Theosophical Heart-Devotions Directed to the Highest Sole Jehovah

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When you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
If you hide your face, they are terrified; you take away their breath Original: Othem—archaic German for Atem, referring to the life-breath or spirit (spiritus)., they perish and return again to dust.
You send forth your breath, and they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.
The glory of the LORD is eternal; the LORD has pleasure in his works.
He looks upon the earth, and it trembles; he touches the mountains, and they smoke.
I will sing to the LORD all my life, and praise my God as long as I exist.
May my speech please him; I rejoice in the LORD.
Let the sinners be consumed from the earth, and the godless be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul, Hallelujah!

A small decorative woodcut of a crown.

A Prayer

You make darkness, that it may be night, when all the wild animals stir; the young lions, which roar after their prey, and seek their food from GOD. But when the sun rises, they depart from there and lay themselves in their dens. Thus man goes forth to his labor and to his work in the fields Original: Ackerwerk—specifically agricultural labor or tillage. until the evening.

Most gracious Creator and Lord of my life, we must accuse ourselves before you, because we [have spent] our