Having lived a life of being an ‘over’-registered atheist, receiving during Class Instruction spiritual translation of the Lord’s Prayer was a novel and beautiful revelation for me. I spent some time after class trying to expand on my understanding of our Master’s masterpiece. I love Mary Baker Eddy’s interpretation as a standard for understanding and came across her wording from the 1875 Science and Health p. 295 which to me says the same thing but the different word’s she used expands this prayer for me even more. I have taken the liberty of inserting those lines next to this symbol : ) below:
Citation 13. S&H 16:24-15 Here let me give what I understand to be the spiritual sense of the Lord’s Prayer:
Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,
: ) Harmonious and eternal Principle of man,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Adorable One.
: ) Nameless and adorable Intelligence,
Thy kingdom come.
Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.
: ) Spiritualize man;
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is omnipotent, supreme.
: ) Control the discords of matter with the harmony of Spirit.
Give us this day our daily bread;
Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;
: ) Give us the understanding of God,
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And Love is reflected in love;
: ) And Truth will destroy sickness, sin and death, as it destroys the belief of intelligent matter,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil;
And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death.
: ) And lead man into Soul, and deliver him from personal sense,
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.
: ) For God is Truth, Life, and Love forever.