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02.07 - The Descent into Night
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1:Never out of evil one plucked good: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
2:Swift and easy is the downward path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
3:A prey to the staring phantoms of the gloom ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
4:Solitude wrapped him in its voiceless folds. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
5:A city of ancient IgnoranceFounded upon a soil that knew not Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
6:Ominous beings passed him on the roadWhose very gaze was a calamity: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
7:Took the mind captive in its own net;His rigorous logic made the false seem true. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
8:Pass slowly through that perilous space,A prayer upon his lips and the great Name. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
9:He mastered the tides of Nature with a look:He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
10:All on one plan was shaped and standardisedUnder a dark dictatorship’s breathless weight. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
11:The reason meant for nearness to the godsAnd uplift to heavenly scale by the touch of mind ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
12:All warred against all, but with a common hateTurned on the mind that sought some higher good; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
13:Nothing would confess its own pretenceEven to itself in the ambiguous heart:A vast deception was the law of things; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
14:Arrogant, gibing at more luminous statesThe people of the gulfs despised the sun.A barriered autarchy excluded light; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
15:Impure, sadistic, with grimacing mouths,Grey foul inventions gruesome and macabreCame televisioned from the gulfs of Night. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
16:There crawled through every tense and aching nerveLeaving behind its poignant quaking trailA nameless and unutterable fear. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
17:The lust that warps the spirit’s natural goodReplaced by a manufactured virtue and viceThe frank spontaneous impulse of the soul: ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
18:Hidden behind the fair outsides of life.Its dangerous commerce is our suffering’s cause.Its breath is a subtle poison in men’s hearts; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
19:Falsehood enthroned on awed and prostrate heartsThe cults and creeds that organise living deathAnd slay the soul on the altar of a lie. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
20:Crowding and stinging in a monstrous swarmPressed with a noxious hum into his mindThoughts that could poison Nature’s heavenliest breath, ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
21:There Ego was lord upon his peacock seatAnd Falsehood sat by him, his mate and queen:The world turned to them as Heaven to Truth and God. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
22:A formless void suppressed his struggling brain,A darkness grim and cold oppressed his flesh,A whispered grey suggestion chilled his heart; ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
23:The worlds are built by its unconscious BreathAnd Matter and Mind are its figures or its powers,Our waking thoughts the output of its dreams. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
24:In booths of sin and night-repairs of viceStyled infamies of the body’s concupiscenceAnd sordid imaginations etched in flesh,Turned lust into a decorative art. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
25:A new aesthesis of Inferno’s artThat trained the mind to love what the soul hates,Imposed allegiance on the quivering nervesAnd forced the unwilling body to vibrate. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
26:Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk,The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout,Casting a javelin regard in front,Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
27:Home-EarthAloof, its influence entered everywhereAnd left a cloven hoof-mark on the breast;A twisted heart and a strange sombre smileMocked at the sinister comedy of life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
28:Nude, unashamed, exulting she upraised.Her evil face of perilous beauty and charm.And, drawing panic to a shuddering kiss.Twixt the magnificence of her fatal breasts.Allured to their abyss the spirit’s f ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
29:Only were safe who kept God in their hearts: Courage their armour, faith their sword, they must walk, The hand ready to smite, the eye to scout, Casting a javelin regard in front, Heroes and soldiers of the army of Light. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
30:The Fiend was visible but cloaked in light;He seemed a helping angel from the skies:He armed untruth with Scripture and the Law;He deceived with wisdom, with virtue slew the soulAnd led to perdition by the heavenward path. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
31:Only what seemed was prized as real there:The ideal was a cynic ridicule’s butt;Hooted by the crowd, mocked by enlightened wits,Spiritual seeking wandered outcasted,—A dreamer’s self-deceiving web of thoughtOr mad chimaera deemed or hypocri ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
32:A force demoniac lurking in man’s depthsThat heaves suppressed by the heart’s human law,Awed by the calm and sovereign eyes of Thought,Can in a fire and earthquake of the soulArise and, calling to its native night,Overthrow the reason, occupy the lif ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
33:Life clung to its seat with cords of gasping breath; Lapped was his body by a tenebrous tongue. Existence smothered travailed to survive; Hope strangled perished in his empty soul, Belief and memory abolished died And all that helps the spirit in its course. There crawled through every tense and aching nerve Leaving behind its poignant quaking trail A nameless and unutterable fear. As a sea nears a victim bound and still, The approach alarmed his mind for ever dumb Of an implacable eternity Of pain inhuman and intolerable. This he must bear, his hope of heaven estranged; He must ever exist without extinction's peace In a slow suffering Time and tortured Space, An anguished nothingness his endless state. A lifeless vacancy was now his breast, And in the place where once was luminous thought, Only remained like a pale motionless ghost An incapacity for faith and hope And the dread conviction of a vanquished soul Immortal still but with its godhead lost, Self lost and God and touch of happier worlds. But he endured, stilled the vain terror, bore The smothering coils of agony and affright; Then peace returned and the soul's sovereign gaze. To the blank horror a calm Light replied: Immutable, undying and unborn, Mighty and mute the Godhead in him woke And faced the pain and danger of the world. He mastered the tides of Nature with a look: He met with his bare spirit naked Hell. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri 02.07 - The Descent into Night, #KEYS
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