Belial : epithet for evil or subversive person in Old Testament.
... than the Power From which I sprang; the new excels the old. BELIAL What dost thou, Lucifer, Angel of God? The infinite spaces murmur like a sea, The ethereal realms are rocked as with a wind, All Nature stands amazed. Whence this revolt? Page 940 Who gave thee force to overturn the world? LUCIFER Watch, Belial, watch with me. A crisis comes In the infinite, mobile and p... progressive world. For God shall cease and Lucifer be God. BELIAL Thou speakst a thing that madness only speaks. If God be God, how can He change or cease? LUCIFER Watch, Belial! I will prove to thee the truth, Thou reasonable Angel. Page 941 ... of Drama LUCIFER - the Angel of Power. SIRIOTH - the Angel of Love. GABRIEL - the Angel of Obedience. MICHAEL - the Angel of War. RAPHAEL - the Angel of Sweetness. THE ELOHIM. BELIAL - the Angel of Reason. BAAL - the Angel of Worldly Wisdom. MOLOCH - the Angel of Wrath. SUN. ASHTAR - the Angel of Beauty. MEROTH - the Angel of Youth. Page 937 Prologue ...
... would be far happier than having everlasting misery, or, if their substance is divine and immortal, they would be merely defeated but they would have disturbed Heaven and at least taken revenge. Belial questions the sense of such revenge, for it would bring greater punishments: he advises cessation of further activity so that God may relent or at least they themselves may get inured by the help of... But if they are sure to be defeated and further punished, it should be the most logical thing to want annihilation, and yet would the logi-cal be also the enjoyable? This problem is thus stated by Belial: Page 89 Our final hope Is flat despair: we must exasperate The Almighty Victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us; that must be our cure – To be ...
... In the Dramatis Personae figure Lucifer, Sirioth, Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Belial, Baal, Moloch, Ashtorath, Meroth, Sun and the Elohim, but the dramatic fragment itself opens with a dialogue between Lucifer and Sun - Lucifer compelling obedience on the part of Sun - followed by a conversation between Lucifer and Belial, the Angels of Power and Reason respectively. Lucifer puts forward his theory ...
... take an instance from Gray which has some connection with Milton. In his extremely popular Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Gray has a stanza recalling our minds to a passage in the speech of Belial from which we have quoted in extenso. Gray tries to convey the pathos of a soul about to lose its earthly existence, standing on the verge of death but looking back before crossing over: Page ...
... bellicose foreign secretary and all-Europe champion. There is also the blending of himself with some of the attitudes and ideas in the great speeches made by Satan's followers: especially when Belial urges the preciousness of "this intellectual being" we feel Milton's own voice breaking out. There is further the gorgeous expenditure of Milton's learning and reflection - history, geography, astronomy ...
... or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world. Now Milton's Belial advising his fellow-rebels, who have no hope of victory and are reduced to "flat despair": we must exasperate The Almighty Victor to spend all his rage. And that must end us; that ...
... to the point of sublimity has given us what is to be found nowhere else in English poetry. Hell yawns before us, and chaos presently envelops us; and Satan and Beelzebub and Mammon and Moloch and Belial are vivid, almost apocalyptic, projections. Page 381 But there is a debit side as well, for as Sri Aurobindo points out, "Milton has seen Satan and Death and Sin ...
... blown with restless violence round about The pendant world. Keep the typical turns and vibrations of these two speeches in your mind and appreciate their difference from those in the oration of Belial, one of Satan's followers, in Paradise Lost: Our final hope Is flat despair; we must exasperate The Almighty Victor to spend all his rage, And that must end us; that must be our ...
... take an instance from Gray which has some connection with Milton. In his extremely popular Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Gray has a stanza recalling our minds to a passage in the speech of Belial from which we have quoted in extenso. Gray tries to convey the pathos of a soul about to lose its earthly existence, standing on the verge of death but looking back before crossing over: ...
