ODE.1
1) The Lord is on my head like a crown,
and I shall
never be without Him.
2) The crown of Truth was woven for me,
and
caused Thy branches to bud and blossom in me.
3) For it is not like a parched
and sterile crown that buds not;
but Thou livest upon my head, and have
blossomed upon me.
4) Thy fruits are full grown and perfect;
and
filled with Thy salvation.
ODE.3
1) I am putting on the love of the Lord,
I clothe His
limbs, and His members are with Him;
2) and I hang from them; and He loves
me.
3) For I should not have not known how to love the Lord,
if He
did not love me continuously.
4) And who can tell us about
love?
Only one who is loved.
5) I love the Beloved and my self loves
Him;
and where His rest is, there am I also.
6) I shall be no
stranger there,
For there is no jealousy with my merciful and Most High
Lord.
7) I have gone
to unite with Him, for the lover has
found
his Beloved.
8) And to love Him that is the Son, I become a
son.
9) Indeed whoever is joined to Him who is immortal,
shall
become immortal.
10) And he that hath pleasure and delight in the Living
One,
shall become a living one.
11) This is the Spirit of the Lord,
that is not false,
Which teacheth the sons of men His ways.
12) Be
wise. Be understanding and vigilant, and
your eyes be open.
ODE.4
1) No man, O my God, can pervert Thy Holy place, nor alter
it,
for no man hath such power to change it to another place.
2) You
designed Your sanctuary before you made the special places and the world.
3)
The ancient One shall not be undone nor changed by what
is younger and
inferior to it.
4) Thou has given Thy heart, Oh Lord, to Thy
believers
and never will Thou fail, nor be without fruits.
5) For
one hour of Thy faith
is more precious than all the days and
years.
6) For who will be so despised and rejected,
as to put on Thy
grace and
kindness?
7) For Thy seal is known.
and Thy creatures
are known to it.
8) And Thy angels and hosts posses Thy sign.
and
the elect archangels are robed in it.
9) Thou has give us Thy
fellowship;
not that Thou was in need of us,
but we were in
need of Thee.
10) Distill Thy dews upon us with gentle sprinklings,
11)
And open Thy bountiful springs which abundantly
pour forth to us; milk
and honey from rich fountains.
12) There is nothing of which You
repent,
that Thou should not regret anything that Thou has
promised.
13) And the end was known to Thee,
for what Thou gave,
Thou gavest freely,
so that Thou might withdraw them back, and give
forth again.
14) For all was known to Thee, God;
and from the
beginning, was set in order before Thee.
15) And You, Oh Lord, have made all
things.
Hallelujah
ODE.5
1) I give thanks and praise to Thee, Oh Lord,
because I
love Thee.
2) Oh Most High, do not forsake nor abandon me,
for You
are my hope.
3) Your grace I have received freely,
and I shall live
thereupon.
4) My persecutors shall come, but let them not see me.
5) let a
cloud of darkness fall upon their eyes,
and an air of thick gloom
darken them.
6) And let them have no light to see,
that they may not
seize me.
7) Let their counsel become thick and dull,
so that
whatever they have cunningly conspired,
may return upon their own
heads.
8) For they have devised a counsel,
but it has come to
nothing.
9) And they have been overcome and vanquished,
although
they were powerful.
10) They prepared themselves maliciously,
but
they were found to be empty and impotent.
11) The Lord is my hope,
I
will not fear.
12) And because You are my God and my Savior,
I shall
not fear.
13) And He is as a garland that crowns my head,
and I will
not be moved nor shaken.
14) Even if everything should be shaken,
I
stand firm.
15) And if all things visible will perish,
I shall not
die.
16) For the Lord is with me,
and I am with Him.
Hallelujah.
ODE.6
1) As the hand moves over the harp and the strings
speak,
so the Spirit of the Lord speaks in my members.
2) And I
speak by His love.
3) For He destroys what is foreign and
bitter,
and everything is of the Lord.
4) For thus He was from the
beginning,
and will be unto the end.
5) So that nothing shall be His
adversary,
nor rise up and resist Him.
6) The Lord has multiplied
His knowledge,
and was zealous that those things should be known
which,
by His grace have been given to us.
7) And His praise he
gave us on account of His name;
and our spirits praise His Holy
Spirit.
8) For there emanated forth a stream,
and it became a great
river, long and broad.
9) It swept away everything, and shattered and
broke away the Temple.
10) Barriers of ordinary men could not
restrain it,
nor could those whose art it is to halt the waters.
11)
And it spread over the face of all the earth,
and it filled
everything.
12) Then all the thirsty of the earth drank of it,
and
their thirst was relieved and quenched.
13) For from the Most High the drink
was given.
14) Blessed are the ministers of that drink,
who have
been entrusted with the care of His water.
15) They have refreshed the
parched lips,
and the will that had been paralyzed, they raised
up.
16) Even souls that were about to depart
they have embraced,
pouring in the breath,
and so have drawn them back from death.
17)
And limbs that had collapsed and become crooked,
they have restored and
set up straight.
18) They have strengthened our freedom,
and given
light for our eyes.
19) For everyone knew them as the Lord,
And by
the Living Water, they lived an eternal
life.
Hallelujah
ODE.7
1) As is the motion of anger over evil,
so joy moves over
the beloved;
and floods us unhindered with its fruits.
2) My joy is
the Lord, and I move toward Him.
This way is beautiful and
excellent.
3) For I have a Helper, who is the Lord.
He has shown
Himself to
me in simplicity,
and has let me know Him
thoroughly.
4) His kindness has humbled His magnitude.
5) He became like
me, that I might receive Him.
6) In form He was reckoned like me, so that I
could put Him on.
7) And I did not tremble when I saw Him,
for He
was gracious to me.
8) He became like my nature, that I might understand
Him.
9) He took on my essence and form, that I might not turn away.
