Theramenes : Athenian politician & general who died in 404/403 BC.
... increases Approaching from the mountains? Thoas, thou? Thoas enters. Thy brow is dark. Is it Theramenes? Returns our fortune broken? THOAS Broken and fallen. We who are left bring back Theramenes Upon whose body twenty glorious wounds Smile at defeat. ANTIOCHUS Theramenes before me! How have you kept me lying in my tent! I thought our road was clear of foemen. THOAS... in this room, dear fool; in Antioch, hid Where never cruel eyes could come at them. O, did you think a mother's hungry heart Could lose one fluttering moment of delight After such empty years? Theramenes,— The swift hawk he is,—by that good illness helped Darted across and brought them. They're here, Eunice! I saw them not even then, not even then Could clasp, but now Antiochus is dead, Is dead... grandiose slaughter, an ambition Almost inhuman and a haughty mind That lifts itself above the highest heads As if his mortal body held a god And all were mean to him? Yet proudest men, Thoas, Theramenes, Leosthenes, Become unasked his servants. What's his love? A despot's sensual longing for a slave, Carnal, imperious, harsh, without respect, The hunger of the vital self, not raised, Refined ...
... writings have not a great value." Sri Aurobindo added that there was "no guide at all, though someone calling himself Theramenes broke in from time to time. The writings came haphazard without any spirit mentor such as some mediums claim to have." Nolini Kanto Gupta also remembered Theramenes, and Page 248 a few others besides. He says that Sri Aurobindo made them hear specimens of automatic... Terror ! Red Terror!', and harangued us on the necessity and justification of bloodshed in the French Revolution. Yet another day somebody came and introduced himself thus: 'I am Theramenes.'" Adds Nolini, "Theramenes was a political leader in ancient Greece. In a quiet mellow voice, he gave us a lecture on politics...." Years later, during a talk with the attendant disciples, Sri Aurobindo ...
... a terrible voice, 'I am Danton! Terror! Red Terror!' He went on discoursing on the need and utility of all that bloodshed of the French Revolution. Another who came introduced himself thus, 'I am Theramenes.' He gave them a lesson in political matters. So many others came like this, day after day, and taught them many things on various subjects." Sri Aurobindo sat listening and gently smiling. ...
... terrible voice, "I am Danton! Terror! Red Terror!" He went on discoursing on the need and utility of all that bloodshed of the French Revolution. Another who came introduced himself thus, "I am Theramenes." Theramenes was a political leader of ancient Greece. He spoke in a calm and subdued tone and gave us a lesson in political matters. So many others came like this, day after day, and taught us many things ...
... voice, "I am Dan ton! Terror! Red Terror!" He went on discoursing on the need and utility of all that bloodshed of the French Revolution. Another who came introduced himself thus, "I am Theramenes." Theramenes was a political leader of ancient Greece. He spoke in a calm and subdued tone and gave us a lesson in political matters. So many others came like this, day after day, and taught us many things ...
... bloodshed in the French Revolution. Yet another day somebody came and introduced himself thus: 'I 184. Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother, pp. 108-10. Page 143 am Theramenes.' Theramenes was a political leader in ancient Greece. In a quiet, mellow voice, he gave us a lecture on politics...." It would interest the readers to learn that the book, Yogic Sadhana (now ...
... but otherwise these writings have not a great value. I may add that Ramchandra's details are incorrect and there was no guide named Theresa, in fact no guide at all, though someone calling himself Theramenes broke in from time to time. The writings came haphazard without any spirit mentor such as some mediums claim to have. A smaller but more amazing myth presents Sri Aurobindo as a poet in Tamil—and ...
... around Sri Aurobindo in an unlighted room at eight would suddenly hear a voice - Sri Aurobindo's and yet not his - breaking the silence, announcing its identity - perhaps Danton, or Bankim, or Theramenes! - and speaking in English. What did it all amount to? Certainly, supraphysical beings do exist; and some supraphysical beings - or portions or emanations of them - might achieve entry into a ready ...
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