APPENDIX D

The “Our Father” Prayer in Latin

Often traditional formulas indicate that a magical sign is to be sanctified with the recitation of the “Our Father” prayer. As noted in the historical section, this prayer actually seems to predate any organized Christian Church activity. It appears to stem from the older school to which Jesus belonged and which taught the fatherhood of God. This was probably a school of ultimately Persian origin that taught the natural Indo-European idea of God as the actual progenitor of mankind. The so-called Lord’s Prayer, or Paternoster, has a deep history in the annals of Germanic magic.

Pater noster, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.