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THE COLOURS OF THE LORD'S PRAYER WHAT THE LORD'S PRAYER MEAN. The Lord's Prayer is the greatest of all prayers; it is the approach and preparation for individual prayer. When Christ taught the disciples the Lord's Prayer it was for a purpose: He wanted His message to go all of the world. Translated into any language the words of the Lord's Prayer have the same numerical value and the same colour-form. This is unique, and in that sense it is a miraculous Prayer. If Christ had said, "When two or three are gathered together it will be difficult for Me to be among you unless you say this Prayer," that would have been the truth. The Lord's Prayer is a prayer of hope, of love, of peace. A Prayer that holds all things in its words. It brings, by its beauty, the Kingdom of Heaven into the hearts of those who pray it well. It is a precious Prayer; a Prayer to be meditated on; a Prayer that has in it the deepest issue; a Prayer that can lift one to the greatest heights; a Prayer that can mean all things, give all things, including The Kingdom of Heaven.
PREPARATION FOR THE LORD'S PRAYER The Lord's Prayer is intended to tune the vibrations of the ether around the one who prays. Before you begin you must make your conditions right. If you have anger in your heart, or hate, or vanity or lust, or any of the many sins, just dispel them. Do not be sorrowful; do not be too emotionally happy-----just at peace and calm. There is no need to kneel. Relax so that you almost forget you have a body-----think that you are just a Spirit. Then slowly say that Prayer, making the pauses in the right places, realising you are building a shaft towards Heaven that cannot be dispelled and at every repetition of that Prayer it will rise higher.
MEDITATION ON THE LORD'S PRAYER If you meditate on the Lord's Prayer------picture the meaning of the words-------for only five or ten minutes a day, you will be increasing the brightness of your soul. In meditation it is so important to be still. "Be still and know that I am God." There are many ways of learning how to be still. Close your eyes and visualise the "Still Waters". They will enter your soul and you will by the power of their stillness, begin to "know God". You can lift your soul out of your body right up to the Highest Heaven by the power of your thought; that is why meditation is so important. There is no part of the Bible that holds a greater field for meditation than the Lord's Prayer. It has enough on which to meditate for 20 years or more ...... every word of which fulfills some promise. You will discover different angles and facets of the Prayer you never dreamt were there. To become conscious of Christ, to bring Him into your home, meditate on the Lord's Prayer, for these are the words of Christ, spoken through Jesus. As you meditate on that Prayer word by word, you can be in link with the Highest. There are people, who, through meditation, have Christ Consciousness and are bathed in light. Where does the light come from? It is the Christ within, enabling the angels of power and light to be always with them; hearing their prayers, giving them solace, taking away fear and increasing their love. The lives of such people change; they are bound to change.
HOW TO SAY THE LORD'S PRAYER The Lord's Prayer is a call sign to the angels. You can shout with a thundering voice and no one will hear you, but you may whisper the Lord's Prayer and they will gather round you. By its separate parts it puts you in the right condition to pray. Each part of the Lord's Prayer is a treasure beyond price. When the Lord's Prayer is gabbled it has no colouration; its harmonies are upset, and it does not create the atmosphere it should. But by slowly speaking the words with thought and care, you build up the right colouration for the guides to approach you. Thought is usually turned inwards. If you want thought to go out it must be brought into dynamic action by speaking. Gabbled prayers have no power; but the one who really thinks of what he is saying charges the words with the power of his thought and gets a very different effect. Thought behind spoken prayer also lightens the vibrations and enables it to rise. People in church do not understand the importance of the Lord's Prayer; they say it too quickly, without thought. They do not realise that it contains the most important words in the whole of life.
