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Constantine : (288?-337), Roman emperor who converted to Christianity, turned his empire into a Christian Western & Byzantine medieval state, & ordered the compilation of Christ’s teachings. Sri Aurobindo: “Sons of Light come, the earth denies & rejects them; afterwards, accepts them in name to reject them in substance. Only a small minority grows towards a spiritual birth, & it is through them that the Divine manifesta¬tion takes place…. It was after Constantine embraced Christianity that it began to decline…. The King of Norway, on whom Longfellow wrote a poem, killed all who were not Chris¬tians & thus succeeded in establishing Christianity! It is not kings & emperors that keep alive spirituality but people who are really spiritual that do so…. The same thing happened to Mohammedanism (see Islam).” [Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, A.B. Purani, 2007, pp. 576-79]