About the prayers

Deva Valosana

To ICEFLU 

2016

About the prayers

Consideration of the most basic prayers used in the rituals

My dear fellow daimistas of the world, thank you for reading this text. I want to talk to you about the prayers we use in the rituals and ask for your help in assisting the change necessary to spread the light even more freely and widely. 

The prayer ”Pai Nosso”, Our Father is the prayer under most examination and consideration here. This beautiful consoling prayer, even though taught to us by our beloved big brother Jesus, is causing conflict and confusion in many hearts in this world, including my own. The problem is not in the spirit of the prayer, which is pure and true, but lies in the wording, which today can be interpreted in at least two if not in many other ways. In order for us to shine a brave light upon the world and come out of the shadows for good we need to be absolutely clear and undivided in our messages to the world. We should not say words that can frighten our brothers and sisters who come looking for light, because it says in the ”oracao” we are to receive all. We should only use worlds that can be interpreted as love. Teach only love for that you are. Speak only the truth, not the illusion and be as clear and single-minded in your tongue always. To carry out this mission we need to watch the language we use. Help in this dilemma, whether to hang on to the form of things or to carry out the spirit in the best way possible. It is our mission to illuminate the world as singing angels. Let’s not let ancient form be in the way of cracking open the skies and letting the light of consciousness shine on every soul. I believe it is our job to think what we are saying and look at our own relationship to the words used in the prayers. It brings a deepening in the act of praying too.

In Our Father many sentences can be interpreted in both a scary way and a loving way. I don’t know about the rest of you, but to me in this material realm ”father” is not pure love and safety, but an angry and demanding character placing blame. The word sin is also very controversial and scary. My goal is to have prayers that can not scare, can not be interpreted by the ego, that are neutral to this day. I explain the scariness and lovingness after each sentence and then suggest everyone find their own wordings for this prayer and we consider them together.

Our Father who art in heaven - here we can immediately reply that this is discriminating and leaving out one of the sexes altogether. God in neither a Father or a Mother, who are humans, but a Creator, much more than a father and a mother combined, everything. Calling God a Father in this society automatically puts a woman in a submissive position in relation to a man and separates the godliness from women. We do not want this as we strive for equality of every being. When we say God is in heaven it sounds like a separation, where God is out there somewhere in heaven where as we are here, missing Him.

The loving way of looking at this sentence reveals that Jesus broke the myth that God was some distant divinity. God was so close to man that he could call him Father, like being in the same family, with rights of a darling child. It also calls for the divinity in ourselves, the inner Father in us all, men and women. It is the protector, the adult inside us we want to trust. When we say this masculine divinity in us is in Heaven, we remind ourselves that we in fact are safe in heaven all the time. The heaven, the Father, the Truth, they are all inside of us and we talk to ourselves, reminding and reassuring that everything is ok.

Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven - here we confess that God is holy and here on earth God’s will is not done. We see we have made a hell and we wish the God in us, the divinity to save us from the trouble we have gotten ourselves into. God’s will is love and we are the ones who has to bring it about. There is no other way to bring Heaven on earth but choosing love every time, towards everyone. No point asking God outside for anything but bravery to see through fear and answer back with love, every time. Earth does not exist on it’s own, it is a part of Heaven because it lies in the mind of God’s child. We are in Heaven when we unite in Love, thus earth is in Heaven when we see it for what it is. This part I actually like.

Give us this day our daily bread - here we say what we want and need to believe, that God takes care of us all every day. We don’t need to worry and fear, we don’t need to hoard money, possessions or food, we can share everything with each other. We can trust each other and that things go as they should when we always listen to our hearts. Sometimes No is the most loving answer, but we can drop suspicion and distrust and be open in everything. We need to stay in touch with our inner divinity daily to remember Love and not be afraid. We are safe. We need both food and prayer and here we remind ourselves of it. We get them for free, God gives them.

