The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect prayer because it has Seven Magical Petitions.
Our father which art in heaven,
(1)hallowed be thy name.
(2) Thy kingdom come.
(3)Thy will be done even in earth as it is in heaven.
(4) Give us this day our daily bread.
(5)And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.
(6) And lead us not into temptation,
(7)but deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory for ever. Amen.
Matthew 6 – 1599 Geneva Bible
PRACTICE
Asana: the student must lie down on the floor on a mat. The student can spread out his/her arms and legs to each side until the five pointed star is formed. Relax all of your body, do not think about anything, set the screen of your mind to be blank, concentrate your mind on your Inner God and start praying the Lord’s Prayer extremely slowly, and reflect on the sense of each petition. Become drowsy, to reach a profoundly sleeping state while meditating upon each word, upon each phrase, worshiping… worshiping… worshiping…
The student must not move upon waking up… be motionless and practice a retrospective exercise in order to remember the internal experiences: remember where you were, what places you visited while in the Astral Space, what was done, what was seen, etc. This practice must be performed as a daily habit without ever becoming weary. Seeing and hearing the great internal realities must be the goal.
Samael Aun Weor
From ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBALAH “Arcanum 7”
It is necessary to learn how to pray the Pater Noster, to learn to converse with Brahma (the Father) who is in secret.
A single Pater Noster, well-prayed and wisely combined with meditation, is an entire work of High Magic.
A single Pater Noster properly prayed is done in a period of one hour or in a little more than one hour.
After the prayer, we must know how to await the reply of the Father and this means to know how to meditate, to have the mind still and in silence, empty of all thoughts, awaiting the reply of the Father.
When the mind is still within and without, when the mind is in silence within and without, when the mind has freed itself from dualism, then the new comes to us.
It is necessary to empty the mind of all types of thoughts, desires, passions, appetites, fears, etc. in order for the experience of reality to come to us.
The eruption of the Void, the experience in the Illuminating Void, is only possible when the Essence, the Soul, the Buddhata, liberates itself from the intellectual bottle.
The Essence is bottled up within the tremendous battle of the opposites: heat and cold, like and dislike, yes and no, good and evil, pleasant and unpleasant.
When the mind is still, when the mind is in silence, then the Essence remains free and the experience of that which is the reality within the Illuminating Void comes.
Pray, therefore, good disciple, and then with the mind very still and in silence, empty of all kinds of thoughts, await the reply from the Father…
Samael Aun Weor – Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology – LEO
