Cimmerian : “thick”, “gloomy”; people originally living north of the Caucasus & the Sea of Azov, driven out by the Scythians over the Caucasus & into Anatolia in the 8th century BC. In the next century they swept across Asia Minor & conquered Phrygia.
... microbes. 400) I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself against a phantasmal siege of microbes. If that is to be barbarous [and] unenlightened, I embrace gladly my Cimmerian darkness. Page 476 401) Surgeons save & cure by cutting and maiming. Why not rather seek to discover Nature's direct all-powerful remedies? 402) It should take long for self-cure to ...
... microbes. 400—I would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself against a phantasmal siege of microbes. If that is to be barbarous and unenlightened, I embrace gladly my Cimmerian darkness. 401—Surgeons save and cure by cutting and maiming. Why not rather seek to discover Nature's direct all-powerful remedies? 402—It should take long for self-cure to replace medicine ...
... immaculate in its purity and conscious of the Divine in itself; but it is shrouded in the obscurity of Matter in the beginning —a thin, quivering spark of fire, a pulsing ray of consciousness in the Cimmerian darkness of the material world. Then it evolves little by little till the spark becomes a flame, a tongue of fire rising straight to the Divine. As it evolves and awakens, it begins to radiate its ...
... submitting Death of proud hope I would seal. Not this have I counselled, O nation, But to be even as your high-crested forefathers, greatest of mortals. Troya of old enringed by the hooves of Cimmerian armies Flamed to the heavens from her plains and her smoke-blackened citadel sheltered Mutely the joyless rest of her sons and the wreck of her greatness. Courage and wisdom survived in that fall ...
... would rather die and have done with it than spend life in defending myself against a phantasmal siege of Page 324 microbes. If that is to be barbarous, unenlightened, I embrace gladly my Cimmerian darkness. 402—Surgeons save and cure by cutting and maiming. Why not rather seek to discover Nature's direct all-powerful remedies? 403—It should take long for self-cure to replace medicine ...
... familiar paradise: Lausanne. Maybe they feel it wouldn't be tactful to refer to your "folly". Otherwise it is inexplicable how they can refrain from showing the slightest interest - unless they are in Cimmerian darkness. Perhaps they are - and that is what you mean when you say they are still in what Sri Aurobindo designates as the "conventional" stage of social evolution. I can see that the writings ...
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