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“LAUDED and glorified art Thou, O Lord my God! Thou …” |
All praise be unto Thee, O Lord my God! I beseech
Thee by such souls as are eagerly waiting at Thy gate and
by those holy beings who have attained the court of Thy
presence, to cast upon us the glances of Thy tender compassion
and to regard us with the eye of Thy loving providence.
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Cause our souls to be enkindled with the fire of Thy
tender affection and give us to drink of the living waters of
Thy bounty. Keep us steadfast in the path of Thine ardent
love and enable us to abide within the precincts of Thy
holiness. Verily Thou art the Giver, the Most Generous,
the All-Knowing, the All-Informed.
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Glorified art Thou, O my God! I invoke Thee by Thy
Most Great Name through which the hidden secrets of
God, the Most Exalted, were divulged and the kindreds of
all nations converged toward the focal centre of faith and
certitude, through which Thy luminous Words streamed
forth for the quickening of mankind and the essence of all
knowledge was revealed from that Embodiment of bounty.
May my life, my inmost being, my soul and my body be
offered up as a sacrifice for the dust ennobled by His footsteps.
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I earnestly beg Thee, O Lord my God, by Thy most
glorious Name whereby Thy sovereignty hath been established
and the tokens of Thy might have been manifested,
and whereby the oceans of life and of holy ecstasy have
surged for the reviving of the mouldering bones of all Thy
creatures and for the stirring of the limbs of such as have
embraced Thy Cause—I earnestly beg Thee to graciously
ordain for us the good of this world and of the next, to enable
us to gain admission into the court of Thy mercy and
loving-kindness and to kindle in our hearts the fire of joy
and ecstasy in such wise that the hearts of all men may
thereby be attracted.
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