(11) None but the sun can display the sun, If you would see it displayed, turn not away from it. Shadows, indeed, may indicate the sun's presence, Shadows induce slumber, like evening talks, But when the sun arises the "moon is split asunder." In the world there is naught so wondrous as the sun, Though the material sun is unique and single, But the Sun of the soul, beyond this firmament, Where is there room in conception for His essence, So that similitudes of HIM should be conceivable?

(13) First behold the Sun; it is the Heart or King of all Stars, and gives Light to all Stars from the East to the West; it enlightens and warms all, all lives and grows by its Power; besides, the Joy of all Creatures stands in its Power.

(387) The sun is bright by day, the moon shines by night, the warrior is bright in his armour, the Brâhmana is bright in his meditation; but Buddha, the Awakened, is bright with splendour day and night.

(48) For as the Sun stands in the Midst, betwixt the Stars and the Earth, enlightening all Powers, and is the Light and Heart of all the Powers, and is all the Joy in this World; besides, all Beauty and Pleasantness standeth in the Light and Power of the Sun;

The FUMIGATION from FRANKINCENSE and MANNA. HEAR golden Titan, whose eternal eye With broad survey, illumines all the sky. Self-born, unwearied in diffusing light, And to all eyes the mirrour of delight: Lord of the seasons, with thy fiery car And leaping coursers, beaming light from far: With thy right hand the source of morning light, 7 And with thy left the father of the night. Agile and vig'rous, venerable Sun, Fiery and bright around the heav'ns you run. Foe to the wicked, but the good man's guide, O'er all his steps propitious you preside: With various founding, golden lyre, 'tis mine To fill the world with harmony divine. Father of ages, guide of prosp'rous deeds, The world's commander, borne by lucid steeds, Immortal Jove, all-searching, bearing light, 17 Source of existence, pure and fiery bright Bearer of fruit, almighty lord of years, Agil and warm, whom ev'ry pow'r reveres. Great eye of Nature and the starry skies, Doom'd with immortal flames to set and rise Dispensing justice, lover of the stream, The world's great despot, and o'er all supreme. Faithful defender, and the eye of right, Of steeds the ruler, and of life the light: With founding whip four fiery steeds you guide, When in the car of day you glorious ride. Propitious on these mystic labours shine, And bless thy suppliants with a life divine.

(41) And I saw the chambers of the sun and moon, whence they proceed and whither they come again, and their glorious return, and how one is superior to the other, and their stately orbit, and how they do not leave their orbit, and they add nothing to their orbit and they take nothing from it, and they keep faith with each other, in accordance with the oath by which they are bound together.

(72) And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire.

(19) And the Light of the Sun is as it were a God in the Nature of this World, and by its Virtue [and Influence] it continually kindles the Stars [or Constellations] whereby the Stars [or Constellations] (which are of a very terrible and anguishing Essence) continually exult in Triumph very joyfully. For it [the Sun] is an Essence like the Light of God, which kindles and enlightens the dark Mind of the Father, from whence, by the Light, there arises the divine Joy in the Father.

(4) But when the sun has set, Yajnavalkya, what light does a person here have? ' 'The moon, indeed, is his light/ said he, c for with the moon, indeed, as his light one sits, moves around, does his work, and returns/ ' Quite so, Yajnavalkya.

(104) Morning and Evening are and reach only up from the Earth to the Moon, and take their Original from the Light of the Sun, and this makes Evening and Morning, as also the outward Day, and the outward dark Night, as every one knows.

(10) The sun does not thine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, and much less this fire. When he shines, everything shines after him; by his light all this is lighted.

(78) These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.

(66) therefore the Sun is the most shining and brightest of all, and re-enlightens all the Stars again; all the Stars work in its Power, and itself has the Power of all the Stars; it kindles all the Powers of the Stars with its Splendor and Heat, and so every Star receives from the Sun, according to its Power and Condition, or Kind.

(72) For it is the only and sole natural Light of this World, and besides it, there is no more any true Light in the House of Death; and though it seems as if the other Stars did shine bright and give Light also, yet it is not so, but they take all their Luster and shining Light from the Sun; as hereafter presented follows. The true Birth, or Geniture and Descent of the Sun and of the other Planets, is just thus as follows.

(46) Now Observe: The Sun sits in the Midst, in the Deep, between the Stars, in a round Circle, and is the Heart of the Stars, and gives Light and Power to all the Stars, to tempering the Power of the Stars, that all becomes pleasant and joyful.

(5) Yonder sun is the same as that Real. The Person who is there in that orb and the Person who is here in the right eye — these two depend the one upon the other. Through his rays that one depends upon this one; through his vital breaths this one upon that. When one is about to decease, he sees that, orb quite clear [i. e. free from rays]; those rays come to him no more.

(4) But when the sun has set, and the moon has set, what light does a person here have? ' ' Fire, indeed, is his light/ said he, c for with fire, indeed, as his light one sits, moves around, does his work, and returns/ ' Quite so, Yajnavalkya.

(80) [And in those days the sun shall be seen and he shall journey in the evening †on the extremity of the great chariot† in the west] And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.

(70) But here I will show thee the right Mystery. Behold, the Sun is the Heart of all Powers in this World, and is compacted, framed, or composed out of all the Powers of the Stars, it re-enlightens all the Stars, and all the Powers in this World, and all Powers grow as it were, operative, or qualifying in its Power. ["Understand it Magically: For it is a Mirror, Look-ing-Glass, or Similitude of the Eternal World."]

(15) That light which residing in the sun illumines the whole world, that which is in the moon and in the fire, that light do thou know to be Mine.