YetzirahListp. 93–95
Notations of Prayer Themes
The themes of the preceding pages (Aquarian Minyan Makhzor pp. 23–27) noted line by line: offer of gratitude, acknowledgment of awareness...
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Notations of Prayer Themes Page notations refer to the Aquarian Minyan Makhzor Offer of gratitude for awakening Acknowledgment of awareness of freedom of challenge of inspiration of potential of comfort of liberation of a firm background from which to operate for beauty for guidance for energy for richness Appreciation for the environment, the ecological tapestry Request for psychic response Acknowledgment of the march of history of the early forms of prayer such as the wonder (and gore) of sacrifice Prayer for openness of heart Hope-prayer for disentanglement for acceptance for protection from interruption for a sense of purity Demand for guidance, for reciprocal response for mirroring for acknowledgment of our depth connection Blessing (sending out of energy) Appreciation of ongoing evolutionary processes over long epochs of time. Offer of simple thanks Recommendation to name the whole as God Appreciation of the cycles of planet formation Suggestion to let the heart lead to seek God to seek the strength which comes from knowing God Fantasy identification with the atmospheric interplay of wind/rain/ cloud/light/heat/ cold fronts Reminder of the feeling in the high and holy places of the world. Reminder of the flexibility of God, of the universe as a forgiving and accepting, adapting place. Request for understanding and tenderness. Reminder of the search for God as refuge, serenity refuge for the troubled. Calling on the source of transformations, of origins and miracles to manifest in private life. Request to the historical partner to save our tribe and nation from the overwhelming difficulties it now faces. Prayer for our cities Prayer for the oppressed, the downtrodden, the messed up, the sick, the emotionally abused, the lost, the helpless, the cold, hungry, destitute. Self-reminder to find the golden attitude, whatever that is. Proclamation of happiness as a choice Affirmation of song in community as a way to wholeness. Reminder of the feelings when being threatened of death and downfall being so near of having been rescued from spiraling downturn of forgiveness from errors, of joy in the dawn after terrible nights. of smug complacency changing into disaster of prayers said at the midnight hour of bargains pleaded with God in hospitals, by deathbeds of mourning times of transformation out of mourning times in back into life. of happiness renewed after mourning of gratefulness welling up in the heart after numb dry periods Welling up of song and gratitude from the depths, happy in life. Reminder of help that came. Broadcast to the Master of the universe Attempt to influence the will of the universe expressed desire that consciousness fill vast empty space that the universe appreciate its own beauty and power and intelligence. Declaration and affirmation of the broad sweep of time available to the creative spirit Appreciation of subtle dimensions and worlds of self-knowing other than the human. Reminder of the mystery in the stars history of the daily flips of light and darkness and the vast powers of gravity that that signifies of the wordlessness of it all of the intelligence and exactitude of each cyclic change of the romance of dawn the drama of a day dawning from night of the expanse of visible sky of the ambition of morning of the power of noon, the regality of evening changes of the overwhelming quality of heat and light. Intimate request for one's inarticulate intentions to be known Image of the firmness of lying on God as if lying on a great rock Questioning of the best path in life Desire expressed to see good. Self-reminder to keep deceit and truth clear in one's mind to guide one's speech in a good wholeness. to seek peace, to differentiate between good causing and evil causing. Prayer for the city. Demand for peace in government. Attempt to influence the divine will to cause peace amongst governmental officials. Reminder of love for peers, brothers and sisters of the larger community. Dedication to the possibility of the planet as a Temple, a house of God; a domicile where the Divine could be at home. Request to know our mortality, to value our time well, to not waste our time and lives . Request for teachers, teachings, guidance to use life well. Demand to know joy in measure with the pain we have know. Invocation of being that beauty of the divine as an entity come to us That our works channel this abundance and be grounded in an ongoing continuity of burgeoning beauty.