(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Avinu Sheba-Shamayyim: Our Father Who art in the heavens.
When Jesus was asked by his disciples, “How should we pray?” the Lord’s Prayer
(also known in Catholicism as the Our Father prayer cited in the previous
lines before this paragraph) was what Jesus gave them as an example in Luke
11:1. All sorts of official Christian prayers and recitations have been structured
in the same format as the Lord’s Prayer. The first two lines give praise
(hallowed be thy name, the second two lines show surrender to God’s will
(thy will be done), the next two lines ask for what is wanted (daily bread),
then there is a request for forgiveness (forgive us our trespasses), and
finally an affirmation to be “good” (deliver us from evil). The Lord’s Prayer
is known by heart by almost every Christian, and is a treasured part of Jesus’
teachings.
Dr. J.J. Hurtakwrites in his book The Lord’s Prayer (1983) that this “Divine
Language” of The Lord’s Prayer can move our consciousness towards spiritual
growth. The first step in this unfoldment of consciousness Hurtak writes
is to acknowledge our “Oneness with the eternal Family of Light that exists
in all heavens, a sharing of the same God, and the same Divine Mind.” We
are able to pray to our Creator in the image of whom we are created with
this living Word. The writer explains that in most Bibles today the translations
“heavens” (plural, Hebrew: shamayyim; Greek: ouranois)
is written out and replaced with the singular tense heaven: “Our Father Who
art in heaven.” As a result the many hierarchies and dimensions pointed out
in the original language vibrations of the prayer have been lost to this
conscious or unconscious mistranslation.
Avinu sheba-shamayyim. This holy, sacred language is given to the
“evolutionary energy matrix that exists in the many heavens (shamayyim)
with its eternal capstone, the ‘House of Many Mansions (Hebrew: hekaloth).”
The prayer allows all who say it to “connect with all levels of creation.”
Jesus knew his work was not limited to this world alone, but was opening
gates to communications between the higher and lower vibratory rates and
dimensions found in His Creation, all 24 dimensions according to Hurtak in
The Lord’s Prayer (1983).
This “cosmology of consciousness,” as Hurtak so eloquently states, allows
us all to pass through these dimensions, even ones captured and controlled
by the lower hierarchy. This control of the lower dimensions is referred
to in the Revelation (Apocalypse) of John the Divine and also found in the
Old Testament writing and prophecy of Daniel. It is revealed in these scriptures
that it was only through the intercession and cooperation of Archangel Michael
along with the higher Hierarchy that the Office of the Christ could save
the lower material worlds from the fallen Hierarchies. We learn from this
scholar that the fallen Hierarchy attempted to break up the Divine Language
system that connected above with below.