Excerpt from The Divine Drama: The Manifestation of God, in the Universe

Thou, O father, who gavest the visible light as the first born of thy creation, and most pour into man the intellectual light as the top and consummation of thy workmanship, be pleased to protect and govern this work which, coming from thy goodness, returneth to thy glory. Thou, after thou hadst reviewed the works which thy hands had made, beheldst that everything was good, and thou vidst rest with complacency in them., But man, reflecting on the works which he had made, saw that all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and could by no means acquiesce in them.

Wherefore if we labor in thy works with the sweat of our brows, thou wilt make us partakers of thy vision and thy sabbath. we humbly beg that this mind may be steadfastly in us; and that thou, by our hands, and also by the hands of others, on whom thou shalt bestow the same spirit, wilt please to convey a largess of new alms to thy family of mankind. These things we comment to thy everlasting lobe, by our Jesus, thy Christ, God with us. Amen.

Francis Bacon.

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