Opening Prayers
PROFOUND SALUTATION TO THE MASTERS OF OLD.
MOST PROFOUND SALUTATION AND DEDICATION
TO THE SUPREME MASTER, OUR SON OF GOD.
MOST PROFOUND SALUTATION AND DEDICATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE TRADITION, OUR MOTHER.
ADORATION OF THE DIVINE REALITY, OUR FATHER.
“I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light… I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness.”
— JEREMIAH 4:23, 26
“I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. He who testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly.”
— ST. JOHN THE DIVINE in the Revelation 22:18–20
“For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be made known.” — ST. LUKE 12:2
“Thus there begins their living and their growing wise,… For every birth of flesh ensouled and of the fruit of seed, and every handiwork, though it decay shall of necessity renew itself, both by the renovation of the Gods and by the turning-round of Nature’s rhythmic wheel.”
— HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, The Sacred Sermon, 4
“Behold a very fair and most resemblant image — a husbandman casting the seed into the ground; here wheat, here barley, and there (again) some other of the seeds! Behold one and the selfsame man planting the vine, the apple, and (all) other trees! In just the selfsame way doth God sow Immortality in Heaven, and Change on Earth, and Life and Motion in the Universe.”
— HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, Letter to Asclepius 10)
“Therefore speak I to them in parables: because seeing they see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand… For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed… But blessed are your eyes, foe they see; and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them, and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”
— ST. MATTHEW, 13:13, 15–17
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” — ISAIAH, 40:3
“O Lord of the Universe, O universal Form… O God ! in Thy body I see all the Gods, as well as multitudes of all kinds of beings… In thy vast Form the Universe is spread… O All, boundless in power, immeasurable in strength. Thou holdest all, therefore Thou art All.” — ARJUNA in Bhagavad-gita, II: 15, 38, 40
“Would it be possible for thee to get wings, and soar into the Air, and, poised midway ’tween Earth and Heaven, behold the Earth’s solidity, the Sea’s fluidity (the flowings of its streams), the spaciousness of Air, Fire’s swiftness, (and) the coursing of the Stars, the swiftness of Heaven’s circuit round them (all)!”
— HERMES TRISMEGISTUS to his son Tat, Though Unmanifest God is Most Manifest, 5)
“In search of flowers wherewith to worship Thee, O Lord, misguided people are seen to go into thick forests, climb to the summits of high hills, or venture forth into deep lakes, and yet fail to attain the bliss supreme, which they could quickly have got by offering unto Thee the single, stainless, flower of their heart.” — VISHNU MAHIMNA STOTRAM
“To have attained to the human form must always be a source of joy. And then, to undergo countless transformations, with only the infinite to look forward to— what incomparable bliss is that!” — CHUANG TZU, 6
“We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory.”
— ST. PAUL to the Corinthians, I:2, 7
“To the impure eyes of them Thou sleekest to liberate, Thou manifestest Thyself in a variety of shapes, but to those of Thy followers who have been purified, Thou, Lord, appearest as a Perfected Being; obeisance to Thee.”
— The Tibetan Yogi JETSÜN MILAREPA to his Guru
“For to the Good there is no other shore; It hath no bounds; It is without an end; and for itself It is without beginning, too, though unto us it seemeth to have one — the Gnosis. Therefore to It Gnosis is no beginning; rather is it (that Gnosis doth afford) to us the first beginning of Its being known. Let us lay hold, therefore, of the beginning, and quickly speed through all (we have to pass). T’is very hard, to leave the things we have grown used to, which meet our gaze on every side, and turn ourselves back to the Old Old (Path).” — HERMES TRISMEGISTUS to Tat, The Cup or Monad, 8–9
