Now we have reached the ninth and last thought-concentration of the Lord's Prayer: "For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen."
      With this thought-concentration, the one who is praying commends himself totally into the care of God. There cannot exist a greater devotion and appreciation of the Godhead than the one expressed here. "The kingdom" here expresses the universe or the cosmos, while "the power" expresses the government of this cosmos, and this is identical with the Godhead's will and direction of will. By "the glory" the one who is praying proclaims this direction of will as the most glorious and perfect. If not there would indeed be no glory. Only the perfect or rightful direction of will can be "glorious". At the ending of the Lord's Prayer, the one who is praying makes himself totally at one with the Godhead. In acknowledging that all things are "God's Kingdom", he is acknowledging that the "kingdom" in which he himself is the macro-being and centre – which means his own organism – also belongs to the Godhead; just the same as in acknowledging the Godhead's "power", he is recognizing that his own display of power or direction of will in the absolute sense also belongs to the Godhead; and by acknowledging that the "glory" is the Godhead's he is denying himself any kind of right to be acknowledged as author of whatever great or perfect thing he may have produced himself. So here we have before us the most perfect attitude of consciousness and the greatest unveiling of knowledge of ourselves that can be revealed to a living being.
      As the reader will have seen by now, the Lord's Prayer is the greatest and most perfect prayer for it contains absolutely everything a living being can pray for and certainly be granted. There is nothing at all selfish or egotistic in it, but only that which is an absolute natural necessity, not only for the one who prays but also for his neighbour. There is no tendency to wish to be favoured, or to achieve special attention or regard from the Godhead before one's fellow beings or one's neighbour. Thus the Lord's Prayer adequately or fully covers the needs of the one who prays. However, if in spite of this, one has further thoughts or matters which one would like to express to the Godhead in one's own words, it will be neither naive nor unnatural to introduce these into the Lord's Prayer, as long as they are of the same unselfish nature as this.
      To train oneself to say the Lord's Prayer with a complete understanding of what is concealed in its wording or text, will inevitably lead to the prayer being granted, not only on the physical plane but on the cosmic plane as well, and thereby with absolute certainty guide the consciousness of the one who is praying into the very highest happiness: the merging with the Godhead's consciousness, being and love.