THE LORD’S PRAYER
By
-Daniel-
©
Though we be apart,
we are but a heartbeat away.
I have come to share a Truth
upon this blessed day.
Some time ago I was asked if I thought the Kingdom of God,
as reflected in the Lord's Prayer,
would come into being after the destruction of mankind on earth...
I want to share with you my answer as I believe that the vast majority
of good people just recite the Master's Prayer without ever really
thinking about it...
'The Kingdom of God is at hand' spoke the Master.
This Kingdom is not dependent upon the demise of Man,
but rather on the individual personality raising the vibration
of his or her awareness.
The Kingdom of God is not a place but rather a State of Being.
Here is what the Lord's Prayer expresses to me...
Our Father
This defines the relationship between God and man as
well as the relationship between each one of us.
These two words sweep away all thoughts of a demanding and punishing god.
We are not the begging slaves, but His children and as such we are
reflective of our Parent's nature.
If God is Divine, then we too are Divine in nature.
No longer are there favored individuals or the eternal
damnation of hell because we are forever, individually,
loved, unconditionally loved, by Our Father.
Which art in heaven
God is cause and man is manifestation.
The Absolute Beingness manifests as man.
Heaven is the Causeless Cause
and the earth is the manifestation.
Cause is not expression and expression is not cause...
God and Man are One but they are not one
and the same.
Hallowed be Thy name
In the secret of mystical language,
the name of anything assigns the essential nature or character of that thing.
Therefore the very nature of God is All-Holy All-Good.
Now if an effect must be similar in its nature to its cause,
and God is hallowed, everything that manifests from Cause
must also be hallowed.
Thy Kingdom come
Thy will be done
in earth as it is in heaven
Man is an individualized consciousness of God.
The Kingdom is that realm within man's consciousness where
he knows and understands his own Divinity.
If man were not individualized, there would be only one experience,
and this would place limits on the limitless Logoic nature of man.
Man has creative powers and free will, but we abuse both when we try
working apart from the Goodness of God.
As we work in union with God, the Causeless Cause,
we work to bring the harmony of His Agapi into manifestation.
Give us this day
our daily bread
Bread is representative of universal substance.
Our daily bread is the sustenance for spirit, mind and body.
Food for our bodies, Truth to contemplate for our minds and
Love to enrich our spirits.
Forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who
trespass against us
How can we expect to be forgiven if we cannot
find it within our own hearts to forgive all other brother
and sister souls?
To be unforgiving is to declare that we are somehow better and
separate from our brothers and sisters and in so doing,
we separate ourselves from Our Father.
Lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
The more time we spend in prayer and
meditation, the more sensitive and powerful we become.
The danger comes in the form of spiritual vanity,
and the temptation to work for self-glory and material gain,
forgetting Our Father and believing that we
and we alone are the cause.
There are many different ways to look at and understand a sacred writing.
There is no right or wrong answer...
I only want you to contemplate what the
words really mean to you...
I would have you understand within your
own awareness rather than to blindly recite, as the faithful do,
our Beloved's most precious lesson.