Arthur : Arthur I (1187-1203?), Duke of Brittany, grandson of King Henry II of England. In Shakespeare’s tragedy King John, he is Duke of Brittanie, son of Geoffrey, late Duke of Brittanie, the elder brother of King John.
... even of a rationalist like Bertrand Russell (instinct, mind, spirit) or an out-and-out materialist like Jacques Monod (matter, emotions, thought). Arthur Lovejoy The Great Chain of Being (1936), the classic essay by the historian of ideas Arthur Lovejoy, is one of the books that do not age and continue influencing a culture even though being little known. “The phrase ‘the Great Chain of Being’... Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being, p. vii. × A.C. Crombie: Medieval and Early Modern Science, vol. II, p. 37. × Arthur Lovejoy: op. cit., p. 54. ... read, has many pages in his books trying to show that the material “flatland” of science is far from the whole of reality. Two major sources of his synthetic effort are Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) and Arthur Koestler (1905-1983). Sri Aurobindo, in The Life Divine, has provided Wilber with an extensive description of the levels of being and their interaction; Koestler has formulated the useful concept of ...
... infinite, number of links ranging in hierarchical order from the meagerest kind of existents … through ‘every possible’ grade up to the ens perfectissimum [the most perfect being: the Divine]:” 21 (Arthur Lovejoy) This hierarchy of levels of existence has been brushed aside by the modern scientific-materialistic mind as magical and mystical. In the “flatland” of science only matter and nothing but... look only at his present individuality …” 54 × Quoted in Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being, p. 80. × From here onwards in this chapter the names “Sri Aurobindo”... Western thought. It was, in fact, until not much more than a century ago, probably the most widely familiar conception of the general scheme of things, of the constitutive pattern of the universe …” (Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being, Preface). × Ibid., p. 34. ...
... What it uniquely added to Western philosophy was the Hebrew Creator.” 4 Like so many other concepts in the Christian religion, the mental idea of ‘God’ is, in itself, confused and contradictory. Arthur Lovejoy called “the word ‘God’ in the last degree ambiguous.” In the Bible we find at least three different kinds of God: the tribal terrible, jealous and vengeful Yahweh, the metaphysical God of the... incapable of grasping the Whole. “They all shared a profoundly spiritual or mystical worldview, which is perhaps the last thing one would expect from pioneering scientists.” 32 Wilber quotes Arthur Eddington: “Briefly the position is this. We have learned that the exploration of the external world by the methods of physical science leads not to concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols... scientific experimentation? No evidence? Only if one is blind or refuses in principle to look at the facts, like there were some who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope. There is, for instance, Arthur Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy ; or the literature of great Christian mystics like Meister Eckhart, Margarete Porete, Hadewych, St. John of the Cross; or the heritage of the Zen Masters, whose ...
... crucial role in his work. For instance, during these years in London Monnet worked in close collaboration with a young civil servant in the Transport department, named Arthur Softer. It is with this Salter, who by then had become Sir Arthur Salter that Monnet wrote the draft of the proposal of Anglo-French union in 1940. The years following the Great War provided Monnet with yet another experience... who ceaselessly demanded figures which were provide to theme Page 30 reluctantly and then worked on feverishly day and night? Which intelligence service was interested in lean Monnet, Arthur Purvis, Bob Nathan? An Albert Speer [Hitler's advisor] did not know till the end that his gigantic plans would be beaten by a Frenchman, invisible in the shadow of civil servants, themselves hidden ...
... , Bankim Chandra 9 Chaucer, Geoffrey 9 Chetty, Shanker 14 Chitrangada 363,458 Clark, A.B. 9 Clemens, Prudentius 336 Clough, Arthur Hugh 53 Cocteaujean 268 Collected Poems and Plays 39 Collins, Douglas C. 455 Cotton, James S. 8 Coulton, G.G. 412 Cousins, James... 436 Longinus 316 Lord, George de R 395-396,398 Love and Death 40, 52, 201, 318, 340, 342, 386,421-423,458 Lowes.J.L. 315 Machen, Arthur 317 MacLeish, Archibald 390,391 Madhusudan 40 Maeterlinck, Maurice 377 Mahabharata, 12,21,45,46,135,200,201, 209,210,242-244,252,254,256,261,279, 375-377... 410 Pound, Ezra 377, 384, 389, 392-394, 398, 402,414,447,460,461 Prince of Edur 47,51,52 Prothero, G.M. 7 Purani, A.B. 20,27,316,370, 371 Quiller-couch, Sir Arthur 377 Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 25 Rai, Lala Lajpat 10 Rajagopalachari, C (Rajaji) 17,25 Rajnarain 40 Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri 4 Ramayana 45, 56, 160, 330, 336 ...
... 19 in the Second Periodical and No. 37 in the Final last August. Circulated for information. VIII Nov. 19/92 107 Abingdon Road Kensington. W. Dear Sir Arthur Though I have not the pleasure of your acquaintance, I venture to think that my name may be known to you through Mr Whitley Stokes, or through my brother in the Bengal Secretariat. My... appealed to the Secretary of State to give him another chance for passing his Riding Examination and Mr James Sutherland Cotton, to whom Mr Ghose refers, has written the annexed letter to Sir Arthur Macpherson. Poverty apparently has been a great misfortune to Mr Ghose. Unless the C. S. Commissioners certificate Mr Ghose as qualified for the I. C. S. the Secretary of State cannot appoint... Periodical Examination — No. 19 in the Second Periodical and No. 37 in the Final last August." VIII and IX Letter dated 19 November 1892 (From Mr. James S. Cotton to Sir Arthur Macpherson. Secretary, Judicial and Public Dept. India Office.) Letter dated 20 November 1892 (From Mr. G. W. Prothero to Mr. J. S. Cotton; sent by Cotton to ...
