The Lord's Prayer - the meaning of each verse (Updated!)

This post is a follow up to my earlier posting on my understanding of the Lord's Prayer. Now we'll look at each verse and what it means.


Our Father
Though it is phrased as "Our Father", it does not mean that God is male. God is both Yin and Yang as in "God created man in HIS own image...male and female..." (Genesis 1:27). When meditating on the phrase "Our Father", we must remember your true nature which is you are the Christ (or Buddha, or Krishna) in you. You are NOT your body. Neither are you your emotions nor thoughts. You are not even your mind. For your mind is but a subtle instrument of your soul. Just like the computer is an instrument used by the user, the mind is a subtle instrument of the real you (Soul). You are the Soul, the I AM THAT I AM. By focusing on the Crown Chakra (Kether - crown) when meditating on the phrase "Our Father", your crown chakra is activated and ready to receive the great down pouring of spiritual energy into your bodies.

I Am Not The Body 

I Am Not The Emotion 

I Am Not The Thought 

I Am Not The Mind 

The Mind Is Only A Subtle Instrument Of The Soul 

I Am The Soul 

I Am A Spiritual Being Of Divine Intelligence, Divine Love, Divine Power 

I Am One With My Higher Soul 

I AM THAT I AM 

I Am One With The Divine Spark Within Me 

I Am A Child Of God 

I Am Connected With God 

I Am One With God 

I Am One With All

Who Art in Heaven
The word "Heaven" refers to the inner world (or Spiritual world). Focusing on your Forehead Chakra when meditating on the phrase "Who Art In Heaven" eventually gives you access to the inner world. It is said that the third eye is not located between the eyebrows, it is instead located on the forehead (Chokmah - Wisdom). And it is through the forehead chakra that we begin to "see" energy beings that cannot be seen by the naked eye.


Hallowed Be Thy Name
What comes out of the mind and the mouth is more important that what goes into the mouth. "If what goes into the mouth is dirty, it just dirties the body. But if what comes out of the mouth is dirty, it dirties the soul". Similar statements or ideas can be found in Matthew 12:34, 15:18, and Mark 7:15-23. When meditating on the phrase "Hallowed (Holy) Be Thy Name", focus on the Ajna Chakra (Binah - understanding) and the Throat Chakra (Daath - knowledge). The Ajna has the function of thinking while the Throat represents verbal expression. 


Thy Kingdom Come
The secret to having good fortune and wealth lies in this phrase. It corresponds with the Heart Chakra (Chesed - Mercy, Loving Kindness) and represents the virtues of compassion, mercy, love, giving and sharing. It is in giving and sharing that one generates good prosperity karma or "inherits the kingdom". Meditating on this phrase while focusing on the heart chakra activates this chakra making one more giving, compassionate and generous.


Thy Will Be Done
The Solar Plexus Chakra is at the center of our body i.e. it is the will center of the masses and can follow the urges of the lower nature or the will of the higher soul. when we have aligned our lower will i.e. our urges, desires etc with the will of our higher soul, we are "threading the path of the Tao" (also known as the middle path).


On Earth As It Is In Heaven
The Navel Chakra (Tiphareth - Beauty) concretizes spiritual energy into Golden Chi apart from regulating our basic chakra. By meditating on the navel chakra and the phrase "On Earth As It Is In Heaven", our navel chakra is activated and more Golden Chi is produced to support the rapidly development/evolution of our physical body. This is necessary in order to support the increased chi coming into us. If our physical bodies are not strong enough, the excessive spiritual energy may cause our physical bodies to deteriorate.


Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
The phrase "Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread" corresponds with the front and back Spleen Chakra (Netzach - Victory or Power). The spleen chakra has the important duty acting as a pump to draw in chi into our body. The phrase "bread" symbolizes life force (chi), which is required by our physical bodies in order to exist in the physical world.


Forgive Us Our Trespasses As We Forgive Those Who Trespass Against Us
This phrase relates to both our back heart chakra and crown chakra and helps facilitate the act of forgiveness and inner healing. The corresponding chakra is the Meng Mein Chakra (Hod - Glory).


Lead Us Not Into Temptation But Deliver Us From Evil
This phrase corresponds with the Sex Chakra (Yesod - Foundation). It must be said that sex is natural and wholesome and definitely NOT dirty as some religion would put it. However, it has to be regulated and preferably transmuted if one is serious about spiritual development. The physical creative or generative sex energy can be transmuted into divine union with the higher soul. Sex energy is like "food" to the higher chakras as it provides the necessary energy to the higher chakras once it is transmuted. Most spiritual practitioners who face kundalini syndrome whereby they are always horny are basically having over activated sex chakras of which the energy there is not properly transmuted.


For Thine Is The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory Forever And Ever, Amen
The first phrase "For Thine Is The Kingdom" corresponds to the Basic Chakra (Malkuth - Kingdom) where the kundalini fire is located and lies dormant within each of us. The phrase "The Power" corresponds with the spleen chakra, and "The Glory" corresponds with the meng main chakra. The phrase "For Thine Is The Kingdom, The Power, And The Glory" corresponds with the 3 lower sephiroths in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Malkuth, Netzach and Hod. The phrase "Forever And Ever, Amen" corresponds with the crown chakra where the spiritual energy and kundalini energy are brought up and eventually manifest as expansion of consciousness.


The meditation on the Lord's Prayer is universal. Truth is Universal (read my posting on Different levels of Truth). It does not belong exclusively to an country, religion (read my posting on religious dogma and Perversion of Religion) nor culture.


Related post:

1. Lord's Prayer - energy perspective
2. Yoga
3. Medical Cadeceus
4. Different levels of Truth
5. Religious dogma
6. kundalini syndrome
7. Baptism by Water, Spirit and Fire