Mark made this at Omega Institute.....an alter in the woods.below is so beautiful......so poetic.....I love Neil Douglas-Klotz and his translations from Aramaic....I have a few of his books and they are beautiful.......see the lord's prayer below.
have a great day!!!may peace be with you.
love,
Michele
English Translation of the Aramaic Lord's prayer
as translated from Aramaic by Saadi Neil Douglas-Klotz of the Sufi Order of the West
O, Birther of the Cosmos, focus your light within us -- make it useful Create your reign of unity now
Your one desire then acts with ours,
As in all light,
So in all forms,
Grant us what we need each day in bread and insight:
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us,
As we release the strands we hold of other's 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.
I affirm this with my whole being
Neil Douglas-Klotz, Ph.D., is a world-renowned scholar in religious studies, spirituality, and psychology, a leader in the International Association of Sufism, and the cofounder of the worldwide network of the Dances of Universal Peace. He is director of the Edinburgh Institute for Advanced Learning and cochair of the Mysticism Group of the American Academy of Religion.
2 comments:
Unfortunately, Klotz is a bit more of a mystic than a world-renowned scholar.
His "translation" of the prayer is such a radical departure from the actual Aramaic text from which he "translates" that the majority of scholars in the field of Aramaic studies strongly disagree with him.
I, myself, have devoted much blog space detailing this along with a line-by-line, word-by-word translation of the Aramaic prayer:
O Father-Mother Birther of the Cosmos?
His prose, taken as an interpretive meditation on the prayer, I personally find eloquent and lovely. :-) As a translation that accurately portrays its mothertext, it falls short.
Peace,
--
Steve Caruso
Author, The Aramaic Blog
http://aramaicdesigns.blogspot.com
thank you for your comment.
I will check it out.
sounds interesting!
Michele
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