... more, Copernicus, as often thought, did not reduce the Ptolemaic number of circles required to make the solar system go round, he increased it from forty to forty-eight, as painstakingly counted by Arthur Koestler in Sleepwalkers . And Copernicus stuck to the inviolability of the circle, since classical times the paragon of heavenly perfection and the reason why Copernicus still needed so many cycles... Margin In conclusion of this section, the following notes may throw a special light on its contents. What Was the Real Centre of the Universe? In his classic work The Great Chain of Being , Arthur Lovejoy has the following remark: “The geocentric cosmography served rather for man’s humiliation than for his exaltation, and Copernicanism was opposed partly on the ground that it assigned too dignified... × Paul Davies: The Goldilocks Enigma , p. 303. × Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being , pp. 101-02. × Len Fisher: Weighing the Soul – The Evolution ...
... of the machine. Nothing in the universe exists by itself; everything is hierarchically interconnected with larger entities, to which it belongs, and with smaller entities, which are part of it. (Arthur Koestler gave the name “holon” to a thing in this multi-relationship. 7 ) As the mind cannot grasp the totality even of the simplest thing in existence, it projects on it a simplification which makes... “The organism is not a mosaic aggregate of elementary physico-chemical processes, but a hierarchy in which each member, from the sub-cellar level upward, is a closely integrated structure.” Arthur Koestler: The Ghost in the Machine , p. 64. × Richard Lewontin: op. cit., p. 3. ...
... (1552-1599): English poet. The Faerie Queene is his major contribution to English Poetry. It is a long dense allegory in the epic form of Christian virtues, tied into England's mythology of King Arthur. Anacreon (563-478 BCE): Greek poet, noted for his lyrics on love and wine. Only fragments of his poetry exist. O.C. Ganguly (Ordhendra Kumar (1.8.1881-9.2.1974): General Secretary... Stephane Mallarme (1842-98), French symbolist poet; author of Uapres-midi d'un faune. Paul Verlaine (1844-96), French lyric poet belonging to the Symbolist movement. Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), French symbolist poet. Dadaists : Post-World War I cultural movement in visual arts and literature. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), English classical scholar ...
... Undiscovered Mind , The Free Press, 1999 Johnson, Phillip E.: The Wedge of Truth , InterVarsity Press, 2000 King, Francis, and others: The Rebirth of Magic , Corgi Books, 1982 Koestler, Arthur: The Ghost in the Machine , Arkana, 1989 Kuhn, Thomas S.: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , The University of Chicago Press, 1996 Lafon, Claude: Idées reçues en biologie , Éllipses... Routledge, 2007 Lewontin, R.C.: The Doctrine of DNA , Penguin Books, 1992 — The Triple Helix , Harvard University Press, 2000 Lindley, David: Uncertainty , Anchor Books, 2008 Lovejoy, Arthur: The Great Chain of Being , Harvard University Press, 1964 Mayr, Ernst: What Evolution Is , Phoenix, 2002 McCalman, Iain: Darwin’s Armada , Simon & Schuster, 2009 McGrath, Alister: Dawkins’ ...
... On the heels of this telegram came one from Arthur Moore, editor of the Calcutta Daily, The Statesman: "Your message to Sir Stafford Cripps inaugurates the new era. Nothing can prevent it. I am glad that my eyes have seen this salvation coming." (April 1, 1942) By now negotiations had started between Cripps and the Congress leaders. Arthur Moore the very next day sent to his paper an editorial ...
... solely, or even primarily, upon the physiological factors arising in the individuals taken in isolation, but is rather governed by the global necessity of the species. Thus, in the view of Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, "natural death is not to be thought of as like the running down of a clock. It is more than an individual physiological problem; it is adjusted in reference to the welfare of the species... views represented the whole truth of things, there could be no possibility whatsoever of increasing the life-span of man, not 1 Weissmann, quoted by S. Metalnikov, op.cit. 2 J. Arthur Thomson, "Age", in The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. I, p. 4. (Italics ours) 3 S. Metalnikov, op. cit. 4 J. A. V. Buter, Inside the Living Cell, p. 153. Page ...
... The purpose of these expeditions was to photograph the eclipse of the sun from two distant points on the earth in order to test Einstein's theory that light is subject to gravitational forces. Sir Arthur Eddington took the measurements of the photographs and later said that this experience stayed in his memory as the greatest moment in his life. Fellows of the Royal Society rushed the news to one another:... Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1967. Out of my Later Years. Totowa: Littlefield, Adams, 1967. The World as I See It. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. Schilpp, Paul Arthur. Albert Einstein: Philosopher - Scientist. New York: Tudor, 1951. Talbot, Michael. Mysticism and the New Physics. New York: 1981. Page 263 ...
... 1939 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 31 JANUARY 1939 NIRODBARAN: There is a tempting offer by the Calcutta Statesman. Arthur Moore writes to Dilip that he will pay Rs.100 per article if Sri Aurobindo writes in his paper on world events in the light of Yogic experience. SRI AUROBINDO (bursting into laughter) : In the light of Yogic experience! And what reply... him, my suspicion was confirmed. In fact, it was more than a feeling, it was a concrete intuition. Later, I found he had become a notable figure in the Executive Council. I was much surprised. Arthur Moore is also suspected by some people of being a spy not an ordinary spy but a secret agent of the Government. But spy or not, he knows how to meditate. PURANI: How can he be a spy when he has ...
... noted. There was a reason. But this is for later on. We can, however, go off in search of Sri Aurobindo’s mystery and gather a few clues in the manner of Arthur Conan Doyle's "dear Watson.” When we come to Mother, it will no longer be Arthur Conan Doyle, but an enterprise akin to deciphering hieroglyphics, mapping a forest, with biology and a dash of Rudyard Kipling and Wells in it, and also a little ...
