Prayers Prayer is a petition or request that one makes to God expressing the desires of the heart. Prayer does not need words to be prayer. The heart felt prayer that is not expressed in words is equally acceptable and understandable to God. Prayer can be made audibly or mentally at any time, when alone or in a crowd, in any position; standing, sitting, walking, or lying in bed. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent; that is to say, that God knows all we want and what we feel before we express it. But, by our own expression of our desires, it helps us to become more aware of ourselves, what we are and what we feel. The prayers listed on this page came from the contents of "The History of The Origin of All Things". Some of the prayers were made by the holy medium, but most of them were made by the Lord Jesus Christ for us and as examples for us. Read these prayers and try to adopt or adapt them to your own personal relationship with God. Repeating a prayer does not make it your own, but repeating it with a desire to make it your own, will, in time, enable you to make it yours. Your prayer life determines your relationship with God. Is He your Father and Friend? If He is your Father and Friend, you should pray without ceasing, which you may do with every aspiration of the heart and every thought of the mind. Walk humbly before God; do justice; love mercy; and seek by prayer to God, looking within yourself, what He requires of you.

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Our Father who art in Heaven

Almighty God! who dost, from Thy throne, behold all the nations of the earth

O Thou Eternal

Almighty and most loving Father

Almighty and most loving Father and Friend

Almighty and most-merciful Father

Almighty God look down with favor

Almighty God, who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon Earth

Almighty God, who dost from Thy throne behold all men

Almighty God, rule us in justice

Almighty God! Who dost from Thy throne

Almighty God look down upon the readers of this book

Almighty God, Thou art ever merciful

Be merciful, O God

Be pleased, O Most Kind

Be Thou, O God, ever with us

Let all the people praise Thee, O God

Let all the people praise Thee

Let Us Pray

Look down, Most Merciful God

May the Grace of God be in you

O Almighty, Everlasting

O Almighty Father

O Almighty God, bless Thy unworthy servants

O Almighty Incomprehensible Father

O Father, I love this man

O God! Almighty Helper

O God, Almighty Ruler of the Universe

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O God, who dost form Thy throne behold all nations

O God, who art ever-present and ever-loving

O God, who art ever-present and ever-acting

O God, hear the petition

O God, hear us

O Lord of Heaven and Earth!

O God, Thou knowest that I love Thee

O God! Let Thy Holy Spirit

O God! let us be guided

O God, my Father

O God, Thou are the Giver of every good gift

O God, Thou hast heard My prayer

O God, Thou knowest all things

O God! Who art the giver

O God! Who art Worthy

O Holy and Incomprehensible God

O Holy and Loving God

O Holy Father, Merciful God

O Lord of Heaven and Earth!!

O our Father and Friend

O Thou eternal and incomprehensible God

Let every tongue praise Thee, O God

THE PRAYER FOR DIVINE LOVE

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PRAYERS Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and suffer us not to be led into temptation but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory forever. Amen Almighty God! Who dost, from Thy throne, behold all the nations of the earth, all the hearts of men, and all Creation of Thy Will, look down, I pray thee, upon this intended reader of Thy revelation. Sanctify to him its precepts; bless to him its knowledge; purify in him his nature; subdue in him his will, by leading his reason to see the beauty of this revelation of Thy Will and Purpose, the knowledge of which has heretofore been hidden from men in the body. Let all who read understand, and all who understand, be wise; and all who are wise will praise and honor Thee, the Everlasting and Ever-Loving God. Amen O Thou eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, and ever-loving Father and Friend! Oh, listen to the humble supplication of Thy deeply desiring servant; or, if not Thy servant, O God! make me Thy servant. Grant, O most loving, kind, and powerful Father and Friend! that I may have wisdom from Thee to see what way I should take, to feel what I ought to feel, to love what I ought to love. Be thou, O most kind Parent; my Helper, my Savior, my Intercessory, my Redeemer, my Friend. I know, O God, that Thou art all these; but yet, O kind Parent! make me feel its surety more. Let me know the peace that the world cannot give, or take away. Be Thou, O Father! my helper in this world's affairs and my savior in spiritual matters. O God! I desire to serve Thee, and to do Thy will. May it please Thee to help me to do it. Help me, O Father! to walk as Thou wouldst have me and to pray acceptably to Thee. Help me, O God! to say at all times and under every dispensation, when troubles surround me and trials depress me, then, O God! help me more and more, till I can say truly, sincerely and with perfect reliance on Thy goodness, mercy, and loving kindness, all like Thyself, infinite; to say then, O Lord God Almighty! not my will, but Thine, O Heavenly Father, be done! Amen

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Almighty and most loving Father and Friend! I, Thy unworthy servant, most humbly beseech of Thee that it may be pleasing to Thee to lead me to full submission to Thee and to Thy Holy Spirits, and may it please Thee to support me in every time of trial, relieve my every doubt, and console me in every affliction. Amen Almighty and most loving Father and Friend, be Thou very gracious to me, Thy humble and unworthy servant, or would-be servant. Make known to me Thy will and help me, O God, to do it, for I am desirous to serve Thee in Thy own way and as Thou mayst direct and guide me. O God! help me for I am weak. Give me Thy strength and help me to Thy wisdom, for to Thee shall be the glory, honor, and praise forever and ever. Amen Almighty and most-merciful Father, I who am Thy attendant spirit, beloved by Thee and striving to do Thy will, because I know that Thy will is perfect and that I am not perfect; because I am thy son, I desire to be like Thee and to be merciful and loving to those whom Thou hast placed in My charge, O God, be Thou particularly manifest in their hearts of this sinful people who have the desire to know Thee but will not know Thee; who love to hear of Thy ways but do them not. May it please Thee to touch them with Thy grace; convince their reason and lead their inclination powerfully into subjection to Thee. For they will, O Lord God, that Thou shouldst take the government upon Thy shoulders and that Thou shouldst be the leader and general in every contest with their will. But Thou, O God, knowest their infirmity and that they are dead to Thee until Thy grace shall shine forth in them and bring forth fruits proper for their state. May it please Thee then to be their teacher and guide, to lead them to living fountains, after which they shall thirst no more. The life to come, O God, let them provide for here by living so as not to die to Thy presence within them and so as to advance rapidly in the life to come. Amen Almighty God, who dost from Thy throne behold all the desires of all men, look down with favor upon my desire to know the truth of the things declared in this book professing to come secondarily from Thee, primarily from Thy Son the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with Thee be ascribed all honor, praise, glory, and thanksgiving both here and hereafter, now and forever, in this world and the world which is to come to all men. Amen

