PEACE
WITH MY OWN BODYPEACE
WITH MY OWN BODY
On Friday I seek peace
with my own body; for my body is as a mountain pond that reflects the
sun when it is still and clear; but when it is full of mud and stones, it
reflects nothing. First must Satan be cast out of the body, that the angels of
God may enter again and dweh therein. Truly, no peace can reign in the body
unless it is as a temple of the Holy Law. Therefore, when he who suffers with
pains and grievous plagues asks for your help, tell him to renew himself with
fasting and with prayer. Tell him to invoke the angel of sun, the angel of
water, and the angel of air, that they may enter his body and cast out of it the
power of Satan. Show him the baptism within, and the baptism without. Tell him
always to eat of the table of our Earthly Mother, spread with her gifts: the
fruits of the trees, the grasses of the fields, the milk of beasts good for
eating, and the honey of bees. He shall not invoke the power of Satan by eating
the flesh of bea sts, for he who kills, kills his brother, and whoso eats the
flesh of slain beasts, eats the body of death. Tell him to prepare his food with
the fire of life, not the fire of death, for the living angels of the living God
serve only living men.
"And though he sees
them not, and hears them not, and touches them not, still is he every moment
surrounded by the power of God's angels. While his eyes and ears are closed by
ignorance of the Law and thirst for the pleasures of Satan, he will not see
them, nor hear them, nor touch them. But when he fasts and prays to the living
God to cast out all the diseases and uncleannesses of Satan, then will his eyes
and ears be opened, and he will find peace.
"For not only he
suffers who harbors the diseases of Satan within him, but his mother, his
father, his wife, his children, his companions, these suffer also, for no man is
an island unto himself, and the powers that flow through him, whether they be of
the angels or of Satan, truly these powers do unto others for good or for evfl.
After this manner,
therefore, I pray to our Heavenly Father, when the sun is high at midday: 'Our
Father who art in heaven, send to all the Sons of Men your angel of Peace; and
send to our body the angel of Life to dwell therein for ever.'
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