And the writer goes on to praise god with all his might, which I interpret is a practice to reach greater understanding and communion with God:
[31] Holy is god, the father of all;
Holy is god, whose counsel is done by his own powers;
Both of these lines attempt at portraying the greatest whole, which is the God the praise is given to. There have been many gods and spirits that has been given praise to during the ages, and if the lesser gods are worshipped blindly without the philosophy of oneness behind, it's quite straight on calling dualistic barriers to block the way forth. But that too might be a starting point, to realize the problems one has just created for themselves. One must just remember that if you dig your hole deep enough, it might be quite a feat to get out from there.
The latter line is an interesting one, a tool of sorts with which the entity can be judged: if the entity is totally self-contained, needing no blood from you, transcends linear thought ("counsel"), has no imbalances, has all the world working within it, then it has some close proximity to what is referred to by "God".
Holy is god, who wishes to be known and is known by his own people;
An acknowledgement of the mystery god, the Goddeess, the powers that are known to an adept. This is a completing aspect to the God the Father, and together they create the Hermetic Golden Chain through which the God is know to those who seek Truth.
Holy are you, who by the word have constituted all things that are;
Holy are you, from whom all nature was born as image;
Holy are you, of whom nature has not made a like figure;
Holy are you, who are stronger than every power;
Holy are you, who surpass every excellence;
It was today or some day just recently when I was sitting in a bus and again contemplating the hidden god, the beauty of the divine hidden from the surface, and once again I wondered how obvious it is that the things we sense in this world are so clearly detached from this hidden "Kingdom" or what ever should we call it. There is a connection between the hidden core and the surface, alright, but it is through a medium which asks from the observer alot to make the jump over the void separating the core from its circumference. It's the archetypal maze placed in the astral layers that awaits to be solved before the middle part of pan-en-teism is clearly seen through experience.
All of these lines seem to denote this void between the sensible world and the divine realm. It is the detached condition of the world, the enchantment which is eventually cleared for the occultist, after which the occultist becomes a bridge, a bolt of lightning between the worlds, as they know how the detached secretly are attached. The archetype of the Wounded Healer is present here for shamans share this idea of having gained the powers to traverse between the worlds.
The magician longs to see...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQSzajmDhKw
Holy are you, mightier than praises.
To justify the formal praises, their inevitable shortcomings must be acknowledged to honor God.
You whom we address in silence, the unspeakable, the unsayable, accept pure speech offerings from a heart and soul that reach up to you.
What a beautiful offering to give - pure speech! This is the same practice I've been trying to do here on the forums: to reach through my limitations towards the divine by seeking the virtues, as well as by the failures I recognize making in the process. Honest words, yet reaching towards greater heights and understanding than I knew I had. It's a Fool's practice which will still carry over the precipice if attended consistently enough and seeking balance. I like the image of a Knight as an emblem of such practice of the virtues. Embracing the Knight does not only brush off the ridiculing Zeitgeist "intellectualism", which sees in the knight only some trivia of some fallen, debauched knights of history, but more importantly the embracing brushes off the defeatist mentality within oneself and gallops forth to greater plains.