... Even Shakespeare disappoints us. This great poet with his rich & complex mind usually finds it difficult to attune himself again to the simplicity, irresponsibility & naive charm of childhood. Arthur, whom the Shakespeare-worshipper would have us regard as a masterpiece, is no real child; he is too voulu , too eloquent, too much dressed up for pathos and too conscious of the fine sentimental pose... minds have their limitations and Shakespeare's overabounding wit shut him out from two Paradises, the mind of a child and the heart of a mother. Constance, the pathetic mother, is a fitting pendant to Arthur, the pathetic child, as insincere and falsely drawn a portraiture, as obviously dressed up for the part. Indeed throughout the meagre and mostly unsympathetic list of mothers in Shakespeare's otherwise ...
... of Swedenborg), Victor Hugo, a practicing spiritist, Joris-Karl Huysmans and his novels about black magic, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle and his idiosyncratic Sherlock Holmes, Marcel Proust, chronicler of his time, and the superlative French poets Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. And there were of course the Impressionists, scandalizing but revolutionizing ...
... ideology, a global system of belief. So it does, and so it surely is. … Darwinism has achieved the status of inviolable science, combining the dogmatism of religion with the entitlement of science.” 41 Arthur Koestler signalled already half a century ago that the sciences of life had built a “citadel of orthodoxy.” To them “the only scientific method worth that name is quantitative measurement; and, co... William Dembski (ed.): Uncommon Dissent , pp. xxxii, xxxiii. × Arthur Koestler: The Ghost in the Machine , p. 4. × Edward Larson: op. cit., p. 250, 274, 250. ...
... perfection. Contrary to modern science, which has found that matter is for the most part empty space, in the wisdom traditions the Divine has always been conceived as a total density. Consequently, Arthur Lovejoy writes in his classic work on The Great Chain of Being : “The perfection of the Absolute Being must be an intrinsic attribute, a property inherent in the Idea of it; and since the being and... × Russell Stannard: Science and Wonders , p. 144. × Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being , p. 54. × Sri Aurobindo: Savitri , p. 318. ...
... language evokes a globality that has to be intuited to be properly apprehended. On the other hand, quoting Sri Aurobindo’s own words is the safest way not to distort or dilute his meaning. The historian Arthur Lovejoy wrote in his book on the Great Chain of Being: “… [The citation of illustrative passages from the original authors] will, I dare say, seem to some readers too abundant. But in my own reading... × Ibid., p. 358. × From the preface of Arthur Lovejoy’s: The Great Chain of Being. × Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, p. 109. ...
... spiritism, such as the astronomer Camille Flammarion, the physiologist Charles Richet, the psychologist Jean Piaget and the chemist and physicist William Crookes (as were the writers Victor Hugo and Arthur Conan Doyle). A main point consisted in establishing the immortality of the soul and of reincarnation, no longer as articles of faith but experimentally. “Occultism”, stated the German researcher Carl... principal changes in recent times. Ulrich Linse is reminded, by the women who functioned as the priestesses of the new “Churches”, of the prophetesses in the apocalyptic movements of the past. In 1871 Arthur Rimbaud wrote: “When the endless servitude of the woman will be come to an end, when she will live for herself and by herself … she will be a poet, she too!” By “poet”, Rimbaud meant the highest condition ...
... p. 62. 666 Moritz Bassler and Hildegard Châtellier (ed.), op. cit., p. 104. 667 Ulrich Linse, op. cit., p. 15. 668 Moritz Bassler and Hildegard Châtellier (ed.), op. cit., p. 106. 669 Arthur Rimbaud: Oeuvres complètes, p. 272. 670 Marion Ackermann: “Ueberlegungen zum Einfluss des Spiritismus auf Kandinsky”, in Mystique, mysticisme, etc. , p. 190. 671 David Clay Large: Hitlers... Nirodbaran: Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 84. 928 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, pp. 707-08. 929 Id., p. 33. 930 Id., pp. 42, 185, 612. 931 Sri Aurobindo: On Himself , p. 23. 932 Arthur Lovejoy: The Great Chain of Being, p. vii. 933 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, pp. 42, 179, 183, 258, 711, 665, 761. 934 Sri Aurobindo: Thoughts and Aphorisms, p. 27. 935 Sri Aurobindo: ...
... Dark Abyss Linse, Ulrich: Geisterseher und Wunderwirker Longerich, Peter: Der ungeschriebene Befehl – Hitler und der Weg zur “Endlösung” Longerich, Peter: Geschichte der SA Lovejoy, Arthur: The Great Chain of Being Lukacs, John: The Hitler of History Manheim, Ralph: translation of Mein Kampf Mann, Thomas: Deutschland und die Deutschen – Essays 1938-1945 Maser, Werner:... Circle Redlich, Fritz: Hitler – Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet Rees, Laurence: The Nazis – A Warning from History Reuth, Ralph Georg: Hitler – Eine politische Biographie Rimbaud, Arthur: Oeuvres complètes Rissmann, Michael: Hitlers Gott – Vorsehungsglaube und Sendungsbewusstsein des deutschen Diktators Rohrmoser, Günter: Deutschlands Tragödie – Der geistige Weg in den ...
... condensation reactions, so essential for the maintenance of bodily life because of their responsibility for virtually all metabolic processes in the body, have been appropriately termed by Prof. Arthur W. Galston the direct superintendents of the cell's chemical machinery. "All cells are what they are by virtue of their chemistry; their chemistry is determined by their enzymes." 1 And... same and governed by identical laws of change. (iii)All chemical reactions involve transfers of energy. Some of them are exergonic, that is to say, they are accompanied by the 1 Arthur W. Galston, The Life of the Green Plant (1963), p. 14. 2 J. A. V. Butler, op. cit., p. 27. Page 271 release of energy; while some others are endergonic, necessitating ...
