“O Agni, Holy Fire! Purifying fire! You who sleep in the wood, and ascend in shining flames on the altar, you are the heart of sacrifice, the fearless wings of prayer, the divine spark hidden in everything, and the glorious soul of the sun!”

—Vedic Hymn, quoted by Edouard Schur’ in The Great Initiates: A Study of the Secret History of Religions, translated from the French by Gloria Rasberry, 1961.