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a lever for producing mighty changes and way — wholly and integrally — as to bring
creations upon earth. This conception of the about a corresponding integral reversal or
occult potency of the body is at the basis of revaluation in the physical world. A human
the rite or institution of sacrifice that was being that makes of himself a holocaust —
a characteristic feature of the old-world burns himself out at the altar of the Divine
society. Iphigenia was offered as a victim — keeping nothing for his own sake, living
to avert the wrath of the gods and bring for the Divine alone, by calling down the
victory to the Greeks. Sometimes an animal divine will in himself, brings into the earthly
replaced the human victim and served the life too a divine presence and transformation.
same purpose and in the same way. And A total physical sacrifice results inevitably
in a higher sense — indeed in the highest into a total expression and embodiment of
sense — a body can sacrifice itself in such a the Divine in the Physical world.*

* Nolini Kanta Gupta. Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta, Volume 3. Pondicherry:
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust; 1972, p. 245-6.

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