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Almighty God, who dost from Thy throne behold all the dwellers upon Earth and all the thoughts of the inhabitants thereof, be so merciful as to pardon this medium all his short-comings and all his errors of judgment in punctuation of the books I have directed him to publish, for he was actuated by a sincere desire to know and do My will but I withheld from him all outward proof of his connection with Me in order that he might be spiritually advanced and drawn away more and more from the outward manifestation to the inward one; so that he might give the more glory to Thee, the one true and living God, and be one of those blessed ones who have believed without having seen, and receive his reward accordingly. This, O God and Father, I ask of Thee though I know that Thou hast known and granted My prayer before, but I ask it because of these readers who have not faith in Me and in Thee; in Me the Son of Thy love, and in Thee the Father of all. Grant them, O God, what Thou hast granted for My sake before now for them, and to Thee shall they give praise with Me for all Thy love, kindness, and long-suffering mercy which is so untiring that it endures forever and to the end of that eternity which hath no ending. Amen Almighty God, who dost from Thy throne behold all men and their inmost thoughts, may it please Thee to look with mercy upon this humble servant or would-be servant of Thy will. Let me be taught by Thee to know right from wrong, to follow Thy teachings and be preserved from error. O God, Thou knowest that I have no desire to appear before men as Thy servant or as a holy medium of Thy revelation, but, O God, help me to be willing to follow wherever Thou wouldst have me follow the guidance of Thy holy spirit; and suffer me, O God, not to be led astray by any desire of my own or to be influenced by any unworthy motive, and strengthen me to bear all that the opposition of mankind may inflict and to know that I am obeying Thee; for, O God, I desire not to go too fast or to hold back from Thy work, but to be submissive in Thy hands to Thy holy will and passive in the hands of whatsoever spirit it may please Thee to have control me. For Thou, O God, canst always save me from evil and deliver me from the enemy of Thy truth; Thou canst help me with Thy power and establish the knowledge of Thy truth to shine like a city on a hill. Be Thou, O God, kind and affectionate toward me, as I know that Thou art and must be to all Thy children; let no man overthrow Thy work, but may it please Thee to establish it as it may seem good to Thee and in Thy own time, so that whatever I may do may be of use to my fellow-men and advance the coming of Thy great day, which Thy prophets have led men to expect and which Thy holy mediums generally have declared near at hand; for to Thee shall ever be praise, honor, glory, and thanksgiving now and forever, world without end. Amen

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Almighty God, rule us in justice, and in Thy mercy cut not off mankind in their sins. For they shall repent and give to Thee glory, honor, and praise when My kingdom shall be established in its power and men acknowledge Me to be King of Kings. Let all Thy holy angels and all spirits of saints departed from the earth and all the lower spirits who seek by good works to atone for the evil of their life of experience or probation upon the earth help to establish Thy glory, honor, and praise by testifying that this book and those which have already been given are what they purport to be; and grant that they who read may understand and that all shall stand in their places in the Last Day, and to Thee shall be glory, honor, thanksgiving, and praise now and forever. Amen Almighty God! Who dost from Thy throne behold all things in the earth below and the heavens above, look down in thine infinite mercy upon Thy would-be humble servant. Grant unto me the desires of my heart so far as they are worthy and proper to be granted; and fill me with love for Thee, and help me to be kind and loving and affectionate and to do Thy will and to walk in Thy ways, in Thy peace and in quietness and obscurity if such be Thy will. And, O God! be very kind and loving to me and preserve me in the enjoyment of Thy counsel and guidance in all things, and keep me and help me to keep myself passive in Thy hands and in the hands of Thy spirits, so that I may work in entire submission to Thy will and walk always in Thy ways. And to Thee shall be the praise, honor, and glory, forever and forever. Amen Almighty God, who dost from Thy throne display Thy majesty and power and who art pleased to extend a watchful care and a powerful hand to Thy servants, the sons of men, look down, I pray, upon the readers of this book (The History of The Origin of All Things) with the light of Thy love, and the bow of Thy promise shall appear as the result of their showers of opposition. Help them, O God, to receive the truth and to follow after that love which Thou bestowest upon all, and to lay hold upon the horns of Thy altar so that they may place thereon the one acceptable sacrifice of a broken and a contrite heart. O God, be pleased to manifest by Thy power the truth of this revelation of Thy will, for Thine is the power and the will and the authority to will, now and forevermore. Amen Almighty God, Thou art ever merciful and but for Thy mercy we should suffer unending unhappiness. May it then please Thee to show forth Thy very abundant mercy and to look

