A Hymn To The Lord In Lent

This prayer was inspired by the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-20070) : TO BRING CELESTIAL MUSIC TO HUMAN BEINGS AND HUMAN MUSIC TO CELESTIAL BEINGS, SO THAT HUMANS MAY LISTEN TO GOD AND GOD MAY HEAR HIS CHILDREN. Rejoice, my Immortal Soul, rejoice because you are rendered as pure as the original energy, as radiant as the original matter of the Cosmos in the Holy Week of Creation! Who would dare to stain the work of the Highest Lord, the Primal EL, by calling His World a source of evil, a sink of pollution, a swamp of - ? Oh, unworthy words in a poem of praise. Your own mind revels in the joy of the Truth of Things. It is so much bigger than your mind of three million years can grasp in its imaginings. But that is no concern of yours or God's. Your own heart is lifted in fierce joy by the Sympathy of Things. It is so much more unified than you can grasp. All things animated by God's Word exude love. But that is no concern of yours or God's. Your own body succumbs to God's majesty in deep humility. And from this worship springs a noble pride, the first stage of your apotheosis, as prophecied. But that is no concern of yours or God's. These discrete happenings that are absorbed separately by mind or heart or body, these broken pieces of knowledge will coalesce into a complete knowledge of the World. But that is no concern of yours or God's. You were favored in the past... in God's fixed gaze. Now you are raised in glory... in God's presence. This is your true concern, God's everlasting concern. You are a human being no longer, you have been raised to the Glory Realm in which angels bustle and God is ever present. Alleluia! Alleluia! ! Alleluleia! ! !