Idea For A New Religion - Chapter 40 - Prayers, Hymns, Sacred Days, Divination

PRAYERS A 1) Prayer for protection - Ear of heaven, hear my plea! Eye of god, watch over me. I, who praise your name with pride; be my guardian and my guide. I, who do as you decree; comfort, shield and shelter me. 2) Prayer of sincere offering - God, hear us and remember us, when the days of our dark sorrows come. We were the ones who did not only sit and pray but bore the heavy burden of true devotion; who fought and laboured hard to serve your will, which is the will of all love and all kindness; who built not only temples to hear your praises in but strong fortresses of refuge and healing, for we longed to live and die for you alone; you who are the body of all the living and the soul of all goodness and all hope. Remember us, all that we have offered and suffered to serve you, when we call to you in times of direst need and gravest trouble. Dearest god, remember those who are your most faithful and true. 3) Prayer for healing - God, most noble spirit of all goodness and mercy; feel how deep is the sadness that fills my heart yet, how deep is my love for you and the ones for whom I pray. God lend to them all your might and courage and fill them with all your power of healing and for all that you help us, know my unceasing thankfulness and praise, faithfulness and devotion. God heal the ones I love and I shall forever be an instrument of your great healing, this I swear. 4) Prayer to the people - Let us praise all of the people; for we, the people, are a part of our god. Let us pray to the God within ourselves to make us work well and be good. Let us pray to each other and hear and try our best to answer each others prayers. PRAYERS B 5) Praise for the elderly - Those who stand upon the summit of their life, be praised. God, the eldest of all elders; founder of all age and time; great grandmother of the many stars in heaven, smiles upon you; pleased and proud of all your offerings, but the true and faithful should not rest while there is still daylight to work in and bright work to be done. Out of the seed of short time, can come the tree of the great and long lasting. Take good care of your soul by making good use of your life, for only the worthy within us shall be welcomed in heaven and, out of the womb of heaven, be reborn. 6) Prayer of offering - God, who is the heart of all good deeds, look upon each offering I make to you and know that I am your ever true and faithful; that I give kindly to all in need; that I love and respect all of humanity and nature, knowing that all humanity and nature are a blessed part of you. 7) Prayer for peace and security - God, give peace the conquest of all nations; make love the valiant victor over war. Give loud voices to the diplomats; the doves who sing for peace and quieten the baying of the warmongers. Give us strong hearts so that we may love and forgive our enemies; see ourselves within them and our children within their children. Give us good sense to see the senselessness of war and save us from believing the lies that lead men to murder. Let war make no more widows or orphans; let no more war graves fill up with innocent bodies or uniforms be soaked in innocent blood and keep we, who are peaceful, loving and loyal to your will, safe from all those who would do us harm. PRAYERS C 8) Autumn vow of renunciation of worldly wealth and pride- We praise you, great super infinitaire; God of the poor and the oppressed. We invest all that we are and own in you so that we may make a spiritual fortune and share in the true, splendid luxuries of heaven; a wealth denied to all the wealthy of this world; a wealth that men of greed shall never know. As our bodies kneel before you now, so our hearts shall always kneel until, through greatest humility, we shall make our souls worthy to stand in heaven. 9) Prayer for difficult times - God; see within me, a soul that is loyal and true to your will. Lend me your strength; show me your wisdom and give me courage. Help me to survive this terrible darkness and bring, swiftly, the light that will end it. As I have been a saviour to others; kind and helpful to all those in need; so, God, help and be kind to me. 10) Join Hands - Let us join our hands and hearts together and weave a web of love between us; a web in which to catch all evil. Let us join our hands and hearts together and be a strong community; the strong, hard working hand of god, lightening all our burdens and moving all that is in our way. Interwoven into one we enter heaven; prepared by this community to join the community of souls in heaven. 