... with Sri Aurobindo 's weight on its edge. PURANI: No, I was prepared for all eventualities. DR. MANILAL: Arthur Luther, Sir, thrust his hand into the fire. SRI AUROBINDO: Luther? You mean Archbishop Cranmer? Your knowledge of history is extraordinary! Neither was his name Arthur. What about it? DR. MANILAL: When his hand was burning, did he not feel pain. Sir? How could he keep his hand ...
... Clough, Arthur Hugh, 639 Colebrooke, Henry, 13 Confucius, 212 Continent of Circe, The, 450 Conversations of the Dead, 338 Cornville, 134,140 Cotton, Sir Henry, 36-7, 204, 206 Cotton, James S., 31, 33,37, 38 Cousins, James H., 610ff Craegan, Superintendent, 308 Crew, Lord, 369-70 Cripps, Arthur, 32 ...
... followed by Stéphane Mallar-me who was the founder of a new trend of poetry, impressionist and symbolist, himself followed in varying degrees, and not by any means in the same way, by Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, both of them poets of great fame. A fresh spirit was abroad. The very atmosphere was surcharged with a revolt against the old classical values —the legacy of the Renaissance and the... still others have sunk into oblivion. Sister Nivedita, the Irish disciple of Swami Vivekananda, and Justice John Woodroff, who made a deep study of Indian tantrism and wrote under the pen name of Arthur Avalon, tremendously encouraged Abanindranath. In this they were joined by the great Japanese artist Kakuzo Okakura, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), the renowned Sinhalese art connoisseur ...
... mentality. That way it is difficult to succeed against Germany. Disciple : Referred to Sir Arthur Henderson's book "Failure of my Mission in Germany"? Sri Aurobindo : I have seen a review of it in the New Statesman. Disciple : Jwalanti was telling that in that book Sir Arthur Henderson speaks of Hitler as a man who works under possession. Sri Aurobindo : Does he ...
... the child. Shakespeare's mothers, and how few of them there are! are either null or intolerable. In only one of his plays does Shakespeare really attempt to give us a mother's heart and a child. But Arthur is not a success, he is too voulu, too much dressed up for pathos, too eloquent and full of unchildlike sentimentality & posing. Children are fond of posing and children are sentimental, but not in ...
... Early Cultural Writings "Hymns to the Goddess" This is one of a series of publications by Mr. Arthur Avalon consisting of texts and translations of the Tantras. The hymns collected and translated in this volume are, however, taken from other sources besides the Tantras. Many of them are from the considerable body of devotional hymns attributed ...
... know what a paragon of paradox the ether was we see how matter, instead of remaining matter-of-fact, retreated into a mystery. Nor was the ether the sole headachy item. Some years ago Professor Arthur Smithelis called attention to a controversy which took place as far back as 1882. In that year a book was published entitled The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics, written by an American, J ...
... separately." Sarkar explains his final anthropological stand of 1958: (1) the aboriginal peoples are the Veddids derived from the Veddas of Ceylon, (2) the Dravidian type has evolved, as Sir Arthur Keith held, from the Veddids as a result of environmental stimuli, (3) both the Veddids and the Indo-Aryans have been much modified by mutual contact, and (4) the present-day Dravidian-speakers ...
... indeed ignore Savitri the tapasvini accomplished as she was in the Yoga of Meditation, dhyānayogaparāyanā, as the seer-poet tells us? People have made Savitri a social model. We may perhaps pardon Arthur Macdonell and John Dowson for this sin of theirs but not a good well-versed Indian. But first let us see how these Western authors give the Savitri-account in their brief introductions. In A History ...
... the gradations of existence as we know them came about: matter, life, mind, and the planes where all what surpasses the mind comes from. These gradations are also called “the great chain of being”. Arthur Lovejoy writes in the preface of his book with the same title: “The phrase which I have taken for the title [ The Great Chain of Being ] was long one of the most famous in the vocabulary of Occidental ...
... × The reader familiar with the work of Ken Wilber will recognise here what Wilber calls “holons”, a term he borrowed from Arthur Koestler. × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , pp. 162-63. ...
... varied background from which National Socialism emerged. In National Socialism there was a Christian current represented by figures like Dietrich Eckart, an admirer of the mystic Johannes Tauler, Arthur Dinter, who wanted to bring the Reformation to a successful end, and Joseph Goebbels, the Catholic who projected his apocalyptic expectations on Hitler and his Third Reich. There was a pronounced tendency ...
... land that they seemed to have caught a hot patriotic fever and that revolutionary action at last became possible. Their fervour was also fed by the victories of the Japanese over the Russians at Port Arthur (1904) and Mukden (1905), which proved for the first time that an Asian nation could beat the haughty Westerners. In 1906 a Bengal National College was founded in Calcutta. Aravinda took leave from ...
... The interpretation of the Second World War proposed here tallies with a lot more facts, psychological as well as material. Reality is always much more fantastic than the human mind can imagine, as Arthur C. Clarke and others have said. As the twentieth century is rushing towards its end, it is important that we finally understand what it has signified, if we wish to be capable of looking ahead to the ...
... realms of consciousness, Gopinath Kabiraj (1887 -1976) was born in the district of Dacca in East Bengal. He first studied in Jaipur and then in the Government Sankrit college of Vanarasi under Dr. Arthur Venis. The latter recognized his student's capability and offered him the post of Librarian after he passed his M.A. examination in 1914. There Gopinath Kabiraj could carry out his research and he ...
... distorted and not simply diminished here. A re-creation may be needed through the pure light and strength and sweetness that reside in our inmost soul. You have raised the question: "What is life?" Arthur Symons, with a dignified Stoic pessimism, says: Life is a long preparedness for death. Shakespeare, in the role of a disgruntled Macbeth, cries out, as everybody knows; Life's but a poor ...
... Kasyas, 87 Kaushītakī Brāhmaṇa, 44 Kautilya, 86 Kasyapur, 87 Kechi Beg, 68 Keith. A.B., 11, 26, 35, 55, 103, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 119, 127 Keith, Sir Arthur, 21 Kennedy, K.A.R., 101-2 Kesis, 87 Ketkar, Mrs. S., 92fn. Khafaje, 58, 73 Khan, F., 13 Khatti-Khattiyo = Kshatriya, 89 "Kheta", 89 ...
