Esarhaddon : Esar-Haddon (680-669 BC), a most powerful king of ancient Assyria.
... and thy bold and scornful will Despising what thou usest? Was it thou That mad'st them? ESARHADDON No, my parents did. Say then The seed is God that touched my mother's womb And by familiar process built this house Inhabited by Esarhaddon. ACHAB Who Fashioned the seed? ESARHADDON It grew from other seed, That out of earth and water, light and heat, And ether, eldest... the force in being? ESARHADDON From of old It is. Page 287 ACHAB Then why not call it Baal? ESARHADDON For me I care not what 'tis called, Mithra or God. You call it Baal, Perizade says 'Tis Ormuzd, Mithra and the glorious Sun. I say 'tis force. ACHAB Then wherefore strive to change Assyria's law, o'erthrow the cult of Baal? ESARHADDON I do not, for it crumbles... Baal forgive. That's an ambition more impossible, A thought more rebel from the truth. ESARHADDON Baal! It seems to me that thou believ'st in Baal! ACHAB And what dost thou believe in? The gross crowd Believe the sun is God or else a stone. This though I credit not, yet Baal lives. ESARHADDON And if he lives, then you and I are Baal, Deserve as much the prayer and sacrifice As he ...
... inexhaustible source that every fresh impulse and rejuvenated strength has arisen. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the grave where dead nations lie, with Greece and Rome of the Caesars, with Esarhaddon* and the Chosroes**____ The result of this well-meaning bondage [to the outer forms of Hinduism] has been an increasing impoverishment of the Indian intellect, once the most gigantic and original ...
... inexhaustible source that every fresh impulse and rejuvenated strength has arisen. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the grave where dead nations lie, with Greece and Rome of the Caesars, with Esarhaddon and the Chosroes. You will often hear it said that it was the forms of Hinduism which have given us so much national vitality. I think rather it was its spirit. I am inclined to give more credit ...
... Number (1963), pp. 31-50. ** Mother India (May 1971) has published yet another of Sri Aurobindo's dramatic fragments. It has no title, and is cast in the form of a conversation between King Esarhaddon and the priest Achab, who between them would like to humanise the current religion of Baal - a cult harsh and bloody - more in tune with the revolutionary purpose. The theme has obvious affiliations ...
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