Chapter 42The Animal World · Horse

A horse always indicates some power.

* The Horse is the symbol in dream or vision of a Power or Energy.

* The Horse is Power — white is pure. It is the pure Power.

* The Horse is Power, usually Life-Power, but also it may mean Mind-Power in Tapas if it is dynamic and mobile.

* The Horse is the symbol of Power in motion — often of the Power that makes for rapid progress in sadhana.

* The horse is a force acting for progress.

* The horse is always the symbol of Power; it must be then a Power which you were trying to catch and make your own while sometimes it was trying to come up with you, perhaps to use you. This is what happens in the vital where there are these uncertain and elusive movements. The high platform was evidently the level of a higher Consciousness which stilled this fluctuating movement and made control of the Power more possible, as it became still and near.

* The ass is the symbol of the inertia and obstruction in the body. The horse is the symbol of force or power. The tunnel of water must be the vital physical and the arch is a passage out, by which, if the ass can cross it or rather be pulled across, then it becomes a horse. In other words, the inertia and obstruction in the physical will be changed into Power and Force of Progress.