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Excerpt from The Forerunners
Excerpt from The Forerunners

O my Peace, who smilest,
thy soft eyes filled with tears,
Summer rainbow, sunny evening,
Who, with thy golden fingers,
Fondlests the besprinked fields,
Carest for the fallen fruits,
And healest the wounds
of the trees which the wind
and the hail have bruised;

Shed on us thy healing balm,
and lull our sorrows to sleep!
They will pass, and we also.
Thou alone endurest for ever.

Brothers, let us unite; and you too,
forces within me,
Which clash one upon another
in my riven heart!
Join hands and dance along!

We move forward calmly and without haste,
For TIme is not our quarry.
Time is on our side.
With the osiers of the ages
 my Peace weaves her nest.

I am like the cricket who chirps in the fields.
A storm bursts, rain falls in torrents, drowning.
The furrow and the chirping.
But as soon as the flurry is over,
The little musician, undaunted, resumes his song.

From Aris Pacis,
a poem as the preface
to The Forerunner
1914 by Romain Rolland,
Nobel Peace Prize for Literature 1917.

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Romain Rolland
was Co-Founder of the
International Biogenic
Society, started by
Edmond Bordeaux Szekely.   
Biogenic is the word Szekely gave for "Life Giving."
It is an Essene expression.

"The spirit is the servant of none. It is we who are servants of the spirit. We have no other master. We are born to bear its torch, to defend it, to rally round it all those who have strayed. Our part, our duty is to maintain a fixed point, to point out the polar star, amidst the whirl of passions in the night."

by Romain Rolland

http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/library/tolstoj/tolstoy2.htm



"Romain Rolland was one of the very few European intellectuals who spoke out against the First World War right from the beginning. Actually he followed Tolstoy's example thinking responsible for his generation when he took a Pacifist stand against the military system. Among his intellectual friends was Stefan Zweig (1881-1942). Inspired by Tolstoy, Stefan Zweig wrote his novel “Der Zwang” (Der Refractair) about a conscientious objector in 1918, translated Rolland's drama “The time will come” into German language in 1919. He was invited to the official celebrations of Tolstoy's 100th birthday in 1928. In 1928, he wrote a magnificent portrait of Tolstoy which was later published in “Master Builders: A Typology of the Spirit” (New York 1939)."



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