Theosophical Heart-Devotions Directed to the Highest Sole Jehovah

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; it is a fine prudence for all who act accordingly; His praise remains eternally.

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A Prayer

For the true spiritual and right use of earthly foods.

He has established a remembrance of His wonders, the gracious and merciful GOD; He gives food to those who fear Him.

Dearest Lord JESUS, You are the self-existing Word original: "selbständige Wort" — referring to Christ as the Logos, the autonomous and eternal Word of God. of Your heavenly Father, and this divine Word is spirit and life. Therefore, You are also the bread that has come from heaven and gives life to the world. Ah, let me hunger only for this food, which shall be a true nourishment for me into all eternity. Alas! Until now, my spirit has sought to sustain its life only in external nature, and I have thus separated myself from the true life found in You and in Your Word. Grant, therefore, Lord JESUS, that I may offer back to You in true self-denial all earthly foods—which I have, as it were, stolen from You through my own presumption and preferred over the enjoyment of Your love—so that I may thus spiritually find again the Paradise from which Adam was physically cast out through the path of worldly pleasure and self-assertion. To that end, dearest Savior, let me henceforth enjoy all earthly foods of external nature in true detachment and denial of created things original: "Verläugnung der Creaturen" — a spiritual practice of not letting one's heart become attached to worldly objects or people above God., and help me so that such enjoyment occurs without any further self-presumption, but rather that the free spirit