Here is an understanding commentary on my 21st Century "Our Father"—Michael of Nebadon’s Planetary Proclamation. This commentary seeks to bring clarity, reverence, and spiritual depth to each phrase and line, illuminating its meaning for personal devotion, group study, or ceremonial reflection:
“Our Father Mother Existence who lives throughout the heaven of heavens dwelling as an everywhereness . . .”
Commentary:
This sacred invocation opens with an expansive vision of the Deity—Father-Mother Existence—affirming both the initiatory (Father) and nurturing (Mother) aspects of God. It transcends gender and form, establishing God as Existent Being who pervades “the heaven of heavens,” meaning all dimensions and orders of divine reality. The phrase “dwelling as an everywhereness” invokes the Omnipresence of God—He is not confined to a place, but is the Living Presence saturating the whole cosmos, including the depths of our being.
“Hallowed and holy be your Ideal of Existence so that your name is perpetually upon our every faculty as we consecrate our total persona unto you, Father of Life.”
Commentary:
Here, the prayer venerates not only God’s name, but God’s Ideal of Existence—His eternal perfection, harmony, and righteousness. It calls for this divine Ideal to be engraved upon every faculty of the human soul: mind, heart, will, imagination, action. To “consecrate our total persona” is a wholehearted surrender, a sacred offering of our identity, will, and being to the Source of Life.
“Your kingdom is everywhere in everything and one day as everyone; your will be done that we discover your strength and courage and the faith conviction necessary to persevere with our full determination and our great effort.”
Commentary:
The Kingdom is declared as immanent—everywhere, in everything, and ultimately as everyone who aligns with divine will. This is the destiny of spiritual evolution: that the Will of God be fulfilled not just around us, but in us. The phrase affirms that discovering divine will requires strength, courage, and faith conviction—qualities that do not fall upon us passively, but are cultivated through perseverance and moral exertion.
“May thy will of Order and Harmony be achieved upon the earth as it is gradually unfolding throughout the heaven of heavens.”
Commentary:
This line connects the planetary mission to the cosmic order. Just as divine harmony unfolds in the universes, so must Order and Harmony be manifest on Earth. It is an invocation of cosmic alignment, where earth mirrors the heavenly progression through willing human participation in God's will.
“Give us this day the knowledge to extend your existence, and feed us thine bread of understanding that we shall become arisen in your existence and accomplishing our destiny with you in eternity.”
Commentary:
Rather than asking for mere sustenance, this line petitions for spiritual knowledge and understanding—the bread of the soul. To “extend your existence” means to live in such a way that God’s nature is expressed through us. The result is not only survival, but ascent—rising into a conscious partnership with God in eternal destiny.
“Renew our minds into truth and refresh our hungers towards nobility and honor, ennoble our character motivations, and eternalize our complete personhood, so that the desire of our soul partakes of the water of your Life.”
Commentary:
This is a plea for inner transformation: that our minds be renewed, our longings purified, our motives ennobled. “Eternalize our complete personhood” speaks to the destiny of personality survival—the fusion of the soul with the indwelling spirit. Drinking from “the water of your Life” symbolizes communion with God’s living presence, which satisfies the deepest thirst of the soul.
“Let us become awakened to your perfect approach necessary to receive your continual outpouring of mercy and forgiveness, that we progressively become ascended and permanently free from all our doubts and debts and disorders.”
Commentary:
This invokes spiritual awakening to God's perfect method of approach—the way of humility, receptivity, and living faith. The “continual outpouring” emphasizes God's ceaseless mercy and the healing flow of forgiveness. The result is a gradual ascent—freedom from inner fragmentation, confusion, and self-imposed limitations.
“And as we claim our rights and identity in you, as we utilize the endowment of life which you’ve given us, so shall we discover a new capacity to forgive all who are of the body of your Life.”
Commentary:
We are reminded that true identity is found in God. To claim our spiritual rights is to acknowledge the divine inheritance of sonship and daughtership. As we honor this divine gift of life, our hearts are empowered with the capacity to forgive—not just as a duty, but as a creative expression of divine love toward all fellow beings.
“Save us with the right intellectual intelligence, the recognition of your goodness and glory, so that we are elevated beyond the temptations of the senses and the material body.”
Commentary:
Salvation here is not escape, but illumination—being “saved” through right intelligence: spiritual discernment guided by truth. It is the insight that recognizes divine goodness and glory, leading to transcendence over the lower appetites and ego-driven impulses of the flesh.
“Let us become delivered from our own self-perpetuated evil and any disloyalty that we’ve set into motion by our strengthening discernment.”
Commentary:
This is a moment of sober self-accountability. Evil, in this context, is not merely external—it is self-perpetuated, arising from unwise decisions, fear, pride, or rebellion. Deliverance comes through discernment—the ability to clearly distinguish between the true and the false, between soul-loyalty and self-will.
“Increasingly and progressively each day, let us decide to stand loyal with you, oh God our Father, that we find your eternal value, your everlasting vision of eternal life, and that we give ourselves day by day to your perfection in each moment.”
Commentary:
Spiritual growth is progressive and volitional. Each day, each moment, offers the opportunity to re-choose God. Loyalty becomes the path by which we perceive God’s eternal value, His grand vision of destiny, and yield ourselves to divine perfection not in the distant future, but in each moment now.
Michael Of Nebadon
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