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258 THE TREE OF LIFE
no one can read it unless he has been in Thy school. Therefore our
eyes are directed upon Thee, as the eyes of the servants are directed
upon the hands of their masters and mistresses, from whom they
receive their gifts.
" Oh Thou Lord of Kings, who should not praise Thee unceasingly,
and for ever with his whole heart for everything in the universe
comes from Thee, out of Thee, belongs to Thee and must again
return to Thee. Everything that exists will ultimately re-enter
Thy Love or Thy Anger, Thy Light or Thy Fire, and everything
whether good or evil, must serve to Thy glorification.
" Thou alone art the Lord, for Thy Will is the fountain of all
powers that exist in the Universe ; none can escape Thee. Thou
art the King of the World, Thy residence is in Heaven and in the
sanctuary of the heart of the virtuous.
" Universal God, One Life, One Light, One Power, Thou All in
All, beyond expression and beyond conception. 0 Nature ! Thou
something from nothing, thou symbol of Wisdom ! In Myself I
am nothing, in Thee I am I. I live in Thine I made of nothing;
live Thou in me, and bring me out of the region of self into the
Eternal Light."
In The Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage, Abraham the Jew
carefully made it a point not to provide prayers or invocations,
suggesting that the best invocations would be those written by each
individual to suit personal needs. He does give, however, in the
pages of his book, an Orison which is suitable, like the preceding
Rosicrucian prayer, to form the opening of the Ceremony to lift up
the mind of the Magician, and to draw down the divine afflatus to
bless the work in hand.
" 0 Lord God of Mercy, God, Patient, Most Benign and Liberal,
who grantest Thy grace in a thousand ways, and unto a thousand
generations ; who forgettest the iniquities, the sins, and the transgressions
of men, in whose Presence none is found innocent ; who
visitest the transgressions of the father upon the children and
nephews unto the third and fourth generation; I know my
wretchedness, and that I am not worthy to appear before Thy
Divine Majesty, nor even to implore and beseech Thy Goodness and
Mercy for the least Grace.
" But, 0 Lord of Lords, the Source of Thy Bounty is so great
that of Itself it calleth those who are ashamed by reason of their