Chapter 49
The vast universal suffering feel as thine:
Thou must bear the sorrow
That thou claimst to heal;
The day-bringer must walk in darkest night.
He who would save the world
Must share its pain.
If he knows not grief,
How shall he find grief’s cure?
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Savitri by Sri Aurobindo
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April 2, 2003
Valley of Jehoshaphat
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Azrael stormed into the gates of Gehenna.
The Emperor … fail!
She-who-is … hadn't seen it coming!
Even the General seemed genuinely perplexed.
Not only, did it turn out, that was Moloch’s second-in-command a hell of a lot bigger and stronger than he was, but the bastard kept running circles around them, outwitting them at every turn.
Well he, Azrael, was humble enough to admit when he was outclassed. He'd once seen a movie about a woman who visited a ca
