Hymn 1: The divine waters that flow whether in channels dug or self-born, they whose movement is towards the ocean, pure, purifying, may those water foster me. Hymn 2: May those divine waters foster me, the eldest of the ocean from the midst of the moving flood that go purifying, not settling down, which Indra of the thunderbolt, the Bull, clove out. The divine waters that flow whether in channels dug or self-born, whose movement is towards the Ocean, may those divine waters foster me. In the midst of whom King Varuna moves looking down on the truth and the falsehood of creatures, they that stream honey (not literal, rather consciousness) and are pure and purifying, may those divine waters foster me. In whom Varuna the king, in whom Soma, in whom all the Gods have the intoxication of the energy, into whom Agni Vaishwanara has entered, may those divine waters foster me. Hymn 3: O Waters, that supreme wave of yours, the drink of Indra, which the seekers of the Godhead have made for themselves, that pure, inviolate, clarity streaming, honeyed (consciousness nectar) wave of you may we today enjoy. O Waters, may the son of the waters (Agni), he of the swift rushing, foster that most honeyed (nectar of bliss) wave of you; that wave of yours in which Indra with the Vasus is intoxicated with ecstasy, may we who seek the Godhead taste today. Strained through the hundred purifiers, ecstatic by their self nature, they are divine and move to the goal of the movements of the God; they limit not the workings of Indra: offer to the rivers a food of oblation full of the clarity. May the rivers which the sun has formed by his rays, from whom Indra clove out a moving wave, establish for us the supreme good. And do ye, O gods, protect us ever by states of felicity. Hymn 4: We have made the sacrifice to ascend towards the supreme, let the Word increase. With kindling of his fire, with obeisance of submission they set Agni to his workings; they have given expression in the heaven to the knowings of the seers and they desire a passage for him in his strength, in his desire of the word. Full of intellect, purified in discernment, the perfect friend from his birth of Heaven and of Earth, he establishes the Bliss; the gods discovered Agni visible in the Waters, in the working of the sisters. The seven Mighty Ones increased him who utterly enjoys felicity, white in his birth, ruddy when he has grown. They moved and labored about him, the Mares around the newborn child; the gods gave body to Agni in his birth. With his pure bright limbs he extended and formed the middle world purifying the will to action by the help of the pure lords of wisdom; wearing light as a robe about all the life of the Waters he formed in himself glories vast and without any deficiency. He moved everywhere about the Mighty Ones of Heaven, and they devoured not, neither were overcome, they were not clothed, neither were they naked. Here the eternal and ever young goddesses from one womb held the one Child, they the Seven Words. Spread out were the masses of him in universal forms in the womb of the clarity, in the flowing of the sweetnesses; here the fostering Rivers stood nourishing themselves; the two Mothers (Earth and Heaven) of the accomplishing god became vast and harmonized. Borne by them, O Child of Force, thou didst blaze out holding thy bright and rapturous embodiments; out flow the streams of the sweetness, the clarity, where the Bull of the abundance has grown by the Wisdom. He discovered at his birth the source of the abundance of the father and he loosed forth wide His streams and wide His rivers. By his helpful comrades and by the Mighty Ones of Heaven he found Him moving in the secret places of existence, yet himself was not lost in their secrecy. He bored the child of the Father and of him that begot him; one, he fed upon his many mothers in their increasing. In this pure Male both these powers in man, Earth and Heaven, have their common lord and lover; do thou guard them both. Great in the unobstructed Vast he increased; yea, many Waters victoriously increased Agni. In the source of the truth he lay down; there he made his home, Agni in the working of the undivided sisters. As the mover in things and as their sustainer he in the meeting of the Great Ones, seeking vision, straight in his lusters, for the presser out of the soma, he who was the father of the Radiances, gave them now their higher birth, the child of the Waters, the mighty and most strong Agni. To the visible Birth of the waters and of the growths of Earth the goddess of Delight now gave birth in many forms, she of the utter felicity. The gods united in him by the mind and they set him to his working who was born full of strength and mighty for the labor. Those vast shining clove to Agni straight in his luster and were like bright lightnings; from him increasing in the secret places of existence in his own seat within the shoreless Vast they milked out immortality. Notes: In a disguise indeed, but a disguise that is transparent, neither veiled nor naked. The word of right self-expression aspires beyond mind. There are the sevenfold waters of the Truth, the divine waters brought down from the heights of our being by Indra. The child of the earth grows, earth and heaven. Entirely white and pure, growing ruddy with his action as he increases. They move about this great newborn child and labor over him as the Mares. His first work is to give as the child of the Waters its full form and extension and purity to the middle world, the vital or dynamic plane. He purifies the nervous life in man with prana, pervading it with his own pure bright limbs, lifting upward its impulsions and desires, its purified will in works by the pure powers of the super consciousness truth and Wisdom, no longer the broken and limited of desires and instincts, all about the life of the Waters. The first two mothers of the all-affecting will, become in their entire largeness perfectly equal and harmonized by this light of the Truth. The Father of all things is the Lord and Male; he is hidden in the secret source of things, in the super consciousness; Agni, with his companions Gods and with the sevenfold Waters, enters into the super consciousness without therefore disappearing from our consciousness existence, finds the source of the honeyed (consciousness bliss) plenty of the Father of things and pours them out on our life. He bears and himself becomes the Son, the pure Kumara, the pure Male, the One. The human beings accept him as their lord and lover. The shoreless infinite, his own natural seat in which he now takes up his home, with his indivisible companions. This also is his own new and last birth. Ascent of Agni which is also the upward journey of the man and the Gods whose image man forms in himself from level to level of the great him of being. This is the luminous doctrine of the ancient mystics, the secret of the Vedas.