What is Father of All about?

Father of all that lives and moves,

Father of all that feels and knows,

Manifestor of stars and suns,

Creator of worlds and worlds―

I AM Thy child,

Heart of Thy heart,

Mind of Thy mind,

Soul of Thy soul,

Breath of Thy breath

And one with Thy life.

―Spirit Ione

What is God's symbol?

It seems to me a glorious truth

Its own supernal splendour casting,

That should be in the souls of youth,

And on men's standards everlasting―

That sacrifices absolute

Through noble striving and endeavour,

If you succeed not, yet bear fruit,

And live in other men forever.

For strength shall thus succeed to strength

Eternal though perpetuation―

And this must give to earth at length

A grander race in every nation.

And men must know that not in vain

Are aspiration and ambition,

For if not theirs in life the gain

The race will gather the fruition.

For life seems evermore today

An everlasting battle-column―

Presenting in its vast array

A glory beautiful but solemn―

And are we not on earth a band

Of warriors, each a struggling brother?

Then pass the torch from hand to hand,

This is the only life, no other.

Let none avow it cannot be,

You linger only at the portal―

The ages yet to come will see

The better manhood―the immortal.

Shall see all beings occupy

Their station true, their true position―

Living life gladly, gloriously,

Fulfilling God's eternal mission.

Make way the coming of the Truth!

What soul that lives, but will adore it?

What soul perennial in its youth

Will not live, hope and perish for it?

Why should you ever babble of

The life hereafter's compensation

Let us make here our heaven of love,

And man in man enshrine salvation!

All hopes ideal and sublime,

Which bring such mighty visions splendid

To aureole the brow of Time,

By these will you then be attended.

And you will speed as lightning speeds

And soar aloft on eagle pinions

While sowing Art's eternal seeds

O'er Nature's realms and vast dominions.

And Hate shall quench her burning brand.

And War destroy her avalanches―

And Peace shall bless each nation's land,

And bear aloft her olive-branches.

Crime, murder shall then be unknown,

Each race shall live its true condition―

Abolishing both king and throne,

And creeds of baser superstition.

True Brotherhood in Freedom's might,

Equality in man fraternal―

Love, Labour, Liberty and Right,

Shall aureole man's brows supernal.

A temple vast shall then be earth

And all the azure deeps above him―

And man, God's symbol since his birth,

Shall truly worship then and love Him.

—Lorenzo Sosso, Poems of Humanity and Abelard to Heloise

PRAYER FOR WORLD HARMONY AT NOON EACH DAY

Beloved of Christ―

Keep your star shining bright out through the darkness of earth's dreary night.

'Mid toil and confusion of battle and strife, send your message of love.

It is life.

—Harriette Augusta Curtiss in Realms of the Living Dead, 176

Just as the sun dispels the fog, and stimulates the growth of the sprout when the fog has been dispelled, carrying on its constructive work, similarly―

SEE THE RADIANCE IN YOUR MESSAGE OF LOVE TO YOUR FELLOW BROTHER AND SISTER.

Humanity is the One―

Humanity is the many―

Altogether, we may come into the inheritance of The Most High.

Your message of Love, which this prayer invokes, dispels the clouds of inharmony, stimulating the growth of good in each heart.

The spiritual teachers instruct that you repeat this prayer, for world harmony, morning, noon, and night―or oftener―but at least at noon each day.

PRAYER FOR WORLD HARMONY

AT NOON EACH DAY

Glory and honour and worship be unto Thee, O Lord Christ―

Thou who art the Life and Light of all mankind!

Thou art the King of Glory to whom all the peoples of the earth should give joyful allegiance and service.

Inspire mankind with a realisation of true brotherhood.

Teach us the wisdom of peace, harmony, and co-operation.

Breathe into our hearts, the understanding that only as we see ourselves, as parts of the one body of humanity, can peace, harmony, success, and plenty descend upon us.

Help us to conquer all manifestations of inharmony and evil in ourselves and in the world.

Bless us all with the Radiance of Thy Divine Love and Wisdom that we may ever worship Thee in the beauty of holiness.

In the Name of the Living Christ―

We demand it.

[You are free to demand.

You demand too little.

Demand more].

Amen.

It is.