COLOURS OF THE LORD'S PRAYER. If said with real reverence and understanding, the Lord's Prayer makes a path through the earthplane's shadow, into the Heavens above. Every word of it has been carefully chosen for its vibratory effect on the ether. It must be spoken with knowledge of what it implies, and as it is said, the colours of the surrounding ether change. These colours are very remarkable and they vibrate; they are predominantly BLUE, PURPLE, and MAUVE with a certain amount of GOLD. If you had a hyper-sensitive wireless-set you could turn these colours into sound-waves of the most wonderful music and they would rise upwards, with the speed of thought on which distance has no effect. There must be pauses between its phrases for the creation of the right colours. Our-Father-which-art-in Heaven should not be said in one breath. It should be, Our-Father ..... pause .... which art in Heaven; in this way you have begun to build the colour-form for the Prayer to penetrate the Heavens. OUR FATHER ........ BLUE. By these two words it would be possible to fill a whole room with blue. But you want to penetrate the earthplane's shadow, so you say, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN ............ and the BLUE starts to concentrate itself into a shaft, perhaps three feet in diameter, and rises upwards, capped with PEARL. HALLOWED BE THY NAME ........... These words make a wonderful sunset colour effect around you. And the colours you can bring down with your mind as you say, THY KINGDOM COME ............. are as though you were drawing the colours of Heaven into your soul. These words start building a colour-ray of YELLOW, sunlight colour. The light is now coming down, as well as rising, as if the colours had turned into a fountain, rising and falling; and through it all, drawing nearer and nearer, can be seen the Spirit-forms, the Prayer-answerers. THY WILL BE DONE ............. Now you are bringing down from Heaven the colourisation in which the angels dwell, and asking that God shall instruct them. (Oh, it is so very real!) ON EARTH .............. the colour is GREY. There is a deepening of grey all round your shaft, caused by the concentration of the light forcing it outwards. AS IT IS IN HEAVEN ............... A positive assertion. You know Heaven exists, and you want it to be like that on earth. You can finish with this, and start your own prayers. All the preparation has been done.
ANALYSIS OF THE LORD'S PRAYER. (a) Our Father. Up to the time of Jesus the Jews held God apart as a miraculous force, a power that could be used for the destruction of their enemies. Unless men sent praises constantly to this God, he might strike them down and send them in after-life to a fiery hell of torment and torture. It was a God right outside human vision, completely unearthly. Then Jesus came and added to mankind the relationship of God the FATHER. But He defines the difference from the earthly fatherhood when He says, WHO ART IN HEAVEN. His Father, your Father----- Head of the spiritual Family of those who are incarnate and those who are discarnate. An understanding Father Who sees and knows you all; Who knows your virtues and blames you little for your faults-------pitying you maybe, because your faults reflect and react and create a condition around you that, on leaving the earthplane you have to live in. Our Father, Whose hand is always held out to humanity. The concept "Our Father" has made God so real, so beautiful. OUR. You all belong to God and He to you. In Him is all Fatherhood, all Motherhood. And the first words of the Lord's Prayer are a selfish appeal. Meditate on the words "our"----------- belonging to; individual. "Ours" ------- you are sharing, yet He is, individually, your Father. The Fatherhood Of God surrounds you all; in Him all love is contained and infinitely more----------and it all belongs to you. A most perfect earthly father could not give you in such great measure as your Heavenly Father. Is it not a wonderful thing to think that all you have, and will ever have, comes from Him? The gifts He has to give you are tremendous. A father is one who protects his children; they depend on him for their daily bread. Our Father, the Father of all fathers, is not remote, but near you, expressing Himself in the beauty that surrounds you. He has given us beauty expressed through music, literature, art, landscapes, sunrises and sunsets, flowers and the very colour of the grass. Colour! There is something alive about God's colours, different from that of man-made materials, of paintings; living colour by the Master-artist. If you bring the Father really into your hearts; if you can feel He has that great love for you, greater than any earthly father can have ----- then you can bring the power of the love of God into your souls. The Father Who is in Heaven thinks of you, loves you and belongs to you. Science will soon prove that when a person thinks of another, no matter how far apart they be, their vibrations will make contact to a greater or lesser extent. When you think of OUR FATHER, you are thinking of God; and you cannot think of God without God thinking of you. He is sensitive to your needs, to your wants.
(b) Which Art In Heaven. Heaven is thousands of times bigger than the world, and you cannot place God in one particular part of it. He is in the Christ, the Seventh Sphere in the Angel Kingdom; He is in all good people, Because God is goodness; His is the Fatherhood of the whole Heavens. It is almost impossible for you to imagine what the Heavens are like; they are as varied as the earth. But there is no beauty on earth that can compare with the beauties of the Spheres. In the place God will give you when you are dead .......... your Father is there. A mother's son may be in Australia and immediately she thinks of "our Australia". Many mothers have gone overseas just to see the homes where their sons live. Heaven is a place where your work is joy and love. There is no place on earth as happy as Heaven; but you must make Heaven of your soul so that the Father can dwell in it. He will be in you, yet in Heaven, because your soul will be in Heaven.
