Abwoon - October 8, 2009

Abwoon

(Father-Mother of the Cosmos)

THE ARAMAIC LORD’S PRAYER

Text from the Aramaic Peshitta, Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:2-4

O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos,

focus your light within us. Create your reign of unity now.

Your one desire then acts with ours,

as in all light, so in all forms.

Grant what we need each day in bread and insight.

Loose the cords of mistakes binding us

as we release the strands we hold of others’ guilt.

Don’t let surface things delude us,

but free us from what holds us back.

From you is born all ruling will, the power and the life to do,

the song that beautifies all, from age to age it renews.

Truly—power to these statements—may they be the ground

from which all our actions grow. Amen
 

From the Musical CD by SAVAE, Ancient Echoes: Music from the Time of Jesus and Jerusalem’s Second Temple

Translation of the Aramaic Lord’s Prayer from Desert Wisdom by Neil Douglas-Klotz

Aramaic is a Middle Easter language that was the native tongue of Jesus of Nazareth, and common to the Israel/Palestine region during the first century C. E.
This is also known as The Prayer of Jesus.
All the Semitic languages - including Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic - use a root system that allows one word to hold multiple meanings. Thus, a tradition of translation arose in the Middle East that led to each word of a prophet being considered on many different levels of meaning.