GWP: Say each day, with care and thought, a very familiar prayer, The Lord's Prayer. It has many meanings and the trite and usual Christian significance is not for you. Ponder on this most ancient formula of truth and interpret it entirely in terms of a formula for the dissipation of illusion. Write an exegesis on it from this angle, taking it phrase by phrase and regarding it as giving us seven keys to the secret of the elimination of glamour. The formula (which is not essentially a prayer) can be divided as follows:

a. Invocation to the solar Lord.

b. Seven sentences, embodying seven keys for the dissipation of illusion.

c. A final affirmation of divinity.

Use your intuition and apply these all to the subject of glamour and see at what knowledge you will arrive. [Page 25] Then write it down in the form of an interpretation or article and we may arrive at much value.

Our Father (The Lord's Prayer)

1662 Anglican

A. Our Father, which art in heaven,

B1. hallowed be thy name;

B2. thy kingdom come;

B3. thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven.

B4. Give us this day our daily bread.

B5. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us.

B6. And lead us not into temptation;

B7. but deliver us from evil.

C. [For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.] Amen.

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Andrea Bocelli and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir: OUR FATHER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnhGuq2N7ss

(music composed in 1935 by Albert Hay Malotte)

THE GREAT INVOCATION — 1935

Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to mankind.
Let the Spirit of Peace be spread abroad.
May men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation.
May forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynote at this time.
Let power attend the efforts of the Great Ones.
So let it be, and help us to do our part.

TSR V, 71: In the great invocations which I have given out, the first one* ("Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to mankind...") was an effort on my part to put into words the invocative cry of mankind and of all men and women of goodwill throughout the world. Its success was indicative of the strength of that goodwill.

EH 158: The first phase, Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to mankind, definitely invokes potencies which are to be found upon monadic levels of consciousness and upon what is occultly called the second plane of divine manifestation.

EH 165: Forgiveness is sacrifice, and is the giving up of one's self, even of one's very life, for the sake of others and for the good of the whole group. This spirit of sacrifice is ever found when the Shamballa force is rightly contacted, even in the smallest degree, and the underlying impulse behind the loving will of God is sensed and understood, accompanied as this always is with the desire to participate in that will and its spirit of divine sacrifice.

TSR V, 350: ... evil and good are reverse aspects of the same one reality, and evil is that good which we should have left behind, passing on to greater and more inclusive good.

An Outline for the Exegesis of the Lord's Prayer

A Formula for the Dissipation of the Illusion of Separativeness

by J.B.

Evil, L-I-V-E spelled backwards, is an ILLUSION harmlessly dispelled by the living Practice of the Monadic Presence (Agni Yoga). Agni Yoga is the Way to Shamballa, the Center where the Will of the Solar Logos is known.

A. Invocation to the Father-Mother MONAD (the One).

B. Magical Work (seven keys to dispel illusion):

World of Causes (an abstract Act of Will). Will-to-Good.

1. A.U.M.: hearing the creative sound in search of the lost Word. [R3]

2. Blueprint: touching the Plan. [R7]

3. The Void (antahkarana): surrendering the vision of the little will to ignite the higher (self-sacrificial) will. [R1]

World of Effects (a concrete Labor of Love). Goodwill.

4. Physical: sharing of bread. Service. Right Human Relations. Devitalizing maya. [R4]

5. Etheric: sharing the same blood. Compassion (For-giveness). Spiritual breathing. [R2]

6. Astral: the dual forces. Dissipating glamour. [R6].

7. Mental: the O.M. (the lost Word). The Solar Angel (the Fire of the Sons of Mind) as the Revealer of the Real. Dispelling illusion. [R5]

C. Evocation of Light, Love and Power. The Power of TRANSFIGURATION

applied to the Glory of the One.

GWP 171: The Technique of the Presence. By means of this technique, the soul assumes control of the integrated personality and of its relations, horizontal and vertical. This technique involves the unfolding of the flower of the intuition, dispelling illusion, revealing the Angel, indicating the Presence, and opening up to the disciple the world of ideas and the door of the higher initiations. Through the disciple's grasp and application of these divine ideas or seed thoughts, he becomes initiate and the third initiation becomes possible as an immediate goal. The intuition is the applied power of transfiguration. This technique is related to the little known yoga called Agni Yoga or the yoga of fire.

The Three Vows of the New Group of World Servers (to transfigure pain into forgiveness):

1. Self forgetfulness, to lead us not into temptation*;
2. Harmlessness, to deliver us from evil; and
3. Right speech, to become the lost Word (A.U.M. / O.M.) in Service,

forever and ever. Amen.

* Temptations (lack of attentiveness) are distractions from the Path of Return, in contrast with the constant Practice of the Presence (mindfulness). The Practice of the Presence is a Second Ray approach to Agni Yoga, a heart-centered meditative practice characterized by profound attentiveness, serene expectancy and correct adaptability to life and its circumstances, as taught in the Ashram of Vicente Beltrán Anglada's Master and as applied by Jon Kabat-Zinn in teaching mindfulness meditation.

The Gayatri

O Thou Who givest sustenance to the universe,
From Whom all things proceed,
To Whom all things return,
Unveil to us the face of the true Spiritual Sun
Hidden by a disc of golden Light
That we may know the Truth
And do our whole duty
As we journey to Thy sacred feet.

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Solar-planetary Antahkarana

Will to Good expressed as Goodwill

TSR V, 645 : In the word, GOODWILL, the secret purpose of the planetary Logos is hidden.

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2012.12.21