtlety, and far more open to new facts and theories than most of his opponents supposed. His arrogance was, to a great extent, the Freudian protection against his own uncertainty. He knew psychology, he knew men; he understood business; and in his capacity of instructor at Harvard, he had acquired the habit of forming and directing minds. So much I knew, and I pictured my duel with him in romantic terms of Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty.”
  5. Recent review in Italian of an Italian edition of Symonds’ The Great Beast