XXII: “EXALTED ART THOU, O LORD MY GOD! I AM THE ONE...”


Exalted art Thou, O Lord my God! I am the one who hath forsaken his all
and set his face towards the splendors of the glory of Thy countenance,
who hath severed every tie and clung to the cord of Thy love and of Thy
good-pleasure. I am he, O my God, who hath embraced Thy love and accepted
all the adversities which the world can inflict, who hath offered up
himself as a ransom for the sake of Thy loved ones, that they may ascend
into the heavens of Thy knowledge and be drawn nearer unto Thee, and may
soar in the atmosphere of Thy love and Thy good-pleasure.

Ordain, O my God, for me and for them that which Thou didst decree for
such of Thy chosen ones as are wholly devoted unto Thee. Cause them, then,
to be numbered among those whose eyes Thou hast cleansed and kept from
turning to any one save Thee, and whose eyes Thou hast protected from
beholding any face except Thy face.

Thou art, verily, the Almighty, the Most Exalted, the All-Glorious, the
Supreme King, the Help in Peril, the All-Pardoner, the Ever-Forgiving.





XXIII: “GLORIFIED ART THOU, O LORD MY GOD! I IMPLORE...”