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upon me, Thy humble follower and would-be servant, with such favor and bestow on me such aid as will enable me to see and know and understand Thy truth wherever I may meet with it. Help me, O God, to understand this book and those that have preceded it as a part of it, and make known to me, O God, by convincing my reason or by some manifestation of Thy power, that it is truth or Thy revelation if such be its character. But if, O God, it is only the result of the vaticinations of a deluded mind or of an artful man, then, O God, may it please Thee to make me to know it and despise it so that I may not be led away from the truth nor suffer in any way by desire to acknowledge Thee as the one true and living God, the one Author of all power and being and the Giver to us and to me of Thy blessed Son, the Lord and Savior of men, the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with Thee be ascribed all honor, glory, and praise, both now and forevermore. Amen Be merciful, O God, to those who do not believe this revelation. Let Thy power not destroy them by the destruction of their wills. But let Thy power so manifest itself as to overpower and master their reason. Let them be satisfied, O God, that this book could only have come from Thee and that Thy servant, the holy medium, had no other part in it than to receive what I, Thy son, formerly called Jesus of Nazareth, now the Son of God, of Thy Love gave. May it please Thee so to show forth Thy power through the other holy mediums of Thy spirit that the eyes of all believers in them may be turned to these truths, and that they may thereby be led to sacrifice to Thee their own wills, and hereafter to act in Thine. Let us all unite, O Lord, to establish the kingdom of Thy power, the reign of Thy saints. And to Thee they shall ever give praise, honor, thanksgiving, and glory without end. Amen Be pleased, O Most Kind and Benevolent Father, to grant the above humble petition of Thy servant the holy medium L. M. Arnold, made as Thou knowest it was by his intellect after writing in Thy will in this book, and after having been confounded by the revelation he had received and written. Be his Helper and his Guide, and lead him into perfect submission to Thee, the only sure steadfast Supporter, the only true and perfect Counsellor and Guide, the ever-sure and ever-perfect Lover and Bestower of gifts to those who ask them in submission to Thy will. Be the Helper and Friend, O God, of all the mediums Thy lower spirits have educated, and as they submit to Thy Will and cease to act in their own or other men's wills, may it please Thee to raise them to Thy right hand and establish them as Thy holy servants. Amen

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Be Thou, O God, ever with us inspiring us with Thy counsel. Be Thou, O Father, ever with us helping us by Thy power, and be Thou, O God, the sure and steadfast maintainer of our progress and of our salvation, for by Thee we live and in Thee we have our existence, our hope, and our love and desire to live. O Lord God Almighty, be very gracious to us, Thy servants, who humbly desire to do Thy will and walk in Thy ways and receive from Thee such pay as Thou art pleased to give, having, O God, confidence not merely in Thy justice but in Thy generosity. O Thou abundant Giver, give unto us abundantly; and let us always look to Thee as the source of our substance and the partitioner of our bounty. O God, be merciful to us, sinners though also trying to be Thy servants, and suffer us not to be led into temptation, and save us from tempting Thee by expecting miracles for our use and support. O Lord, be merciful as Thou alone art capable of being merciful, and forgive us who act as enemies to Thee while seeking to be called Thy servants. O Lord of heaven and earth, be merciful, for we are unworthy to be called Thy sons but are only worthy to be called Thy hired servants for thus asking Thy rewards and blessings here in this present world, when the same wages laid up in heaven would be so much more blissful and lasting. O Lord God Almighty, be now kind to us; give us what it pleases Thee to confer upon us, and give it to us at such time as may in Thy wisdom be found to be the best time. Amen Let all the people praise Thee, O God! for all Thy mighty works and for all Thy loving promises. Let every nation, kindred, tongue and people, praise Thy holy name; for Thou art greatly to be loved, and separation from Thee greatly to be feared. Then, O God! let us experience Thy mercy and loving kindness, in this our day of probation, whilst we are left free to choose the good and reject the evil; or to choose the evil and reject the good. And so, O God! lead us to advancement in Thy great chain of existence; which, link by link extends to the lowest particle, or atom, of Thy works, even to their most attenuated, or unformed, state. Let us who read this book, O God! receive the truths and revelations it contains as truths and revelations, and let not our pride, our prejudices, our education, or our passions, separate us from the truth, or divide our affections, which we desire to place on Thee, O Most Holy, Most King, Most Loving, and Merciful God and Savior. Amen Let all the people praise Thee, Let all the nations bow before Thy throne, O Most High and Holy Lord! And let every ruler of nations seek to be Thy servant, For all shall know Thee, O Thou Most High King, From the least to the greatest, and from high to low.

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Let all that is within me praise Thee, Let all the world of Earth bow down! Let us all submit to Thee, O most high God; Help us with Thy unfailing help from heaven, And the love and mercy of Thy Son our Lord, And the great help of all Thy high and holy sons. Let us, O God, know Thee to be our Father And look on Thee as our ever-present Friend! Let us never want Thy light in our souls Or fear the surrender of our captive affections to Thee, O Thou kind and loving Friend and affectionate Father, O Thou most high and holy Creator and Preserver of All! Let us have, O God, Almighty Father-- Let us have all the help of Thy love And all the favor of Thy mercy; For we are weak and hardly able to seek Thy love; We are passive to Thy influence, O God, but not active; We are desirous to serve Thee but know not how, O Lord our Father! Let us then, O God, be helped And let us not be forgotten by Thee, For we are the least of Thy people. But we desire to know Thee and love Thee better hereafter And do seek Thee as we have not heretofore sought Thee, O most holy and kind and untiringly merciful God! Let us be found accepted; Let us be found Thy servants; O God, most loving, most kind, most holy, most merciful. O Lord of heaven and earth, of men and angel-spirits, O Holy One of all time and Ruler of eternity unending! Amen Almighty God! who dost, from Thy throne, behold all the nations of the earth, all the hearts of men, and all the Creation of Thy Will, look down, I pray thee, upon this intended reader of Thy revelation. Sanctify to him its precepts; bless to him its knowledge; purify in him his nature; subdue in him his will, by leading his reason to see the beauty of this revelation of Thy Will and Purpose, the knowledge of which has heretofore been hidden from men in the body. Let all who read understand, and all who

