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RITUAL To beg for wealth, children, wordly pomp, destruction of those we hate, etc., is forbidden.' They only engender evil karma, and put you away from God. This is what Jesus meant when he said : "No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the
one, and love the other, or either he will bold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mam
mon. "Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life,
what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more
than meat, and the body than raiment? --Matt. vi. 24
. and 25. The form of the prayer actually taught by Jesus to his disciples is full of hidden meaning. This is how it reads (Matt. vi. 9-13) :o. “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy
name 10. “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be doue in earth, as it
is done in heaven. 11. “Give us this day our daily bread. 12. “And forgive us our debts [sing), as we forgive our
debtors, 13. “And lead us not into temptation, bat deliver us from
evil : for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the
glory, for ever. Amen." This is surely not prayer, but a combination of
(i) praise for the Lord (Life), (ii) an expectancy of the coming of His king
dom, together with a longing for a differ
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