10)
The Father of Knowledge,
is the Word of Knowledge.
11) He who
created wisdom,
is wiser than His works.
12) And He who created me
when yet I was not,
knew what I would do when I came into being.
13)
So in His abundant grace He pitied me,
and granted me to ask from Him;
and to benefit from receiving His sacrifice.
14) For it is He who
is incorruptible,
the perfection of the worlds and their Father.
15)
He grants Himself to be seen in His works, to them that are His own;
so
that He be recognized to them as their creator,
that all might not
suppose themselves to be self created.
16) His way is appointed to
Knowledge.
He has broadened it and extended it,
and brought it
completely to all perfection.
17) He set over it the traces of His
light,
proceeding therein from the beginning to the end.
18) For
resting in His Son, He was served,
and He was pleased with the
Son.
19) And because of His salvation, the Lord took possession of all
things.
20) The Most High will be known in His saints,
and announced
in songs of the coming of the Lord.
21) Those who sing of Him may go forth to
meet Him,
with joy and a harp of many tones.
22) The Seers shall go
before Him,
and they shall be seen.
23) They shall praise the Lord
for His love,
Because He is near and does see.
24) And hatred will
be taken from the earth,
and along with jealousy it shall be
drowned.
25) For ignorance hath been destroyed,
for the knowledge of
the Lord has arrived.
26) Let singers sing the grace of the Lord Most
High,
and let them bring their songs forth.
27) Let their hearts be
like the day,
And their gentle harmonies and sounds like the majestic
beauty of the Lord.
28) Let there be nothing without life,
nor
without knowledge, nor voice.
29) For the Lord has given a mouth to His
creation:
To open the voice of our mouth toward Him and praise
Him.
30) Confess ye His power;
declare and reveal His grace.
ODE.8
1) Open, open ye your hearts to the exultation of the Lord,
2)
And let your love abound from the heart to the lips.
In order to bring
forth fruits to the Lord, a holy life,
and to remove blindness by His
light.
3) Rise up and stand erect,
you who were sometimes brought
low.
4) You who were in silence, speak,
for your mouth has been
opened.
5) You who were despised, henceforth be lifted up,
For you
Righteousness has been lifted up.
6) For the right hand of the Lord is with
you,
and He will be your Helper.
7) And peace was prepared for
you,
before your battle ever drew near.
Thus saith the Lord Jesus to
me Simon as I bore His cross,
8) Hear the word of Truth,
and receive
the knowledge of the Most High.
9) Your flesh may not understand that which I
am about to say to you;
nor your garment that which I am about to show
you.
10) Keep My mystery, you who are kept by it;
keep My faith, you
who are kept by it.
11) Understand My knowledge, you who know Me in
Truth;
and love Me with affection, you who love;
12) For I do not
turn away My face from them that are Mine;
because I know them.
13)
Before they came into being,
I took Knowledge and recognized
them;
and on their faces I set My seal.
14) I fashioned their
members,
and My own breasts I prepared for them;
That they
might drink My holy milk and live thereby.
15) I am pleased and took pleasure
in them,
and I am not ashamed by them.
16) For My workmanship are
they,
and the strength of My thoughts.
17) Who then can stand up
against My work?
Or who is not subject to them?
18) I willed and
fashioned mind and heart;
and they are My own.
19) And by My right
hand I have set My elect ones.
20) And My righteousness goes before
them,
and they shall not be deprived nor detached from My
name;
For it is with them. Therefore, I Simon say unto you;
21)
Pray and increase,
and abide continually in the love of the
Lord.
22) And you who are beloved ones, in the Beloved;
and you who
are kept in Him who lives,
and you who are saved in Him who was
saved;
23) You shall be found incorrupt in all the ages,
on account
of the Name of your
Father.
HalleluJah
ODE.9
1) Open your ears,
and I shall speak to
you.
2) Give me your self,
so that I may also give you myself.
3)
The Word of the Lord and His desires,
The holy thought which He has
thought concerning His Messiah.
4) For in the will of the Lord is your
life,
and His intention is eternal life,
5) And your perfection is
incorruptible.
6) Be enriched in God the Father;
and receive the
purpose of the Most High.
7) Be strong and be redeemed by His grace.
8)
For I announce peace to you His holy saints;
so that none of those who
hear shall fall in the battle.
9) And also that those who have known Him may
not perish.
10) And so that those who have received Him may not be confused
nor ashamed.
11) An everlasting crown is Truth:
Blessed are those
who set it on their heads;
12) It is a precious stone of great
price,
for the wars were on account of the crown.
13) But
Righteousness has taken it,
and given it unto you.
14) Put on the
crown of the true covenant of the Lord;
and all those who have overcome
and conquered shall be inscribed in
His book.
15) For their
inscription is the justification and the book is their victory,
both
are yours.
16) And She sees you before Her and wills that you shall be
saved.
HalleluJah
ODE.10
1) The Lord God has directed my mouth by His Word,
2) And He
has opened my heart by His Light.
3) And He has caused to dwell in me, His
immortal life;
and permitted me to proclaim the fruit of His
peace.
4) To convert the souls of those who desire to come to
Him,
and to capture a good captivity for freedom.
Thus saith the
Lord Jesus to me Simon as I bore His cross,
5) I took courage and became
strong and mighty, capturing the world,
and it became Mine for the
glory and praise of the Most High,
and of God My Father.
6) And the Gentiles who scattered abroad were gathered
together,
and their sin did not defile Me due to My love for
them;
for they praised and confessed Me in high places.
7) And the
traces of the Light were set upon their heart.
8) And they walked according
to My life and were saved,
and they became My people for ever and
ever.
HalleluJah
ODE.11
1) My heart was pruned and there appeared a flower, and grace
sprang up in it;
and it brought forth fruit from the Lord.
2) For
the Most High circumcised me by His Holy Spirit.