... the Divine of 14. The Religion of Teilhard de Chardin (Collins, London, 1967), p. 262. 15. The Design of Teilhard de Chardin, An Essay in Theological Reflection, translated by Arthur Gibson (The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1967), pp. 121-22. Page 9 pantheism spells self-loss and facile inactivity for the present peak of evolution, the human person. He ...
... would remain incomplete without mentioning another aspect of his personality, the side turned towards the philosophical, the occult and the spiritual. He was, like Hitler, an admirer of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). (Hitler has said that during the war he always carried in his knapsack the five small volumes of the Reclam edition of Schopenhauer’s work.) The thought of this philosopher ...
... gross matter was coming about according to the Mother’s testimony. The Sun-Vibration Million d’oiseaux d’or, ô future Vigueur … (A million golden birds, O Strenght of the future) — Arthur Rimbaud, in “Le bateau ivre” Sri Aurobindo’s disciples have asked him in writing, and sometimes orally too, countless questions about the Supramental, tomorrow’s Wonder. This was only natural ...
... Zion. A phrase which Hitler in Mein Kampf often applied to the Jews was “great masters of the lie”. This expression had been often used by Eckart, who copied it from their admired philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The phrase is, in fact, perfectly applicable to Hitler himself. He had an instinct to sense and play on the weaknesses of human nature, of the mass as well as of the individual, and he ...
... races. This was one of the fundamental ideas of the völkisch movement, propagated in the literature of the Germanenorden and the Thule Society. “Keep your blood pure!” was one of their slogans, and Arthur Dinter’s novel The Sin against the Blood was a best-seller in Germany during the inter-war period. As sexual contact was the only way of mixing blood with blood, one finds here the nexus with the ...
... blood.” 497 “We must declare ourselves [i.e. the Nazis] the only true Christians”, wrote Joseph Goebbels in his diary. 498 Nobody was more convinced that the Reformation had remained unfinished than Arthur Dinter, founder in 1927 of a “Fighting League for the Completion of the Reformation”. One looks in vain for his name in the Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus (1997) although Dinter played a ...
... can call this direction progress or by some other name.” 21 The Darwin Wars “There is no more contentious, querulous bunch of professionals on earth than evolutionary biologists,” writes Arthur Shapiro, who is an evolutionary biologist himself. 22 It is safe to say that in the history of science no new discovery, concept or theory has seen the light of day without being attacked, at times ...
... word by itself. To throw into relief the poetic nature of all these lines, however unmarked they may be in musical rhythm, let me throw at you two lines by two famous poets. One is by Meredith: Arthur Symons thinks it the ugliest in English poetry: Page 100 Or is't the widowed's dream for her new mate? The rhythm here is harsh and halting without serving any purpose, and the ...
... so far as energy-need is concerned, once we admit the possibility of the emergence of a new body-chemistry and of new physiological functioning, attendant upon the supramental change of 1 Arthur W. Galston, The Life of the Green Plant, p. 1. Page 301 consciousness, 1 there is no theoretical bar to the New Body manifesting the capability of directly absorbing and utilising ...
... spirit with a profuse delicacy difficult to surpass. Suggestions for further reading Ahmad,Aziz. An Intellectual History of Islam in India. Edinburgh University Press, 1969. Arberry, Arthur, J. The Koran Interpreted. London: Alien & Unwin,1955. Balyuzi, H. M. Muhammad and the Course of Islam. Oxford: George Ronald, 1976. Glubb, John Bagot. The Life and Times of Muhammad ...
... 1940 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 12 FEBRUARY 1940 PURANI: Viswanath brought a proposal from Arthur Moore. Moore said to him, "Why don't you bring out a Sri Aurobindo memorial Volume on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, just as they have done for Tagore and Gandhi?" Viswanath replied, "It needs plenty of money." To this, Moore said, "All right, I will ...
... the first time. As pointed out by F. Muller, ontogeny seems to be an abridged recapitulation of phylogeny (past history of the species). And as regards the animal affinity of man, did not Sir Arthur Keith construct a table to show the intimate kinship of man to the monkeys, more particularly to the anthropoid apes? Out of 1665 anatomical characteristics of men, 312 belong exclusively to ...
... Press, 1986, Albany, N.Y. Mahadevan, TNP, Gaudapāda: A study in early Vedanta, University of Madras, 1960, Madras. Page 108 Marshall, John, Mohenjodaro and the Indus Civilwtion, Arthur Probsthain, London, 1931. Matilal, B.K,, Perception: An Essay In Classical Theories of Knowledge, Clerendon Press, 1986, Oxford, Mayeda, Sengue (Tr.), A Thousand Teachings: The Upadeśasāhsrī ...
... the duration of the War 'without prejudice to the solution of long-range issues after the war by friendly negotiations and agreement'. Rajaji who was thinking along these lines told the new Governor, Arthur Hope that if he (Rajaji) returned as the head of a coalition Government, it would be a war Government and therefore no controversial legislation would be introduced. He also said that such a coalition ...
... away from guns [canons], five were shot with musketry, eight were hung.' These executions took place in the western part of the fort. In the Manual of the North Arcot District (1898) magistrate Arthur C. Fox notes with unrestrained glee that the execution by blowing away from the guns 'produced the profoundest impression. A spectator describes how numbers of kites accompanied the Page ...
... fashioned in the same way? After all, what it the 'action' in an epic, or an epyllion, like Milton's Paradise Regained ? Satan tries to tempt Jesus, tries again and again, and fails. It is what Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch would have called the perfect 'static drama'. Page 374 The modern consciousness is obviously different from the 'heroic' consciousness of an Achilles or a Hector ...