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understand, be wise; and all who are wise will praise and honor Thee, the Everlasting and Ever-Loving God. Amen. Reader, reader, be wise, understand, and be profited. For the riches of God's kingdom are greater than those of Golconda, and the glory of God beyond the glory of this world, so far that men cannot appreciate it, whilst in the body. Let all the people praise the Lord; Yea, let all the people praise Him, For His mighty works, And for His noble revelations; For His great mercies, And for His loving kindness. Amen Look down, Most Merciful God, on this deed! Look with mercy upon Thy servants, O God. Look down, Eternal, Unchangeable God, on Thy Son! Look with mercy upon all Thy adamic children. Look down, O God, Thou King of Saints, from Thy glory! Look with mercy upon the immortal part of mortal man. Let all the people praise Thee, yea, let every one! Great and marvelous are Thy works. Let each who dwells on earth give thanks to Thee! For just and true are Thy ways. Let every creature praise and magnify Thy holy name! And be grateful for all Thy blessings! O Lord God, Most Holy, High, and Loving! Look upon My work with favor. O God, whose love and mercy endureth forever! Bless it with Thy eternal blessings. Oh, let all who dwell beyond the grave, in earth or heaven, Swell the note of praise to Thee! Thine is the glory and praise forever! Let all the people praise Thy name. Thou art the Merciful, Bounteous Giver of good! Let those who have not yet known Thee, praise. To Thee be honor, thanksgiving, and glory; Thou Ruler of All, forever and ever! Amen

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May the Grace of God be in you and remain with you now and evermore, is My sincere prayer and desire to God, to whom is all glory, honor, thanksgiving and praise, now and forever, beyond the world's end. Amen O almighty, everlasting, and unappreciable God, may it please Thee to look with ineffable mercy upon this reader of Thy Revelation, so that he may understand and believe it; so that he may comprehend and receive it; so that he may feel and know the certainty of Thy Divine Word herein contained--Thy Word of Thy Power that took flesh eighteen hundred years ago and now desires to penetrate and pervade the bodies and souls of men in this transitory state of existence which they call life. O God! may it please Thee to aid by Thy power, sanctify by Thy grace, establish by Thy will, and confirm by Thy love and mercy, the good desires that sometimes arise in the heart of this reader. May it please Thee to help his every effort to control his passions, to overcome his base inclinations, his unworthy motives, his unwise resolves. O God! be merciful to him, a sinner. O God!! have pity on him, a low son of Earth who has aspirations at times, and hopes always to reach forward to something better without knowing how to progress or what to desire. Prepare him, O God, for advancement into the life to come, and for the union and communion of Thy holy spirits who desire, O God, to be his helpers and to serve him, as willing servants of all whom it pleases Thee to raise to the high and holy calling wherewith are called all the spirits in Thy Paradise and in every stage of their existence. Help us, O God, to do Thy will and perform Thy pleasure, and be our Mighty God, our Everlasting Counsellor, our Prince of Peace and not only, O God, to us, but to this reader of our revelation of Thy will. Save us and be our redeemer, O God, and help this reader with Thy sure power so that he too shall be speedily redeemed from the law of sin and death. Be his comforter, O God, even as Thou has been our comforter, and be our helper to help him. Amen O Almighty Father, who dost know all things and their origin, look down, we pray Thee, upon this Thy servant, this medium, and enlighten his heart and mind with a knowledge and love of Thee so that he may continue steadfastly in the work whereunto We have called him, and so that he may become a wiser and a better man, so that he may seek to do thy will in all things as well as in this work, and to Thee, O Father, will I give the praise, honor, and glory forevermore. Amen

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O Almighty God, bless Thy unworthy servants And let us seek to know Thy holy will. Unto every son of Thy love is the judgment prepared And to every son dost Thou give forth love. Let every soul be reconciled to Thy holy dispensations! Lo, every one that thirsteth shall be refreshed; To every one that hungers shall be meat. For God's riches are not limited, but infinite, And all that love Him shall have full return, For the mercy of God endureth forever, yea, forevermore. Lo, here we are, O God, offering to praise Thee with our lips; Let us also join in with our hearts! And let us never cease to praise Thee here or hereafter; For out of Thee proceeded always good and loving mercy And unto Thee, O God, shall be praise and honor evermore. Lo, let all that is within man testify of Thee And let all know Thee, the one True Guide. And let none go astray who desire to reach unto Thee But save us all with everlasting salvation, For Thy mercy, O God, is unbounded and endureth forever. Then let every creature here and in the holy heavens know Thee; Let every life and soul magnify Thy holy name! Yea, let all that is within and all the outward praise Thee with glory, For Thy mercy and love and bountiful favor Are ever present and will bless all men forevermore. Amen O Almighty Incomprehensible Father! O Loving and Everlasting God! be pleased to help the reader of this book to understand and believe, to come to a knowledge of Thee and of Me, and to be brought to a willingness and desire to be Thy servant. O God, Heavenly Father! Let not his fear of men, or his fear of delusion, or his fears of any earthly power or influence whatever keep him from surrendering his free-will to Me in order that I may replace it by Thy will. O God, pardon his inattention at this and other times and make him willing and desirous to read again and again until he shall be wise and understand. To Thee, O Father, shall be praise, honor, glory and worship and dominion, both here and hereafter, both now and in the world to come. Amen

