... an Aryan”, a certain ex-captain Mayr remembered later on. And he added: “When I first met him he resembled a worn out stray dog looking for a master” 15 – words he would come to regret. The Russian Revolution had been a two-phase event: in February 1917 the socialist, humane Menshevik revolution with Alexander Kerensky as its leader; in October of the same year the Marxist, ruthless, Bolshevik takeover... of the most active leaders of the Red Councils had been Jews, and that at the command of those Jews German nationalist hostages had been murdered. This was at a time that the leadership of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin, was generally (but incorrectly) supposed to be entirely Jewish, that the Jew Bela Kun had started a short-lived Marxist revolution in Hungary, that the Jews Rosa Luxemburg, ...
... the will to act in the Yogic way is very important as a stage in the sadhana. 28 July 1935 Sri Aurobindo's Force and World Events Somebody told X that Sri Aurobindo brought about the Russian revolution through Lenin. X told Y that people here were over-credulous to believe such things. Y insisted that such things were possible, but X seems to be unable to understand the working of occult forces... dangerous diseases of the body by Yogic power, why should it not be possible to act on the mind of another person and pour into him immense vital force which can bring about such results as the Russian revolution? Page 495 The statement made to X was not quite correct; it is putting things in too physical a form. A spiritual and occult working supplies forces and can watch over the members ...
... Aurobindo brought about the Russian revolution through Lenin. X told Y that people here were over-credulous and believed such things. Y said that if it is possible to cure dangerous diseases of the body by Yogic power, why should it not be possible to act on the mind of another person and pour in him immense vital force which can bring about such results as the Russian revolution? Page 309 ...
... nationality and pose as its champions and protectors. America, more politically idealistic than Europe, entered the war with a cry for a league of free nations. Finally, the original idealism of the Russian revolution cast into this new creative chaos an entirely new element by the distinct, positive, uncompromising recognition, free from all reserves of diplomacy and self-interest, of the right of every aggregate... of the successful empires. Still, certain very important results could not but be gained which must make in the end for a free world-union. The most important of these, the result of the Russian Revolution born out of the war and its battle-cry of free nationality but contingent on the success and maintenance of the revolutionary principle, is the disappearance of Russia as an aggressive empire ...
... extremely honest and sincere. He believed in internationalism. He had greatly welcomed the contest between Capital and Labour and he used to say that the First World War had become memorable for the Russian Revolution. According to him, this Revolution was a sign that a phase of civilisation had begun to pass and the Time-Spirit was preparing a new phase and a new order. And he was greatly enthused by the... Dessert was already being served. And I did not want to prolong the discussion. So I paused for a while. But Princess asked : "Which factors?" "First was the idealism that lay behind the Russian Revolution; in fact, the parent of that idealism was the French Revolution with its ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. And the second Page 19 was the resurgence of Asia. But, as you ...
... Ideal of Human Unity were issued as books in 1919. Sri Aurobindo also commented with guarded enthusiasm on the success of the Russian Revolution. In fact, in one of his later Evening Talks (9 December 1925), he said that he had "worked for the success of the Russian Revolution", that his was "one of the influences that worked to make it a success". 16 Further, writing under the title "1919" in the ...
... apply it, last and especially on the inwardness of our realisation. 58 In the essay 'After the War', Sri Aurobindo refers to the "continued existence, success, unbroken progress of the Russian revolution": This event promises to be as significant in human history as the great overturn of established ideas and institutions initiated in France in the eighteenth century, and to posterity... on 'Self-Determination', again, Sri Aurobindo differentiates between * In a conversation or 9 December 1925, Sri Aurobindo is reported to have said: "...I worked for the success of the Russian Revolution for three years. I was one of the influences that worked to make it a success" (Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, Second Series, p. 26). Page 488 the popular idea which is ...
... footing with those who had for so long used and abused them. After a preparation and build-up of almost a century, the “proletariat” resolutely took the fore of the stage of history in the Russian Revolution of 1917. The German Army High Command, by that time de facto rulers of the country, had supported the Russian revolutionaries in the hope that the collapse of tsarist Russia would free them from ...
... century, actually. A.B. Purani has noted down Sri Aurobindo’s words spoken to a few confidants: ‘It would look ridiculous and also arrogant if I were to say that I worked for the success of the Russian revolution for three years. Yet I was one of the influences that worked to make it a success. I also worked for Turkey.’ 35 In December 1938 Sri Aurobindo once more talked about his work in the world ...
... The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion Alfred Rosenberg was born in Reval (Estonia) in 1893. He studied engineering and architecture till the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Staunchly anti-communist and anti-Semitic, which meant one and the same to him, he fled Russia and landed, towards the end of 1918, in a Munich in upheaval. There he became part of the ...
