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Daily
Prayer
Daily Lay Prayer of the Order of Nazorean
Essenes
INTRO BOW
BLESSED ART THOU
O Miryai, Our Guide and our Paraclete, Apostle of Apostles, O Life
Giving Living Vine, And Thy Guardian Shkintas.
INTRO BOW
BLESSED ART THOU
O Mani, Our Guide and our pure Buddha, Light Source and Great Healing Tree,
And all Thy Shining Uthrai.
[Quietly]
With a pure heart & truthful tongue -
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
Thee Great Life, Mother and Father of Light, And all Thy Divine Substance;
Praised and Blessed art Thou, In Thy Vastness and fullness, Thy Blessed
Ones do known Thee, Those That Thou hast called upon; Lauded hosts glorify
Thee, Thy righteousness and thy word, Thy greatness and thy mercy, Thou
art a God and Goddess, Who are altogether Truth, Who are Life and Righteousness.
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
all the Gods, All the great radiant Uthrai, All luminous Shkinata, All
powers who have sprung forth, From Great and Glorious Parents, Who abide
in Holiness, And are nourished in Their Light, Of dark ill will purified.
BOW
I BOW AND I OFFER PRAISE,
To all the Radiant Buddhas, All Luminous Dakinis, Who made heaven and the
earth, Which bound all evil substance. Who by Their Wisdom have peirc’d,
And driven out the darkness, Subduing its cruel archons, Who fought the
Rulers of All.
BOW
I BOW AND I OFFER PRAISE,
To Thee offspring of Greatness, Enlight'ning Mind, King, and Christ, Who
from far off worlds did come, Thru upper to lower worlds, Who declares
without equal, Wisdom and Secret Myst'ries, To earthly inhabitants, Declaring
to everyone, Truths Way in ev'ry language, Distinguishing True from false,
Light from Dark, Good from evil, righteousness from the wicked; From
You doth come ev'ry grace, Life and Truth has been declared, To all nations
and tongues, Thou art Savior from Karma, For all the children of Life.
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
Living Gods, The virtuous and true Ones, Whose power raised Creation that
above and that below.
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
the Great Orbs, The luminous sun and moon, And the pure power in Them,
Which conquer adversaries, Which illuminate all worlds, Who observe all
and judge all, Lifting up all the virtuous, Into the great Light Aeon.
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
the Five Lights, By which the heavens and earth, And all things came into
being, Who give power and beauty, Soul and Life to everything, Which would
vanish without Them.
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
all the Gods, Goddesses, Living Pure Ones, Who Rule Over creation, Under
the Great Goodly Light, Who watch over all of us, Who do now utter this
prayer.
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
all Angels, Ruling and Enlight'ning All, Over demons and evil, Shielding
and guarding Elect, From all the wicked demons, And creating in them good.
BOW
I BOW AND PRAISE
all Elect, Who have fled from all evil, Those which existed before,
Those who are now existing, Are coming into being, Or are about to exist,
Because they recognize Truth, Chaste, Firm and transcending all.
[Quietly] May
all those I have worshiped and glorified and invoked assist me and bless
me with favour and deliver me from every bond and constraint and oppression
and endless reincarnation, and provide me with access to the great aeon
of light which all the wise and upright in Gnosis hope to attain, where
peace and the purest of the good rule, where there is no appearance of
evil but only ambrosia and eternal life, where all are without need
and experience neither death nor corruption. Amin
Source: Yesai's Adaptation
of the Prayer of the Aeons and the Manichaean Prayer Reported by Nadim
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