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-====== The Inner Life 1938 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE ==
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MARCH 1938 ==
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+==== A HYMN TO THE SUN ====
+(Written thousands of years ago and found in the early literature of India—in The Mahabharata)
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+“THOU art, O sun, the Eye of the World, the Source of all that is, the Origin of all things, the Refuge of the wise, the Door, the Resort of them that seek salvation.
+Thou upholdest the world in pity. The priests adore Thee; the saints adore Thee, Purified ones and angels and singers of heaven follow Thy course. All the gods have worshipped Thee, the Seven Fathers, through worshipping Thee and offering to Thee the flowers of heaven, obtain all their desires; as by adoring Thee they (originally) obtained heaven.
+In all the seven worlds naught is higher than Thou; no being of heaven equals Thee in glory; for in Thee is all light; Lord of Light art Thou; and in Thee are all the elements; in Thee all knowledge and wisdom and religious ardor (heat). Through Thy energy the artisans of the gods slew the demons of darkness. Thou art Thyself the All-maker, as Thou art the Creator. For it is Thou who givest life, in summer drawing up with Thy rays the moisture of earth and pouring it down again in the rainy season, giving rain, giving grain, giving life. When the thunderbolts bellow in the clouds and the clouds pour forth light, these are Thy rays, gleaming in the clouds as lightning flashes.
+But kind art Thou. Not fire, not house, nor woolen clothes warm us and comfort us as dost Thou. All the earth with its thirteen continents is illumined by Thee as one, (One God Thou shinest on all the different lands); one and the same art Thou wherever shining; Thou art the only God ever busy to do men good; and not men only, but all three worlds (earth, atmosphere and sky).
+If so be Thou risest not, blind is the world forthwith; through Thy Grace alone can men perform their tasks. The day of Brahman, the Creator, lasts for a thousand ages; of that day Thou art the beginning and the end; Thou art Lord of all the lords of all the ages and aeons (Lord of all Time), and when at last shall come an end of that great day (Time), then sprung from Thee shall likewise be that fire which shall consume the world. Universal dissolution shall ensue, and born of Thy anger against a sinful world, fire shall leap forth and there shall be naught left save that fire itself. Yet this as lightning clouds and floods and storms and death more universal still, then become twelve suns, to dry again that flood in floods of fire.
+But all of them art Thou, all the twelve suns, as Thou art all the gods, Indra, Vishnu, Brahman the Creator, Agni (fire-god); and not alone art Thou that visible (Agni), but Thou art the fire invisible which is thought; aye, intellectual fire, subtle intelligence; that, too, art Thou, and Thou art eternal (world-power) Brahma. (Neuter Brahma, the Absolute).
+Pure Soul, the Swan, art Thou, yet Thou art also He-that-quickens, Light, Crowned God. Thou art all the names of the Sun (Sun under every aspect, as pure, strong, ruler, dark-killer, infinite, ineffable, eternal, etc.); God of Light, and God of Right, and God who makes the Day; God of the Seven Steeds, Lord of the Yellow Seeds, Swift Runner, Slayer of Darkness (all these are but the names of the same God), the God of gods.
+On the sixth day of the moon of the seventh day, whose worships Thee shall obtain Thy Grace, and Thy Grace shall give him good fortune. Blessed are Thy worshippers, for they shall be free from danger, free from pain, free from all affliction; long shall they live and abide in good health who believe in Thee as the Soul of the World.
+O, Lord of Sustenance, give us to-day our food. I bow to Thee and to the Red Runner, the God Aruna, who really runs before Thee, Thy servant, my Lord; I bow to Thy rod (the rod of punishment); I bow to Thy bolt, the lightning; to all the Saints who follow Thee and take refuge in Thee; unto these I bow. Oh, deliver me, who am Thy suppliant.”—From “Origin and Evolution of Religion” by B. Washburn Hopkins, PhD., LL.D.
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