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O Father, I love this man. He desires not to work for himself but for Thee. Be pleased, O God, Father Almighty, to receive him into the number of those who continually wait to do Thy Will and stand before the throne of Thy Glory shouting for Joy! Amen. Thus, O Reader, do I pray for you. Choose for yourself which prayer you are worthy of and which you desire Me to help make for you. I have already made it for you; it now wants and waits for your sanction. It can avail nothing until you make it your own by adopting and fervently repeating it before God's Holy Throne, which has eternally existed and is now near you as it is near every man. Heaven is My Throne, said God by His inspired holy medium. Heaven is near you, at hand as I long since told you. Turn, then, within yourself and seek God; turn within and you may find Heaven there, and the altar before the Throne all ready for the sacrifice of your free-will. Be, then, no longer fearful, but believing; be no longer confident, but believing and humble; be no longer led by men, but submit to God and believe in His Revelation. Amen O God! Almighty Helper, and Everlasting Father, may it please Thee to make Thy servant L. M. Arnold a patient, submissive holy medium of Thy communications to mankind, so that he may be passive in Thy will in the hands or will of Thy Holy Spirits. May it please Thee, O God, to accept him with all his imperfections, with all his shortcomings, and to pardon him for all the manifold sins which a long period of worldly-mindedness and mingling with the world as a part of it have impelled him to, and his own free-will has helped him to perform. But, O God, may it please Thee now to let him atone for them by being Thy servant in this life in the body and Thy son in the life to come, in the spirit. And may it please Thee to manifest through him Thy power and wisdom, so long as he shall clearly and fully give to Thee the praise, honor, and glory of all his works as of right it belongs to Thee both now and forever. Amen O God, Almighty Ruler of the Universe, who dost from Thy throne behold all the actions of all men, who doth by Thy omniscience know all that passes between men and within them, who art by Thy omnipresence ever with us and with each one of Thy creation, be pleased to favor my desire to know whether the books I have read (or am reading or am about to read) purporting to have been delivered by and through Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, through one L. M. Arnold, are really given in Thy will and should be truly and

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faithfully received as coming from so high a source, and whether, O Father Almighty, I am in duty bound to listen to them and to discard all that I have believed contrary to them, or whether I shall reject them as the work of evil or of imperfect mediums or as wisdom or imagination of men. Tell me, O God, if it be Thy will that I should confirm or reject the evidence thus given of Thy continued care for mankind, or whether I should not rely on teachings of others who declare that Thy will is not made known to mankind in any such way? O God, my loving Friend, may it please Thee to make known most plainly to me in such way as pleases Thee and will convince my reason or my conscience or my intuitive perception what I ought to do, to believe, and to ask respecting these books. O Holy Father, I desire to know the Truth without regard to the opinions of men. I desire to know Thy will without regard to the will of men, and I will conform my thoughts, opinions, and actions to Thy will if Thou, O God, wilt be pleased to aid me by Thy powerful help and place me on the sure foundation of truth and revelation. Amen O God, who dost form Thy throne behold all nations and all men and all the actions of men, O Thou Eternal One, who art (as Thou hast ever been) kind and loving, look down with pity upon the miserable sinner now desiring Thy aid. Be Thou, O God, my savior, my redeemer, my light and my life, my glory and my salvation. O God! Thou knowest what I need and what I would ask for at Thy hands. Thou, O God, knowest my infirmities and hast my affections in Thy power, for I desire to place them upon Thee as the only true source of happiness, and to elevate my desires to the measure of doing Thy will. Help me, O God, to surrender to Thee my free-will as the sacrifice Thou requirest and as the acceptable offering I can make, and as the offering I desire to make; help me to be brought into perfect subjection to Thy will and lead me in such paths that I may be able to follow Thee to Thy high courts and to the gates of Thy holy of holies. O God, let me not sink into despondency or be the despairing outcast. Let me be raised to Thy power and placed on Thy right hand, for Thine is the kingdom, power, glory and honor now and forever and ever. Amen O God, who art ever-present and ever-loving, O Father, who dost most kindly invite us to pray Thee for good gifts, bestow upon me, I pray Thee, that knowledge of Thee and of Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of Thy spirit, the Holy Ghost, which is the Comforter of those who receive Thee and Thy Son, which will enable me to perceive the way, the truth, and eternal life. Grant that I may receive from Thee, O Father, that peace which comes down from Thee and can never be taken from me by others. O God, help me to retain it when Thou hast been pleased to restore me to Thy favor, and keep me, I pray

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Thee, from the temptation of self-will and self-gratification of will, so that I may obey Thee and serve Thee in accordance with Thy will all my days and be received into Thy heavenly kingdom, into eternal and unending progression of happiness. Amen O God, who art ever-present and ever-acting yet always at rest in Thy heavens and upon Thy earths, look down upon this world of sin and of sorrow where indifference prevails and narrow-minded jealousy of innovation threatens to tire out the patience of the believers in Thee; look down, O God, on all who have any desire to know Thee and impress them with a knowledge of the truth of this book and all that I have given before through this holy medium, because, O God, I revealed it by Thy will and found so few willing to receive it. Let Me, O God, fulfill the promises I have made through this revelation, of miracles to establish it and mediums to confirm it, because I made the promises in Thy will and I know, O God, that Thou wilt establish and fulfill; yet, O God, I ask it for the sake of the readers of this and other books thus delivered so that they may glorify Thee when all the promises are fulfilled and the truths established out of the mouths of many witnesses, as was formerly declared on a similar occasion; and to Thee shall be praise, honor, and glory now and forevermore. Amen O God, hear the petition I desire to make to Thee as the Giver of good. Let me not be presumptuous, O Thou great and majestic Sovereign of the universe of universes, let me be pardoned for appearing before Thee if I err therein, O God, for Thou hast abundant mercy and I am very ignorant of Thee and of my own relation to Thee. I desire, O God, to know Thy will respecting my heart, how I may be able to bring it into subjection to Thee and to keep ever before Thee my desire and willingness to sacrifice to Thee my own will and inclination in all things, so that I may come to an acceptance by Thee and be reconciled to Thy will and found worthy through Thy mercy to be received into eternal happiness, to dwell forever and ever in the mansions of bliss which have been declared to be prepared for those who love and serve Thee. Grant my prayer, O God, because of Thy great love, abundant mercy, and rich possessions and unlimited power, and because of the promises of Thy Son, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom and to Thee primarily be ascribed all honor, glory, thanksgiving, and praise, world without end. Amen O God, hear us for Thy Son's sake, for Thy own sake, for our sake, and we will try more and more to become Thy servants and to be worthy of Thy kind regard. O God! Thy art

