COLLECTED PLAYS

 

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Contents

 

PART TWO

 

 

THE VIZIERS OF BASSORA  

 

 

Act One

 

Act Two

 

Act Three

 

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

 

SCENE II

 

SCENE II

 

SCENE II

 

 

SCENE III

 

SCENE III

 

SCENE III

 

 

SCENE IV

 

SCENE IV

 

SCENE IV

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENE V

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENE VI

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCENE VII

 

 

 

Act Four

 

Act Five

 

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

 

SCENE II

 

SCENE II

 

 

SCENE III

 

SCENE III

 

 

SCENE IV

 

SCENE IV

 

 

 

 

SCENE V

 

 

 

 

SCENE VI

 

 

 

 

SCENE VII

 

 

PRINCE OF EDUR  

 

 

Act One

 

Act Two

 

Act Three

 

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

 

SCENE II

 

SCENE II

   

 

 

SCENE III

 

SCENE III

   

 

 

SCENE IV

 

SCENE IV

   

 

 

SCENE V

 

SCENE V

   

 

   

 

SCENE VI

   

 

 

THE MAID IN THE MILL  

 

 

Act One

 

Act Two

 

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

 

SCENE II

     

 

SCENE III

     

 

SCENE IV

     

 

SCENE V

     

 

 

 

THE HOUSE OF BRUT  

 

THE PRINCE OF MATHURA 

 

THE BIRTH OF SIN

 

 

Act Two

 

Act One

 

Prologue

 

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

Act One

 

 

 

VIKRAMORVASIE

 

 

Act One

 

Act Two

 

Act Three

 

Act Four

 

Act Five

 

 

Invocation

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 

SCENE I

 
         

SCENE II

 

SCENE II

     
 

 

 

SHORT STORIES
IDYLLS OF THE OCCULT

 

JUVENILIA

THE WITCH OF ILNI  

 

Act Three

 

 

THE PHANTOM HOUR

 

Act.....Scene....

 

SCENE  I

 

 

THE DOOR AT ABELARD

     

SCENE II

 

 

THE DEVIL'S MASTIFF

         

 

THE GOLDEN BIRD

         

 

 

 

 

 

THE BIRTH OF SIN

  A Drama

  the revised form of The Birth of Sin appears in Volume V - COLLECTED POEMS 

PERSONS OF DRAMA

 

 

LUCIFER, the Angel of Power.

SIRIOTH, the Angel of Love.

GABRIEL, the Angel of Obedience.

MICHAEL, the Angel of War.

RAPHAEL, the Angel of Sweetness.

THE ELOHIM.

BELIAL, the Angel of Reason.

BAAL, the Angel of Worldly Wisdom.

MOLOCH, the Angel of Wrath.

SUN.

ASHTORATH, the Angel of Beauty.

MEROTH, the Angel of Youth.

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Prologue

Act One

 

LUCIFER

Master of light and glory, lift thy rays

Over the troubled flood; lift up thy rays.
Obey me.

THE SUN

Lucifer! who gaveth thee power
Over the gods that rule the ancient world ?
Or why should I obey thee ? Art thou God ?
Hast thou dethroned the Omnipotent from Heaven
And cast Him down into the nether glooms,
Revolting? Gave He then His supreme command?
Speak as a servant then and minister
Not with the accent that controls the stars.

LUCIFER

Who then compelled thee from thy bright repose,
Or wherefore hast thou come ?

THE SUN

By Him compelled
Before whose mandate tremble all the Gods.

LUCIFER

By His or mine. That I will see. Rise, Sun,
And from thy luminous majestic orb
Cast out into the azure hold of Space
Creative Energy and Pregnant Fire
Whirling around thee, while the years endure.

THE SUN

Lucifer, Son of Morning, first in Heaven,

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What madness seizes thee ? What awful force

Darkly magnificent, brilliantly ominous

Looks out from eyes that own no more the calm ?

LUCIFER

Obey!

THE SUN

I cannot choose. Power leaps from thee
Upon me. I am seized with fiery pangs.
Spare me, thou dreadful Angel. I obey.

Exit.

LUCIFER

Power to make and unmake the world!
Power grows in me. I am omnipotent.
Children of immortality whose ranks
And brilliant armies people the infinite,
Creatures of wonder, creatures of desire
¹,
O suns that wheel in everlasting fire,
O stars that sow the ethereal spaces thick,
O worlds of various life! I am your king.
This I have learnt that God and I are one.
If one, then equal! Rightly too I deemed
That God develops. God increases. I,
Younger than He am greater than the Power
From which I sprang; the new excels the old.

BELIAL

What dost thou, Lucifer, Angel of God ?
The infinite spaces murmur like a sea,
The ethereal realms are rocked as with a wind,
All Nature stands amazed. Whence this revolt?
Who gave thee force to overturn the world ?

LUCIFER

Watch, Belial, watch with me. A crisis comes

 

¹Uncertain reading.

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In the infinite, mobile and progressive world.
For God shall cease and Lucifer be God.

BELIAL

Thou speakest a thing that madness only speaks.
If God be God, how can He change or cease ?

LUCIFER

Watch, Belial! I will prove to thee the truth,
Thou reasonable Angel.

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