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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.

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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... 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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