Then He uncovered my inward
being, exposing my affection for Him,
and filled me with His
love.
3) And His circumcising of my heart became my salvation,
and I
followed in the way of His peace,
in the way of the Truth.
4) From
the beginning unto the end, I received His knowledge.
5) And I was
established upon the rock of truth,
where He had placed me.
6)
Speaking waters touched my lips,
from the vast fountain of the Lord
generously.
7) And so I drank and became intoxicated,
from the
living water that does not die,
8) And my drunkenness did not bring
ignorance, but knowledge;
and I threw off vanity.
9) and I turned to
the Most High, my God,
and was enriched by His favors and
bounty.
10) And I forsook the folly and madness cast upon the
earth.
and stripped it off and cast it from me.
11) Then the Lord
renewed me with His raiment,
and held me in His Light.
12) And from
above He enlivened me, giving me immortal rest without corruption,
13) I
became like the land that blossoms and rejoices in orchards of
fruits.
and the Lord was like the sun shinning upon the face of the
land.
14) My eyes were clear and enlightened,
and my face received the
dew;
15) My breath was refreshed, and my nostrils enjoyed,
the
pleasant fragrance of the kindness of the Lord.
16) And He carried me into
His paradise,
wherein is the wealth and abundance, of the pleasure of
the Lord.
17) I beheld blooming and fruit bearing trees,
and
self-grown was their crown.18) Their branches were sprouting, and their fruits
had the shine of laughter;
from an immortal land were their
roots.
19) And a river of gladness was irrigating them,
round about
in the land of eternal life.
20) Then I worshipped the Lord on account of His
magnificent glory.
21) And I said, ŇBlessed, Oh Lord, are they who are
planted in Thy land,
and who have a place in Thy Paradise;
22) And
who grow in the growth of Thy trees,
and have passed from darkness into
light.
23) Behold, all Thy laborers are lovely,
They who work good
works,
And turn from wickedness to Thy pleasantness.
24) For they
turned away and the pungent odor of the trees, was changed
when they
were planted in Thy land.
25) Everything became a remembrance of Thyself,
and everyone like Thy remnant.
26) Blessed are the workers of Thy
waters,
because it is an eternal memorial for Thy ever faithful
servants.
27) Indeed, There is abundant room in Thy Paradise.
And
there is nothing in it that is useless or barren;
but everything is
filled with fruit.Ó
28) Glory be to Thee, O God, the delight of paradise for
ever.
HalleluJah
ODE.12
1) He has filled me with words of truth,
that I may
speak the same in proclamation of Him.
2) And like the flowing of waters,
truth flows from my mouth,
and my lips declare His fruits and
harvest.
3) And He has caused the gold of Knowledge to abound in
me,
because the mouth of the Lord is the true Word,
and the
door of His light.
4) And The Most High has given Him to His worlds and
generations,
Which are the interpreters of His own beauty,
and the reciters of His praise and glory;
and the confessors of His
thought and purpose;
and the heralds of His mind;
and the
teachers of His works.
5) For the subtlety of the Word is inexpressible
6)
And like His utterance so also is His swiftness and His sharpness,
For
limitless is His course and progression.
7) The Word never falls but remains
always standing,
and His descent and His way are incomprehensible.8)
For as His work is, so is His limit and expectation,
for He is the
likeness and the dawning of thought.
9) And by Him the worlds spoke to one
another,
and those who were silent acquired speech.
10) And from Him
came love and equality,
and they spoke to one another with candor, that
which was theirs.
11) And they were penetrated and stimulated by the
Word,
and they knew Him who had made them,
because they came
into harmony and concord.
12) For the mouth of the Most High spoke to
them,
and His exposition prospered clearly through the Word.
13) For
the tabernacle of the Word is man,
and His truth is love.
14)
Blessed are they who by Him have perceived and understood
everything,
and have known the Lord in His
truth.
HalleluJah
ODE.13
1) Behold the Lord is our mirror.
Open your eyes and see
them in Him.
2) And learn the manner of your face,
and declare forth
praises to His Spirit.
3) And wipe of the paint and filth from your
face,
and love His holiness and clothe yourself therewith.
4) And
you will be unblemished and stainless at all times with Him.
ODE.14
1) As the eyes of a son upon his father,
so are my eyes,
Oh Lord, at all times turned towards Thee.
2) Because my consolations and my
delights are with Thee.
3) Do not turn Your mercies away from me, Oh
Lord;
and take not Thy kindness from me.
4) Stretch out to me at all
times, my Lord, Thy right hand,
and be to me a caring guide until the
end according to Thy will and good pleasure.
5) Let me be pleasing before
Thee, because of Thy glory,
and because of Thy na
me let me be
saved from the evil one.
6) And let Thy gentleness, Oh Lord, abide with
me,
and the fruits of Thy love.
7) Teach me to sing the odes of Thy
truth,
that I may bring forth fruits in Thee.
8) Open to me the harp of
Thy Holy Spirit,
so that with all its notes I may praise Thee.
9)
And according to the multitude of Thy mercies, so grant unto me,
and
hasten to grant our petitions.
10) And Thou are sufficient for all our
needs.
HalleluJah
ODE.15
1) As the sun is joy to those who seek its daybreak,
so
my joy is the Lord.
2) Because He is my Sun, and His rays have lifted me
up;
His light has dispelled all darkness from my face.
3) In Him I
have acquired eyes,
and have seen His holy day.
4) Ears I have
obtained,
and have heard His truth.
5) The thought of knowledge I
have acquired,
and have lived in full delight through Him.
6) I have
rebuked the way of error and went towards Him,
and have received
salvation from Him abundantly
7) And accordin
g to His generous bounty He
has given to me,
and according to His excellent beauty He has made
me.
8) I have put on pure incorruptible immortality through His
name,
and shed corruption by His grace.
