In our Soliloquies album we did this prayer as an opening instrumental piece that rocked. Here is the prayer translated 🙂
O God, through whom we are no longer enslaved to weak and needy elements. O God, who cleanses us and prepares us for divine rewards — come to me in your mercy.
Whatever I have spoken, you alone are God. You — come to my help: the one eternal and true substance, where there is no division, no confusion, no change, no need, no death. There is perfect harmony, perfect clarity, perfect stability, perfect fullness, perfect life. Nothing is lacking there, nothing excessive. There the one who begets and the one begotten are one. O God, whom all things serve that serve at all; whom every good soul obeys. By whose laws the heavens turn, the stars complete their courses, the sun governs the day, and the moon moderates the night. The whole world, through the succession of light and darkness in days, through the waxing and waning of the moon in months, through the changing seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter in years, through longer cycles marked by the completion of the sun’s course, and through vast cosmic revolutions by which the stars return again to their rising points, preserves the great stability of creation — as much as material reality allows — through the ordered patterns and repetitions of time. By whose laws, though eternity stands unmoved, the restless motion of changing things is not allowed to fall into disorder, but is restrained and continually recalled to a likeness of stability through the revolving ages. By whose laws the human soul possesses free choice, and rewards for good and punishments for evil are distributed according to fixed justice. O God, from whom all good things flow to us, and by whom all evil within us is restrained. O God, above whom there is nothing, outside whom there is nothing, without whom nothing exists. O God, under whom all things are, in whom all things are, and with whom all things are. You made humanity in your image and likeness — a truth recognized by anyone who truly knows himself. Hear me, hear me, hear me, my God, my Lord, my King, my Father, my cause, my hope, my reality, my honor, my home, my homeland, my salvation, my light, my life. Hear me — hear me — hear me in that way of yours known to so few.
Now I love you alone, you alone I follow, you alone I seek. I am ready to serve you alone, because you alone rightly rule; I desire to belong entirely to you. Command and order whatever you wish — but heal and open my ears so that I may hear your voice. Heal and open my eyes so that I may see your signs. Drive madness away from me so that I may recognize you. Tell me where I should look so that I may behold you, and I hope to do everything you command. Receive, I beg you, your runaway servant, most merciful Father. I have suffered enough punishment; I have served long enough your enemies, whom you hold beneath your feet; I have long been the plaything of deception. Receive me as I flee from them, your servant — for they received me as a stranger when I fled from you. I feel that I must return to you. Let your door be open to my knocking; teach me how one comes to you. I possess nothing but the will; I know nothing except that passing and fragile things must be despised and eternal and certain things sought. This I do, Father, because this alone I know — but I do not know the way by which I may reach you. You inspire me, you show me, you provide the provisions for the journey. If those who flee to you find you through faith, give me faith; if through virtue, give virtue; if through knowledge, give knowledge. Increase my faith, increase my hope, increase my love. O wondrous and incomparable goodness!
Toward you I strive, and I ask again from you the very means by which one comes to you. For if you abandon us, we perish — yet you do not abandon us, because you are the highest good, whom no one has rightly sought without finding. Whoever seeks rightly does so because you have enabled that seeking. Make me seek you, Father; rescue me from error; let nothing appear to me in place of you as I seek you. If I desire nothing but you, then let me find you now, I pray, Father. But if any excess desire remains in me, cleanse me yourself and make me fit to see you. As for the health of this mortal body — since I do not know what use it may serve either for me or for those I love — I entrust it to you, most wise and good Father, and I will pray about it as you instruct me in time. Only this I ask of your most excellent mercy: turn me completely toward yourself, allow nothing to resist me as I move toward you, and command that while I live and bear this body I may be pure, courageous, just, and wise — a perfect lover and receiver of your wisdom, worthy to dwell in, and to inhabit, your blessed kingdom. Amen, amen.