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Capitol : summit of the Capitoline hill on which stood the temple of Jupiter where victorious generals were carried in triumph to render thanks to Jupiter. It was on the temple’s Sibylline books (see Sybil) that consuls took their vows upon entering office.

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... marvellous brevity: This dark knew dumbly, immensely the Unknown. A fitting close to your cullings is that cry, "O soul, my soul, we have created Heaven... And made of the body a capitol of bliss". (The word "capitol" meant originally the temple of Page 136 Jupiter in Rome, Here it seems to connote a supreme divine habitation.) From this passage and from all else I can reach out ...

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... chosen by Zeus for a dateless dominion. Long must it labour rolled in the foam of the fathomless surges, Often neighbour with death and ere Ares grow firm to its banners Feel on the pride of its Capitol tread of the triumphing victor, Hear the barbarian knock at its gates or the neighbouring foeman Glad of the transient smile of his fortune suffer insulting;– They, the nation eternal, brook their ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Collected Poems
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... social structure which it built for its approach is another matter. September 26,1936 I enclose Harm's letter from Bombay in which he writes: "Our Abu Hussain this month at the Capitol was a tremendous success and I believe we can say without exaggeration that we were able to revolutionise Bombay audiences...” etc. etc. O Lord of Bombast, thou hast perched on poets' tongue! Not ...

... shown that man is capable of facing catastrophic changes and himself undergoing such changes. At this critical turn of human history where we stand today, man has to choose his destiny -either the Capitol or the Tarpeian Rock, as in the classical phrase. Either he becomes a new man with a new consciousness or he goes down into inconscience and is no more man. Page 299 ...

... represented the crown of success and might be likened to the laurel crown of the ancient Roman. Visions arise before us of our only leader wrapped majestically in an ancient toga and accepting on the Capitol the laurel crown that shall shield his head from the lightnings. But who is the hostile deity against whom the muttered mantras of the Brahmins were invoked to shield the head of our Surendra Caesar ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Bande Mataram
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... his life that he was to direct. He wanted us all to be in it, but we did not agree with it. There was a big fight between Shankar and the dance troupe because we refused. We had an engagement in the capitol of Gujarat. Everything was already booked. We were all young and hard-headed and we did him a great injustice for we all cancelled out and left him in the lurch one day in advance of the performance ...

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... for the Reich Chancellery which ended the world conflagration [the Second World War], I could not help thinking of the final scene in Rienzi , when the Tribune perishes in the flames of the burning capitol.” 917 ...

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... heart and directest all by Thy supreme Will, Thou hast told me a year ago to burn all my bridges and cast myself headlong into the Unknown, as did Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon: it meant the Capitol for him or the Tarpeian Rock. Thou didst hide then from my eyes the result of the action. Now still Thou keepest it secret; and yet Thou knowest that my equanimity remains the same before greatness ...

The Mother   >   Books   >   CWM   >   Prayers and Meditations
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... kingdom here of God, His fortress built in a loud ignorant world. Our life is entrenched between two rivers of Light, We have turned space into a gulf of peace And made the body a Capitol of bliss. What more, what more, if more must still be done?" In the slow process of the evolving spirit, In the brief stade between a death and birth A first perfection's stage ...

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... shown that man is capable of facing catastrophic changes and himself undergoing such changes. At this critical turn of human history where we stand today, man has to choose his destiny—either the Capitol or the Tarpeian Rock, as in the classical phrase. Either he becomes a new man with a new consciousness or he goes down into inconscience and is no more man. Page 94 ...

... travels, passing through different countries, and there you find a description of the various facets of culture, of life, of man; the quest has begun. She passes through temples, hamlets, cities and the capitols of kings. Then she goes through various Ashrams - the hermitages of people who have realized the truth. She also meets some wise kings: A few and fit inhabitants she called To share the ...