9) Death has been destroyed
before my face,
and Hell has been abolished by my word.
10) Eternal
life has arisen in the LordŐs land,
and is known to His faithful
ones;
and has been given without limit to those that trust in
Him.
HalleluJah
ODE.16
1) As the work of the farmer is the plough,
and the work
of the helmsman is the guidance of the ship;
so my work is the psalm
of the Lord by His hymns.
2) My art and my service are in His
praises;
because His love has nourished my heart,
and His
fruits He poured onto my lips.
3) For my love is the Lord,
therefore
I will sing to Him.
4) For I am strengthened by praise in His
celebration,
and I have faith in Him.
5) I will open my mouth, and
His Spirit will speak through me,
the glory of the Lord
and His
beauty.
6)The work of His hands,
and the craft of His fingers.
7)
For the horizonless multitude of His mercies,
and the strength and
power of His Word.8) For the Word of the Lord finds that which is
invisible,
and scrutinizes and reveals His thought.
9) For the eye
sees His works,
and the hear hears His mind.
10) It is He who spread out
the earth,
and placed the waters in the sea.
11) He expanded
the heavens and measured out the firmament,
and fixed the stars.
12)
He established the creation and set it up,
and He rested from His
works.
13) And created things run according to their course,
and
work their works, for they can neither cease nor fail.
14) And the hosts are
subject to His Word.
15) The treasury of light is the sun.
and the
reservoir of darkness is the night.
16) He made the sun to clarify the day so
that it will be bright,
but night brings a blur over the face of the
earth.
17) And by their reception and alteration one from
another,
they speak and complete the beauty of God.
18) And there is
nothing that is outside of the Lord,
because He was before anything
came into being.
19) And the worlds were made by His word,
and by
the thought of His heart.
20) Glory, praise and honor to His
name.
HalleluJah
ODE.17
1) I was crowned by God,
and my crown is living.
2)
And I was justified by my Lord,
and my salvation is certain and
incorruptible.
3) I have been freed from myself,
and am not
condemned.
4) My chains and bonds were cut off by His hands;
I
received the face and likeness of a new person,
and I walked in Him
and was redeemed and saved.
5) And the thought of truth led me,
and
I went after it and did not wander off.
6) And all those who saw me were
amazed,
and I seemed to them like a stranger.
7) And He who knew and
exalted me,
is the Most High in all His perfection.
8) He glorified
me by His kindness.
and raised my understanding to the height of
Truth.
9) And from there He gave me the way of His step.
And thus saith
the Lord Jesus to me Simon as I bore His cross;
10) I opened the doors which
were closed.
11) And I shattered bars of iron,
for my own bonds
melted and dissolved before Me.
12) And nothing now appears closed to
Me.
Because I am the door and opening of everything.
13) And I went
towards all My bondsman in order to free them,
that I might not leave
anyone bound or binding.
14) And I imparted My Knowledge generously without
grudging,
and spread My resurrection with My love.
15) And I sowed
My fruits in their hearts,
and transformed them through Myself.
16)
And They received My blessing and lived,
and they were gathered to Me
and were saved.
17) Because they became My own members,
and I was
their Head.Ó
Therefore I Simon say,
18) Glory to Thee, our Head, Oh Lord
Messiah.
HalleluJah
ODE.18
1) My heart was raised up, enriched and magnified in the love of
the Most High;
so that I might celebrate and praise Him by means of my
name.
2) My members were strengthened,
that they might not fall from
His power.
3) Sickness fled and forsook my body, and it stood firm for the
Lord by His will
for His Kingdom is genuine, solid, and lasting.
4)
Oh Lord, for the sake of those who are deficient and in need,
do not
loose, but let me keep Thy Word.
5) Nor, for the sake of their
works,
do not restrain Thy perfection from me.
6) Let not the light
be conquered by darkness,
nor let the truth flee way from
falsehood.
7) Appoint me to victory! Your right hand is
salvation:
And let it receive from every region,
and let it
preserve everyone who is besieged by temptation.
8) Falsehood and death are
not in Thy mouth, my God;
Only perfection is Thy will.
9) Thou
knowest neither vanity nor error,
because neither do these know
Thee.
10) And ignorance appeared like dust,
and like the foam of the
sea.
11) And vain people supposed that it was something great,
and
they came to resemble it type and were impoverished.
12) But the wise
understood, meditated and contemplated,
and were not polluted by their
thoughts.
13) For they shared in the mind of the Most High Lord,
and
they laughed at those who were walking in error.
14) Then they spoke the
Truth,
from the inspiration which the Most High breathed into
them.
15) Praise, honor, and great beauty to His
name.
HalleluJah
ODE.19
1) A cup of milk was offered to me,
and I drank its
sweetness as the delight of the Lords kindness.
2) The Son is the
cup,
and the Father is He who was milked.
3) And the Holy Spirit is
She who milked Him.
4) Because His breasts were full,
It was not
fitting that His milk should be spilled wastefully.
5) The Holy Spirit opened
Her bosom,
and mingled the milk of the two breasts of the Father.
6)
Then She gave the mixture to the world without their knowing
and those
who have received it are in the perfect fullness of the right hand.
7) The
womb of the Virgin took it,
and She received conception and gave
birth:
8) The Virgin became a mother of great mercy.
9) And She labored
and bore the Son without pain,
for it did not happen without
purpose.
10) And She did not require a midwife,
For he caused her to give
life.
11) She brought forth like a strong man with GodŐs desire,
12)
and She brought Him forth according to the manifestation,
and acquired
Him according to the Great Power, with dignity.
13) And She loved Him with
redemption,
and swaddled Him with kindness,
and declared Him
with grandeur,
and revealed His
majesty.
HalleluJah
ODE.20
1) I am a priest of the Lord,
and to Him I do priestly
service.
2) And To Him I offer the offering of His thought.3) For His thought
is not like the world,
nor like the flesh, nor like them that worship
according to the flesh.
