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¶a: I want to and will do my best to live like the Tree of Life, planted by the Masters of the Holy Order of the Gods, being one with my Heavenly Father, who planted the Eternal Garden of the Universe and gave me my spirit, with my Earthly Mother, who planted the Great Garden of the Earth and gave me my body, and with my fellow disciples who are working in the Garden of our Lord.
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I want to and will do my best to hold, every evening, my Communions with the Angels of the Heavenly Father and, every morning, with the Angels of the Earthly Mother, as established by the Masters of the Holy Order of the Gods.
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I want to and will do my best to follow the Path of Peace, that Peace which passes understanding, which is found in perfectness only by those who have received a fullness of Light.
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I want to and will do my best to perfect my body in its acts, in its feelings, and in its thoughts, according to the teachings of the Masters of the Holy Order of the Gods.
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I will always, and everywhere, obey with reverence my Master, who gives me the Light of the Masters who have gone before.
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I will submit to my Masters, and accept their decision on whatever differences or complaints I may have against any of my fellow disciples working in the Garden of the Holy Order, and I will never take any complaint against a fellow disciple to the outside world.
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I will strive to live together with my fellow disciples in Love, that we may be united in all things.
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I will always, and everywhere, keep secret all the mysteries of the Holy Order of the Gods, which my Masters will tell me, and I will never reveal to anyone these secrets without the permission of my Masters.
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I will never claim as my own the knowledge received from my Masters, and I will always give credit to them for all this knowledge.
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I will never use the knowledge and power I have gained, through the rites and ordinances of the gospel, for material or selfish purposes.
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I enter the Eternal and Infinite Garden, with reverence to the Heavenly Father, to the Earthly Mother, and to the Masters, with reverence for the holy, pure, and saving teachings of the gospel, and reverence to the Brotherhood of the Elect.
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¶p: When the Gods saw that their people would perish because they did not see the Light of Life, they chose the best of mankind so that they might make the Light of Life to shine before mortals, and those chosen were called Sons Ahman.
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They were chosen to teach the ignorant, heal the sick, and dispense Light to the seekers after Truth.
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And they gathered together often, filled with Light and Truth, to rejoice in the Lord.
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Earthly Mother, give us the Food of Life!
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¶c: We will eat the Food of Life!
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¶p: Angel of Sun, give us the Fire of Life!
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¶c: We will perpetuate the Fire of Life!
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¶p: Angel of Water, give us the Water of Life!
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¶c: We will bathe in the Water of Life!
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¶p: Angel of Air, give us the Breath of Life!
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¶c: We will breathe the Air of Life!
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¶p: Heavenly Father, give us your Power!
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¶c: We will build the Realm of the Gods with the Power of the Heavenly Father!
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¶p: Heavenly Father, give us your Love!
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¶c: We will fill our hearts with the Love of the Heavenly Father!
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¶p: Heavenly Father, give us your Wisdom!
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¶c: We will follow the Wisdom of the Heavenly Father!
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¶p: Heavenly Father, give us Eternal Life!
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¶c: We will live like the Tree of Eternal Life!
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¶p: Peace be with you!
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¶c: Peace be with you!
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¶p: To lift your eyes to heaven, when everyone's eyes are on the ground, is not easy.
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To worship at the feet of the Lord, when everyone worships only fame and riches, is not easy.
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But the most difficult of all is to think the thoughts of the sanctified, to speak the words of the sanctified, and to do as the sanctified do.
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¶c: Give us, O Heavenly Father, the key to sanctification in your holy image.
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¶p: The Heavenly Father says: “I am the Lord your God; you should therefore sanctify yourselves, and you should be holy as I am holy; you should not defile yourselves with downcast minds, false worship, or unclean thoughts."
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¶c: As a child inherits the land of his parents, so have we inherited a holy land from our Masters.
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This land is not a field to be plowed, but a place within us where we can build our holy temple.
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Even as a temple must be raised stone by stone, so will the Master give to us those stones for the building of the holy temple within us, even the stones of the hidden knowledge, which has been handed down from our Masters, since the beginning of time.
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¶a: Grant us, O Heavenly Father, the keys of knowledge, that we may build, within, the holy temple of your Presence, for the Highest dwells not in temples made with hands, but in his sanctified will his dwelling be.
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¶p: The holy temple can be built to perfection only with the ancient Communions, those which are spoken, those which are thought, and those which are lived.
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For if they are spoken only with the mouth, they are as a dead hive which the bees have forsaken, which gives no more honey.
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¶c: As the body without the spirit is dead, even so, faith without works is dead, being alone.
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¶a: The Communions are a bridge between mankind and the Gods and, like a bridge, can be built only with patience.
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Yes, even as the bridge over the river is fashioned stone by stone, as they are found by the water's edge, so is the bridge to the Gods fashioned step by step, as you learn and obey the mysteries of Godliness.
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¶p: Whoever accepts the Light, to him will more be given, and he will have in abundance, for it is given to such to know the mysteries of godliness, and they will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
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¶c: Give us, O Heavenly Father, the mysteries of godliness, so that we can utter the secret things in holy places, through your divine name.
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¶p: The Communions are fourteen in number, as the Angels of the Heavenly Father number seven, and the Angels of the Earthly Mother number seven.
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Just as the roots of the tree sink into the earth and are nourished, and the branches of the tree raise their arms to heaven, so is each person like the trunk of the tree, with his roots deep in the breast of his Earthly Mother, and his soul ascending to the bright stars of his Heavenly Father.
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The roots of the tree are the Angels of the Earthly Mother, and the branches of the tree are the Angels of the Heavenly Father.
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This is the sacred Tree of Life, which stands in the Sea of Eternity.
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¶c: All things were before created, but spiritually were they created and made, according to the word of the Gods, when the Heavenly Father planted the Tree of Life in the middle of the Eternal Sea, and ordered the universe, with all things therein.
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¶p: My children, do you not know that the earth, and all that dwell therein, is but a reflection of the realm of the Heavenly Father? As you are suckled and comforted by your mother when a child, but go to join your parents in the fields when you grow up, so do the angels of the Earthly Mother guide your steps toward him who is your Father, that you may know your true home, and become true children of the Gods.
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While we are children, we see the rays of the sun, but not the power which created it; while we are children, we hear the sounds of the flowing brook, but not the Love which created it; while we are children, we see the stars, but not the hand which scattered them through the sky as the farmer scatters his seed.
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Only through the Communions with the Angels of the Heavenly Father, and of the Earthly Mother, will we learn to see the unseen, to hear that which cannot be heard, and to speak the unspeakable word.
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¶a: Give us, O Heavenly Father, eyes to see your glory, ears to hear your word, and mouths to utter your divine Name. Amen.
Selah