Priests And Prophets

Abstract

Agnim ite purobitem, "I venerate fire, the high priest," so begins the first line of the first poem of the first book of the Rig. Veda. Fire is sacred, the High Priest. "Listen ye O! People.Yahweh, the Lord of Israel says:' so says the prophet. Fire is the priest, oracle is the prophet. Fire and oracle, priest and prophet. are two important dimensions of religious life of every human being. Fire took his oblation to God, through oracle came down the word of God to him. This number of the Journal of Dharma focusses its attention on these two dimensions of humankind, the priest and the prophet.