Eternal Prayers
We give You thanks, O Lord Most High, for by Your grace we have received the light of Your knowledge; may Your Name be adored and venerated, only Name by which Deity is praised according to the religion of our fathers! For You do bestow to all of us the ancestral faith, piety, love, and the most worthy and gracious gifts, in that You bestow upon us consciousness, reason, and intelligence. By consciousness we discern You, by reason we seek You, and intelligence endows us with the joy of understanding You.
Saved by Your divine power, let us be glad in beholding the manifestation of Yourself; let us be glad that, from the hour of our sojourn in the body, You do deign to consecrate us to eternity. The only joy of Man is the knowledge of Your majesty. We have known You, O magnificent Light, who are apprehended by Intelligence alone! We have known You, O true Way of Life, inexhaustible Source of all births! We have known You, O generative Plenitude of all Nature, Eternal Permanence! And in this our oraison, adoring the sanctity of Your holiness, we ask of You only to grant that we may persevere in the love of Your knowledge, in such wise that we may never separate ourselves from this manner of life. With which hope being filled, we go forth to take a pure repast without animal flesh.
"Lord, grant us a wisdom from your power that reaches us, so that we may describe to ourselves the vision of the eighth and the ninth. We have already advanced to the seventh, since we are pious and walk in your law. And your will we fulfill always. For we have walked in your way, and we have renounced [...], so that your vision may come. Lord, grant us the truth in the image. Allow us through the spirit to see the form of the image that has no deficiency, and receive the reflection of the pleroma from us through our praise.
"And acknowledge the spirit that is in us. For from you the universe received soul. For from you, the unbegotten one, the begotten one came into being. The birth of the self-begotten one is through you, the birth of all begotten things that exist. Receive from us these spiritual sacrifices, which we send to you with all our heart and our soul and all our strength. Save that which is in us and grant us the immortal wisdom."
Pray you this prayer for attaining of wisdom. Pray for the coming of Light to the ALL. "Mighty Spirit of Light that shines through the Cosmos, draw my flame closer in harmony to You. Lift up my fire from out of the darkness, magnet of fire that is One with the ALL. Lift up my soul, though mighty and potent. Child of the Light, turn not away. Draw me in power to melt in your furnace; One with all things and all things in One, fire of the life-strain and One with the Brain."
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