... E. spoke of the sudden rising of a water-lily from the bottom of a tarn. Longinus' "transport" itself has been made to mean "religious mysticism" by Abb é Bremond and some sort of "ecstasy" by Arthur Machen; but all are -agreed that there is a supra-rational element in both the creation and the enjoyment of such 'great' or 'sublime' poetry, or poetry written in the 'grand style'. 69 ...
... which was simple and penurious in the extreme, is against this. ... I can fully believe that his inability to keep his appointment at Woolwich was due to the want of cash." ¹ In a letter to Sir Arthur Macpherson, James S. Cotton writes: "It happens that I have known Mr A. A. Ghose and his two brothers for the past five years, and that I have been a witness of the pitiable straits to which they ...
... Aurobindo should feel particularly attracted to the hexameter. It appears that one of his classmates at Cambridge, Hugh Norman Ferrar, once read out a line from Homer or a line from Arthur Hugh Clough that was typically Homeric which he thought was the most characteristic line, and that gave Sri Aurobindo the swing of the metre. 118 Beside developing his own theory of ...
... and therefore would not be a solid if something in the subtle dimension did not maintain it. Only, it is not visible to the physical eye but can be seen with the subtle eye. Disciple : Sir Arthur Eddington in his Gifford Lectures (1934) says that science began with the aim of reducing the complexity of the material world to a great simplicity. But now, it seems, science has not been able to ...
... earnest. There was the catalytic effect of Manomohan's association on his younger brother, and there was Manomohan's friend and class-mate, Laurence Binyon. Manomohan, Binyon, Stephen Phillips and Arthur Cripps were to collaborate on Primavera, a collection of poems, that came out in 1890. Having first experimented on Greek and Latin verses, Sri Aurobindo turned a passage from the Greek into English ...
... established Lamarck's pioneering genius. × 2 “Millions of golden birds, O future Strength...â€� Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was perhaps the most inspired among the French Symbolists. “I am working to make myself a visionary,â€� he wrote when he was sixteen, “a language must be found.... Inventions ...
... our modern way of thinking, they appear obscure and unintelligible. But, "The incoherencies of the Vedic texts," wrote Sri Aurobindo, "exist in appearance only, 1. The Serpent Power, by Arthur Avalon (Sir John Woodroffe). Page 75 because the real thread of the sense is to be found in an inner meaning." That thread found, "the expression of the hymns becomes just and precise ...
... its striking phrases, “This is he [the flame] who has the word of the truth.â€� (I.59.7) × 56 Arthur Avalon, The Serpent Power, p. 96. × 57 Rig Veda, I.10.1. ...
... were whispered from mouth to mouth among the students almost with awe. Page 226 "The Russo-Japanese War, declared in 1904, shook some of us in the College to our very depth. Port Arthur fell to the Japanese in January 1905. Admiral Togo destroyed the Russian Fleet in May. Asia had successfully challenged the mastery of Europe! "Prof. Ghosh, as our acting Principal, declared a ...
... poet, made a considerable impression on Sri Aurobindo. Phillips (1868-1915), also a playwright and actor, was a cousin of Binyon's and a very close friend of Manmohan's. The three of them along with Arthur Cripps "who did not come to much in poetry afterwards, brought out a book in conjunction. It was well spoken of," recalled Page 192 Sri Aurobindo. This was Primavera (May 1890) ...
... who cry 'Destruction! destruction!' when they see Evil perish, for "Evil cannot perish without the destruction of much that lives by the evil," to quote Sri Aurobindo. Page 167 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presents another terrible point. In The Adventure of the Creeping Man, which has a central plot of the discovery of a rejuvenating serum, Sherlock Holmes muses : "There is danger there ...
... Secretary. December 17 - First successful flight of a plane by the Wright brothers in the USA. 1904, February - Beginning of the Russo-Japanese war. The Japanese sink the Russian fleet at Port Arthur (now Lüshun). August 3 — British forces under Younghusband, sent by Lord Curzon, reach Lhasa in Tibet. December - Sri Aurobindo attends the Bombay session of the Con- gress. 1905 ...
... besides governed by a system elaborated in all details and it is only the disciples trained to this life who can conform to it. 16 September 1932 I am afraid I don't see how I can see William Arthur Moore—how can I extend to him so extraordinary a privilege (since I see nobody) which I would not have conceded to Sarat Chatterji? Page 531 You say Barin certifies him as a bhakta—but ...
... are so endangering to world-peace, but where there are so many marvellous people. England is still (or again) 'sunk in deadly sleep' as it was in Blake's day. No wonder our national archetype is King Arthur, who is said to sleep in a number of different places, awaiting his call to return, America is more alive. I do hope to have a paper from you to go into our eleventh issue, for the theme of the ...
... original, yet there have been great translators who have, as it were, transposed some original into what is in its own right fine poetry - one has but to name Chapman's or Pope's Homer, Dryden's Virgil, Arthur Waley's Chinese poems, all of which have had a deep impact on the English language. Many excellent translations have done less than this but have brought something of the original - Leishman's Rilke ...
... spondee's impression is consummated at the line's end by the deep-toned "moon". One or two of you have remarked that the lake must have been frozen since the season was winter. In the poem, Morte d"Arthur, from which the lines are culled, it was not frozen. But if the lines stand by themselves we have no indication against frozenness. You would be quite justified in choosing to take the surface of ...
... what poetry is not. This stanza reads: Que ton vers soit la bonne aventure Eparse au vent crispe du matin Qui va fleurant la menthe et le thym... Et tout le reste est litterature. Arthur Symons has a sensitive version of the lines, except for the second. There the epithet "crispe" is too prominent and unusual to be omitted. If the French sense were kept, it would mean "shrivelled" ...
