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 49
8 "Judah, you are he whom your brothers
Shall praise, your hand on neck of others,
Your father's children shall bow down
Before you and before your crown.
9 And Judah is a lion's whelp,
From the prey, my son, without help
You have gone up. He bows down, lies
Down as a lion, and as tries
A lion, who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not in his cup
Depart from Judah, nor lawgiver
From between his feet, nor deliver
Until he comes to whom belongs,
And to him shall obedience
Of all the people be fore sense.
Some say the one to come is some Messiah
Not yet appeared but who'll be both pariah
To wicked ones, and Saviour of the true.
Some say the one to come has come already
Named Jesus or Muhammad or some Freddy.
I doubt not that the three great forms of posing
As faithful to Your law will find a closing
To their debate and quarrel when there comes
The prophesied Dajjal and Anti-christ.
Until then all may fight for silver sums
And soak themselves in whiskey and get iced.
The one who unites all with derring-do
Will not be sent, Beloved, I know from You,
Who have Your own state and law for the few.
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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