Morning prayer hymns

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Rolf A. F. Witzsche

Rising above the Earth...
Based on hymns

hymns as morning prayer

God is Mind: the generous creative, enabling impetus;
the ennobling, enriching, beautifying, empowering, protecting,
producing, healing, freeing, enlightening, expanding, and harmonizing presence.

Music for the morning

A Lark	Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804 - 1857)
Fantasie opus 28	Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)
1st Arabesque	Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
Ballade op. 23 no. 1 in g	Frédéric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
Nocturne nr3 Liebestraume	Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Etude opus 740 no. 12	Carl Czerny (1791 - 1857)
Etude opus 72 no. 13	Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925)
Elégie in e-flat minor op. 3 no. 1	Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
Appassionato - Sonata no. 23	Ludvig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Ave Maria - a celebration - excerpts	sung by Coro Voci di Trezzano
Zueignung (op. 10 n. 1) - *1 "Have Thanks" (Habe Dank) - a song	RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Music performed a long time ago by Serg Van Gennip, one of the great pianists of our world
and *1 by Erik Battaglia, piano - Lucio Gallo, baritone - from The Lieder Sound Archive - Strauss

Be Thou, O God, exalted high;

And as Thy Glory, the all-harmonizing Spirit -

Principle, Love, Truth, Mind, Soul, and Life

- fills the sky,

So let it be on earth displayed,

For Thou art here and now conveyed (to one-another).

Beloved

We are the guests of God

In heavenly Love abiding,
No change our heart shall fear;
For safe is such confiding,
As nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without us,
Our heart may low be laid;
But God is round about us,
How can we be dismayed?

Wherever He may guide us,
No want shall turn us back;
Our Shepherd is beside us,
So, nothing can we lack.
His wisdom ever waketh,
His sight is never dim;
He knows the way He taketh,
And we will walk with Him.

Green pastures are before us,
Which yet we have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o'er us,
Where darkest clouds have been.
Our hope we cannot measure,
Our path in life is free;
Our Father has our treasure,
And He does walk with 'we!'

Our God is Love, unchanging Love,
How could we ask for more?
Our prayer for Love's increase is vain;
It's infinite as before.
Ask not the Lord with breath of praise
For more than we accept;
The open fount is free to all,
God's promises are kept.

Our God is Mind, the perfect Mind,
Intelligence divine;
Shall mortal man ask Him to change
His infinite design?
Our heart that yearns for righteousness,
With longing unalloyed,
Is pure desire that is a prayer
That ne'er returneth void.

O loving Father, well we know
That words alone are vain,
That those who seek Thy will to do,
The true communion gain.
Then may our deeds, in Love's desire
With grace in intimacy express,
That we may know how Love divine
Forever waits to bless.

O Jesus, our dear Exemplar,
Thy works, now understood,
Reveal their full effulgence
In Love's sweet brotherhood.
Today Christ's precious Science
Thy healing power makes plain:
With joy may all obey thee
And cast out sin and pain.

The Christ, eternal manhood,
As God's own Son beloved,
A tender ever-presence
Within each heart is proved.
O God, our Father-Mother,
Thy name we see expressed
By man, who in Thy Science
Is perfect, holy, blessed.

O Science, God-sent message
To tired humanity,
Thou art Love's revelation
Of Truth that makes man free.
Thy kingdom, God, within us
Shows forth Love's sweet control:
Thus God's idea, man, rejoices,
Celebrating the reign of Soul.

Dear Lord and Father of us all,
Forgive our foolish ways;
Reclothe us in our rightful mind;
In purer lives Thy service find,
In deeper reverence, praise.

In simple trust like theirs who heard,
Beside the Syrian sea,
The gracious calling of the Lord,
Let us, like them, without a word
Rise up and follow thee.

Breathe through the pulses of desire
Thy coolness and Thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from us now the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives express
The beauty of Thy peace.

The King of Love our Shepherd is,
Whose goodness faileth never;
We nothing lack, for we are His
And He is 'I or Us' forever.

Where streams of living water flow
Our ransomed soul He leadeth,
And where the verdant pastures grow,
With food celestial feedeth.