4) The offering of the Lord is righteousness;
and purity of heart and lips.
5) Offer thy inward being faultlessly
and blamelessly;
6) And let not thy heart do violence to
compassion,
and let not thyself oppress a soul.
7) Thou should not
purchase a stranger because he is like thyself,
nor seek to deal
guilefully with thy neighbor.
8) Neither shall thou deprive him of the
covering for his nakedness.
9) But put on the grace of the Lord
generously;
and come into His Paradise and make thee a garland from His
tree;
10) Then put it on thy head gladly and be joyful,
and recline
upon His rest.
11) For His glory will go before thee.
12) And thou shall
receive of His kindness and of His grace;
13) And thou shall be anointed in
truth with the praise of His holiness.
14) Praise and honor to His
name.
HalleluJah
ODE.21
1) I lifted up my arms on high,
even unto the grace of
the LordŐs compassion.
2) For He had cast off my bonds from me,
and
my Helper had lifted me up to His grace and His salvation.
3) And I discarded
darkness;
and clothed myself with light.
4) And my soul acquired a
body,
free from sickness or affliction or suffering.
5) And the
thought of the Lord abundantly restored me.
6) I fed on His everlasting
incorruptible fellowship.
7) I was raised up to the light,
and I
went unto Him.
8) And I was constantly near to Him,
praising and
giving thanks to Him in confession.
9) Then upon my face increased the
exultation of the Lord,
and likewise His
praise.
HalleluJah
ODE.22
Thus prayed the Lord Jesus as I Simon bore His cross;
1) He
who caused Me to descend from on high,
and to ascend from the regions
below.
2) He who gathers what is in the Middle,
and throws them to
Me;
3) He who scattered My enemies,
and also My adversaries.
4)
He who gave Me authority over bonds,
so that I might loose them;
5)
And He who overthrew by My hands the dragon with seven heads,
and set
Me at his roots, so that I might destroy his seed.
6) Thou were there and did
help Me,
and in every place Thy name and Thy blessing were round about
Me.
7) Thy right hand destroyed his evil venom,
and Thy hand leveled
the way for those who believe in Me.
8) And Thy right hand chose them from
the graves,
and separated them from the dead.
9) It took dead bones
and covered them with flesh.
10) But they were
motionless,
so it gave them energy as assistance for life.
11)
Incorruptible was Thy Way and Thy face;
12) Thou has brought Thy world to
corruption,
that everything might be dissolved and renewed.
13) The
foundation of everything is Thy rock of light;
and upon it Thou has
built Thy Kingdom.
14) And You became the dwelling place of the holy
ones.Ó
HalleluJah
ODE.23
1) Joy is for the holy ones!
and who shall put it on but
they alone?
2) Grace is for the elect;
and who shall receive it but
they who trusted in it from the beginning?
3) Love is for the
elect;
and who shall put it on but they who possessed it from the
beginning?
4) Walk in the knowledge of the Most High:
5) And you will know
the grace of the Lord generously without grudging;
and enter into His
exultation and the perfection of His knowledge.
6) And His thought was like a
letter,
and His will descended from on high.
7) And it was sent like
and arrow,
which has been forcibly shot from a bow.
8) And many
hands rushed to the letter,
in order to catch it and take it and
read.
9) But it escaped from their fingers;
and they were afraid of
it and of the seal that was upon it.
10) For they were both permitted to
loosen its seal;
because the power which was over the seal was greater
than they.
11) But those who saw the letter went after it,
that they
might learn and know where it would land,
and who should read it, and
who should hear it.
12) But a wheel received it,
and it (the wheel)
came over it.
13) And a sign was with it,
of the Kingdom and of the
providence.
14) And everything which was disturbing the wheel,
it
mowed and cut down.
15) And it restrained a multitude and destroyed many
adversaries;
and it bridged the rivers.
16) And it crossed over and
uprooted many forests,
And made an open way and a broad path.
17)
The head went down to the feet;
for unto the feet ran the
wheel,
and that which had come upon it.
18) The letter was one of
command and salvation;
and hence all regions were included in it and
gathered together.
19) And there was seen at its head, the head which was
revealed;
even the Son of Truth from the Most High Father.
20) And
He inherited and took possession of everything,
and the scheming
thought of the many did cease.
21) Then all the seducers became headstrong
and fled,
and the persecutors became extinct and blotted out.
22)
And the letter became a large volume,
Which was entirely written by the
finger of God.
23) And the name of the Father was upon it;
and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
to rule for ever and
ever.
HalleluJah
ODE.24
1) The Dove fluttered over the head of our Lord
Messiah,
because he was her head.
2) And she sang over
Him,
and her voice was heard.
3) Then the inhabitants were
afraid,
and the foreigners were disturbed and trembled.
4) The bird
began to fly,
and every creeping thing died in its hole.
5) And the
chasms were opened and closed.
and they were seeking the Lord as those
who are about to give birth.
6) But He was not given to them for
nourishment,
because He did not belong to them.7) And the abysses were
submerged in the thought which
they had existed in from the
beginning.
8) For they travailed from the beginning,
and the end of
their travail was life.
9) And all of them who were lacking
perished,
because they were not able to express the Word so that they
might remain.
10) And the Lord destroyed the devices and
imaginations,
of all those who had not the Truth with them.
11) For
they were defective and lacking in Wisdom,
they who exalted themselves
in their heart and mind.
12) And they were rejected,
because the
Truth was not with them.
13) For the Lord revealed His way,
and
spread abroad His grace widely.
14) And those who understood
it,
knew His
holiness.
HalleluJah
ODE.25
1) I was rescued from my chains,
and I fled unto Thee,
Oh my God.
2) Because Thou are the right hand of salvation,
and my
Helper.
3) Thou has restrained those who rise up against me,
and
they were seen no more.
