There is a description of the Sons of Darkness in chapter twentyone of The Secret of the Veda by Sri Aurobindo. The following is a paraphrased version to focus attention directly on them, they who are the haters of the sacred word, those who give not to the gods the gift or the holy wine, who keep the wealth of cows and horses and other treasure for themselves and do not give them to the seers; they are those who do not do the sacrifice. In the Rig Veda it is the spiritual conflict and victory, not the physical battle and plunder of which the Rishis are speaking. These sons are the broods that have sprung up from the Inconscience when Life and Mind-in-Life entered into the evolving consciousness. Their birthplace is the Cave of Darkness. Unless they are overpowered, progress on the higher spiritual path cannot proceed. These are the beings who are different from the Four Powers of the supreme Light who separated themselves away from their divine Origin and became their opposites, the Antagoists who, after a long travail and after doing the dreadful task yearn to return to it. This return of theirs can happen only when the Supermind enters into the evolutionary process for which the Supreme himself comes as an Avatar and does the needed yoga-tapasya in the earth-consciousness, yoga-tapasya invoking the divine Power to incarnate herself and do the work of manifestation after removing the obstacle sanding across the path of the divine Event, the full account of which we have in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri, the Veda of the New Age. In contrast to these four mighty and fruitful Anatgonists the Sons of Darkness do not express any intention of changing themselves into beings of light, they who are the byproducts of the process as against the initiators of the process.

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