11) Offering to the angels - We summon all the many friends of heaven to descend; come friendly angels; the benevolent guardians of men; come taste the splendid feast of our pleasure and the overflowing gallons of our golden joy. Come angels and spread your charms; keep this house free from the presence of darkness. PRAYERS D 12) Prayer for the protection of a loved one - Great mother; God, the protector of all the vulnerable and the small; silence my worries by hearing my prayers; watch over, and keep safe, the one I love; see them within my heart and move destiny to guard them from all harm and danger. Bring them to safety and I shall be your truely faithful; honor and worship you daily, for all the days of my life. 13) Prayer of contentment - God, who has given us breath to breathe and voice to speak; let us use them to thank you with. Wonderous God; we give, to you, our deepest gratitude and highest praise for all that destiny has done for us; given us our needs to survive and a home with many comforts; love, family, friends andcommunity. Contentedly and happily, we praise you; our beloved God. 14) Prayer for a victorious insurrection - We, who are followers of spring, the usurper; spring, the overthrower of winters tyranny, sow our own seeds; our rebellious whispers, knowing that, out of them, golden freedom shall grow and bloom; that the sun of principles shall return to rule and lift up life in its strong arms of gold and give power to all the powerless of the world. God, who is the balance and the wheel; god of all the poor and the oppressed, whose will is truth and justice above all, march within us when we march; bind our spirits into one; make them muscular and strong; a river of our spirits, that no wall of oppression can withstand, and the wellnesss of all shall prevail. 15) Prayer for victory in a necessary war - God, let the good be victorious and know that we strive our hardest to be the good. God, protector of the peaceful and the kind; if we are worthy, then lend us your strength and wisdom. Mother of the sun and thunder, whose arms are the swift eagle and the furious tiger; help us to protect the child of our nation. God, bring us to victory and safely home again. SOME SHORT HYMNS Break up the silence Break up the silence with singing, for the spring is beginning again./ Light up the lanterns and brighten the room, for the flowers are blooming again//Lift up your hearts with rejoicing, for the songbirds are winging again./ Let us join hands and dance all around, like the seasons that turn without end.Together, we wear the crown. Together, we wear the crown; we're wearing the darkness down./ Together, we wield the sword; we're spreading the healing word of peace and love for everyone.// One body is what we are; all our hearts and all the stars;/ the whole world must move as one, around love's salvation sun; bring peace and love to everyone.// The future is what we are;each newborn; another star/ within the heaven on earth to which we are giving birth; a place of peace and love for everyone. Don't lend a hand to the darkness Every act of kindness lights a candle in the world; every act of kindness makes life bright./Every act of cruelty makes the world more dark and cold; pushing the earth deeper into night./Chorus: Please don't lend a hand to the darkness; please stand on the side of the light;/please don't feed a crumb to the sorrow but help fill the world with loves sweet delight./Every act of friendship plants a flower in the world; every act of friendship makes life bright./every act of hatred is a thorn that pricks us all; bleeding the world winter cold and white.Our Mother Universe In our mother universe, we are all one;/ we gather together to get her work done /and we'll never give in till her great war is won;/ for peace and for freedom for everyone//In our mother universe, we shall unite;/ together forever, to fight for all right;/ defending the weak and the meek with our might/and lifting a darkened world up to the light. SACRED DAYS 1) Celebrate the solstice and the equinox - Celebrate the summer and the winter solstice and meditate upon the solstices of fortune and misfortune; sadness and joy within your life and see the necessary seasons of struggle that all must endure in the service of the greater good. Celebrate the spring and autumn equinox and meditate upon the benefits of balance in all aspects of life. 2) Wednesday is the day of equilibrium - On wednesday, at half past noon we should remember God, who is at the centre of all things and who weighs up all things within the world and expects humankind to do the same. Remember that the path of God is the middle path; the level path; the path of moderation; equality; peace; unity; harmony; ambiguity; liberality; reason and fairness. 3) Saturday and Sunday belong to rest and pleasure - We are a part of God; when we rest, then a part of God can rest; when we feel pleasure and joy, God feels it also. The angels, who serve God, guide and guard the human race, feed upon the pleasure and happiness within the human heart and thus, our relaxation and pleasure are an offering to them. 4) Survival comes before scripture - If you must work upon a sacred day to survive then do so, because life and its preservation are the most sacred things of all. DIVINATION - Within all things that exist, there is god; within a forest and equally within a deck of cards; within sun and thunderstorm and equally within the roll of a dice or the flip of a coin. Divination is merely the seeing of God's will in the world around us; however, within everything there is also the presence of evil. God speaks to us, with a loving voice, through everything in our world but Demons also speak to us and they can distort our understanding of the messages that we receive from God thus, all who choose to practice divination should be careful which omens they trust.