... circling sun;... 32 Why must Savitri harp upon love! Is it any more than the flesh hungering, the nerves burning, the mind dreaming, the heart fluttering? With casuistry worthy of Milton's Belial or Comus, Death tries to wear down Savitri's wall of resistance to the invasion of falsehood. Ah yes, love's momentary thrill seems "a golden bridge across the roar of the years"; but, alas! spent ...
... the great Vision of the Supreme Lord will be fulfilled one day. A spirit was there that sought for its own deep self, Yet was content with fragments pushed in front And parts of living that belied the Whole But, pieced together, might one day be true. || 50.4 || From the occult point of view now the whole world is under the shadow of the governing force of a non-human being from the Vital ...
... right side. That is of course a very essential and important Page 231 point, but it must be followed by a good many other days when you have to keep a strict guard on yourself so as not to belie your resolution. 4 April 1958 Page 232 × Hell; the state of suffering. ...
... thing seen, but evoke their very quality and give us Page 58 immediately the inmost vital fibre and thrill" of what is described and interpreted. Now bend the ear to the accents of Belial's speech in Paradise Lost to appreciate the poetic vision active and vibrant as if directly in the grey cells rather than as a reflex there from the guts: Our final hope Is flat despair;... and force of their being." The emotional life-mind rather than the intellect proper can Page 63 be traced at once as Spenser's poetic source if we hark back to the accents of Belial's speech in Milton or of that passage in Shelley about Heaven's light and earth's shadows and set them over against the lines in which Despair is represented as trying to lure man to self-destruction ...
... truths and, above all, not Page 116 in keeping with the present possibilities; so we tried to realise it too quickly, and because we tried to be too quick it was belied. But do not say it was false because it was belied; say it was premature, that is all you can say—what you saw was true, but it was premature, and you must, with much patience and perseverance, keep your little truth intact ...
... Men had once deemed of England that she was not as other peoples and that the lessons of history would be reversed by the unselfish glories of her rule, and the weakness of human nature would be belied by the splendour of her generosity and the candour of her enthusiasm. For the English are a great and wonderful people. It is true that her statesmen and soldiers slew and murdered and ravished in ...
... child that was born to Devaki, he killed. When the eighth child was to be born, he had arranged a constant vigil so that immediately on its birth he could come to the prison and slaughter him and thus belie the prediction that that child was to be his slayer. But the birth of the eighth child was to be the incarnation of the Supreme Lord. He was to be born where instantaneous death awaited him, ...
... and its glimpse of the supra-terrestrial." 77 Deiphobus appears "brilliant" to the men of Troy, but to Page 316 the gods he is a dead man in a doomed city; the appearance belies the reality; the petty terrestrial drama is the echo of a voice hushed already. In one tremendous simile Deiphobus and Troy are presented both in Time and in Eternity. Behind man and his pigmy ...
... other houses. Bhola-da was given a place quite a distance away from the Ashram. He relied on his two legs for any movement — to and fro from work, D.R., Playground, etc. The speed the legs generated belied the term ‘speed’. He never had touched a bicycle — never could or would. The change of speed would have upset everything — his body, nerves and his very nature. So Bhola-da went at the same steady ...
... understood, but so long as the thing goes on in the head in this way ( Mother turns a finger near her forehead ), it has no power. It has a very little force that is extremely limited. And all the time it belies itself. One thinks that with great difficulty one collects a will, artificial enough, besides, and one tries to catch something, and the very next minute it has all vanished. And one doesn't even realise ...
... something ) One suddenly sees... It's a certain region, there, a region in the earth atmosphere, vast and imperishable, where things take on a Page 208 new importance, which sometimes belies appearances, and one sees a sort of great, immense current carrying circumstances and events along towards a goal... always the same goal, and through very unexpected paths. It becomes very vast, and ...
... These speeches communicate inner debates of the devil's minds no less than phases of an outer powwow. The character of each devil is laid bare: the most memorable of the psychological disclosures is Belial's speech, with Milton's greatest moment in it and one of his greatest irrelevances: To be no more; sad cure: for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those ...
