Charles I : (1600-49), king of Great Britain & Ireland (1625-49), provoked a war that led to his execution.
... There are the elaborate introductions which precede the first, third, seventh and ninth Books. And everybody knows that in the figure of his Satan we have a strong dash of Milton the rebel against Charles I, the vehement defender of regicide who remained the unrepentant Republican even when the Stuart Monarchy was restored and who might have been the first to get hanged as Cromwell's bellicose foreign ...
... gives us the other side of the shield. It is not an invariable law of human nature that the poetic temperament should be by its nature absolutely unfitted for practical action & regal power. Nero & Charles I were artistic temperaments cursed with the doom of kingship. But Alexander of Macedon & Napoleon Buonaparte were poets on a throne, and the part they played in history was not that of incompetents ...
... Have you heard of Nostradamus? No? He was a Jew. At that time the Jews had a lot of knowledge. He wrote a book of prophecy in an obscure language and foretold, among other things, the execution of Charles I, the establishment of the British Empire and the lasting of the Empire for 330 years. NIRODBARAN: Then there is a long time before it goes. SRI AUROBINDO: No. It is to be counted from the beginning ...
... Aurobindo : Have you heard about Nosterdamus? No? He was a Jew. At that time Jews had great knowledge. He wrote a book of prophecy in some obscure language and prophesied about the execution of Charles I, the end of the British Empire and the lasting of the Empire for about 330 years. Disciple : Then there is still a long time? Sri Aurobindo : No, it was to be counted from the beginning ...
... Nostradamus? "He wrote a book of prophecy in an obscure language," said Sri Aurobindo to his disciples who did not seem to have heard of Nostradamus, "and foretold, among other things, the execution of Charles I, the establishment of the British Empire and the lasting of the Empire for 330 years (to be counted from James I)." It so happened that Mother had seen the old Book of Nostradamus in the original ...
... with The Mother 25 April 1932 ( Regarding the rent of a house ) For Monsieur Charles Passagne I am quite astounded by this change of conditions after everything had been agreed. I had accepted the previous conditions, but I cannot accept these new ones. 25 April 1932 ...
... and hence the habit of mingling the grotesque with the tragic or sublime. Classicism is thought to forbid this kind of mixture, but actual life is said to confirm it. For instance, after signing Charles I's death-warrant, Cromwell and another of the regicides are reported to have bespattered each other's faces with the ink on their pens! Romanticism therefore is, to Hugo, really Truthfulness, "la... the two manners meet together and lean on each other, - I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf, or become one, as in the last speeches of Antony, - I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips. But all have the same characteristic... consciousness and their conscience. Different periods vary widely in this - and, within periods, different individuals.... So considered, the differences between Classicism, Romanticism and Realism turn out, I think, to be differences mainly of degree; depending on the strictness with which, if we may call them so, the reality-principle and the super-ego control and censor emanations from the uncon-scious mind ...
... lines. I do recite them now and then, and I find that they do have great power. Now, I wanted to say something or read out to you something about prayer. You remember the magnificent prayer of Lady Gracy. Here is one prayer some of our students may know; as a matter of fact, I borrowed it from them. I'm going to share it with you. It is a prayer Page 40 by Charles Lamb. I don't... people have heard of Charles Lamb. He is supposed to be one of the best English essayists, a prince of essayists, both for his style and personality. Well, in French they say: "Le style c'est I'homme m ê me" 76 - Lamb was a wonderful man who consecrated or sacrificed all his life for the sake of his sister who was on the verge of insanity. Some of you must have heard about Charles Lamb's Tales of ... always had a few flowers in Her hands. She said that day, "You don't pray, I suppose." Then I said, "Mother, very rarely. Very rarely, I pray, Mother." Then she took a few flowers, four or six, I think, and she said, "Here are some flowers. Pray for whatever you want and you will have it." I prayed; I am waiting! (Laughter) I am still waiting! These boons, these oracles, you know, they don't consider ...
... me are innocent. I am solely responsible for everything that has happened. Please see that injustice is not done to them.” Even while breathing his last he made the same appeal to Kilby again. On 10th September 1915, Charles Tegart came to see Jatindranath. He was accompanied by some highly placed British officers. Jatindranath reiterated his appeal to Charles Tegart. “I am glad to have... humour did not leave him: “Amazing that this body should still contain so much blood! What reassures me is that I could offer it at the altar of the Mother. This blood shall never go waste.” And with these words this hero of heroes was no more. After Jatindranath’s passing, Charles Tegart told Barrister J. N. Roy: “You know, Mr. Roy, we had to do our duty, but our admiration and respect for... writ large on their faces. Three pistols were aimed at Colonel Simpson and shots rang out. The ‘Writers Building’ was in tumult. People started running helter-skelter, terrified. In Lalbazar, Charles Tegart heard a voice crying out carried by the wind, ‘Help! Help!’ He rushed out to try and finish off Benoy, Badal and Dinesh in a man-to-man combat. But he had to concede defeat. Despite so many ...
... Stenger The Western God “I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented.” It is remarkable that these passionate words of Richard Dawkins, already quoted previously, are from a man who considers himself a scientist, and whose name is now often conjoined with the name of Charles Darwin. “I have never heard such hardline... Other biologists are more reasonable, or more sincere. “We know better than we did what we do not know and have not grasped. We do not know how the universe began. We do not know why it is there. Charles Darwin talked speculatively of life emerging from ‘a warm little pond’. The pond is gone. We have little idea how life emerged, and cannot with assurance say that it did. We cannot reconcile our u... myself will decide what I accept as truth? I know that if there are ultimate answers I’m surely not the court of last appeal as to what the answers are, but here in my study, on this human level, for myself, it appears I am. Does it matter very much what I decide? Not to science. But religion would have me think that the decisions of this private court when it comes to whether or not I will believe in God ...
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