Gethsemane : olive grove near east of Jerusalem.
... into the state of Ignorance and Night. Gethsemane is the Garden across the Olive Hills in which Jesus undergoes intense agony not long before the great sacrifice. The agony is a spiritual experience with no resemblance whatsoever to human agony which is essentially egoistic. It is there that his disciples deny him and Judas betrays. Gethsemane stands for inexplicable agony, denial and betrayal... He has given life and light to balance here The dark account of mortal ignorance. It is finished, the dread mysterious sacrifice, Offered by God's martyred body for the world, Gethsemane and Calvary are his lot, He carries the cross on which man's soul is nailed; His escort is the curses of the crowd; Insult and jeer are his right's acknowledgement; Two thieves... part ending with the words "God's martyred body" focuses on the "Son of God" who is not really different from God who is also called the Creator and the Eternal. The second part beginning with "Gethsemane and Calvary" focuses on the Son of Man, who identifies himself with God and declares himself at the end, "I am God." We shall later discuss the question of the identification, "I and my father ...
... these very shores, in the very midst of the darkness, the divine Light may be lit and shine undimmed, and a divine humanity manifest the glory of God. It is the Grace that has invaded Gethsemane, so that Gethsemane itself may be transformed into Heaven. It is the Grace that has come down not only to liberate, but to rehabilitate man, to reinstate him in his divine heritage of luminous freedom and ...
... reach there. The animal still stirs in him and slashes the helping, uplifting hand. Gethsemane and Golgotha are the rewards of the Avatar. God must be born on earth and be as man That man being human may grow even as God. 19 — Savitri If Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were Avatars, what were their Gethsemane and Golgotha? ...
... they all said the same. And so ends the "The Last Supper". Although Jesus prays in the Garden of Gethsemane to God his Father to he relieved of the suffering to follow, he accepts whatever role he must play. [Mat 26:36] Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go yonder and pray." [Mat 26:37] And taking with him ...
... ancient Indian spiritual lore, there is also a good deal of Bible in it. We have references such as God's covenant with the Night, the Son of God, the Father, the Holy Ghost, God's martyred body, Gethsemane and Calvary, or Christian Madonna's or images of cathedral and tabernacle. About the Great who come to save this suffering world we have in Narad's speech a picture of Christ. If Savitri was bom ...
... their own vivid examples. (21.1.1990) I have carefully re-read those lines on page 445 of Savitri (Centenary Edition) strikingly reminding us of Christ with their references to Gethsemane and Calvary, bleeding brow, crucifixion, two thieves and the last words "It is finished." We both saw that if the verse immediately following these lines - Hewn, quartered on the scaffold ...
... wonderful and inexpressible reality. They say that Christ suffered on the cross! The body suffered, doubtless, but did Christ suffer or did he not rather feel the joy of godhead in his soul? The agony of Gethsemane was not the agony of the coming crucifixion, the cup which he prayed might be taken from his lips, was not the cup of physical suffering, but the bitter cup of the sins of mankind which he had been ...
... ever I was born to set it right!¹ No, the Son of Man and every man has to bear his cross heroically and triumphantly. Life is a calvary and the Kingdom of Heaven can be reached only by traversing Gethsemane. There is no short cut. However, let us begin from the beginning. For Pasternak has a well-pronounced view of things and it is characteristic of his consciousness. The first article of his ...
... the officials of the temple plotted his death. After the Last Supper, Jesus was betrayed by a traitorous disciple called Judas Iscariot. This is a famous scene which takes place in the Garden of Gethsemane. Judas led a group of Roman soldiers. He went to Jesus and kissed him. This display of perverse love was the signal to the soldiers that here was Jesus. And so he was arrested and led to the High ...
... signed salvation's testament with his blood": Page 164 It is finished, the dread mysterious sacrifice, Offered by God's martyred body for the world; Gethsemane and Calvary are his lot, He carries the cross on which man's soul is nailed; His escort is the curses of the crowd; Insult and jeer are his right's acknowledgement; ...
... Europe 56 F Fakirs 83, 84 France 48 Francisco 23 G Genoese 50 Page 103 George Seferis 47, 48, 49, 52, 54 Gethsemane 38 Gita 3, 13, 104 Gloucester 20, 21 Graves, Robert 31, 33, 77 Greece 48, 50, 52 Greek 32, 47, 53 Greek legend 4 H Hades 56, 77 Hamlet 10, 23, 38 ...
... born to set it right. No, the son of man and every man has to bear his cross heroically and triumphantly. Life is a calvary and the Kingdom of Heaven can be reached only by traversing Gethsemane. There is no short cut. Page 38 However, let us begin from the beginning. For Pasternak has a well-pronounced view of things and it is characteristic of his consciousness. ...
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