“Hearken! Hark! the hours careering! Sounding loud to spirit-hearing, See the new-born Day appearing! Rocky portals jarring shatter, Phœbus’ wheels in rolling clatter, With a crash the Light draws near! Pealing rays and trumpet-blazes, Eye is blinded, ear amazes; The Unheard can no one hear! Slip within each blossom-bell, Deeper, deeper, there to dwell,— In the rocks, beneath the leaf! If it strikes you, you are deaf.” —_Faust._ Part II. We also must not forget the beautiful verse of Hölderlin: “Where art thou? Drunken, my soul dreams Of all thy rapture. Yet even now I hearken As full of golden tones the radiant sun youth Upon his heavenly lyre plays his even song To the echoing woods and hills.” Just as in archaic speech fire and the speech sounds (the mating call, music) appear as forms of emanation of the libido, thus light and sound entering the psyche become one: libido. Manilius expresses it in his beautiful verses: “Quid mirum noscere mundum Si possunt homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva? An quoquam genitos nisi cælo credere fas est Esse homines? Stetit unus in arcem Erectus capitis victorque ad sidera mittit sidereos oculos.”[326] The idea of the Sanskrit _têjas_ suggests the fundamental significance of the libido for the conception of the world in general. I am indebted to Dr. Abegg, in Zurich, a thorough Sanskrit scholar, for the compilation of the eight meanings of this word. _Têjas_ signifies: 1. Sharpness, cutting edge. 2. Fire, splendor, light, glow, heat. 3. Healthy appearance, beauty. 4. The fiery and color-producing power of the human organism (thought to be in the bile). 5. Power, energy, vital force. 6. Passionate nature. 7. Mental, also magic, strength; influence, position, dignity. 8. Sperma. This gives us a dim idea of how, for primitive thought, the so-called objective world was, and had to be, a subjective image. To this thought must be applied the words of the “Chorus Mysticus”: “All that is perishable Is only an allegory.” The Sanskrit word for fire is _agnis_ (the Latin _ignis_);[327] the fire personified is the god Agni, the divine mediator,[328] whose symbol has certain points of contact with that of Christ. In Avesta and in the Vedas the fire is the messenger of the gods. In the Christian mythology certain parts are closely related with the myth of Agni. Daniel speaks of the three men in the fiery furnace: