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| origin = English: C. Pfoundes, ''Bird and Butterfly'' | | origin = English: C. Pfoundes, ''Bird and Butterfly'' | ||
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| publications = [[Lucifer/Vol2|''Lucifer'', vol. 2]], no. 9, May 1888, pp. 182-184 | | publications = [[Lucifer/Vol2|''Lucifer'', vol. 2]], no. 9, May 1888, pp. 182-184 | ||
| read links = [[Lucifer/Vol2/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | | read links = [[Lucifer/Vol2/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]] | ||
| download links = [https://opusmagnum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lucifer_v2.pdf Original volume (PDF)] | | download links = [https://opusmagnum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/lucifer_v2.pdf Original volume (PDF)] | ||
| title footnote = <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Note by Translator.</span> – This story is a characteristic example of a very numerous class of folk tale, in which natural objects, inanimate and animate, have the faculties of reason and speech attributed to them, forming a vehicle for the illustration of the abstruse teachings of ancient wisdom, and modern adaptations thereof, especially as regards psychological subjects. Oriental-Indian Sanskrit and Pali, &c.), passing further eastward and becoming incorporated with the indigenous (Cultus, have been preserved to us, although obliterated in the land of their origin. | |||
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A scrap of Theosophical Folk Lore of the Extreme Orient, rendered from the ''Sinico-Nihonese'' vernacular original of ''Itszusaichosan no Inaka Zoshi no Suzumi Cho no Henkwa,'' by <span style="font-variant:small-caps">C. Pfoundes</span><ref name="v2-p182-n2">Member Royal United Service Institution. Corresponding Member, Geographical Society, Tokio (Yedo), Japan.</ref> (''Omoie Tetzunostzuke''). | A scrap of Theosophical Folk Lore of the Extreme Orient, rendered from the ''Sinico-Nihonese'' vernacular original of ''Itszusaichosan no Inaka Zoshi no Suzumi Cho no Henkwa,'' by <span style="font-variant:small-caps">C. Pfoundes</span><ref name="v2-p182-n2">Member Royal United Service Institution. Corresponding Member, Geographical Society, Tokio (Yedo), Japan.</ref> (''Omoie Tetzunostzuke''). | ||
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“Alas! to think of this. Oh! had I never been born otherwise than as a cockle, I should ever feel and think only as such, oblivious of a better state, a happier existence. As a cockle, I would have ever been conscious only of the ebb and flow of tides, over the sands in which I | “Alas! to think of this. Oh! had I never been born otherwise than as a cockle, I should ever feel and think only as such, oblivious of a better state, a happier existence. As a cockle, I would have ever been conscious only of the ebb and flow of tides, over the sands in which I | ||
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grovelled, growing fat or lean, as the season and the tides affected me, the lowly, grosser, simpler needs of a cockle’s life, unconscious of and indifferent to all else. But having been once born a bird, accustomed to soar over hills, and fly amongst the trees of the forest, flit about the trees and gardens, joyous and free, thus condemned to such a future state, what is there for me to do? And why should I be humbled by being transformed into such an abject creature, whilst you, a butterfly, have been exalted from so mean and despicable an origin? | grovelled, growing fat or lean, as the season and the tides affected me, the lowly, grosser, simpler needs of a cockle’s life, unconscious of and indifferent to all else. But having been once born a bird, accustomed to soar over hills, and fly amongst the trees of the forest, flit about the trees and gardens, joyous and free, thus condemned to such a future state, what is there for me to do? And why should I be humbled by being transformed into such an abject creature, whilst you, a butterfly, have been exalted from so mean and despicable an origin? | ||
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“In olden time there was an aged person who lay sick unto death; and a priest approached, and commenced reciting the prayers for the dying, but the aged one opened his eyes, looked surprised, and spoke thus to the priest, who was thereby greatly astonished: ‘Myriads of things originated in nothingness, and unto nothingness will all things return. The teachings of an existence prolonged hereafter, were all false doctrine.’ (''i.e.'' Of transmigration, re-incarnation, and transformation.) | “In olden time there was an aged person who lay sick unto death; and a priest approached, and commenced reciting the prayers for the dying, but the aged one opened his eyes, looked surprised, and spoke thus to the priest, who was thereby greatly astonished: ‘Myriads of things originated in nothingness, and unto nothingness will all things return. The teachings of an existence prolonged hereafter, were all false doctrine.’ (''i.e.'' Of transmigration, re-incarnation, and transformation.) | ||
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“The priest in reply, said: ‘Ten thousand to one though the chances may be that it is so ''(i.e.'' immortality), therefore would it not be best to prepare for any eventualities, and offer up prayers.’ | “The priest in reply, said: ‘Ten thousand to one though the chances may be that it is so ''(i.e.'' immortality), therefore would it not be best to prepare for any eventualities, and offer up prayers.’ | ||