4) Because Thy face was with me,
which saved
me by Thy grace.
5) But I was despised and rejected in the eyes of
many,
and I was in their eyes like lead.
6) And I acquired strength
from Thee,
and help.
7) Thou did set a lamp for me both on my right
hand and at my left,
so that there might not be in me anything that is
not light.
8) And I was covered with the covering of Thy Spirit and
mercy,
and I removed from me my garment of skin.
9) Because Thy
right hand exalted me,
and removed sickness from me.
10) And I
became mighty in Thy truth,
and holy by Thy righteousness.
11) And
all my adversaries were afraid of me,
and I became the LordŐs by the
name of the Lord.
12) And I was justified by His kind gentle
sweetness.
13) And His rest is for ever and
ever.
HalleluJah
ODE.26
1) I poured out praise to the Lord,
because I am His
own.
2) And I will recite His holy Ode,
because my heart is with
Him.
3) For His Harp is in my hand
and the Odes of His Rest shall not be
silent.
4) I will call unto Him with all my heart,
I will praise and
exalt Him with all my members.
5) For from the East and unto the
West,
is His praise
6) Also from the South and unto the North
is
His thanksgiving confessed in praise.
7) Even from the top of the summits and
unto their utmost extremity,
is His perfection complete.
8) Who can
write the odes of the Lord,
or who can read them?
9) Or who can
train his soul for Life,
so that he himself may be saved.
10) Or who can
rest upon the Most High,
so that He would recite from his mouth?
11) Who
is able to interpret the wonders of the Lord?
Though he who interprets
will be dissolved,
yet that which was interpreted will remain.
12)
For it suffices to perceive and know, rest and be satisfied,
for the
odists stand in serenity;
13) Like a river which has an increasingly abundant
spring,
and flows to the relief of them that seek
it.
HalleluJah
ODE.27
1) I extended my hands,
and was sanctified by my
Lord.
2) For the expansion of my hands,
is His sign.
3) And my
extension,
is the upright
cross.
HalleluJah
ODE.28
1) As the wings of doves over their nestlings,
and the
mouths of their nestlingŐs toward their mouths,
so also are the wings
of the Spirit over my heart.
2) My heart continually refreshes it self and
leaps with delight,
like the babe who leaps for joy in his motherŐs
womb.
3) I believed; therefore I was at Rest:
For faithful is He in
whom I have trusted.
4) Blessing greatly, He has richly blessed
me,
and my head is with Him.
5) And the dagger shall not divide me
from Him,
nor the sword.
6) Because I am ready before destruction
comes,
and have been set in His immortal arms.
7) And immortal life
has embraced me,
and kissed me.
8) And from that Life is the Spirit
which is within me;
and it can not die because it is life
itself.
Thus saith the Lord Jesus to me Simon as I bore His cross,
9)
Those who saw me were amazed and marveled at Me,
because I was
persecuted.
10) And they think that I have been swallowed up,
for I
seem to them as one of the lost.
11) But My oppression and injustice,
has
become My salvation.
12) And I became their abomination,
because
their was no jealousy or wrath in Me.
13) Because I continually did good to
every man,
I was hated.
14) And they surrounded Me like mad
dogs,
those who in ignorance attack their masters.
15) For their
thought is depraved and corrupt,
and their mind and understanding is
perverted.
16) But I was carrying water in My right hand,
and their
bitterness I disregarded and endured by My sweetness.
17) And I will not
perish, because I am not their brother,
and My birth was not like
theirs.
18) And they sought My death but they did not find it
possible,
because I was older than their memory.
19) And in vain did
they threaten Me.
20) And those who come after Me,
seek in vain to
destroy the memorial of Him who was before them.
21) For the Most High cannot
be overtaken,
and His heart is superior to all
wisdom.
HalleluJah
ODE.29
1) The Lord is my hope,
with Him I shall not be lost or
confused, nor ashamed.
2) For according to His praise He made
me,
and according to His good gracious kindness, He gave to me.
3)
And through His mercies He exalted me,
and through His honor and
excellent beauty, He raised me up on high.
4) He caused me to ascend from the
depths of Hell,
and from the mouth of death He withdrew me.
5) And I
humbled my enemies,
and He justified me through His grace.
6) For I
believed in the Lord's Messiah,
and He revealed to me that He is the
Lord.
7) And He showed to me His sign,
and He led me by way of His
light.
8) And He gave me the scepter
of His power,
that I
might subdue the dreams and devices of the people.
and bring down the
power of the mighty.
9) To make war by His word,
and take victory by
His power.
10) The Lord overthrew my enemy by His Word,
and he
became like dust blown away in the wind.
11) And I gave praise to the Most
High,
because He has magnified His servant and the son of His
maidservant.
HalleluJah
ODE.30
1) Drink ye deeply and fill yourselves with water from the living
fountain of the Lord;
because it has been opened to you and is
yours.
2) And come all you thirsty and take a draught;
and rest
beside the fountain of the Lord.
3) For it is pleasing, pure and
sparkling;
and it perpetually refreshes the essence of the soul and
nature of the self.
4) For much sweeter is its water than honey,
and
the honeycomb of bees is nothing compared with it.
5) Because it flows from
the lips of the Lord,
and it is named from the heart of the Lord.
6)
And it came unlimited
and invisible and without borders,
and
until it was set in the Middle they knew it not.
7) Blessed are they who have
drunk from it,
and have refreshed themselves and rested
thereby.
HalleluJah
ODE.31
1) Abysses dissolved and vanished before the
Lord;
and darkness was dissipated by His appearance.
2) Error went
astray and perished on account of Him;
3) Falsehood and contempt received no
path,
for they were submerged by the Truth of the Lord.
4) Then he
lifted His voice to the Most High;
and offered to Him those who had
become Sons through Him.
5) And His face was justified,
for thus His
Holy Father had given to Him.
