Thursday, March 02, 2006
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
This hymn is a part of "The Brewing of Soma." The storyline is of Vedic priests going into the forest and drinking themselves into a drunken stupor with a concoction called "soma." The purpose is have a religious experience and contact the spirits of the netherworld. The words of this hymn follow showing the futility of trying to find God through some "experience". ¶ Thursday, March 02, 2006
John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872
| Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways; Reclothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives Thy service find, |: In deeper reverence, praise. :| 2. In simple trust like theirs who heard, | 3. O Sabbath rest by Galilee, O calm of hills above, Where Jesus knelt to share with Thee The silence of eternity, |: Interpreted by love! :| 4. Drop Thy still dews of quietness, |
| 5. Breathe through the heats of our desire Thy coolness and Thy balm; Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, |: O still, small voice of calm. :| |
This hymn is a part of "The Brewing of Soma." The storyline is of Vedic priests going into the forest and drinking themselves into a drunken stupor with a concoction called "soma." The purpose is have a religious experience and contact the spirits of the netherworld. The words of this hymn follow showing the futility of trying to find God through some "experience". ¶ Thursday, March 02, 2006