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¶p: The First Communion is with the Heavenly Father, who is, who was, and who ever will be.
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¶a: O Great Creator, you did create the Heavenly Angels, and you did reveal the heavenly laws.
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You are my Refuge and my Fortress.
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You are from everlasting.
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¶p: Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
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¶a: Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are a God.
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¶c: Who has made the waters, and who makes the plants? Who to the wind has yoked the storm-clouds, that move swiftly through the heavens? Who, O Great Creator, is the fountain of Eternal Life within our souls? Who has made the Light and the Darkness? Who has made sleep and the zest of the waking hours? Who spread the noontide and the midnight?
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¶p: You, O Great Creator; you have made the earth by your Power; you have established the world by your Wisdom, and have stretched out the heavens by your Love.
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¶c: Reveal to me, O Heavenly Father, your nature, which is the power of the inhabitants of your holy realm.
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¶p: Immortality and the Holy Order have you given, O Great Creator, and the best of all things, your Holy Law.
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¶c: I will praise your works, with songs of thanksgiving, through all generations of time, and throughout all eternity.
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With the coming of day, I embrace my Mother; with the coming of night, I join my Father; with the outgoing of evening and morning, I will breathe their Law, and I will not interrupt these Communions until the end of time.
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¶p: In the Heavenly Realm there are strange and wondrous works, for by the word of Ahman all things exist.
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There remain hidden greater things than these which we see, for we have seen but a few of his works; the Heavenly Father has made all things.
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¶c: In the beauty of the heavens, the glorious stars give light to worlds unnumbered; sentinels of the Highest, they stand in their order, and never faint in their watches.
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¶p: Look upon the rainbow, and praise him that made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof.
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It encompasses the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the hands of the Highest have bent it; he has set it as a perpetual token of his Covenant with the descendants of Noah.
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¶c: By his Law he makes the snow to fall on the earth, and sends swiftly the lightnings of his power.
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Through his will, the treasures of the earth are opened, and clouds fly above the earth as fowls.
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¶p: By his great power, he makes the clouds become rain, and the hailstones to fall on the earth.
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¶c: At his sight, the mountains are shaken, and at his will, the wind blows.
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¶p: The noise of the thunder makes the earth to tremble; so does the fierce storm, and the whirlwind.
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As birds flying, he scatters the snow, and the eye marvels at the beauty of the whiteness thereof; the heart is astonished at the falling of it.
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¶a: So do the heavens declare the glory of the Gods, and the night sky shows their handiwork.
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¶c: Who has made the waters, and who makes the plants? Who to the wind has yoked the storm-clouds, that move swiftly through the heavens? Who, O Heavenly Father, is the Creator of the Holy Law within our souls? Who has made the light and the darkness? Who has made sleep and the zest of the waking hours? Who gave the recurring sun and stars their undeviating way? Who established that whereby the moon waxes and wanes?
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¶p: Who, save you, O Heavenly Father, has done these glorious things?
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¶a: Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.
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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are the Law.
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Your name is Understanding, Wisdom, Most Gracious, Unconquerable, He Who Speaks Truth, the All-Seeing One, the Healing One, Creator, Preserver, the Discerner, and the Spirit.
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You are the Holy Law.
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¶p: These names were pronounced before the creation of the heavens and the earth, before the making of the waters and the plants, before the birth of our holy Master Enoch.
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¶c: Before the beginning of time, the Heavenly Father planted the holy Tree of Life, which stands forever in the middle of the Eternal Sea.
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¶p: High in its branches sings a bird, and only those who have journeyed there, and heard the mysterious song of the bird, will see the Heavenly Father.
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¶c: They will ask of him his name.
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¶p: And he will answer, "I am the Man of Holiness, even Ahman, the Eternal I AM."
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¶a: O Heavenly Father, how excellent is your name in all the earth; you have set your glory above the heavens.
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When we consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained, what are mortals that you are mindful of them? Yet, you have made a Covenant with the Children of Light, and they walk with your holy angels; you have crowned them with glory and honor; you made them to have dominion over the works of your hands, and gave to them the task of nourishing and protecting all that lives and grows on your green earth.
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O Heavenly Father, how excellent is your name in all the earth.
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¶p: Hear the voice of one who cries out to you, O Lord! Where can I go that your Spirit is not? Where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend up into the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in darkness, even there you are with me;-if I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there will your hand lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
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If I say, "Surely the darkness will cover me," even the night will be light about me.
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Yes, the darkness hides not from you, but the night shines as the day.
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The darkness and the light are both alike to you, for your All-Seeing Eye beholds all things.
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¶a: As the hart pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
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My soul thirsts for the living Heavenly Father.
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Your Law is my Light and Salvation; whom should I fear? Your Law is the Rock and the Strength of my life; of whom should I be afraid? One thing have I desired of your Law; that I will seek after: That I may dwell in the House of the Law, all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Heavenly Father.
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¶p: Those who enter the secret place of the Highest, and dwell in the bosom of Eternity, will abide forever under the shadow of the Almighty.
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¶c: We will say of the Law, "You are our Refuge and our Fortress"; we will trust in the Holy Law.
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The Heavenly Father will cover us with his cloak, and under his wings will we trust; his Truth will be our shield and armor.
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We will not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day, nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.
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¶a: We will be strong and courageous, for by day we will walk with the Angels of the Earthly Mother; by night we will commune with the Angels of the Heavenly Father, and when the sun reaches its zenith at noontide, we will stand silent before the Lord our God, no evil will befall us.
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Neither will any plague overcome our dwelling, for he has given his Angels charge over us, to keep us in all his ways.
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The Heavenly Father is our Refuge and Strength; therefore will we not fear.
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Though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the middle of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake in consternation, yet will we stand firm in the power of our Gods.
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There is a river which flows to the Eternal Sea.
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Beside the river stands the holy Tree of Life.
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There does my Father dwell, and my home is in him.
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The Heavenly Father and I are One, he in me, and I in him, through Christ Jesus my Lord. Amen.
Selah