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Focus Your Light Within Me

January 18th, 2010

According to his bio, Neil Douglas-Klotz was “very privileged to study with the early students of the American Hebrew/Sufi mystic Samuel L. Lewis, who introduced me to the body prayer meditations called the Dances of Universal Peace.” It is from that mystical perspective that Neil Douglas-Klotz interprets the Lord’s Prayer from the Aramaic.

In the first pages of his book, Prayer’s of the Cosmos, he points out that this work is not a “formal, scholarly transliteration.” In other words, he has moved beyond a literal translation of word for word, and moved into the mystical perspective of the Spirit beyond the words.

This perspective is one that I resonate with. It offers a rich experience of God as that out of which all the cosmos is birthing forth. Opening to the awe and wonder and mystery of this universe in which we find ourselves reveals an opportunity to know God at a deeper level. This wonder and mystery permeates all life, of which I am a part. As I have often said, “there is no where that God begins and I end; there is no where that I begin and God ends.”

As One with the Birther of the Cosmos, or Creator, I allow the Divinity of Creation to be revealed through me as I allow myself to be a focus of light, of love, of compassion, of understanding. In meditating and contemplating Neil Douglas-Klotz mystical interpretation in Prayers of the Cosmos, this is the teaching that I see revealed through the first lines of the Lord’s Prayer.

One of the ideas that draws me to Unity is metaphysical interpretation. Metaphysical literally means beyond the physical. Metaphysical interpretation, then, looks beyond the words, the surface, to the deeper meaning which I can apply in my life. Prayers of the Cosmos has been, for me, a beautiful tool in looking more deeply at a Metaphysical Interpretation of The Lord’s Prayer.

On Sunday, January 24, Unity in Edinboro will continue our study of the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic, from this mystical perspective, at our 11 a.m. service.

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