...“Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?”—asks St Luke. The perception of Romain Rolland that “having been married to mortal condition, he [Christ] had perforce, to plumb the depths of human suffering and humiliation of mortal capitulation” is far deeper than the small human mind can comprehend. The full occult-spiritual connotation of it comes out in Narad’s description of the crucifixion event in Savitri...   more »