s1m0n
03-10-2010, 08:03 PM
Quite often one comes across LHP alternatives to the Lord's Prayer in rites and rituals. Austin Osman Spare composed his own in his Anathema of Zos :
Cursed are they who supplicate. Gods are with ye yet. Therefore let ye who pray acquire this manner:-
O Self my God,
foreign is thy name except in blasphemy,
for I am thy iconoclast.
I cast thy bread upon the waters,
for I myself am meat enough.
Hidden in the labyrinth of the Alphabet is my sacred name,
the Sigil of all things unknown.
On Earth my kingdom is Eternity of Desire.
My wish incarnates in the belief and becomes flesh,
for I am the Living Truth.
Heaven is ecstasy;
my consciousness changing and acquiring association.
May I have courage to take from my own superabundance.
Let me forget righteousness.
Free me of morals.
Lead me into temptation of myself,
for I am a tottering kingdom of good and evil.
May worth be acquired through those things I have pleasured.
May my trespasses be worthy.
Give me death of my soul.
Intoxicate me with self-love.
Teach me to sustain its freedom;
for I am sufficiently Hell.
Let me sin against the small beliefs.
Amen.
Cursed are they who supplicate. Gods are with ye yet. Therefore let ye who pray acquire this manner:-
O Self my God,
foreign is thy name except in blasphemy,
for I am thy iconoclast.
I cast thy bread upon the waters,
for I myself am meat enough.
Hidden in the labyrinth of the Alphabet is my sacred name,
the Sigil of all things unknown.
On Earth my kingdom is Eternity of Desire.
My wish incarnates in the belief and becomes flesh,
for I am the Living Truth.
Heaven is ecstasy;
my consciousness changing and acquiring association.
May I have courage to take from my own superabundance.
Let me forget righteousness.
Free me of morals.
Lead me into temptation of myself,
for I am a tottering kingdom of good and evil.
May worth be acquired through those things I have pleasured.
May my trespasses be worthy.
Give me death of my soul.
Intoxicate me with self-love.
Teach me to sustain its freedom;
for I am sufficiently Hell.
Let me sin against the small beliefs.
Amen.