{"id":190,"date":"2013-07-13T01:26:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-07-13T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T01:26:29","slug":"48-the-birth-of-sun-act-1-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worksofthemotherandsriaurobindo.org\/index.php\/01-works-of-sri-aurobindo\/01-sabcl\/07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07\/48-the-birth-of-sun-act-1-vol-07-collected-plays-part-ii-volume-07","title":{"rendered":"-48_The Birth of Sun Act-1.htm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n

\nTHE BIRTH OF SIN<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

 
\n\t\tA Drama<\/font><\/p>\n

 
\n\t\tthe revised form of The Birth of Sin appears in
\nVolume V – COLLECTED <\/font>POEMS<\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n


\nPERSONS OF DRAMA <\/font>
\n<\/b> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n


\nL<\/font>UCIFER<\/font>,
\nthe Angel of Power.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

S<\/font>IRIOTH<\/font>, the Angel of Love.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n


\nG<\/font>ABRIEL<\/font>,
\nthe Angel of Obedience.<\/font> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n


\nM<\/font>ICHAEL<\/font>,
\nthe Angel of War.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n


\nR<\/font>APHAEL<\/font>,
\nthe Angel of Sweetness.<\/font> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

T<\/font>HE <\/font> E<\/font>LOHIM<\/font>.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n


\nB<\/font>ELIAL<\/font>,
\nthe Angel of Reason.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n


\nB<\/font>AAL<\/font>,
\nthe Angel of Worldly Wisdom.<\/font> <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

M<\/font>OLOCH<\/font>, the Angel of Wrath.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n


\nS<\/font>UN<\/font>.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

A<\/font>SHTORATH<\/font>, the Angel of Beauty.<\/font>
\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

M<\/font>EROTH<\/font>, the Angel of Youth.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 901<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n
\nPrologue<\/b> <\/font><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

\n
\nAct One <\/b><\/font>
\n<\/span> <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\n\tLUCIFER <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nMaster of light and glory, lift thy rays <\/font> <\/p>\n

Over the troubled flood; lift up
\nthy rays.
\nObey me.<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tT<\/font>HE
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>UN
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Lucifer! who gaveth thee power
\nOver the gods that rule the ancient world ?
\nOr why should I obey thee ? Art thou God ?
\nHast thou dethroned the Omnipotent from Heaven
\nAnd cast Him down into the nether glooms,
\nRevolting? Gave He then His supreme command?
\nSpeak as a servant then and minister
\nNot with the accent that controls the stars.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>UCIFER
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Who then compelled thee from thy bright
\nrepose,
\nOr wherefore hast thou come ?<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tT<\/font>HE
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>UN
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

By Him compelled
\nBefore whose mandate tremble all the Gods.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>UCIFER
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

By His or mine. That I will see. Rise,
\nSun,
\nAnd from thy luminous majestic orb
\nCast out into the azure hold of Space
\nCreative Energy and Pregnant Fire
\nWhirling around thee, while the years endure.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tT<\/font>HE
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>UN<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nLucifer<\/font>,
\nSon of Morning, first in Heaven,<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 903<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

What madness seizes thee ? What awful
\nforce<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

Darkly magnificent, brilliantly ominous<\/font>
\n<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

Looks out from eyes that own no more
\nthe calm ?<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>UCIFER
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\nObey!<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tT<\/font>HE
\n\t<\/font>S<\/font>UN
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I cannot choose. Power leaps from thee
\nUpon me. I am seized with fiery pangs.
\nSpare me, thou dreadful Angel. I obey.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\nExit.<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>UCIFER
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Power to make and unmake the world!
\nPower grows in me. I am omnipotent.
\nChildren of immortality whose ranks
\nAnd brilliant armies people the infinite,
\nCreatures of wonder, creatures of desire<\/font>\u00b9,<\/font>
\nO suns that wheel in everlasting fire,
\nO stars that sow the ethereal spaces thick,
\nO worlds of various life! I am your king.
\nThis I have learnt that God and I are one.
\nIf one, then equal! Rightly too I deemed
\nThat God develops. God increases. I,
\nYounger than He am greater than the Power
\nFrom which I sprang; the new excels the old.<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ELIAL
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What dost thou, Lucifer, Angel of God ?
\nThe infinite spaces murmur like a sea,
\nThe ethereal realms are rocked as with a wind,
\nAll Nature stands amazed. Whence this revolt?
\nWho gave thee force to overturn the world ?<\/font>
\n<\/font> <\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>UCIFER
\n\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Watch, Belial, watch with me. A crisis
\ncomes<\/font> <\/font> <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n\u00b9Uncertain reading. <\/font><\/font> <\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 904<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\nIn the infinite, mobile and progressive world.
\nFor God shall cease and Lucifer be God.<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tB<\/font>ELIAL
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nThou speakest a thing that madness only speaks.
\nIf God be God, how can He change or cease ?<\/font>
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\tL<\/font>UCIFER
\n\t<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nWatch, Belial! I will prove to thee the truth,
\nThou reasonable Angel.<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

\nPage \u2013 905<\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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