... I have had some cats.... I had a cat who was the reincarnation of the mind of a Russian woman. I had a vision of it one day, it was so strange—this woman had been murdered at the time of the Russian Revolution, along with her two little children. And her mind entered a cat here. (How? I don't know.) But this cat, mon petit.... I got her when she was very young. She would come and lie down, stretched ...
... called up from the rear of social ranks and set in front the Third Estate and gradually formed and crystallised, with the aid of the Industrial Revolution, what is known as the Bourgeoisie. The Russian Revolution went a step farther. It dislodged the bourgeoisie and installed the Fourth Estate, the proletariate, as the head and front of society, its centre of power and governmental authority. In the meantime ...
... built upon other foundations. The past was gone. Divasa gatah Something very similar has happened again more recently, in Russia. The French Revolution brought in the bourgeois culture, the Russian Revolution has rung in the Proletariate. In modern India, the movement that led her up to Independence was at a crucial moment a mighty evocation of both Light and Power. It had not perhaps ...
... 245 Rossetti, 151 Rousseau, 113, 145 Roy, D. L., 192 Rumi 280 Russell, Bertrand, 140, 317, 326-7 Russia... 81, 91, 104, 106, 125, 207 Russian Revolution, 101, 207 SANKHYA(S), 139, 222, 315, 327, 349 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 348, 351-2, 375-7 Satan, 267, 280 Sati, 268 Schweitzer, Albert, 359 Sedan, 106 ...
... freedom struggle. Their attempt was to capture the Congress. The Home Rulers argued that India's contribution to the World War should be rewarded with some political progress. At the same time the Russian Revolution and President Wilson's suggestion for the formation of the League of Nations gave added momentum to the demand for Home Rule. The British Government reacted in typical fashion - stern handling ...
... Kurukshetra or somewhere else, which has brought all of us here in this life. I think the Mother said once that we have all met before in previous lives; either in the French Revolution or in the Russian Revolution or in the Indian Revolution; wherever They have been, we must have been there too somehow, somewhere; otherwise we would not have met today in this field of the Yoga of Transformation. 130 ...
... built upon other foundations. The past was gone. Divasa gatah. Something very similar has happened again more recently, in Russia. The French Revolution brought in the bourgeois culture, the Russian Revolution has rung in the Proletariate. In modern India, the movement that led her up to Independence was at a crucial moment a mighty evocation of both Light and Power. It had not perhaps initially ...
... social ranks and set in front the Third Estate and gradually formed and crystallised, with the aid of the Industrial Page 62 Revolution, what is known as the Bourgeoisie. The Russian Revolution went a step farther. It dislodged the bourgeoisie and installed the Fourth Estate, the proletariate, as the head and front of society, its centre of power and governmental authority. In the meantime ...
... preach "the elevation and enlightenment of the proletariat" long before the idea was conceived and propagated, but only in terms of crude material and economic welfare, by the prophets of the Russian Revolution, and gained currency all over Europe. But his ideal was the elevation of the proletariat to the high status of spiritual aristocracy, to Brahminhood, and not the levelling down of all grades ...
... thus work in humanity without seemingly doing anything and nobody can know what work he has done. It looks ridiculous and also arrogant if I were to say that I worked for the success of the Russian Revolution for three years. I was one of the influences that worked to make it a success. I also worked for Turkey. Disciple : What about India ? Sri Aurobindo : It takes time. I worked through ...
... 133, 199-200, 209, 215-6 his Yoga 85, 140-1, 201, 207, 209, 215, 247 Page 917 occult action on events and people 103, 148-50 in a French Presidential election 132fn in the Russian Revolution 198 'never a philosopher' 131 aims and achievements 149-52, 204, 380, 503 'Krishna' and 'Kali' in 155 'teeming with the catch of the Infinite' 200 and India's independence ...
... ideas, facts and possibilities which emerged in the course of the European conflict. The earlier chapters were written when Russia was still an Empire and an autocracy, the later parts after the Russian revolution and when the war had come nearer to its end, but the dramatic circumstances of the issue, in itself inevitable, could not be foreseen. The reader may guide himself in regard to the references ...
... most other European countries, seems to be travelling in that direction. This world-wide movement which made internationalism and Labour rule its two main principles, had already created the Russian revolution and seemed ready to bring about another great socialistic revolution in central Europe. It was conceivable that this party might everywhere draw together. By a chain of revolutions such as took ...
... strengthened in force by each check and compression, everywhere visibly accumulate. The outstanding portent of things to come is the continued existence, success, unbroken progress of the Russian revolution. This event promises to be as significant in human history as the great overturn of established ideas and institutions initiated in France in the eighteenth century, and to posterity it may well ...
... s that burst out are no slight surface conflagration but the flames of the pit of Tophet. Murder and hatred rising from below to strike at murder and tyranny striking from above, that is the Russian Revolution. Had another man than a Romanoff, the race obstinate and unteachable, sat on the throne at St. Petersburg, the victory of the autocracy after Page 296 such imminent and deadly peril ...
