In the name of God, Most Gracious, Ever Merciful!
All faith traditions have a core of revealed truth inherited from the
great
criterion of the ten commandments. Adherence to these, and the
contemplation
of Scriptures consistent with them constitutes true faith.
The loving seeking
of the God of the Decalogue in wordless prayer is enough, but the
following may be of benefit as well.
1. Do your normal service of remembrance.
2. Recite the first chapter of the holy Qur'an.
3. Recite the Decalogue (Exodus 20:1-17).
4. Recite and meditate the following:
Genesis 3
6 So when the woman saw that tree
Was good for food, and pleasantly
Appealing to the wondering eyes,
A tree desired to make one wise,
A tree like Muhammad, desired,
She took the fruit and ate, inspired.
She also gave her husband who
Was with her, and he ate it too.
7 Then opened were the eyes of both,
They knew their ****dness, by troth,
As opposed to their being wise,
And sewed fig leaves about their thighs.
8 And then they heard the thunder sounding,
The voice of YHWH Alohim bounding
Throughout the garden at the breath
Of day, at evening. Fearing death,
Both man and wife hid from the coming
Of YHWH Alohim, both suc***bing
To fears of Pleasure garden's breeze
As the Lord walked among the trees.
Into the garden where I hear Your voice,
Let me not hide myself, but make my choice
To come into the gallows, give my life,
And sacrifice myself, gift without strife,
That Self may be the only One I know.
I come into the Pleasure grounds where grow
The trees of knowledge and of life with fruit
For all, but I prefer to taste the soot
Of sacrifice, let others have the gain.
I wait within the garden for the rain.
The joyous thunder of Your song reveals
Creation's purity and dancing reels,
And as I wait I hear Your voice come near,
And I stand trembling, waiting without fear.
From The Beloved and I: New Jubilees Version of the Sacred Scriptures in
Verse with Verse Commentary © 2004 by Thomas McElwain
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