And thus saith the Lord Jesus as I bore His
cross,
6) Come forth, you who are afflicted,
and receive joy and
liberation.
7) Inherit your souls and posses yourselves through
grace,
and take unto you immortal life.Ó
And then the Lord saith to
me Simon,
8) They condemned Me when I stood up,
Me who had been
found not guilty.
9) Then they divided My spoil,
though nothing was
owed to them.
10) But I endured and held My peace and was
silent,
That I might not be disturbed by them.
11) But I stood
unshaken like a firm solid rock,
Which is continuously beaten by
columns of waves and endures.
12) And I bore their bitterness because of
humility,
that I might redeem My people, inherit My nation and instruct
it.
13) And that I might not nullify the promises to the
patriarchs,
to whom I was promised for the salvation of their
seed.
HalleluJah
ODE.32
1) To the blessed ones the Joy is from their heart,
and
Light from Him that dwells within them.
2) And the Word of Truth is, ÔHe who
is from HimselfŐ:
because He has been strengthened by the Holy Power of
the Most High;
3) And He is unshaken for ever end
ever.
HalleluJah
ODE.33
1) Indeed, Grace was swift to forgive, and dismissed the
Corrupter;
then descended down upon him to bring him to
renunciation
2) And he has destroyed the destruction before
himself,
And has corrupted all the works of his own array.3) And he
stood on the peak of a lofty summit and cried aloud
from one end of the
earth to another.
4) Then he drew to himself all those who obeyed
him
for he did not appear as the Evil One.
5) However, the perfect
Virgin stood in Wisdom,
and was preaching and summoning and
crying,
6) Oh, ye Sons of Men, return!
and you their daughters,
come!
7) And leave the way of that Corrupter,
and approach Me.
8)
And I will enter into you, and bring you forth from destruction,
and
make you wise in the ways of Truth.
9) Be not corrupted; nor perish.
10)
Obey Me and be saved,
for I am proclaiming you to the Grace of
God.
11) For through Me you will be saved and become blessed.
12) I am
your judge;
13) And they who put Me on shall not be falsely accused nor
injured;
but they shall possess incorruption in the new world.
14)
My chosen ones and elect have walked with Me.
15) And My
ways I will make
know to those who seek Me;
And I will promise the My
name.Ó
HalleluJah
ODE.34
1) The simple heart find no way that is hard,
and good
thoughts find no barrier nor cause wounds,
2) And deep within the illuminated
mind there is neither whirlwind nor storm,
3) Where one is surrounded on
every side by the beauty of open places,
there is nothing divided in
him.
4) The likeness and pattern of that which is below,
is that
which is above.
5) For everything is from above,
and from below
there is nothing,
but it is believed to be so by those of no
understanding.
6) Grace has been revealed for your
salvation,
Believe and live and be
saved.
HalleluJah
ODE.35
1) The sprinkling fine dew of the Lord distilled Rest upon
me,
rinsing me with silence and serenity;
2) And it caused a cloud
of peace to rise over my head;
that it might guard me at all
times,
and it became my salvation.
3) Everyone was shaken and
afraid,
and there came for from them a smoke and a judgment.
4) But
I dwelt silent and tranquil in the close ranks of the Lord, and more then misty
dew was He to me, and more than foundation.
5) And I was carried like a child
by its mother;
and He gave me milk, the elixir of the Lord,
6) And I
grew greatly enriched by His bounty and favor,
and rested in His
perfection.
7) And I spread out my hands in the ascent of my soul toward the
firmament,
8) and I directed myself up to the Most High.
9) And I was
redeemed with
Him.
HalleluJah
ODE.36
1) I rested on the Spirit of the Lord,
and She lifted me
up into heaven;
2) And caused me to stand on my feet in the high place of the
Lord,
before His perfection and His glory.
3) Where I continued
glorifying Him by the composing of His Odes.
Thus saith the Lord Jesus to
me Simon as I bore His cross,
4) The Spirit brought Me forth before the
face of the Lord.
and because I was the Son of Man,
I was
named the Light, the Son of God.
5) Because I was the most glorified amongst
the ones who glorify,
and the greatest among the great ones.
6) For
according to the greatness of the Most High, so She made Me;
and
according to His newness He renewed Me.
7) He appointed Me with His
perfection;
and I became one of those who are near and with Him.
8)
My mouth opened like a cloud of dew,
9) And My heart gushed forth like a
geyser of righteousness,
10) My approach to Him was in peace,
and I
was established in the Spirit of
Providence.
HalleluJah
ODE.37
1) I stretched out my hands to my Lord,
2) And towards the
Most High I raised my voice.
3) And I spoke with the lips of my
heart,
and He heard me when my voice reached Him.
4) His Word came
to me,
and gave me the fruits of my labor;
and gave me Rest
by the grace of the
Lord.
HalleluJah
ODE.38
1) I went up into the Light of Truth as into a
chariot,
and the Truth led me and brought me forth.
2) And caused me
to pass over empty chasms and gulfs,
and saved me from cliffs and
swamps.
3) And became for me a haven of salvation,
and set me in the
place of immortal life
4) And He went with me and caused me to rest and did
not allow me to err;
because He was and is the Truth.
5) And there
was no danger for me because I constantly walked with Him;
and I did
not err in anything because I obeyed Him.
6) But Truth was proceeding on the
upright way,
and whatever I did not know or understand He made clear to
me.
7) All the wines of error and pains of death are considered
sweetness,
8) And I saw the Destroyer of the Corrupter,
when the
Bride who was destroying was adorned,
along with the Bridegroom who is
corrupted and so destroys.
9) And I asked the Truth, 'Who are these?'
10)
And He said to me Simon; ŇThis is the Deceiver and The Error.
and they
imitate the Beloved and His Bride.
12) And they invite many to the wedding
banquet and feast,
and allow them to drink the wine of their
intoxication.
