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THE FIFTEENTH HYMN TO AGNI
A HYMN OF THE DIVINE UPHOLDER AND CONQUEROR
[The Rishi hymns the Divine Will as the Seer and the Mighty
One, the upholder of the Bliss and the Truth, by which men
attain to the supreme-seated godheads. He breaks leonine
through an army of opposers, sees and confirms for man all the
possible births and manifestations of the soul, forms in him the
secret superconscient plane and by knowledge delivers him into
that vast beatitude.]
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To the Seer and Ordainer who is the object of knowledge I
bring the offering of the Word, to the glorious and victorious,
to the pristine and supreme. He is the Mighty One accomplished in joy who goes forward to the clarities, the strength
that is holder of the bliss and holder of the substance.
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By the Truth they uphold the Truth that holds all, in the
power of the Sacrifice, in the supreme ether, even they who
by the godheads born in them travel to the godheads unborn,
to the Powers who are seated for ever in the Law that up-
holds the heavens.
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Putting evil away from them they create wide-extended
forms and embodiments of the soul that are a vast birth and
indestructible manifestation for this first and supreme
godhead; new-born he shall break through armies that join
like converging floods; they stand encompassing him like
hunters who enring an angry lion.
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Thou art even as a mother when in thy wideness thou bearest
in thy arms birth after birth to the firm foundation and to
the vision. When thou boldest in thee and enjoyest manifestation after manifestation, thou movest abroad with thy
self in many different forms.
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May our plenitude possess the
furthest limit of thy might, O
godhead, where in its wideness and all-yielding abundance
it upholds the bliss. Thou art he that forms and upholds
in himself that secret abode to which we move; by thy
awakening of him into knowledge thou hast rescued the
enjoyer of things for a vast beatitude.
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