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good; make us good. Thou art loving; make us loving. Thou art happy; make us happy. Thou art ever merciful and forgiving; make us so, we pray Thee, that we may be like Thee and like Thy Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with Thee be all honor, glory, thanksgiving, and praise; power, will, and majesty, now and forever, world without end. Amen O Lord of heaven and earth, who art the high and mighty Ruler of Thy own infinite works! may it please Thee to implant in me knowledge of Thee and direction as to Thy will whenever I am in doubt and know not what Thou wouldst prefer to have me do, or what will best advance my eternal welfare, or best enable me to serve my fellow-men, or best enable me to protect and support those who depend upon me, or best enable me to retain Thy peace, which cometh down from heaven, or best enable me to walk after Thy requirements here and most promote Thy great and holy cause, and to Thee shall be evermore the praise, the honor and glory therefore, and for all that I have or acquire by Thy will. Amen O God, Thou knowest that I love Thee and delight to serve Thee and that My works do praise Thee even as Thy works to praise Thee. May it please Thee now to confirm and strengthen in the hearts of these would-be servants of Thine every good resolution, every holy aspiration, every lovely impulse. May it please Thee by Thy power to establish their faith and by Thy love establish them in grace and knowledge and love of Thee. O God, let them not be dismayed by the world's powers, or deterred from seeking to have more of Thy holy communion by tears or prayers of unknowing relatives or friends. Establish them, O God, on Thy holy mountain of Jerusalem, the city of David, the city or dwelling-place of peace. And may it please Thee so to show forth in them the light of Thy counsel and help that they may turn many others to righteousness and be strengthening pillars in Thy true church. Amen O God! Let Thy Holy Spirit be with us, and guide us and help us into salvation. Because, O God! Thy Son has declared to us Thy great mercy and loving kindness, we dare to ask these favors, O God! of Thine otherwise unapproachable majesty and infinite nature. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, now and forever, from everlasting to everlasting, and so on to infinity, incomprehensible and beyond our natures to conceive of. Amen

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O God! let us be guided by Thee. Oh, let us be Thy willing servants, submissive to every imitation of Thy will, every intimation of our work. O God! Thou who knowest all things, grant such of our wants to us as Thy will may not be opposed to, and so far as Thy love may not withhold from gratification for us, to our good. For in Thee, O God! I will trust, and my portion shall be Thy pleasure, and Thy will. O God! Father Almighty! hear the prayer of Thy sensuous and material subject, and raise me to the dignity of being Thy servant in spiritual matters, Thy follower, and Thy son, in all things. O God! let me be taught to praise Thee, and to glorify Thy name, for Thou, O God! art worthy to be praised, and without Thee there is no Savior, or Redeemer. For what is man, O Lord! that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that Thou regardest him? Thou has created him a little lower than the angels, and hast raised him to glory, and honor! O God! help me to make the only sacrifice that delights Thee, that of the heart, for my heart, O God! is desperately wicked, and there is no health in me except as Thou bestowest on me strength and life. O God! let me be Thy servant, amongst Thy servants, for I am convinced it is better to be a mere doorkeeper in Thy house than to be a guest, and an honored one, of the world's revered or loved idols of flesh. Let me, O God, be united to Thee in the bond of unity, as perfectly as my nature will permit, and let me, O God! be very near to Thy love, and to Thy Son's love, and to union with Thy high and holy sons, and servants, in all Thy heavenly circles. O God! be very good, I pray Thee, and very kind and merciful; for I am a sinner, and there is no power in me to be purified, except through Thy laws, which are the sure and faithful harbingers of Thy mercy, and which lead me surely and truly and inevitably to Thy feet, and leave me there, rejoicing in the supreme happiness of being Thy son. O God! be ever present, and let me not forget Thy presence, but let me think of Thee often, and let my life be devoted to Thy service, and my death be a triumphant passage from works to rewards. And to Thee shall be all praise, honor, glory, and high renown, now and forever, and forever and forever. Amen O God, my Father, be merciful and loving to me who hast left all to follow Thee. Be merciful and kind to Thy humble servant and raise me to be Thy son, when I may be purified and glorified by Thy power and Thy mercy. Amen O God, Thou art the Giver of every good gift! Give unto us, who seek Thy glory and act in Thy name, Thy assistance and favor so that we may persevere and accomplish a good work; so that in days to come we with Thee may be a bulwark against the progress of