(c) HALLOWED BE THY NAME. Names are very significant. There is something very precious in a name when it is hallowed by love. If a name is spoken with holiness of thought and love behind it, it will go out into the ether and make magnetic contact with the one you are naming. If you speak God's Name with love in your heart you are bringing Him closer into your orbit. "Hallowed be Thy Name" ------- you put His Name above all names. If you have done wisely you have surrendered yourself to His guidance and His love; if you have not done so, the Prayer is empty ............. You recognise His beauty, His mercy, His justice ------- He is God, and your Father. Christ is a hallowed Name above all others. Anywhere in the world where human beings dwell they can become conscious of Him and know that He is in their life. When a man says "In the Name of Christ", a vibration is sent through the ether reaching to the Christ Kingdom. Sometimes names recall distress, hopelessness and hate in you. Names can mean so much, can bring so many prejudices ............ But the Name "God, The Father" does not bring any prejudices --- it brings hope, it brings the thought of One who will always guide and love you, no matter what you do. Yes, His Name. And you, who see in the Father perfection, beauty, peace, love, virtue and happiness ----- how can you help but hallow His Name?
(d) THY KINGDOM COME. Which came first, the earth or the Kingdom of Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven came first, and it is God's purpose to make the earth a true copy of the Kingdom of Heaven. It has always been in Heaven, and you pray that it may come on earth. Out of Heaven earth was formed; out of Heaven man first came, and it is into Heaven that man must pass .......... In some form or other those words have been said for millions of years by men outside His Kingdom, longing for it to come. You are not asking for something impossible ----- it can come on earth. It cannot penetrate the fog, darkness and despair of the earth in general, but where there is love, kindness, much giving and no vanity, where there is peace and the happiness that follows, there His Kingdom can come. Where it is you will have a feeling of belonging, as though you were part of that place. It is found in some ----- but not all ------ churches; more likely in a small country church than a large cathedral. Sermons are seldom preached on the Kingdom of Heaven; so little is known about it. Read books on theology or comparative religion, and you will be none the wiser as to what Christ meant about the Kingdom of Heaven. There are indeed abstract descriptions of a place where angels pass in and out all day, with harps and songs .......... Such a place does not exist. God has something better to do with spirits than to place them in a cloudy kind of atmosphere that seems to have very little mind in it, very little intelligence, as though the soul of man had left mind behind with his dead body, and sailed out into the Unknown .........Can you imagine billions of angels floating about playing harps? What would be the purpose of it? "Thy Kingdom Come" means the 4th dimension, interpenetration. The Spheres that are above the earth are to come closer, interpenetrating one with the other, until there are the Seven in one place, with the angels. There can be no Kingdom of Heaven while there is fear and want. But the New Age is dawning and the classes will be put on one side; there will be no more "low" or "high". Brotherhood is the kind of Heaven God wants on this earth, and it is coming. It is in the stars, it is in the planets, it is in the songs of the angels, it is in the ether, and at last it has entered into the human mind. "Thy Kingdom Come." You are asking for something very great, very wonderful. You are calling for peace, justice, mercy, hope and happiness beyond any understanding of the earth. All nationalities shall recognise His Fatherhood and His Kingship. You are asking for the Kingdom to come on earth that is rife with distrust, strife, dishonesty, chaos and fear. You are asking not only for the Kingdom to come to earth, but also that it shall come to you, individually. There is not to be a change in the earth's surface ------- it is a Kingdom you can have in yourself. But first of all Christ must enter you; you must be of Christ and Christ must be of you; You would not be troubled by anything that happened on this earth if Christ were in you. There is only one giver of the Kingdom of Heaven, Jesus Christ. The world revolves in the Aura of Christ, so you can all be in direct communication with him. He speaks through yourselves; in hope and joy and happiness. You can pass out of the fog and coldness of life into the warmth of Christ's love by just making up your mind and calling Him unto you. All the weary past can be lifted from your shoulders and you can be made new. I will tell you how. WATCH AND PRAY. Watch yourselves and pray that the angels may help you. Watch yourselves; do not watch your neighbours. Watch what you say-----the effect of your words; watch your acts------look forward and think of the effect of your acts on your neighbours. You have to WATCH to know what to PRAY for. And then the angels will come to your aid, and out of love for you they will guide you. To bring His Kingdom on earth you have to do your part, have you not? His Kingdom has no selfishness, no vanity, no unkind thoughts, no gossip, no greed. It is the Kingdom of Good in thought and purpose. You can make your Kingdom of Heaven on earth. Fear
keeps you out of the Kingdom of Heaven. What a horrible evil fear is!