... admiration to the Page 1099 strenous seeker for worldly goods and success as the finest work of the creator. So Vyasa & Valmekie were forgotten for weavers of idle tales and Smiles and Sir Arthur Helps took their place as an instructor of youth, the gospel of Philistinism in its naked crudeness was beaten into the minds of our children when most malleable. Thus Ramdas was following Shivaji ...
... implications for the ancient mind. 187. Ibid., p. 73, col. 1, fn.12. 188. Avesta: the Religious Books of the Parsees, from Professor Spiegel's translation of the original manuscripts, by Arthur Henry Bleeck (Hertford, 1864), p. 12, the last of the notes selected from the "Zend Account" in Bunsen's Egypt, Vol. III. Page 286 Was the time of Trasādasyu and Sudās less ...
... smile" only when is present the incarnate Divine amongst us. But the yearning soul of a poet is always in search of the smile of beauty held in its embrace by the truth of the creative spirit. Arthur Rimbaud had made a pertinent insightful discovery, that one must be a seer, that one must make oneself a seer. He held that "the poet makes himself a seer by a long, gigantic and rational derangement ...
... “technocrat of annihilation” and commandant of that suburb of hell which was Mittelkampf Dora, where the V-2s were built? Or the commanders of the Einsatzgruppen in Russia – Walter Ohlendorff, Arthur Nebe, Friedrich Jeckeln … – who performed such an effective job of slaughtering Jews and non-Jews alike in their tens of thousands? ...
... schools, of course in addition to Hitler’s version of ‘Darwinism’ from Mein Kampf . The following quotations are from three men involved in the execution of the eugenic and extermination policies. Arthur Ostermann (1932): “Science is now able to establish the hereditary future of a person with a total certainty.” Eugen Fischer (1933): “At present we now enough about the study of human heredity, and ...
... more perfect form and frame of life.’ 17 ‘The next century will be spiritual or it will not be,’ is a well-known statement by André Malraux. And one century earlier, the seer-poet who was the young Arthur Rimbaud had concluded Une saison en enfer (a season in hell) with the words: ‘We are going towards the spirit! It is very certain, it is oracular what I say!’ Many, since, feel likewise and look ...
... shunned by his fellow defendants”. 1026 But “Streicher spoke and acted aloud what Hitler secretly thought and desired”, remarks Heiden. “Streicher was the embodiment of Hitler’s subconscious.” 1027 Arthur Dinter was the man who openly revolted against Hitler, accused him of betraying the original ideals of the NSDAP and demanded that he be deposed as Leader of the Party – all this when Hitler had already ...
... Lévi, Stanislas de Guaita, Papus, Fulcanelli, Eugène Canseliet, Armand Barbault, or by John Dee, MacGregor Mathers, Alister Crowley (‘the wickedest man in the world’), Dion Fortune, Alice A. Bailey, Arthur Machen, etc. One of the foremost poets of the twentieth century, W.B. Yeats, was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Freemasonry, a collective name for a variety of occult sects, counts ...
... otherwise known as germ cells maintain continuity between successive generations. Hence the epigram variously expressed albeit in slightly different terms: "Death is the price paid for a body" (Arthur Thomson), or "the penalty paid for a body is death." (Mariano Fiallos-Gil). But why this strange disability on the part of the somatic cells, especially when all the higher animals have their ...
... spring this circumscription of the capacity of an organism and the gradual corrosion of its metabolic functions, leading finally to the failure of life ? Are we to suppose that a 1 2 J. Arthur Thomson, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (Ed. Hastings), Vol. 8, p. 2. 3 X. Bichat, Recherches physiologiques sur la Vie et la Mort, quoted on p. 135 of Death: its Causes and ...
... exactly renowned for these qualities. Another factor that turned the Bengal situation into a powder keg was the Russo-Japanese War. In February 1904 the Japanese had attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, in Manchuria; in May of the same year they defeated the Russians at the river Yalu, and in May 1905 at Mukden. The Japanese became the champions of a resurgent Asia; they showed that a Western nation ...
... Almighty , if they feel that way... That's what made the strength of the Japanese in the past. That's what makes the strength of people here, once they are convinced. That's how the Japanese took Port Arthur; there was a sort of ditch around the fortress, as there are in fortified places, and because of that they couldn't get in; well, they let themselves be killed till they were able to walk across on ...
... Baron, A Social and Religious History of the Jews (Columbia University), I, p. 156. 8. Fosdick, op. cit., p. 171. 9. A Handbook of Christian Theology, edited by Marvin Halverson and Arthur Cohen (London: Collins, Fontana Books, 1962), p. 19. Page 93 ...
... is in the nature of Christ, besides the specifically individual elements of Man - and in virtue of 7. The Design of Teilhard de chardin. An Essay in Theological Reflection, translated by Arthur Gibson (The Newman Press, Westminster, Maryland, 1967), p. 304, note 119. The passage form The Divine Milieu is quoted on p. 225. 8.Teilhard de Chardin and the Mystery of Christ, p. 85. ...
... indeed ignore Savitri the tapasvini accomplished as she was in the Yoga of Meditation, dhyānanyogaparāyaṇā , as the seer-poet tells us? People have made Savitri a social model. We may perhaps pardon Arthur Macdonell and John Dowson for this sin of theirs but not a good well-versed Indian. But first let us see how these Western authors give the Savitri-account in their brief introductions. ...
... (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department, 1994), p. 332. 6. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1970). 7. Arthur S. Reber, The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, 1987, s. v. "paradigm". 8. Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom (London: Fontana Paperbacks, 1989). 9. Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL ...
... 532-34 Page 27 × The "unconscious" in modern psychology connotes "a level of mind lacking in awareness". (Arthur S. Reber, The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology (Ed.) ...
... thereof shall spring – To God more glory, more goodwill to men From God - and over wrath grace shall abound. 17 Milton-scholars know this passage as the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall. Arthur C. Lovejoy 18 has written on it at some length and traced the general idea of it, through several predecessors of Milton in the poetic field, ultimately to an old hymn of the fourth or fifth century ...
