Prayer to the Master

This beautiful prayer comes to us courtesy of Robert Gresak in South Africa. Robert found it in the May/June 1924 issue of The Aquarian Age.

According to Robert, "It is given as an unfailing means of finding the Master in the heart and should be meditated upon phrase by phrase with deepening realization until the full beauty and truth of the final words become matters of experience."

Prayer to the Master

'O gracious Lord, I enter thy radiance and approach thy presence bearing with me the service done in thy name and for thee. I seek to become a more efficient server and I open my heart and mind to the power of thy love, thy joy, and thy peace.

In thy presence, thy love floods my being. Love which is gentleness, kindness, helpfulness. I must therefore be gentle, loving, kind and helpful to all men.

In thy presence thy joy pervades me, joy which is light, radiance and eternal youth. I must therefore bear thy joy to those who are sad and depressed.

In thy presence thy peace enfolds me and fills me with contentment, certainty, rest, stillness. Thy peace which passeth understanding. I must therefore be a center of love, joy and peace in the world.

I place my hand in thine with all love, trust and confidence for thou are indeed my Lord. From the unreal lead me to the real, from darkness to light, from death to life eternal. At thy feet and in the light of thy holy presence I strive to realize what I am. I am not this body which belongs to the world of shadows; I am not the desires which affect it; I am not the thoughts which fill my mind; I am not the mind itself. I am the divine flame within my heart, eternal, immortal, ancient, without beginning, without end. More radiant than the sun in all His noonday glory, purer that the snow, untouched, unsullied by the hand of matter; more subtle that the ether is the spirit within my heart. I and the Father are one.

I adore thee, thou my life, my breath, my being, my all. I am in thee and thou are in me. Lead me gracious Lord through illimitable love to union with thee and the heart of eternal love.

Amen.