And what stupid things people are afraid of! Fear of their neighbours;
fear of appearing ridiculous; fear of not The time is coming after this New Age has begun when men will wake to the knowledge that Prayer is real, then God's Kingdom will come on earth.
(e) Thy Will Be Done. His is the will of Love. Anything which is against love, the opposite to love, is against His will and against your happiness and peace. In order to do His will, you have to love Him and your neighbours. His will is that you should forgive again and again; that you shall hold no bad thoughts about your neighbours, but look beyond their faces and see the grace of God in them. It is His will that you should be without vanity, humble before the greatness of God and the beauty that He has created. It is His will that you should think of your neighbour first and yourself last. It is very difficult but along that way lies the Kingdom of Heaven. Meditate on His will. How often in your life is His will in action? How often do you act as God would have you? Do you really want His will? Or is it only lip service? God's will can be done on earth. Through His peace, His love, His joy; not through long faces and pessimism, but through the bright smile and the happy outlook on life. Not through regular attendance at church, with large Bibles under your arms .............You are a person, who is asking for His will to be done, and you are a part, a unit, of the whole of Heaven. "Thy will be done in you on earth, as it is in Heaven." Well, are you beginning to see the beauty?
(f) On Earth, As It Is In Heaven. It is possible to raise the bit of earth on which you are, by meditating on these words. For the Kingdom of Heaven is not a strange place, it can come to earth. Try to picture Heaven. When you are released from the chain of flesh you soar towards this Heaven. You know you have to progress there, to rise higher, and that any thinking of self only keeps you down. You progress there -------- as here --------- by love and service. Heaven has all earth's beauties, birds, flowers .....................
(g) Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread. These words actually mean food, that the body may be kept in health. In spite of hate, unhappiness and fear, the milk of human kindness flows stronger than it did; and in this country not many people are in want for their daily bread. But there is more than one kind of hunger. There is the manna from Heaven that you need to satisfy your souls. When Jesus blessed the bread it was filled with the power of His Spirit. The bread of Holy Communion is spiritual food, it is manna from Heaven, and the spirit is starved without it. In asking for your "daily bread" you also ask to be looked after. Who is going to look after you? Perhaps you have been pushed about, nobody has taken your hand or put their arms around you. You may be a very lonely person, but if you pray to Him, there are so many in Heaven who are waiting to look after you. The Ministering Angels looked after Jesus Christ you know -------- others will look after you. You ask that material worries may be removed from your path. Some people have the false idea that they should not pray for material help; that prayer should be entirely on the spiritual plane; that material things are of the earth, earthy, outside God and His angel orbit. How ridiculous when Christ Himself prayed for material things!
(h) Forgive Us Our Trespasses, As We Forgive Them That Trespass Against Us. There are so many things you have done for which you need so much forgiveness. One day you will understand how precious is that forgiveness. You pay for your own sins in proportion as you forgive your neighbours theirs against you. Forgiveness clears the darkness from your soul, and makes it possible for the power of God to enter. It is a spiritual law that if you sow forgiveness you will reap forgiveness. Trespassers are people who interfere with you; who upset your vanity; people of whom you are jealous; people you dislike; people who bore you. You have to forgive them their trespasses -------- and as you forgive you will find they will not "trespass" any more. These words have a very strong spiritual significance. They are the words of balance. You cannot receive without giving. We know, Oh God, that You do so keep this balance: We know we have to pay for everything we get: We have to give for all we receive, until the perfect balance comes. God gives you far more than you can give in return, but you must give something, so you contract to forgive those who sin against you. Has it ever struck you, the seriousness of making that contract with God? How can you pray the Lord's Prayer with hate in your heart, with an unforgiving soul, a critical mind, with uncharitableness? If you have not forgiven, do not say the Lord's Prayer, because you cannot lie to God. From the whole Bible that Prayer stands out clear and defined in all its grandeur, in all its beauty, through its promise to mankind. It is prayed so often in the churches of all Chriatian countries --------- it is prayed morning, noon and night, and yet how many times is it really prayed? How many people keep their part of the bargain of that Prayer?
