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River of Blessings

Follow the river and you will find the sea...
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The words inscribed are a sound code. Presented in one continuous flow of text, across 19 slate tiles, like a river carrying the reciter forward. 

​Reciting without pause, one is carried along by the current. It is through this continuity, with repeated word patterns which help to build a rhythm, that we can be transported beyond ourselves, to the place of no words and no forms.

These are words of power, of revelation. 
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‘Every single word has a certain action on the physical mechanism, on intuitive centres. An ordinary person will only take it as a word that belongs to a certain language. But such words have belonged to mystics. They never belong to any language. The languages have taken them; people have used them, expressing different things.

The mystics have gathered them together just like a chemist would collect herbs and drugs and different things together in order to use them for medicine. Mystics have collected such words, words of great power and revelation, in order to produce desired effects.
                                            
  • some words have power because of their meaning,
  • others because of the vibration they produce,
  • others for their influence upon the various centres.
  • And there are some words given by saints, sages and prophets which have come inspirationally from God. In them is all blessing and the mystery of how to acquire all that the soul desires in life.'                              (Hazrat Inayat Khan​​)
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The inscribed words are attributed to Ibn 'Arabi, 12th century mystic, scholar, philosopher and poet. Entitled, 'The Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection.' 
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