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The Glory Be

(also called Y H V H Prayer-Song)
By Katia Romanoff

This can be prayed on a rosary or prayer rope.  The Glory Be is to be said when you finger the wire/string that comes right before the large single beads. Those large beads, by the way, are called Pater Noster beads, meaning Our Father, because the regular Rosary has you say the Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father, while fingering them. (On some Rosaries the single beads are not made larger, so you just know them because they're single---set apart from----the groups of ten little beads, called decades.)

On wire before large single beads:
Say one Glory Be as follows:

Glory Be to the Father, to the Mother,
And to the Sacred Son,
And to the Lady Holy Spirit
They are the Four-in-One

As it was in the Beginning
Is Now and ever Shall Be
World without End
Age to Ages, say Amen

(Try singing the above two stanzas in your head to the tune of that old hippy song, "What's your Name? Who's your Daddy? Is he rich, is he rich like me?" It sounds nifty, and these two stanzas can be used as a Mantra by itself, without the rest of the Rosary.)

What's Your Name? /becomes:/ Glory Be...
Who's your Daddy? / To the Father, To the Mother
Is he rich? / And to...
Is he rich like me? / The Sacred Son
Has he taken..? / And to the Lady
Any time.... / Holy Spirit
To show / They are 
To show you what it means.... / the Four in One (or Tetra--Gramma--Ton,
or Together they make One)

Then the rock song goes up an octave or so, and you say the second half of the Glory Be, to "Tell it to me softly, wonder why? I'd really like to kno---ow....It's the time and the Season for loooov----ving..."

...Enter 60's keyboarding.  Hah!  I know you guys think I've lost it now!  Hey that's a nice haunting mysterious kind of melody, and if anyone is musically inclined and wants to sing it and record it in a file somehow, we will insert it right here in the website, so there.  

This is an admittedly whimsical "technique." If you get the tune (and hopefully the "revised" words) stuck in your head, it is a good thing.  We get so many junky things stuck in a rut in our heads, playing over and over. Why not leash this repetitive (obsessive!) power of the brain and make it repeat something spiritually enriching.  That brings to mind another technique you can make part of your repertoire.  Whenever a song gets stuck in your mind, change its words to a favorite mantra, affirmation, or prayer-spell. Then it becomes a prayer-song, or song-spell.  You can actually program your life like a computer in this way.  If it's hard to make a song merge with your prayer or mantra, simplify your prayer until you are only saying a few key words---just two or three words if you must---over and over.  If I get stuck in such an internal rut I start chanting, "Yahd. Heh. Vahv. Heh" (the Hebrew letters Y H V H) to whatever tune is taking over my mind.

The second part of the Glory Be verse doesn't precisely fit with the old rock song so you change the words like this:

Tell it to me softly / As it was in the beginning
Wonder Why? / It is now
I'd really like to kno---ow / Is now and ever shall be
It's the time / Without end
Of the Season / Age to Ages
for loving / say A - men

Then you move onto the large bead, the Our Father/Pater Noster beads. Each time you come to a large bead you can say your favorite version of the Lord's Prayer, or one of the Goddess versions, "The Lady's Prayer" as given above.  Take heart! There is no music part for the Lord's Prayer beads! But if anyone can think of a song it might go to, please let me know... <sly grin>

- Katia

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