... signs of a marked progress in you on the 15th. Yes, you received something within which has yet fully to come out. August 17, 1933 I am afraid I don't see how I can see William Arthur Moore—how can I extend to him so extraordinary a privilege (since I see nobody) which I would not have conceded to Sarat Chatterji? You say Barin certifies him as a bhakta —but Barin's language ...
... Ltd., 1948, London. Keith, A.B., Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads, 2 Vols., H.O.S, Reprinted, Delhi, 1925. Marshall, John, Mohenjodaro and the Indus Civilization, Arthur Probsthain, London, 1931. Matilal, B.K., Perception: An Essay In Classical Theories of Knowledge, Clerendon Press, 1986, Oxford. Pandey, G.C., Foundations of Indian Culture, 1 Vols., ...
... Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1984. Basu, S.C., The Vedanta Sutra of Bddardyana, with the commentary of Baldev, (tr.), Orient Book, N. Delhi, 1979. Bergson, H., Creative Evolution, (tr.), Arthur Mitchell, McMillan, London, 1928. Bhattacharya, K.C., Studies in Philosophy, Motilal Banarasi Dass, Delhi, 1983. Bohm, D., Quantum Theory, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall, N.J., 1951 ...
... 18th-century India. Clive, with his victory at Plassey, had ended French pretensions to an Indian empire and firmly established the British as one of the arbiters of India's fate. A generation later, Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) and his galloping guns had crushed the power of the Peshwas and Britain no longer had any serious rivals to its Indian domination. Sometimes by design, at other ...
... certain stage of consciousness can say that. For they see and know what is behind the play of things. For others it is only faith. And faith is sometimes very ignorant. NIRODBARAN: Have you read Arthur Moore's article? He has pleaded very strongly for Dominion Status. SATYENDRA: Many Europeans are now supporting it. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it is only the bureaucracy, tied up in its old tradition ...
... of the sound. I am not a prosodist like X. NIRODBARAN: Had your brother Manmohan already become a poet when you started writing? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. He, Laurence Binyon, Stephen Phillips and Arthur Cripps, who did not come to much in poetry afterwards, brought out a book in conjunction. It was well spoken of. I dare say my brother stimulated me greatly to write poetry. NIRODBARAN: Was Oscar ...
... , lawyers, and newspapermen — people whose work required and enabled them to get to the bottom of things, and whose success depended on their good sense. They included Lord Brand, Lord Kindersley, Arthur Salter, and the editor of The Economist, Geoffrey Crowther. Between them, they knew what I needed to know, and a talk with them was enough — afterwards, I could face my political contacts. Crowther ...
... English. He also wrote about the Mother. He asked Andrews to review the book. Andrews said, "I can't review the book. I have known the lady." Then he wrote a book on the Ashram disparaging it and asked Arthur Moore to serialise it in The Statesman . Moore told him. he knew about the Ashram, for he had been here. EVENING NIRODBARAN (fomenting Sri Aurobindo's leg while he lay in the bed) : Can feeling ...
... are of interest only to professional clairvoyants; we will discuss later some details of general interest. A complete study on the question can be found in the remarkable work of Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), The Serpent Power (Madras: Ganesh & Co., 1913) × 45 According to Indian tradition, ...
... discussion was on the hexameter. Sri Aurobindo mentioned that it was one of his Cambridge contemporaries, H.N. Ferrar, who had first given the clue to the hexameter in English by reading out a line from Arthur Hugh Clough - perhaps the line: "He like a god came leaving his ample Olympian chamber" - and this had led to the composition of llion at Pondicherry. Nirod records that Sri Aurobindo also recited ...
... 29. M'sL -II: chapter on Dreams 30. MO 2:19 31. A & R Apr-89:115; unpub. material in A & R Library 32. Unpub. mat. in A & R Library 33. MO 4:317 34. Trans by Arthur Symons 35. MO 2:20 36. MO 2:26 37. MO 2:39 38. MO 2:40-41 39. MO 2:42,44 40. Savitri :368 41. MO 5:50 42. Talks- l:242 4. Agenda for the Future ...
... important aspect. Beauty, in fact, is nearer to that ultimate supraintellectual Reality, for its knowledge is directly attained by an act of identity and is not indirect like that of science. Sir Arthur Eddington in his Gifford lectures has discussed this question of validity of knowledge. He says that the claim of physical science that the rainbow exists to give the knowledge of the difference in ...
... important aspect Beauty, in fact, is nearer to that ultimate supraintellectual Reality, for its knowledge is directly attained by an act of identity and is not indirect life that of science. Sir Arthur Eddington in his Gifford Lectures has discussed this question of validity of knowledge. He says that the claim of physical science that the rainbow exists to give the knowledge of the difference in ...
... the Manchurian Dynasty in 1912. Mirra would meet one of the Chinese militants in Paris. And finally (or simultaneously), in Russia, with the torpedoing of the Russian fleet by the Japanese at Port Arthur in 1904, which precipitated the first revolutionary waves: the assassination of the Grand Duke Serge in Moscow in 1905, the repression of revolutionary students and their exile to Siberia during the ...
... examiner, after he had previously shown similar want of punctuality and disregard for the requirements of the examiner. "His excuse (such as it is) is that want of money prevented 1. To Sir Arthur G. Macpherson, Secretary, Judicial and Public Dept., India Office. Page 223 him from taking the needful lessons in riding, and that, at the last, anxiety and moral cowardice made him ...
... column. A chakra is also called lotus (padma). "But as the subtle body penetrates and is interfused with the gross body, there is a certain 1 The Serpent Power, by Sir John Woodroffe (Arthur Avalon), deals exhaustively with the Kundalini Yoga of Tantra. Here is a genuine friend of India, with his profound understanding of Indian culture. 2 Brahmarandhra, the crown of head. Literally ...
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