DIVINE MOTHER 1
“I may lose everything and be roaming in darkness, but O Divine Mother, see that the tiny_______ of my remembrance for Thee be not extinguished by the gusts of disbelief. I loved all things, only to find that I craved Thee alone. Come! Be with me always!”
TAPER
O formless, all-pervading Mother Divine, come to me in the form of tangible kindness! Take me away from these shores of millennial _________.
I have heard Thy voice, Divine Mother, saying: “You have long remained enclosed in the cocoon of wrong human ________. Come out! ere the silk-man, Death, come to destroy you! Cut away the delusive, comfort-inducing silken cords of past habits which hold you, falsely secure, in their chamber of death.
HABITS
Then at last Thy sweet voice came, tender with compassion; I heard Thee say: “The very light by which thou seekest Me is, already, Myself! Thou hast sought Me elsewhere than in thyself; yet I am thou! Thou art I! There can never be aught but thine own Self. I come to thee through thyself. Worship me as separate, if you like, but know who I am: thy very own Self! O eternally beloved child, we are ____!”
ONE
Divine Mother, let every slap of correction administered by Thee wring from us, Thy children, only cries for Thy love. Change any moans of suffering we utter into unceasing wails to be lifted comfortingly onto Thy cosmic ____.
LAP
Dressed in Thy luster, clean and holy, Thou didst send me out to play. I played—but in darkness, ignorantly; I found myself, therefore, lost in a mire of suffering. I went forth clean, but have come back to Thee all besmirched with the mud of delusion. O Divine Mother, wash me in Thy wisdom: Make me ______ again!
CLEAN
But, Divine Mother, I have waited long to behold Thy face. My impatience has burned with a million tongues of flame, with the flame of my burning ______ for Thee.
CRAVING
Divine Mother, be Thou the only fragrance rising with the incense of our love for Thee. Permeate any _____ nook in the hearts also of those we love.
DARK
Mother, how can I thank Thee! I will ever be Thine, for Thou art eternally mine. Still, I love to behold Thee through my window of self-understanding as if dancing outside me also; to see Thee smiling with tantalizing ______________! Yet I know the dance takes place, in truth, only here in my own heart.
SWEETNESS
O Divine Mother, teach us, even when we are bludgeoned by pain, to sing only Thy exulting songs of joy. Melt our pride in Thy purifying furnace of all necessary trials, to transmute the lead of unseemly arrogance into the pure gold of _____.
HUMILITY
O Divine Mother, the bee of my mind is ever engrossed in Thy lotus feet of blue light. It drinks the honey of Thy motherly love. This bee will drink no other honey but that which is graced by Thy perfume-________.
SWEETNESS
Sustain me evermore, O Divine Mother, with Thy rays of life-giving ______! The heart, cells, brain, and thoughts of this body—, Thy body, not mine—, will waste no longer with decay. Lo! they are now immortal with Thy everlasting life.
LIGHT
Divine Mother, unite our separate hearts into one, great love, wherein Thy omnipresence can rest forever and forever. Teach us to behold our latent perfection in the clear mirror of Thy divinity. Let the altar-flame of our love for Thee rise in triumph, shaming the little, hissing sparks of all earthly _______.
DESIRES
O Divine Mother, break through the dawn and show Thy face of light! Break through the sun and show Thy face of power! Break through the night and show Thy mooned face! Break through my thoughts and show Thy face of wisdom! Break through my feelings and show Thy face of love! Break through my pride and show Thy face of humbleness! Break through my wisdom and show Thy face of ____________!
PERFECTION
Divine Mother, clear out the brooding slum of our selfishness wherein crouch, huddled in pain, the starving, ill-clad urchins of our ignorance. Build there, instead, Thy temple of omnipresence, wherein noble votaries of devotion, solemn reverence, and aspiring love can worship Thee with pure hearts, dressed in the simple, clean garments of single-minded _________.
INTENTION
O Divine Mother, flying over the gardens of my fancy, denying myself the honey of lesser pleasures, I have found at last the _____________ buried in Thy lotus-heart.
AMBROSIA
O Mother Divine, I have learned to love Thy dance of destruction! For I see, now, that what is destroyed is my own ignorance and ______!
FOLLY
O Divine Mother, may our love be a shooting star racing gloriously through dark skies of forgetfulness, cutting its way through dark thunder-clouds of worldly ___________.
May I behold my true _____ in others, that I perceive Thee ever enthroned in our united hearts.
SELF
Mother Divine, make me love equally every friend in my life. By loving them may I find Thy love in all hearts, everywhere. Teach me to return even greater love to those who love me, and to pray also, and even especially, for those who do not love me. I will secretly enjoy loving them, for they, too—though they know it not!—are my brothers and sisters in ____.
GOD
In the hall of life, decorated with mountains, cataracts, and wild scenery, I have played long. When tired of play, each time I cried for Thee, Thou didst drop to me, through the window of my desire, new dolls of fame, friends, prosperity – to quiet me. Now, this time, Divine Mother, I will play the naughty baby. I will sob unceasingly. No more toys of earthly pleasures shall stop my cries. O Divine Mother, Thou wouldst best come soon, or I will wake all creation with my______.
CRIES
I appreciate, now, Thy dance of devastation, Mother! Together let us cremate my every desire, frailty, weakness, and finitude, forever and ever. I’ll join Thee, laughing, in Thy dance of evil’s ________.
DESTRUCTION
Divine Mother, a million distractions have come to lure us away from thoughts of Thee. Thou Thyself, in order to test us, hast offered false, substitute fulfillments: pompous temple ceremonies to satisfy the ego needs of worldly people; religious organizations shouting, “Salvation can come only through serving this work!”; priests and ministers offering the Gospel, “God will bless you if you give us money!” O Mother, I have done with such outward shows in Thy name. I await Thee now in the inner temple of my ____.
I will blame the fates no longer for any suffering that comes my way. Beloved Divine Mother, it was my self-made darkness that hid the glory of our mutual love. Now I see myself reflected in Thy bliss, and know that I, too, am perfect bliss. For my own _______ is clear, now; I behold Thy reflection in it, O Thou ever-sacred, omnipresent, perfect bliss!
MIRROR
O Mother Divine, teach me to love others, and to serve them in Thy name. Teach me to be true to my word, even as I want others to be true to theirs. Teach me to love others, even as I want them to love me. Teach me, O Dearest Heavenly Mother, to make others happy, and to make them smile. Teach me to find my happiness in the happiness of ___.
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