Erebus : Greek for Primeval Darkness, sprung from Chaos; it is that part of the underworld, regarded as the abode of the Erinnyes (q.v.), through which the souls of the dead go to Hades.
... many cases. I felt an immense joy at the Darshan [on February 21st], but it ebbed away as soon as I came down. It sounds like facilis descensus Averno . 62 But after all downstairs and Erebus are not the same thing. There are some Yogis, I hear, who are in bliss during meditation, but when they come down they are swallowed up by the lower nature, and to escape from this they at once... static sublimity. Unfortunately I can't rush up again till August [15th—the next Darshan]. Will you kindly come down and help the poor amateur Yogi out of these inexplicable meshes? Come down? into Erebus? No, thank you—I might become like the said Yogis. But what is all this? We count minutes and hours for the Darshans and when they come and go, what kind of reaction do they leave in the being ...
... thee than thy prince For victim? POLYDAON Poseidon knows not prince or beggar. Whoever honours him, he heaps with state And fortune. Whoever wakes his dreadful wrath, He thrusts down into Erebus for ever. Page 373 CASSIOPEA Beware! Thou shalt not have my child. Take heed Ere thou drive monarchs to extremity. Thou hopest in thy sacerdotal pride To make the Kings of Syria ...
... surgeon who doubled as naturalist, with the assistant-surgeon, in most cases a young physician, as his helper. It was as assistant-surgeon that the botanist Joseph Hooker travelled to Antarctica on the Erebus under Captain Ross, and that Thomas Huxley visited Australia and the surrounding region aboard the Rattlesnake. This made Darwin’s position on the Beagle quite exceptional, for he was not ...
... Trojans." 10 The message also refers to Polyxena, daughter of Priam, whom Achilles loves: "And for Polyxena's sake I will speak to you yet as your lover Once ere the Fury, abrupt from Erebus, deaf to your crying, Mad with the joy of the massacre, seizes on wealth and on women Calling to Fire as it strides and Ilion sinks into ashes. Yield; for your doom is impatient." 11 ...
... smiles of daylight and joy blossoming in his heart, made his step firmer and his body more erect. And he strode on until he arrived where the antre split in two branches, the one seeming dark as Erebus to his eyes, though indeed it was white and glorious as a naked girl and suffused by the light of the upper heaven with seas of billowing splendour, had not his eyes, grown dim from holding communion ...
... compassion for doom of the kindred nations, But for her sake whom my soul desires, for the daughter of Priam. And for Polyxena's sake I will speak to you yet as your lover Once ere the Fury, abrupt from Erebus, deaf to your crying, Mad with the joy of the massacre, seizes on wealth and on women Calling to Fire as it strides and Ilion sinks into ashes. Yield; for your doom is impatient. No longer your ...
... forth in personal form - Jehovah - with his thunder and his choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones - I pass them unalarmed. Not chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man - My haunt ...
... down. Sri Aurobindo: It sounds like facilis descensus Averno. [In * Hanker never after results. Page 310 Latin: Easy the descent to Hell.] But after all downstairs and Erebus are not the same thing. 65 (47)NB: At present I am only sleeping and sleeping, no aspiration, no will, nothing — shunyam, void! Please save me from this Dilipian despair. Sri Aurobindo: ...
... afford to be his companion in melancholy any more. He has beaten me hollow, what? Ten times hollow! What the hell has made him so abnormally sensitive? He attributes his last despair deep as black Erebus to a joke of mine which he took as a personal sarcasm against him, though it was only a joke pointing out the logical outcome of his idea that you can't love the Divine until you experience that highly ...
... .I can't rush up again till August [15th - the next darśan]. Will you kindly come down and help the poor amateur Yogi out of these inexplicable meshes? Sri Aurobindo: Come down? into Erebus? No, thank you.... But why hug despair without a cause - Dilipian or other? Come to your senses and develop a Nirodian jollity instead.... Laugh and be fat - then dance to keep the fat down - that ...
... the Mother's Grace, the tenor of their lives suffering little or no change, - and there were grand exceptions too! Yet even the most adamantine, the most resistant to change, even the emissaries of Erebus, felt a subtle flicker of light for the nonce, a seed was perhaps lodged in the soil of the darkness to burst one day into sudden life. When the children or sadhaks came to offer pranam on their ...
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