(i) Lead Us Not Into Temptation. A God of love who leads you into temptation? No, the meaning is this: "Do not allow me to be tempted beyond my powers to resist." Think of what you are asking. As you raise yourself spiritually you find that other powers are let loose, and the higher you climb the stronger is the pull back of the earth. You are asking God to strengthen you against that trouble. You are weak, you need His helping hand. Sometimes you ask your guides to lead you to do the right thing, and they do lead you through God ............ and sometimes you are led into temptation. When you started on this world adventure, perhaps 10,000 years ago, you had by degrees to be tempted of all sins in order to become perfectly pure. Of these words you can say "I know I have to be led into temptation, but please God, I am so weak, spare me until my strength can resist." God does not lead you into evil, but you re - incarnate on this earth to get rid of karma, and you must be tempted, because it is only by resisting evil that you can get rid of karma.
(j) But Deliver Us From Evil. Evil is the result of evil deeds -------- what your deeds have done to others. You cannot harm yourself without doing harm to the rest of God's children; you cannot hurt another without hurting yourself. You are all connected. You all need deliverance from evil. There is so much evil in the world; it is in the very land on which your homes stand. "Deliver us from evil." They sound such simple words, yet how much depth is in them! How often are you delivered from evil? Are you to be delivered from some wicked person who may steal your purse, rob your house, or knock you down? No. But you in the flesh are beset with evil all the days of your life. Unseen evil forces; evil in your subconscious; evil in your surroundings, in the very atmosphere you breathe; evil that is passed down from generation to generation; evil that is in you, that belongs to you. Have you ever been in a house, or a room, that has depressed you, that feels uncomfortable? That is the time to ask God to deliver you from evil, to lead you away from such places, to avoid evil forces.
(k) For Thine Is The Kingdom. ........ that is to come on earth. The Kingdom of beauty and the Kingdom of love. You have taken from God and you have given back to God. You have given yourself to God; the things you keep you lose, and the things you give you have forever --------- in giving yourself to God you have God forever. How many people have really given themselves to God? In the history of the world only a few saints have really given themselves. "Thine is the Kingdom." It is the giving of all unto Him. Nothing belongs to you; it is not yours, that self you have so carefully nurtured ------- it is not yours, it is God's. "For Thine is the Kingdom." The finish! The Kingdom is His, but He is your Father. As you belonged to your earthly father, so you belong to God. And as your earthly home was your father's home, so is God's Kingdom your Kingdom. But always finish at "For Thine is the Kingdom." The rest has been added afterwards, and spoils the vibration.
CREATIVE EFFECT OF THE LORD'S PRAYER. The Lord's Prayer creates vibrations of peace and hope, and is a preparation for your own prayers. It surrounds you with a light by which the angels can see. It clears the fog of sin, hopelessness and fear from the room in which it is said. The greyness is dispelled, a shaft of light enters the room. The whole atmosphere changes and there is a kind of rush of wind carrying the angels and spirit-guides, and maybe your own loved ones, with it. As the Prayer progresses the light changes. From a beautiful blue it passes through degrees of purple and yellow-gold to a pearl-light, in which is warmth and love, and that light surrounds you. The Lord's Prayer has brought the angels to your side. You tell them your wants, and then you thank them. Do not forget, your own prayers are not God's responsibility, they are yours. So be sure to pray for the right things. What are the right things? Perhaps you, or someone you love, is in difficulties; perhaps someone is sick, or is leading a bad life, mixing in bad company. You pray for them. Every time you speak the Lord's Prayer you bring more of the Presence of Heaven into your home. And if the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, other people will feel it; and wherever you go you will bring peace, hope to the hopeless, and will lift the yoke from the heavy-laden ............... When the Lord's Prayer is finished there stands a great Figure in the sky of Heaven -------- the Risen Christ, the Perfect Man. The Man who knew all love, who gave you the word "FATHER", whom He found in the word "LOVE". Love is in the hearts of mankind, it is part of God.
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