Perverse and foolish oft we strayed,
But yet in Love He sought us,
And on His shoulder gently laid,
And home, rejoicing, brought us.

And so through all the length of days
Love's goodness faileth never;
Good Shepherd, may I sing Thy praise
Within Thy house forever.

Our God is Love, unchanging Love,
How could we ask for more?
Our prayer for Love's increase is vain;
It's infinite now as before.
Ask not the Lord with breath of praise
For more than we accept;
The open fount is free to all,
God's promises are kept.

Our God is Mind, the perfect Mind,
Intelligence divine;
Shall mortal man ask Him to change
His infinite design?
The heart that yearns for righteousness,
With longing unalloyed,
Is pure desire that is a prayer
That ne'er returneth void.

O loving Father, well we know
That words alone are vain,
That those who seek Thy will to do,
The true communion gain.
Then may our deeds, our love's desire
For growth in grace express,
That we may know how Love divine
Forever waits to bless.

Forever waits to bless.

Beloved

We are the beloved of God

The Lord's Prayer and its spiritual interpretation by Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910)

	Dawn	Sunrise	Heat of the day	The Golden Light of Peace
The lateral Reality Love - omnipotence	4- Adorable One.	8- Enable us to know, - as in heaven, so on earth, - God is omnipotent, supreme.	12 - And Love is reflected in love;	16 - For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
Christ - Science Truth - omniscience	3- Hallowed be Thy name.	7- Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.	11 - And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.	15 - For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
Escaping Morality Soul - omnipresence	2- Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,	6- Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.	10 - Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;	14 - And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.
Escaping depravity Principle - omniaction	1- Our Father which art in heaven,	5- Thy kingdom come.	9- Give us this day our daily bread;	13 - And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;

Poems by Mary Baker Eddy as hymns:
Christ My Refuge -Blessed Christmas Morn - Feed My Sheep -Love -Mother's Evening Prayer -Celebrating Mary Baker Eddy

For more, see Mary Baker Eddy Christian Science,
and Poems of Joy - Hymns of Healing

Oh Love, our Father, Soul in heaven;
Truth infinite, the giver of incorporeal bread;
Life’s kingdom is Spirit, unbounded in loving;
Not temptation, lack, pain, isolation - freedom IS.

Oh Father-Mother, Mind, all-harmonious;
Oh Grace - loving unfamished;
Living is gracious - Love ever present;
No disease, death, indifference - Spirit is Soul.

Oh Love, the hallowed name - the name of Life;
Love holds no debts, we loose our debtors;
Loving on earth, the rich manifest of heaven;
Principle is Love: power and glory - Us all-divine.

Oh Adorable, One;
Love, reflected in loving;
Heaven expressed, Love is supreme;
All power IS - Life, Truth, Love - the infinite One .

- a presentation by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

Morning Prayer - Golden with Truth
- a thought to begin with

God creates neither erring thought, mortal life, mutable truth, nor variable love.

Immortal and divine Mind presents the idea of God: first, in light; second, in reflection; third, in spiritual and immortal forms of beauty and goodness - Mind creates no element nor symbol of discord and decay.

The starting-point of divine Science is that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is no other might nor Mind, - that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle.

To grasp the reality and order of being in its Science, you must begin by reckoning God as the divine Principle of all that really is.

The precise form of God must be of small importance in comparison with the sublime question, What is infinite Mind or divine Love?

Life, Truth, and Love constitute the triply divine Principle, Love - a trinity in unity, three in one, - the same in essence, though multiform in office - the divine Principle of scientific being, the intelligent relation of God to man and the universe. (summary from p. 331, Divine Trinity)

God is natural good, and is represented only by the idea of goodness. Evil should be regarded as unnatural, because it is opposed to the nature of Spirit, God.

Spirit blesses man, but man cannot "tell whence it cometh." By it the sick are healed, the sorrowing are comforted, and the sinning are reformed. These are the effects of one universal God - the invisible good dwelling in eternal Science.