... at least three main versions of it. The oldest of these is the social-democratic version; the second is the communist version which acquired widespread influence after the October 1917 Russian Revolution, and the third version is what emerged after the Second World War and which deals primarily with the problem of human alienation and how to overcome it. 7 The last of these is the Ex ...
... detail. The convergence of these facts again leads to the conclusion of an occult secret behind the surface patterns known as history. Alfred Rosenberg and his wife were fugitives from the Russian revolution; they landed in Munich towards the end of 1918 and became part of the Russian community there. During the troubled times in their country, most Russian intellectuals had been profoundly influenced ...
... Fritsch, Friedrich Delitzsch, etc., plus a number of periodicals, and Eckart had chewed all that for Hitler to digest. There was also a new factor which played an important role since 1917: the Russian Revolution. Lenin, Trotsky, Bolshevism, a Republic of Councils, Bela Kun, Spartacists, red flags, the hammer and sickle, new leftist terms and slogans: all of that became part of the popular awareness, ...
... Hamburg, in the Ruhr and elsewhere. This does not seem to have been very difficult, maybe because he could count on the support of every non-communist German, as Communism, only six years after the Russian revolution, was still generally feared and abhorred. A more serious problem for General von Seeckt, and for the government of the Weimar Republic, was posed by Bavaria, which was anything but communist ...
... Everything Christ says about reincarnation seems to be inspired by the bodily reincarnated blood.” 446 Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), the German Balt who had fled the conflagration of the Russian Revolution and been introduced to Hitler by Dietrich Eckart, was another admirer of Houston Chamberlain . The pale, zealotic intellectual Rosenberg fitted badly in the rude and crude entourage of Adolf ...
... serve as effective means of the change of human nature. In Europe, the contest between Capital and Labour had entered into a crucial phase, and the Great First World War became memorable for the Russian Revolution that burst out even when that war was centred on the goal of the downfall of Germany. This Revolution was a sign that a phase of civilisation had begun to pass and the Time Spirit was preparing ...
... Renaissance and contemporary scientific climate; 2. Religions of the past and the contemporary attitudes; 3. Relevance of lessons of French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Russian Revolution, Discovery and development of USA, to the contemporary world; 4. World of Science and the Future; 5. World of Industry and Commerce and the Future; Page 208 6 ...
... Vyasa, 10, 84, 605 War and Self-Determination, 487ff; the governing idea, 487; not machinery but change in consciousness, 487; the world crisis, 488; the sutradhara behind, 488; the Russian revolution, 488; Asiatic resurgence, 488; "half-truth" of self-determination, 489; League of Nations, 489; retrospect and prospect, 489 Waste Land, The, 10, 114,294, 535 Wedgewood, Colonel ...
... way: no plague or earthquake—she simply turns the Mind's screw, or rather lets it turn itself until it is completely crushed. This is what began at the turn of the century. Not a Chinese or a Russian Revolution, but a revolution of Consciousness. And all revolutions are meant to precipitate that one revolution. All miseries exist only to hasten that one deliverance. All falsehoods exist solely to force ...
... the uprising of labour, waging what we are told are wars of ideas or of cultures,—a ferocious type of conflict made in the very image of this new barbarism,—or bringing about in a few days Russian revolutions which the Page 89 century-long efforts and sufferings of the intelligentsia failed to achieve. It is his coming which has been the precipitative agent for the reshaping of the modern ...
... uprising of labour, waging what we are told are wars of ideas, or of cultures, — a ferocious type of conflict made in the very image of this new barbarism, — or bringing about in a few days Russian revolutions which the century-long efforts and sufferings of the intelligentsia failed to achieve. It is his coming which has been the precipitative agent for the reshaping of the modern world. If a Lenin ...
... really necessary?" "The sword symbolised military revolt, the Gita was the symbol of the Spirit. Rebellion can move on many lines and use various means. For instance, in the French or the Russian Revolutions there was no place for either Religion or Spirituality. But the moment I realised that my country was not merely a mass of earth and rivers and trees, that it had a consciousness, a life, a soul... the result of the psychic transformation, which in our Sadhana is the first of a series of transformations. "So you see, after beginning with political revolutions, we moved past literary revolutions and now we have reached the spiritual revolution." This last term seemed to puzzle the audience. Sri Aurobindo took up the point: "The ordinary man stumbles along the path of his life, isn't that... how to live a life like the one I have just described, isn't that being revolutionary? Only, this time it would be an inner revolution. One would need weapons but they would be used to fight the enemies within us. You follow? "Similarly when I spoke of the literary revolution, I meant a quick change, whether by violent or non-violent means. When I, said that poetry was created by a conscious pen, ...
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