... speeches communicate inner debates of the devil's minds no less than phases of an outer powwow. The character of each devil is laid bare: the most memorable of the psychological disclosures is Belial's speech, with Milton's greatest moment in it and one of his greatest irrelevances: To be no more; sad cure: for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those ...
... Veerapandya Kattabomman It is often believed that the National Movement was more subdued in the South than in other parts of India. However, this mildness and moderation cannot belie the fact that the seeds of the National Movement first sprouted on the soil of the South. The Indian resistance to the advent of the British as a political power on the soil of India starts well before ...
... of faith: "When You want it, well, it will be." But as for me, I don't budge, I stay like this ( gesture turned to the heights ): the inviolable light. Of course, all the outward events come and belie this. In spite of the inner transformation (which is a sure fact, one has proof of it every second), yet the body keeps its habit of deterioration. And just when you think that things are improving ...
... knowledge, he had insight and inner experience. And all this he could combine with a fine sense of humour which did not, however, as in the case of others always explode in laughter. Nor did his appearance belie his mental stature; he was a kara-sadrsa-prajña, a tall figure of a man. One would often find him seated in a meditative pose, gathered silently within. When he came back to his waking self he would ...
... the lame a mountain-climber. Yes, but what is this Divine Grace and how does it move and act? It does not act on all and sundry, it does not act on all equally. What is the reason? Appearances often belie the reality: a contrary mask is put on, it would appear, deliberately, with a set purpose. The sense and significance of this mystery? The hard, obscure, obstinate, rebel outer crust may continue long ...
... In its fundamental essence, it is the substance of the Spirit itself, luminous and immortal, but in its phenomenal formation in the inconscience of Matter, it undergoes such a modification as to belie its eternal essence and become dense and mutable and perishable. Density, insensibility and inertia are the gift of its inconscient origin, and mutability and mortality the condition of its evolution ...
... the lame a mountain-climber. Yet, but what is this Divine Grace and how does it move and act? It does not act on all and sundry, it does not act on all equally. What is the reason? Appearances often belie the reality: a contrary mask is put .on, it would appear, deliberately, with a set purpose. The: sense and significance of this mystery? The hard, obscure, obstinate, rebel outer crust may continue ...
... images or symbols. These symbols and images do not obtain universal currency, but convey different things in different cases; they have an uncanny individuality which baffles all rules and systems and belies all sweeping generalisations. In fact, "generalisations made from certain interpretations which might have been quite correct for the one who applied them to his own case, give rise only to vulgar ...
... suddenly, I could not change it into ananda? - a very frank admission. "But when it settled down into a steady sensation I could." So you see what He was suffering from and how His appearance then belied the whole thing. "Besides, we shall see afterwards its full significance. Of course, I accept it as a part of the battle." - the battle, as you know, that is going on still. Now here is another ...
... whatever number of lives, you must know that all this doesn't matter: you KNOW you ARE the Master, that the Master and you are the same. All that's necessary is ... to know it INTEGRALLY, and nothing must belie it. That's the way out. When I tell people that their health depends on their inner life (an intermediate inner life, not the deepest), it's because of this. During the last two years, I've been ...
... mystery he did not believe, but he was too practised in life not to believe in natural human mysteries underlying the even surface of things. He knew that men of the most commonplace outside have often belied their appearance by their actions. A presentiment of dangerous and calamitous things was upon him, and he remembered that his presentiments had more often justified themselves than not. But to Stephen ...
... love and strains to gain a second object under the mistaken impression that this second object will surely give him that satisfaction which he failed to receive from the first object. But the hope is belied very soon and the same sense of acute frustration disturbs the poise of the sadhaka without fail. Page 250 Then the search is initiated for a third object of desire and the same ...
... stately opening of Paradise Lost , the beautiful and poignant invocation to Light with which the third book begins, the tremendous prelude in the seventh to Urania. No one else could have thus worded Belial's fear of extinction at the hands of All-Might as a cure for misery: Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through ...
