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390 Hymns of the Atris
to the highest levels, — the white Steed that gallops in the front
of the Dawns.
Delivered from his smoke-enveloped activity he burns high
in our skies, scales the ether of the pure mind and mounts upon
the back of heaven. There on that rarer level its god Trita Aptya
takes this high-flaming force and forges it into a weapon of
sharpness that shall destroy all evil and ignorance. This Seer-
Will becomes the guardian of the illuminations of knowledge —
herds of the Sun that graze in the pastures of life secure from the
Sons of division and darkness, protected by the warrior force of
the Will that knows. He attains the immortality and maintains
unhurt its law of truth and joy in the human creature. In the end
we overpass all crookednesses of falsehood and error, emerge
from the low and broken and devious ground to the straight
path and the high and open levels. Will and Knowledge become
one; every impulse of the perfected soul becomes conscious of
the essential truth of its own self-being, every act fulfils it consciently,
joyously, victoriously. Such is the godhead to which the
Vedic Fire exalts the Aryan who does the sacrifice. The Immortal
conquers in the mortal and by his sacrifice. Man, the thinker,
fighter, toiler, becomes a seer, self-ruler and king over Nature.
The Veda speaks of this divine Flame in a series of splendid
and opulent images. He is the rapturous priest of the sacrifice,
the God-Will intoxicated with its own delight, the young sage,
the sleepless envoy, the ever-wakeful flame in the house, the
master of our gated dwelling-place, the beloved guest, the lord
in the creature, the seer of the flaming tresses, the divine child,
the pure and virgin God, the invincible warrior, the leader on the
path who marches in front of the human peoples, the immortal
in mortals, the worker established in man by the gods, the unobstructed
in knowledge, the infinite in being, the vast and flaming
sun of the Truth, the sustainer of the sacrifice and discerner of its
steps, the divine perception, the light, the vision, the firm foundation.
Throughout the Veda it is in the hymns which celebrate
this strong and brilliant deity that we find those which are the
most splendid in poetic colouring, profound in psychological
suggestion and sublime in their mystic intoxication. It is as if his