L. Adams Beck

Lily Adams Beck, née Elizabeth Louisa Moresby (1862 in Queenstown, Cork, Ireland – 3 January 1931 in Kyoto, Japan) was a British writer of short-stories, novels, biographies and esoteric books, under the names of L. Adams Beck, E. Barrington and Louis Moresby, and sometimes other variations: Lily Adams Beck, Elizabeth Louisa Beck, Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck and Lily Moresby Adams.

Quotes

 * India has had a spiritual freedom never known until lately to the West. Christianity when it came offering its spiritual philosophy of life imposed an iron dogma upon the European peoples. Those who could not accept this dogma, whatever it happened to be at the moment, paid so heavy a penalty that the legend of the Car of Juggernaut (Jagannath) is far truer of Europe than Asia."
 * Beck, L Adams, The story of oriental philosophy New York: New Home Library, 1942 p. 10 - 120.


 * Whereas in India the soul was free from the beginning to choose what  it would, ranging from the dry bread of atheism to the  banquets offered by many-colored passionate gods and  goddesses, each shadowing forth some different aspect of  the One whom in the inmost chambers of her heart India  has always adored. Therefore the spiritual outlook was  universal. Each took unrebuked what he needed. The  children were at home in the house of their father, while  Europe crouched under the lash of a capricious Deity  whose ways were beyond all understanding.
 * Beck, L Adams, The story of oriental philosophy New York: New Home Library, 1942 p. 10 - 120.


 * But while India fixed her eyes on the Ultimate she did not forget that objective science is the beginning of  wisdom. There the foundations of mathematical and  mechanical knowledge were well and truly laid by the  Noble Race.
 * Beck, L Adams, The story of oriental philosophy New York: New Home Library, 1942 p. 10 - 120.


 * It is the philosophies of this great race that I propose to examine. It is interesting to wonder along what lines it might have developed later if its ancestral heritage  had been less diffused and intermingled with other such  different stocks as it found in India on arrival, or were  forced by many invasions and conquests to accept later.
 * Beck, L Adams, The story of oriental philosophy New York: New Home Library, 1942 p. 10 - 120.


 * And the Mahabharata and Ramayana may in consequence be said to be the Bibles of the people as  well as their inexhaustible treasure-houses of story... A treasury of story indeed! I read almost daily in  both, marveling at the vast fertility, the tropic splendor  of romance unfolded in either, but still more at the nobil-  ity of ideals set forth, the great passion for the Unseen,  the Beautiful, and Entirely Desirable, both in man and  woman, which has always been the soul of India.
 * Beck, L Adams, The story of oriental philosophy New York: New Home Library, 1942 p. 10 - 120.


 * In this vast and little-known epic — a series of gorgeously colored romances of lovely  queens and mighty kings, full of a fascination that only  those who care for true romance can realize — lies embedded a pearl of whose beauty and luster the world is  aware. It is known as the Lord’s Song — or the Song  Celestial — and it represents one of the highest flights of  the conditioned spirit to its unconditioned Source ever  achieved. It is assigned to the fifth century B.C. though  opinions as to dates vary.
 * Beck, L Adams, The story of oriental philosophy New York: New Home Library, 1942 p. 10 - 120.