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The prayer of the Lord
19th September 1842, morning.
[1] Write today a dignified topic, namely the call in My Prayer, which is:
[2] Our Father, who art in heaven!
[3] Such a call is now made daily by millions of people, but very few of them consider what they are saying, and even fewer of them pray this in the true heavenly sense; and yet they are to pray this in the heavenly sense, because the Father to Whom they pray, is in heaven.
[4] However, how does this call read in the heavenly sense? It is not the place here to analytically dissect this sense through correspondences, but here I will show you only in the purely heavenly spiritual way – namely with the natural words, because you do not understand the language of the spirit – as that is from the mouth of the purest spirits. And so hear then, so it says:
[5] Eternal infinite Love, dwelling in the light of Your holiness!
[6] This is a way and a sense! From this however the following still deeper sense emerges, and this thus reads:
[7] Life of all life that dwells in our hearts!
[8] Behold, this sense lies already deeper again! But we want to see even further, what is behind this, is even deeper. And so hear then, so it reads deeper:
[9] Man of men, You who dwell in man!
[10] See how much deeper this is already again! But listen only further, how it says again deeper:
[11] Word of all words, You Who dwell in Your basic being, and we in it, and the same in us!
[12] How much deeper lies this one again! Oh heed such meaning, for in him dwells the fullness of the Holy Spirit! But listen only further and deeper, for there it thus reads:
[13] Oh incomprehensible center of infinity in all love, strength, power, force and holiness, which You alone embrace Your endless being!
[14] Further hear it with an open heart; there it says:
[15] Eternal unlimited God, You Who dwells in the Spirit of your infinite fullness and clarity!
[16] See what depth prevails here, and yet even here it has no end, but the depths of the depths increase also here into infinity, so that every angel, no matter how perfect, always sees a new and deeper beginning in it, and also sees that in every deeper one lies again in and for itself infinity – which will not be grasped in fullness for all eternity!
[17] But now think about yourselves, when you often enough babble this call together with the following requests quite mechanically, what the angels must think about it, who know very well and realize that they cannot cope with the only call in eternities in the depth of the depths, and what then only I, to Whom this call is addressed? Oh you still strongly dead, that such things have never yet become clear to you!
[18] Awake now, and call in spirit and in truth: "Our Father, who art in heaven!" – then you will find life in the deep as in the height; for in this call itself lies already the whole prayer, and every request resembles it.
[19] Therefore think in the future, what and how you pray, so will your prayer be heard! Understand such a thing thus well for all eternity of eternity, Amen.