
“I, a poor unworthy creature, come before thee, o Great and Holy God, and lift up my eyes to thee. Though I am not worthy, yet Your great Mercy, and Your faithful promise in the Word, have now encourages me to lift the eyes of desire of my Soul up to You. For my Soul has now laid hold of the Word of Thy Promise, and received it into itself, and therewith come to You. And though it is but a strange child which was disobedient; and does now infold itself with its desire into that Word which became Man, which became flesh and blood, and has broken sin and death in my humanity. Which has changed the anger of God into love unto the Soul, and has deprived Death of his Power, and Hell of its victory over Soul and body; and has opened a gate for my Soul to the clear Face of Thy Strength ad Power. O Great and most Holy God, I have brought the hunger and desire of my Soul into this most Holy Word, and now I come before You, and in my hunger call unto You, the Living Fountain, through thy word. … I receive it firmly into the Desire of my Soul as my own life and I pierce into You with the Desire of my Soul through the Word in Christ.” ~Jacob Boehme
Unworthy Creature
Boehm starts his prayer by saying he is an “unworthy Creature”. This seems more than a little harsh, but it makes the point that we should approach God with humility, not as if we are the masters asking a servant to do something for us. We need to recognize that God is the greatest being that exists and individually, we humans are not as important as we like to think we are.
Faithful Promise
Again Boehm says he is not worthy but God will listen to his prayer because God has promised to do so. God listens to those who pray with humility and are seeking spiritual growth rather than material things. It is fine to ask God to help you solve your money problems, or to heal the illnesses of the body, but not to just ask him for a car or a new house simply because you want one. Those pleas will be heard by Satan, the god of matter, and he may provide what you ask, but will demand payment at a later time.
My Soul Has Received the Word
Only the awakened soul can “hear” the Word of God. Only an awakened soul can reach the high level of consciousness that allows it to communicate with God and the Angels. And the true Word of God can only come to us this way. It can’t be found in any book or scripture. It can’t be gained by intellectual development. It must be gained by the awakened and developed Soul.
Anger into Love
Boehm says that the awakened Soul that has received the Word of God, changes God’s anger into love. That isn’t exactly what happens. When the Soul becomes enlightened, it simply knows that God was never asgry with it, but always ha love for the Souls He created. God may bee disapointed when we don’t follow a path of spiritual growth, but He isn’t angry about it. It is the false God, the Demiurge, that gets angry and jealous, not the true God in Heaven that created our Spirits and Souls.
My Hunger Calls
Once the Soul is awakened, it hungers for God, it hungers for Heaven. It is never satisfied with the material world. It hungers to bathe in the waters of the Living Fountain of God. The Living Fountain of God is theLight that God sends out to us through the Spiritual Sun to awaken and nourish our spiritual faculties. Once that light awakens the Soul, it must be feed Light regularly so that it will grow and become the fully enlightened Soul that it has the potential to be. It is something that we have to work at for one time. It is the only way to become truly immortal. That is why Boehm wants us to pray in this way. It isn’t necessary to memorise his prayer and repeat it regularly. What needs to be done is to pray according to the spirit of this prayer while we take in the Light of the Spiritual Sun at dawn.