--- CONCEPTION
this entry is similar perhaps to "Savitri (extended toc)" but with the sole aim of dropping 1-4 of the best passages from each canto here. So instead of being like this is about this, while this may seem or be identical, this will contain no paraphrasing and not necessarily aim at explaining the canto or pointing to parts by it. But merely to display some splendor from each area.
- perhaps it will be best to divide each book into separate pages.
--- BOOK ONE - The Book of Beginnings 1-1 ::: The Symbol Dawn
Hard is it to persuade earth-nature's change;
Mortality bears ill the eternal's touch:
It fears the pure divine intolerance
Of that assault of ether and of fire;
...
Almost with hate repels the light it brings;
It trembles at its naked power of Truth
And the might and sweetness of its absolute Voice.
...
Its thorns of fallen nature are the defence
It turns against the saviour hands of Grace;
7
1-2 ::: The Issue
An absolute supernatural darkness falls
On man sometimes when he draws near to God:
An hour arrives when fail all Nature's means;
Forced out from the protecting Ignorance
And flung back on his naked primal need,
He at length must cast from him his surface soul
And be the ungarbed entity within:
That hour had fallen now on Savitri.
A point she had reached where life must be in vain
Or, in her unborn element awake,
11-12
A priestess of immaculate ecstasies
...
Or golden temple-door to things beyond.
...
Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense
15
1-3 ::: The Yoga of the Soul's Release
He heard the secret Voice, the Word that knows,
28
She broke in with inspired speech for scythe
And plundered the Unknowable's vast estate.
39
1-4 ::: The Secret Knowledge
Even when we fail to look into our souls
Or lie embedded in earthly consciousness,
Still have we parts that grow towards the light,
Yet are there luminous tracts and heavens serene
And Eldorados of splendor and ecstacy
And temples to the godhead none can see
46-47
Always we bear in us a magic key
49
The impossible God's sign of things to be.
52
He sees imagined garments, not a face
...
He is ignorant of the meaning of his life,
He is ignorant of his high and splendid fate.
53
In its unslacking grasp it keeps for us safe
The one inevitable supreme result
No will can take away and no doom change,
The crown of conscious Immortality,
The godhead promised to our struggling souls
When first man's heart dared death and suffered life.
...
A date is fixed in the calendar of the Unknown,
59
1-5 ::: The Yoga of the Spirit's Freedom and Greatness
Its earthly dialect to God-language change,
In living symbols study Reality
And learn the logic of the Infinite.
76
A map of subtle signs surpassing thought
Was hung upon a wall of inmost mind.
Illumining the world's concrete images
Into significant symbols by its gloss,
It offered to the intuitive exegete
Its reflex of the eternal Mystery.
Ascending and descending twixt life's poles
The seried kingdoms of the graded Law
Plunged from the Everlasting into Time,
Then glad of a glory of multitudinous mind
And rich with life's adventure and delight
And packed with the beauty of Matter's shapes and hues
Climbed back from Time into undying Self,
Up a golden ladder carrying the soul,
Tying with diamond threads the Spirit's extremes.
88
--- BOOK TWO - The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds 2-1 ::: The World-Stair
The Idea self-luminous key to all ideas,
...
The absolute index to the Absolute.
97
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