13) So they
cause them to vomit up their wisdom and their
knowledge,
and they deprive them of their understanding.
14) Then
they abandon them,
and so they stumble about like mad commanders and
corrupt men.
15) Since there is no understanding in their
heart,
neither do they seek it.
16) But I have made you wise so as
not to fall into the hands of the DeceiverÓ
17) And I myself rejoice because
the Truth had gone with me.
18) For I was established and lived and was
redeemed,
and my foundations were laid by the LordŐs hand;
because He has planted me.
19) For He set the root; and watered it and
endowed it and blessed it,
and its fruits will Be forever.
20) It
struck deep and sprang up rich and spread out wide,
and it was full and
was enlarged.
21) And the Lord alone was glorified,
in His planting
and in His cultivation;
22) In His care and in the blessing of His
lips,
in the beautiful planting of His right hand;
23) And in the
discovery and attaining of His splendorous planting,
and in the
understanding of His
Mind.
HalleluJah
ODE.39
1) Mighty raging rivers are like the power of the
Lord;
they send headlong, those who despise Him.
and entangle
their paths, and destroy their crossings.
2) And carry off their bodies, and
corrupt their natures;
for they are more swift than lightning, and more
rapid.
3) But those who cross them in faith shall not be moved,
and
those who walk on them faultlessly, shall not be shaken.
4) For the sign in
them is the Lord;
and the sign becomes the Way for those who cross in
the name of the Lord.
5) Therefore put on the sign of the Most High and know
Him,
and you shall cross without danger, for rivers shall be obedient
to you.
6) The Lord has bridged them by His Word,
and He walked and
crossed them on foot.
7) The waves were lifted up on this side and on
that,
but the footsteps of our Lord Messiah stand firmly fixed.
8)
And they are neither blotted out nor obliterated,
and are not defaced
nor destroyed.
9) And the Way has been appointed for those who cross over
after Him.
and for those who agree to the path of His faith;
and adore His
name.
HalleluJah
ODE.40
1) As honey drips from the comb of bees,
and milk flows
from the woman that loves her children,
so also is my hope upon Thee,
Oh my God.
2) As a fountain gushes forth its water,
so my heart
gushes forth the praise of the Lord;
and my lips utter praise to
Him.
3) My tongue becomes sweet by His anthems,
and my limbs are
anointed and grow fat by His odes.
4) My faces rejoices in His
exultation,
and my spirit exults in His love,
and the nature
of my soul shines in Him.
5) He who is afraid shall trust in
Him,
and redemption in Him stands assured.
6) And his profit is the
possession of immortal Life,
and those who receive it are
incorruptible.
HalleluJah
ODE.41
1) Let us all the LordŐs babes praise Him,
and let us
receive the truth of His faith.
2) And His
children shall be acknowledged
by Him;
therefore let us sing in His love.3) We rejoice and live in the
Lord by His grace,
and Life we received by His Messiah.
4) For a
great day has shined upon us,
and wonderful is He who has given to us
of His glory.
5) Let us, therefore, let us all unite together in the name of
the Lord,
6) And let us honor Him in His goodness.
7) Let our faces shine
in His light,
and let our hearts meditate in His love, by night and by
day.
8) Let us exult with the joy of the Lord.
Thus saith the Lord Jesus
to me Simon as I bore His cross,
9) All those who see Me will be
astonished,
because I am from another race.
10) For the Father of
Truth remembered Me;
He who possessed Me from the beginning.
11) For
His riches beget Me, through the thought of His heart.
Therefore I Simon say
unto you,
12) And His word is with us in all our way,
for the Savior
who gave us Life does not reject our souls.
13) The Man who humbled
Himself,
was exalted because of His own righteousness.
14) The Son
of the Most High appeared,
in the perfection of His Father.
15) The
Light that dawned from the Word,
existed before time in Him.
16) The
Messiah in truth is One:
17) He was known before the foundation of the
worlds,
that He might give saving Life to souls for ever, by the truth
of His name.
18) Let a new chant arise to the Lord from them that love
Him.
HalleluJah
ODE.42
1) I stretched out my hands and approached near my
Lord,
for the expansion of my hands is His sign.
2) And the
extension of my hands is the simple cross,
that was lifted up on the
way of the Righteous One.
Thus saith the Lord Jesus to me Simon as He lay
upon His cross,
3) And I became useless to those who knew Me
not,
because I shall hide Myself from those who do not possess
Me.
4) But I will be with those who love Me.
5) All My persecutors have
died;
for they sought Me, they who proclaimed about Me because I am
pure and Living.
6) And I rose up
and with them, and will speak by
their mouths.
7) And they have rejected those who persecute
them,
for I threw over them the yoke of My love.
8) Like the arm of
the bridegroom over the bride,
so is My yoke over those who know
Me.
9) And as the bridal feast is spread out in the chamber of the bridal
pair,
so is My love over those who believe in Me.
10) I was not
rejected although I was considered to be so,
And I do not perish
although they think it of Me.
11) Hell saw Me and was shattered,
and
Death ejected Me and many with Me.
12) I have been vinegar and bitterness to
Death,
and I went down with it as far as its depth.
13) Then the
feet and the head it released,
because it was not able to endure My
face.
14) And I made a congregation of living among his dead;
and I
spoke with them by living lips;
in order that My Word may not be
unprofitable.
15) Those who have died run towards Me;
crying, Son of
Man, have pity on us, and deal with us according
to Thy kindness, and
bring us out from the bonds of darkness.
16) And open the door to us, by
which we may come to Thee,
for we perceive that our death does not
touch Thee.
17) may we also be saved with Thee, because Thou are our
Savior.
18) And I heard their voice,
and laid up faith in their
faith in My heart.
19) And I placed My name upon their head,
because
they are noble and free and they are
Mine.
HalleluJah