... saw was not a pretty little pretender but one whose tiny untutored look contained a "secret splendour" and deserved Wordsworth's insightful apostrophe: Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity;... Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day.... A Presence which is not to be put by.... Now let me consider the earlier dream recounted ...
... mountains takes care. A magic bird sits on a magic tree And' a wandering cloud goes from sky to sky; Palace halls dream in chandelier lights And the dreaming huts do not dreamings belie. O the world now that is not, will be! But then I was having queer ideas about things; The singer who lives within me Is just mute, like music lacking the silver strings. ...
... for a moment, as if she were seeing something) Suddenly one sees... a region of the earth's atmosphere which is vast and imperishable, where things take on another importance which sometimes belies appearances, and one sees a sort of great, immense current carrying circumstances and events towards a goal... always the same and by very unexpected paths. It becomes very wide and in spite of the ...
... and ordered society with an opulent religious, aesthetic, ethical, economic, political and vital activity, a many-sided development, a plentiful life-movement. As completely as the earlier epics they belie the legend of an India lost in metaphysics and religious dreamings and incapable of the great things of life. The other element which has given rise to this conception, an intense strain of philosophic ...
... prosaic and rather sordid actualities of everyday life. The Child whom Wordsworth apostrophised in his "Immortality Ode" might be Mirra herself: Page 5 Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity; Thou best Philosopher ... Mighty Prophet! Seer Blest! When she was between five and seven years of age, Mirra formed the habit of projecting herself - her own willings ...
... Harappān remains, but the issue relating to this mixture we shall touch upon at another place. At the moment we are concerned with the fact that, although the pronouncements of Dales and Wheeler are not belied by any characteristic find here, a certain blurring suggestion which has long lingered may seem strengthened. When PGW was first reported in 1954-55 at several spots linked traditionally with the ...
... egoistic assertion of superiority over others which is not justified so long as there is egoism and the need of assertion, accompanied as it always is by a weakness and a turbid imperfection which belie the claim of having a superior consciousness to the inadvanced sadhaka. It is time these crudities disappeared from the Ashram atmosphere." This is not irrelevant. For Sethna impressed ...
... 1913. Page 145 transition, of spiritual fatigue or of a desperate upsurge of the lower impurities before their final elimination. But even a cursory glance through the Prayers will belie this assumption. There is a transition, of course, but a transition in the long and difficult process of transforming the physical consciousness by a descent into the Subconscient and the Inconscient ...
... worked in the hospital coming out with a frown on his face. I approached him and asked for the news. He replied that the man was out of danger or something to that effect, but his facial expression belied his words. When I gave the report to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo said, "But I saw him lying dead on the operation-table." That was what had happened in fact. This man was, by the way ...
... Harappan remains, but the issue relating to this mixture we shall touch upon at another place. At the moment we are concerned with the fact that, although.the pronouncements of Dales and Wheeler are not belied by any characteristic find here, a certain blurring suggestion which has long lingered may seem strengthened. When PGW was first reported in 1954-55 at several spots linked traditionally with the ...
... that progress towards truth would by itself ensure moral progress. Men, knowing more, would become more wise and, wiser, they would be better, more impartial and just. Well, this has certainly been belied by the subsequent course of events. The great catchwords of the French Revolution - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - which had aroused so much enthusiasm, have lost most of their content and become ...
... There was, at that time, a possibility of the realisation of the larger human hope as a result of the evolution of the socialistic society and the resurgence of Asia. Unfortunately, the turn of events belied the bright hopes. Socialism soon turned into state socialism, and while it brought in greater equality and a closer association into human life, it remained confined only to a material change ...
... Or, at its best, education is planned to turn the mostly infrarational human being into a rational creature, and the disordered human group into a rationalised human society. But this hope has been belied; right information and right training alone have not been able to solve the problems of man. For, as Sri Aurobindo has so aptly observed: "...it has not been found in experience, whatever might have ...