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error in Thy children and against the growth of children without faith. O God, help us all to pray acceptably to Thee without wrath or contention or divided minds, so that we may love Thee for Thy glory and glorify Thee by our love and be noted as Thy people amongst a people wholly devoted to Thy honor, praise, and love. Amen O God, Thou hast heard My prayer And hast been pleased to grant My petition; Most heartily I beseech Thee to pardon My medium's short-comings, And let now his faithlessness be laid up against him. O God, be most merciful For he is very far from Thee. Oh, help him to be passive to My will in other matters, As he is obedient and passive in this particular one. O Lord, I am willing to help him If Thou wilt let him be powerfully helped. O Lord, I will help him powerfully if Thou wilt be pleased to have it so And lead him to Thy feet changed and redeemed. O Father, help Me to save him, And let Thy mercy be very abundant upon him; For he improved not as I would have him in this life, And prepares not as I would have him for the life to come. O Father, help Me to save him, And let Thy mercy be very abundant upon him; For he improves not as I would have him in this life, And prepares not as I would have him for the life to come. O Father, look with pity and compassion, Look with holy loving kindness upon him; So that he may become fully Thy servant besides being My medium, So that he may become Thy son even as I am Thy son. Amen O God, Thou knowest all things; grant unto us Thy servants such knowledge of the future as may be useful to us and such of Thy revelation as it pleases Thee to give to us. O God,

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let us not desire to know more than this lest we obtain it to our harm and have to rely on Thy help for relief. Amen. Amen O God! who art the giver of every good and perfect gift; who art the eternal, the everlasting Redeemer and Savior of men, by whom the worlds and the whole creation was made, may it please Thee to look with Thy ever-untiring mercy and love upon this people, who are desirous to know Thee better, and to love Thee more. O God! may it please Thee to give us such knowledge as we need of Thy loving kindnesses, and such faith in Thy ever-loving nature as will impel us most heartily to love Thee; most fervently we desire to see Thy rule established in the world of men and to make our submission to Thee in the right way. But, O God, be Thou merciful, for we are foolish before Thee. We are now, O Lord! assembled for hearing Thy word proclaimed in this way through this medium. Bless this medium with passiveness, so that he may fearlessly and unhesitatingly declare whatever it pleases Thee to reveal; and be Thou, O God! our Savior, our Redeemer, our Intercessor, our ever-kind ever-loving God. Almighty Father! Thou canst impress us with faith in him, and in Thy loving kindness. May it please Thee so to do, to our enlightenment and to our advancement in the knowledge and love of Thee. What we want, O God, Thou knowest better than we know; and if Thou, O God! will be pleased to confer upon us Thy love, we shall not want; Thy kindness will feed us and Thy arm will strengthen us to resist evil. O God! we do not know how to pray to Thee but we do know that Thou are worthy of all honor, praise, and glorification, though we cannot give it because we know not how to make it acceptable to Thee. Then, O Almighty Father! give us new hearts and wills, submissive to Thine, so that all old things shall be done away and all new things appear in their places. Save us, as it may best please Thee, O God! and let us be thankful and obedient to Thy will on earth, as the spirits before Thy throne are in heaven. Amen O God, who art Worthy to have all honor, praise, thanksgiving, and glory! be thou the Enlightener of those who seek knowledge. Let knowledge be increased, O God, as thou didst cause to be declared to Thy servant Daniel it should be at this time. Be Thou, O God, the fulfiller of the desires of Thy servants, and lead and help them to desire such knowledge of Thy hidden things as may be profitable to them and to their fellow-men, and to Thee shall be eternally honor and glory, thanksgiving, power and dominion. Amen

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O Holy and Incomprehensible God, Thou art so powerful to save that Thou wilt not be disappointed. Oh, be pleased to look with favor and with blessing upon My appeals to this man who desires to know Thee but has not found Thee, who desires to seek Thee but feels unworthy to try. He is, O Lord God, humble and of such is the kingdom of Heaven. Be pleased then, O Father, to raise him to Thy feet and bring him before Thy Holy Will in subjection so that he may join Me in giving Thee the praise, honor, and glory, now and hereafter evermore. Amen O holy and loving God, Thou art the Giver of all and the Bestower of all to men; may it please Thee to bestow upon me understanding and wisdom, and give unto me knowledge of the truth, and to Thee will I endeavor to devote my life here and hereafter. Amen O Holy Father, Merciful God, be compassionate upon our ignorance and bestow upon us a portion of Thy wisdom. Be compassionate upon our poverty and bestow upon us the riches of Thy favor and grace. O God Most Merciful, who hast opened the way for our salvation, may it please Thee to guide us and direct us so that we may find the truth among all the conflicting claimants for its possession, for, O Almighty Father, Thou hast the power and the will to save us and we want to be saved by Thy mercy which Thou hast declared endureth forever. O Holy Father, help us as it may please Thee to help us, and make us willing to receive Thy help in the way it may please Thee most we should have it, so that we may glorify Thee and Thy Son, the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, to whom with Thee be ascribed all honor, praise, glory, and power, now and forever and evermore, world without end. Amen O Lord of Heaven and Earth, O Thou who art above all, in all, and creator of all, be Thou pleased to bow down the majesty of Thy nature and let this man see how very little he is, how much smaller than the dust his eyes cannot see in his form to Thee, compared with the dust to himself. Be pleased, O God, when he is humbled by Thy power and Thy condescension, to raise him to Thy Right Hand of Power, to equality with Me, to be Thy High, Holy, and Perfect Son. O God, help him very much for he has pride and thinketh too much of himself. Be not fierce against him in Thine anger, nor severe upon him in Thy pity, but bow down his knowledge before Thine and his nature before Mine so that he may receive with humility the counsel of the spirits and the words of Thy revelation,