The three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, - Spirit possessing all power, filling all space, constituting all Science, - contradict forever the belief that matter can be actual. These eternal verities reveal primeval existence as the radiant reality of God's creation, in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wisdom good.

Isaiah 63:16
16 Doubtless thou art our father,
though Abraham be ignorant of us, and
Israel acknowledge us not...

In divine Science, we have not as much authority for considering God masculine, as we have for considering Him feminine, for Love imparts the clearest idea of Deity.

The Mind or intelligence of production names the female gender last in the ascending order of creation. The intelligent individual idea, be it male or female, rising from the lesser to the greater, unfolds the infinitude of Love.

Love, the divine Principle, is the Father and Mother of the universe, including man.

(divine economics) Love for God and man is the true incentive in both healing and teaching. Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way. Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. Love is priestess at the altar of Truth.

(Spiritual Eucharist)
Our baptism is a purification from all error. Our church is
built on the divine Principle, Love. We can unite with this
church only as we are newborn of Spirit, as we reach the Life
which is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth the
fruits of Love, - casting out error and healing the sick. Our
Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God. Our bread,
"which cometh down from heaven," is Truth. Our cup is the cross.
Our wine the inspiration of Love, the draught our Master drank and
commended to his followers.

Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

the book that has healed for more than a century

	The Word The river Pison - oriented northward to the early dawn	Christ The river Gihon - oriented eastward to the sunrise	Christianity The river Hiddekel - oriented southward to the heat of the day	divine Science The river Euphrates - oriented westward to the sunset
The lateral Reality Love - omnipotence	4 - Christian Science versus Spiritualism - MP3	8 - Footsteps of Truth - MP3	12 - Christian Science Practice - MP3	* 16 - The Apocalypse - MP3
Christ - Science Truth - omniscience	3 - Marriage - MP3	7 - Physiology - MP3	11 - Some Objections Answered - MP3	* 15 - Genesis - MP3
Escaping Morality Soul - omnipresence	2 - Atonement and Eucharist - MP3	6a Science 6b Theology - MP3 6c Medicine	10a - Science of Being 10b - Platform of Christian Science - MP3	14 - Recapitulation - MP3
Escaping depravity Principle - omniaction	Preface - MP3 1 - Prayer	5 - Animal Magnetism Unmasked - MP3	9 - Creation - MP3	13 - Teaching Christian Science - MP3

Glossary - MP3 --- Subheader List --- Fruitage - MP3(1) - MP3(2) --- Fruitage List

For the printed version and free PDF Book
See: The Acme and the Textbook of Christian Science

* part of the section Key to the Scriptues

- a presentation by Rolf A. F. Witzsche

The Christian Science Bible Lessons

The Bible Lessons presented here are from the year 1898, designed to function as an impersonal pastor, with the topics repeated twice a year, arranged in the manner of a platform in correspondence with the questions in the chapter, Recapitulation.

7 - SOUL.	5 - LOVE.	3 - LIFE.	1 - GOD.
8 - MIND.	6 - SPIRIT.	4 - TRUTH	2- SACRAMENT

15 - ARE SIN, DISEASE, AND DEATH REAL?	13 - REALITY.	11 - SUBSTANCE.	9 - CHRIST JESUS.
16 - DOCTRINE OF ATONEMENT.	14 - UNREALITY.	12 - MATTER.	10 - MAN.

25 - IS THE UNIVERSE, INCLUDING MAN, EVOLVED BY ATOMIC FORCE?	22 - ANCIENT AND MODERN NECROMANCY, ALIAS MESMERISM AND HYPNOTISM, DENOUNCED.	19 - ADAM AND FALLEN MAN.	17 - PROBATION AFTER DEATH.
26 - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.	23 - GOD THE ONLY CAUSE AND CREATOR. 24 - GOD THE PRESERVER OF MAN.	20 - MORTALS AND IMMORTALS. 21 - SOUL AND BODY.	18 - EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT.

Christ and Christmas - by Mary Baker Eddy - The text of the poem of Christ and Christmas - Mapping of Christ and Christmas to the Bible Lessons

For the printed version of the Bible lessons and free PDF book see:
Bible Lessons in Divine Science: 1898

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