... Pururavas, In that fierce light. 14 Although owing to no fault of their own, the compact is broken, and Urvasie returns to heaven. She might come back before dawn, he thinks; but the dawn belies his hopes; "then he knew he was alone". Pururavas is disconsolate. He leaves his kingdom, he seeks his beloved on hill and dale and glen and grotto until he comes to the silence of the peaks ...
... The key word is instantaneously. How can a subatomic particle over here know what decision another particle over there has made at the same time the particle over there makes it? All the evidence belies that quantum particles are actually particles … The philosophical implication of quantum mechanics is that all of the things in our universe (including us) that appear to exist independently are actually ...
... degradation. To quote one example among innumerable ones: the biologist Lynn Margulis writes about “the tenacious illusion of special dispensation” which humanity imagines it possesses, but which “belies its true status as upright mammalian weeds.” “Earth is going to die … the Sun is going to die … the Universe is going to die …” is in our contemporary science literature an often repeated litany of ...
... eyes, now consider that had the Cripps offer been accepted, the whole course of recent Indian history could well have changed. A working association of the Hindus and Muslims in government could have belied the 'Two Nations' theory, preventing Partition with its aftermath of incalculable human suffering as well as its legacy of political problems which still bedevil us. Sri Aurobindo's vision went far ...
... egoistic assertion of superiority over others which is not justified so long as there is the egoism and the need of assertion—accompanied, as it always is, by a weakness and turbid imperfection which belie the claim of living in a superior consciousness to the "unadvanced" sadhaks. It is time these crudities disappeared from the Asram atmosphere. 3 February 1932 Wouldn't it be best if people did ...
... befool our realist reason's man-made logic. They forget alas, that the ultimate tribunal Of Truth is not the bench of this our puny And self-sure intellect whose preconceptions Are, far too often, belied even by life. ( Shaking her head ) Nay, the last touchstone of the Truth that rules the world And life is the experience of the soul, Blest by His Grace no reason can explain. So listen: ...
... egoistic assertion of superiority over others which is not justified so long as there is egoism and the need of assertion, accompanied as it always is by a weakness and a turbid imperfection which belie the claim of having a superior consciousness to the inadvanced sadhaka. It is time these crudities disappeared from the Ashram atmosphere." This is not irrelevant. For Sethna impressed me the ...
... emotions and insights. The sense of the human Page 54 soul's pre-existence in God, the impression of a child deserving to be addressed as Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity or as Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the day - have we not here something quite alien to any North-England mind, however religious it ...
... and chariots), is walking unattended by bodyguards with Sītā, followed by Laksmana (alone). (6) He who, having tasted the delights of sovereignty, vested with objects of enjoyment is anxious not to belie the plighted word (of his father), prompted as he is by respect for virtue. (7) (Even) people on the roads are able today to behold Sītā, who could not formerly be seen even by beings coursing in the ...
... quantity: archaeology cannot shut its doors to the possibility of further discoveries pointing to an earlier date. And indeed the latest information from Marija Gimbutas 174 in a review of Renfrew's book belies Mallory's dating. She it was who launched in 1956 the 'Kurgan hypothesis' which has been the favourite in Academe up to now. The Kurgan ('round mound') people north of the Black Sea are, in her view... Rigvedics are ultimately connected with them. There are two mistakes here. The information Herodotus gives about the religion of the Sakas - the wide group to which the Saka Haumavarga belong - belies Parpola's assumption about the latter. The Encyclopaedia Britannica reports from Herodotus: 265 "The Scythians worshipped the elements but they were not a devout people and never felt the need for ...
... egoistic assertion of superiority over others which is not justified so long as there is the egoism and the need of assertion accompanied, as it always is, by a weakness and turbid imperfection which belie the claim of living in a superior consciousness to the "unadvanced" sadhaks. It is time these crudities disappeared from the Ashram atmosphere. Page 164 February 3, 1932 I do not ...
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