..and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us - here lies the scariest sentence of all. God the Creator is not angry with us and has no need whatsoever to forgive us. If this prayer is not directed to the inner Father, the divine part of God in us, it is false and works against for what is originally meant for. It fortifies the notion of sin, guilt, shame and worthlessness so widely spread in the horror of this world of illusion. Those scary feelings and the escape from them deeper in the midst of this dream keep this illusion going. God loves us, the true us, God has nothing at all to forgive us for. This is our own dream, God has no say or role in it, except the will for us to wake up. The only sin, keeping us asleep in the world is the belief of sin itself. In the other hand this sentence means that as we own up to all the evil doings in the world, as we stop gasping in judgement and horror to what the ”others” have done and are doing and instead turn inwards to find this same sin within ourselves to forgive it, we are freeing ourselves from the guilt and from the world. Therefore we ask for forgiveness from ourselves as we want to forgive ”others”. I am the only one who sins against me, so I am the one I need to forgive. The world and ”others” is our mirror. If we see, hear or witness abuse we have to look inwards to accept the human abuser role in us. To forgive others is pointless without forgiving yourself on the same subject first. The belief of sin separated the mind from God. There is no sin. The light and the darkness are perfect sides of humanity. Without the darkness there is only light and that is not human, that is divine. The darkness, however will not fade by fighting it. It fades by lighting it and that is done by forgiving and accepting. So therefore what you want to accept and forgive in others to free yourself from pain, first acknowledge, accept and forgive in yourself. Leave God out of it, God loves us just as we are and sees no errors since this is merely a dream the God’s child is looking at, fearing this creation. 

…and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from all evil. Amen. - as if God ever lead us into temptation to begin with! It is an insane notion to even say, why would God want any harm to the most beloved child ever born? Would you want your child to suffer and have to wonder in pain what to do? God sends the Holy Spirit and the angels in our minds to steer us in the right direction all the time. All we have to do is ask, because we have free will and they cannot enter without permission. There is no evil either. Everything that seemingly hurts us only opens our willingness to shed the blanket of illusion from us and seek God within, in others and in prayer/meditation/ritual/charity. These shocking things work as blessings in disguise to show us our true potential, true faith, true life missions and true friends. We belong to God. Not to business, marriages, passions and sports of the mind or body. We belong to be with God, not with mindless entertainment or horrors of the dream. With this sentence we ask inwards - please remember to seek only God. When we ask for guidance, there are no temptations. When we gain understanding, there is no evil. There is only the Truth.

This Truth is what we are here to deliver to all ears and remind it to the minds since all the hearts have known it forever. No more scaring people into or out of religions. No more confusion in the messages. Let’s clear all this out and tell the Truth, say it as it is and no more riddles. Jesus, God bless that man, was an eloquent poet. People are simple, they don’t need riddles, they need pure love so let’s calm them, soothe them, give them hope and compassion and stop this madness. Please. It is time for the Mother to step in and hold the Child in us. 

Here are some examples of prayers we could use instead of the traditional ones in the rituals. As you read, feel the atmosphere change. We could work from out of this light. You could write your own prayers too and by changing the tune in your heart, changing it for all of us. We ask to know we are loved and innocent. We don’t need to deserve anything, we are children of God, we are entitled to the universe by inheritance. You see?

1. Our Creator who are in me and everywhere, blessed be your presence. 

Let us remember you at all times and see you in everything we look at.

Look after us every day and let our hearts trust you completely. 

Help us forgive ourselves for all that is unloving and separating our minds from unity.

Let us hear your guidance through Holy Spirit whenever we ask for it.

Let there be Love, peace and unity in my mind and thus in the world. Amen.

With Hail Mary there are similar problems than with Our Father. Mary was not special and all humankind is of the same value she was. Every child carries within the power of Jesus.  There is no death, only transformation, so why even bring it up? We did not come here to die, it is not our purpose, we came here to see the Truth, feel the Love, end the illusion. We all know this, but why leave room for interpretations? On these prayers I end my consideration and humbly ask you to consider also what the prayers you say over and over are really saying to you. Is it a message or pure love? Because that is the message God wants you to hear. 

2. Oh human, you holy and graced, God is with you. 

Blessed are you and your siblings and blessed is the Christ, the light in your souls.

Go in peace for you are innocent. Amen.

3. Hail to us, the holy and graced, who with God is now and forever. 

We don’t need to be afraid. We are not alone. The Holy spirit guides us when we ask.

Blessed are we, the siblings who are mirrors to each other.

Blessed is the Christ in us, in God’s only child. 

Let us be innocent in peace. Amen

4. I miss you constantly, my God. 

I wish I could close my eyes from this illusion and see only your pure Truth.

I wish all I saw, felt, experienced and recognized was pure Love.

I wish all fear, illusion and despair would leave my mind and my thought was clear.

I wish I trusted you, my God and could thus have mercy on myself. 

With Love, Deva