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A Hymn of the Thought-Gods 563
march. Now they make themselves as galloping forces of our
life, now they are gods and powers of the soul; at last they
put on forms of a supreme world, forms of vision, forms of
light. They have attained to the goal, they support the rhythms
of the world, chanting they weave their glorious dance round
the very fountain of things; they are creators of supreme forms,
they expand the soul in vision and make it a divine blaze of
light. For these are rushing seekers of the Truth; for the Truth
their lightnings stab and search; they are seers, they are creators
and ordainers; their aggressions are inspired by the might and
force of heaven, therefore affirmed in our thoughts they speed
carrying us confidently on their way. When the mind is full of
them, it is borne on towards godhead, for they have the radiant
inspiration of the path.
Who has known the place of their birth or who has sat in
their high beatitudes? Who desires and seeks his Friend beyond?
A Mother bore them many-hued in her soul and of her they tell
him; a Violent One was their Father whose impulse drives all
beings that are born, and him they reveal. Seven and seven the
Thought-gods came to me and seven times they gave a hundredfold;
in Yamuna I will bathe the shining herds of my thoughts
which they have given, I will purify my swiftnesses in the river
of my soul.
Lo, they march on in their cohorts and their companies;
let us follow in their steps with the pace of our thinkings. For
they bear with them an imperishable seed of creation and the
grain of immortal forms and this if they plant in the fields of
the soul, there shall grow as its harvest life universal and bliss
transcendent. They will put by all that derides our aspiration
and pass beyond all that limits us; they will destroy all fault and
dumbness and the soul’s poverties. For theirs is the rain of the
abundance of heaven and theirs the storms that set flowing the
rivers of life; their thunders are the chant of the hymn of the gods
and the proclamations of the Truth. They are the eye that leads
us on a happy path and he who follows them shall not stumble,
nor have pain nor hurt, nor decay nor die; their plenitudes are
not destroyed nor their felicities diminished; they make of man