The Lord's Prayer with its spiritual interpretation

Mary Baker Eddy begins the Christian Science textbook with a chapter on Prayer, and concludes the chapter with her contemplation of the spiritual meaning of each verse of the Lord's Prayer. We see immediately it is this expansion and personalization of the meanings within the words of the prayer that provides its power to resurrect us.

Words in bold are the traditional lines of prayer. The interpretation is shown in italics.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p 16-17

"Here let me give what I understand to be the spiritual sense of the Lord's Prayer:

Our Father which art in heaven,
Our Father-Mother God, all-harmonious,

Hallowed be Thy name.
Adorable One.

 Thy kingdom come.
 Thy kingdom is come; Thou art ever-present.

 Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
 Enable us to know, — as in heaven, so on earth, — God is
 omnipotent, supreme.

 Give us this day our daily bread;
 Give us grace for to-day; feed the famished affections;

 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
 And Love is reflected in love;

 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from  evil;
 And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth
 us from sin, disease, and death.

 For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.
 For God is infinite, all-power, all Life, Truth, Love, over all, and All.

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