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HYMN TO THE DAWN
V. 79
[The Rishi prays for the full epiphany of
the Dawn of the light of Truth in all its lavish splendour, with all the
bountiful companies of its gods and seers, the shining herds of its thought, the
rushing steeds of its force, the luminous impulsions with which it comes —
companioned, as they are, by the burning rays of the Sun of gnosis. Let the Dawn
arrive and the work will no longer be long and tardy.]
1. O Dawn, come with all thy splendours of
heaven, awaken us today to the great felicity, even as once thou awakenedst us,
— in the sonhood of the birth of knowledge, in the inspired hearing of the
Truth.¹
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth is
in the tramp of thy steeds!
2. Thou who breakest forth into dawning, O
daughter of heaven, in him who has the perfect leading of the flaming chariot of
light,²
so break forth today, — O greater still in thy force, in the sonhood of the
birth of knowledge, in the inspired hearing of the Truth.
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth is in the
tramp of thy steeds!
¹The
name of the Rishi is here a covert figure for the characteristics of the
Sun-birth in man.
² The
same figure, with another name; it gives the result of the Sun-birth.
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3. Break forth into light a bearer of
treasures, O daughter of heaven, as once thou brokest forth, — O greater still
in thy force, in the sonhood of the birth of knowledge, in the inspired hearing
of the Truth.
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth is in the
tramp of thy steeds!
4. There are bearers of the sacrifice¹
who bring thee out in their speech, by their hymns they manifest thee, O wide
and lustrous Dawn; they are glorious with thy plenty, O queen, their gifts are
lavish, their boons are full.
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth is in
the tramp of thy steeds!
5. When these companies of thy godheads seek
to pleasure thee in hope of thy plenitudes, they set their desires all around,
they lavish thy undeviating felicity.
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth is in the
tramp of thy steeds!
6. These are thy seers; O Dawn, queen of
plenty, set in them the splendour of thy heroic powers; lords of thy plenty,
they shall lavish on us thy undeviating riches.
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth
is in the tramp of thy steeds!
¹Not
human priests, but divine powers, the hosts or companies of the Dawn, "ganah",
at once priests, seers and patrons of the inner sacrifice, winners and
givers of the celestial wealth.
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7. O Dawn, our lady of plenty, bring to them
thy illumination, a vast glory; they shall give us enjoyment of the felicity of
thy steeds and the felicity of thy herds.
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth is in the
tramp of thy steeds!
8. Bring to us too, O daughter of heaven,
powers of impulse full of the troopings of thy light; let them come companioned
with the rays of thy Sun, linked with the purity of his bright and burning
light-givings.
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth
is in the tramp of thy steeds!
9. Break forth into light, O daughter of
heaven! And spin not out too long the work. For thee thy sun afflicts not with
his burning ray as he afflicts the foe and the thief.¹
O, thy birth is complete! O, truth is in the tramp of thy steeds!
10. So much thou shouldst give or more than
this; for to thy adorers thou breakest forth into the full wideness of thy
glories and thou art not limited in thy dawning.
O, thy birth is complete!
O, truth is in the tramp of thy steeds!
¹The
labour towards the being of the Truth is long and tedious, because the powers
of darkness and division, the lower powers of our being, seize on and
appropriate, keep idle or misuse the gains of the knowledge. They are not
bearers of the sacrifice, but its spoilers; they are hurt by the full ray of the
sun. But this Dawn of knowledge can bear the full illumination and bring to a
rapid conclusion the great work.
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HYMN TO THE DAWN
V.80
[The Rishi hymns the divine Dawn, daughter
of Heaven, as the bringer of the Truth, the bliss, the heavens of light, creator
of the Light, giver of vision, maker, follower, leader of the paths of Truth,
remover of the darkness, the eternal and ever youthful goddess of our godward
journeying.]
1. Dawn of the luminous journey. Dawn queen
of truth, large with the Truth, how wide is the gleam from her rosy limbs, —Dawn
divine who brings with her the heaven of light! Her the seers adore with their
thoughts.
2. This is she who has the vision and she
awakens man and makes his paths easy to travel and walks in his front. How large
is her chariot, how vast and all-pervading the goddess, how she brings Light in
the front of the days!
3. This is she who yokes her cows of rosy
light; her journey does not fail and such is the treasure she makes that it
passes not away. She hews out our paths to happiness; divine is she, far-shining
her glory, many the hymns that rise to her, she brings with her every boon.
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4. Behold her in her biune energy of earth
and heaven, how she comes into being in her whiteness and discloses her body in
our front. She follows perfectly the paths of Truth, as one who is wise and
knows, and she hedges not in our regions.
5. Lo, how brilliant is her body when she is
found and known! How she stands on high as if bathing in light that we may have
vision! Driving away all enemies and all darknesses Dawn, the daughter of
Heaven, has come with the Light.
6. Lo, the daughter of Heaven like a woman
full of happiness moves to meet the gods and her form travels ever nearer to
them. Unveiling all blessings for the giver of sacrifice the goddess young for
ever has created the Light once more even as in the beginning.
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