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...always hanging from the neck; and when she resides with her husband, let her not fail to turn it behind her back between the shoulders, so that it hangs down along the spine. Name of the intelligenceIn Western esoteric traditions, an "intelligence" is a benevolent spiritual being or angel that governs the specific powers of a psalm or celestial body., Silti or Silli. Character, figure, fifth line.
This Psalm was sung at the second step A reference to the "Songs of Ascents" or "Gradual Psalms," which were historically believed to have been sung by Levites as they ascended the fifteen steps of the Temple in Jerusalem., symbolizing that the Church of God prays incessantly for sinners in order to wipe away the stains of their crimes. St. Jerome says that David was converted by its virtue, just as the Apostle St. Paul was, and the people of God were delivered. St. Augustine calls this prayer truly penitential, because it is more useful for the dead The "De Profundis" has a long history of being recited in Catholic liturgy as a prayer for the souls of the faithful departed in Purgatory. than all the other Gradual Psalms. It is effective against storms and the te- The text cuts off here, likely intending to say "tempêtes et les ténèbres" (storms and darkness) or "tempêtes et les terreurs" (storms and terrors).