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answers to our supplications; the gate of His mercy will open to us, and we shall be admitted to His Love and Protection.

Although we are not forbidden to express our thoughts and petitions to God, in our own language, it is manifestly more effective to commune with Him in the words revealed to us by His Manifestations. In the use of them, prayer assumes its highest function and value to us. have a great number of these sacred tablets and communes, one of which follows:

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"Oh my God, give me Knowledge, Faith, and Love. Adorn my head, oh God, with the crown of Thy Providence; my heart with the light of knowing Thee; my tongue with the utterance of Thy Greatest Name; and my ear with listening to Thy Holy Word; for Thou art the Only One whose action was, is, and ever shall be glorified, and whose command shall ever be obeyed.

"Oh my God, help me to be just; lift me up from the ocean of superstitions and imaginations, and grant me an Iron Sight, to see and realize from the surrounding existence, Thy Oneness and Thy Truth."

This Commune, which contains twelve distinct "words" or petitions, is, as its text implies, for daily use. "Adorn my head oh God, with the crown of Thy Providence," is equivalent to the prayer of Jesus, "Give us this day our daily bread." The sixth "word" or sentence,-adorn "my tongue with the utterance of Thy Greatest Name," is a petition to God for the great privilege of knowing

His Greatest Name, which will be given to every believer, with the understanding of how and when it may be mentioned in worship, or for protection. The Scriptures promise, that in the latter days, we will be given His Name. Zech. 13, 9-" And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried; they shall call on My Name and I will hear them: I will say It is My people; and they will say, The Lord is my God."

The tenth "word" is "Help me to be just." This petition embodies a supreme human need; for selfishness and injustice constitute the source of nearly every mischief and misery. "Serve God," and "love your fellow-man," although two equal factors in our religious duty, are in reality, but one and the same thing, since it is impossible for us to serve God aright, unless we do unto others as we would have others do unto us." necessity of being "just" to our fellow-creatures, is a foundation principle in all religious truth. We should therefore pray earnestly for this soul accomplishment and supreme blessing.

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The eleventh "word" is "Lift me up from the ocean of superstitions and imaginations." Human souls are voyaging upon an "ocean of superstitions and imaginations," in search of anchorage in the Truth. We see them everywhere about us; soul ships, soul craft; some without rudder or compass, some without latitude or longitude; many idly drifting, careless of time, distance and direction. We see some bent with the utmost determination

upon certain courses, and others, with just as much determination, pursuing precisely opposite courses. If we scan the horizon of humanity, we will find these soul-ships sailing toward every conceivable point of the compass. It cannot be that the Truth lies in such a myriad of directions. There is but one God, and there can be but one Truth; one direction toward it, one anchorage in it. The Truth founded upon the perfect laws of God, must be practical. Human ideas concerning the Truth, are mere superstitions, imaginations and chimeras, simply because they are not practical. If it was announced that Christ had come upon the earth, in fulfillment of his promise; that he had been born naturally of parents, according to God's laws, and now lived among us in the human form, scarcely one in a thousand would believe in him, although teaching and expecting his second coming. If, however, it was reported that Christ had appeared, soaring in the clouds, his stature gigantic, his apparel glistening and glorious, and his voice like the roll of thunder, millions would believe the statement, because such a Christ and such a coming of Christ, would be an impossibility. We need, therefore, the practical truth, and it is our duty to ask God to "lift us above the ocean of superstitions and imaginations," which are but human inventions and worthless to the soul.

The twelfth "word" is "And grant me an Iron Sight, to see and realize from the surrounding existence, Thy Oneness and Thy Truth."

By the "Iron Sight" is meant the clear inner vision

of the soul; the intuitive perception and knowledge of the Truth. According to the prophet Joel 2, 28: "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy; your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions." In asking God for the Iron Sight, we petition Him for the spiritual condition which enables us to receive knowledge from Him,through revelations, visions, and "dreaming dreams."

This blessing and great gift is bestowed upon the human race in these present days, more abundantly than it was given to the followers of Christ, in the early Christian period.

The following Tablet is used as a morning prayer:

"Praise to Thee, O my God, for Thou hast awakened me after my sleep, made me appear after my absence, and raised me after my death. I arose this morning, facing the light of the dawn of Thine appearance, which lightened the horizon of the heavens of Thy Power and Majesty, confessing the truth of Thy Word, believing in Thy Book, and holding to Thy Robe. I beg of Thee, by the power of Thy Will and the performance of Thy Wish, to make what Thou didst show me in my vision, a solid foundation for the house of Thy Love in the hearts of Thy Redeemers and the best cause for the manifestation of Thy Generosity and Providence.

"O my God, ordain to me by Thy Supreme Pen, the good of the world to come and the present

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"I hereby bear witness that in Thy hands are the reins of all things, and Thou changest them according to Thy Will, and that there is no God but Thee, for Thou art the One, the Almighty and the Faithful.

"Thou art the One who changest by Thy Command, the dishonored to the highest stage of honor, the weak to be strong, the failing to have power, the confused to be in peace, and the doubting to have strong faith.

"There is no God but Thee, who art Mighty and Generous.

"The heavens of Thy Charity and the oceans of Thy Bounty are so vast, that Thou hast never disappointed those who beg of Thee, and never refused those who willed to come unto Thee.

"Thou art Most Powerful and Mighty."

The word "Redeemer" in this tablet, signifies a spiritual title given to those who obey their mission in the Cause of God, even to death, thereby accomplishing their own redemption. The following tablet is to be used especially when leaving the house:

"By Thy generosity, O my God, I come to this morning, and I leave this house depending on Thee and delivering all my concerns to Thy Hand. Therefore send down upon me from the heavens of Thy Mercy, a special blessing from Thy Presence; bring me back in peace and righteousness as Thou hast sent me out.

"There is no God but Thee; for Thou art the One who has all the Knowledge and all the Wisdom."