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and being so brought to a sense of his littleness and dustiness, as it were, before Thee, he may serve Thee as may be pleasing to Thee, sacrificing his own will and acting in Thine, and leading others to come down from the high places and to sacrifice in the depths of the valley of their humility. O God, be kind and affectionate and loving to him though he despises Me, Thy Son, and refuses to listen to the words of revelation; but O God, remember it not against him for he knows not what he does. Be Thou pleased to be His God and to make him Thy servant, willing to work for Thee and to take the same equal penny which is the reward of every laborer in Thy field whether his work continueth a long or short time and whether he receives the promise of it or not. Make him, O God, humble like Me, self-sacrificing like Me, and raise him to Thy power and Sonship as Thou wast pleased to raise Me; and to Thee shall be forevermore Praise, Honor, Glory, Thanksgiving and great Renown, world without end. Amen O our Father and Friend! O most kind and affectionate Creator and Parent! be pleased to give unto me Thy holy love and Thy ever-flowing kindness. Grant, O most kind and benevolent Father and Friend, to me, Thy humble and unworthy son or servant or would-be servant, that aid which shall secure me from the perils of doubt, from evil and unwise counsels and persuasions of friends or relatives here, and the influence of any extraneous matter upon me. O God! Thou canst aid me, and without help I can accomplish nothing. I, Thine unworthy servant, have desired with great desire to know the truth. I ask not, O God, to be established in my present belief or in any man's belief, nor in the belief of any combination or association of men, but only, O God! that I may know the truth and serve Thee as may be most acceptable to Thee, so that I may be deemed worthy to be Thy servant, and so that I may at last, when works have justified it, hear from Thee: Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast served Me well in small matters; thou shall now serve Me in greater and more arduous ones; so that I may be deemed worthy to receive Thy revelations as truth and Thy desires as commands. Be pleased, O most charitable Friend, to aid me in such ways to seem to Thee best and to help me to know Thee, the one true and only God, and Thy Son Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent to me and to every other child of earth, to invite them and me to the great feast of the marriage supper of the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world of earth; and invest me, O God! with the wedding garment of Thy love existing in my heart for Thee and for my fellow-men. Amen

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O Thou eternal and incomprehensible God, forgive the reader; he knows not what he does. Oh, grant to him more knowledge, more help, more manifestations! O God! do all but take away his free-will; that I know is inviolate for on that depends his eternal and present existence. Grant, O My Father! that he may be shown by Thy power and wisdom the folly of his dreams of enjoyment in sensual pleasure when the spiritual delights of reconciliation with Thee are so overwhelmingly great and so far beyond what the heart of man has conceived of. Amen Let every tongue praise Thee, O God! For Thy beautiful revelations And for Thy loving kindnesses Yea, let every tongue and heart and soul praise Thee. For Thou, O God, art worthy to be praised; Thou, O God, art ever merciful and kind And dost take pleasure in conferring good gifts And hast crowned Thy bestowments by a loving revelation. For all the world desired to know Thee; All the people desired to love Thee-- Yea, they were willing and desirous, But invention of man frighted and restrained them. Let all that know Thee know Thee more; Let all that love Thee love Thee more; Let every creature praise Thy name For out of darkness and confusion Thou didst show forth light and order. Let the earth and all its inhabitants, Let the sea and all its glories, Let the heavens and all their magnificence Show forth Thy praise and give to Thee great glory. Let every church that owns Thy name, Let every people that calls upon Thee, Yea, let the heathen that know Thee not Praise Thee and glorify Thy everlasting mercy. For Thy mercy endureth forever And every one of Thy attributes is loving-- Every one of Thy attributes is untiring--

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Yea, all that Thou hast is infinite and inexhaustible. Let us then, O God, meet Thy favor And return love for Thy goodness. Let us, O God, be Thy children And call upon Thee, our Father who art in heaven. Let every creature praise the Lord-- Yea, let every living soul give thanks, For He has been very gracious to us all, And His mercy endureth from everlasting to eternity. Amen

This prayer did not come from "The History of The Origin of All Things"

THE PRAYER FOR DIVINE LOVE Our Father, who art in heaven, we recognize that Thou art all Holy and loving and merciful, and that we are Thy children, and not the subservient, sinful and depraved creatures that our false teachers would have us believe. That we are the greatest of Thy creation, and the most wonderful of all Thy handiworks, and the objects of Thy great soul's love and Tenderest care. That Thy will is, that we become at one with Thee, and partake of Thy great love which Thou hast bestowed upon us through Thy mercy and desire that we become, in truth, Thy children, through love, and not through the sacrifice and death of any one of Thy creatures. We pray that Thou will open up our souls to the inflowing of Thy love, and that then may come Thy Holy Spirit to bring into our souls this, Thy love in great abundance, until our souls shall be transformed into the very essence of Thyself; and that there may come to us faith--such faith as will cause us to realize that we are truly Thy children and one with Thee in very substance and not in image only. Let us have such faith as will cause us to know that Thou art our Father, and the bestower of every good and perfect gift, and that only we, ourselves, can prevent Thy love changing us from the mortal to the immortal. Let us never cease to realize that Thy love is waiting for each and all of us, and that when we come to Thee, in faith and earnest aspiration, Thy love will never be with-held from us.

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Keep us in the shadow of Thy love every hour and moment of our lives, and help us to overcome all temptations of the flesh, and the influence of the powers of the evil ones, which so constantly surround us and endeavor to turn our thoughts away from Thee to the pleasures and allurements of this world. We thank Thee for Thy love and the privilege of receiving it, and we believe that Thou art our Father--the loving Father who smiles upon us in our weakness, and is always ready to help us and take us to Thy arms of love. We pray thus with all the earnestness and longings of our souls, and trusting in Thy love, give Thee all the glory and honor and love that our finite souls can give. Amen