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Some interesting thoughts (posting a reply to the main post for simplicity's sake). Will read through again, and perhaps it was mentioned there, but for the mystically inclined perhaps worth noting the parallel between "on earth as it is in heaven" with "as above, so below." (One might additionally CF the Orphic golden tablets, "A child of Earth and starry Heaven"...)

From a theological perrspective, what's additionally interesting is the implication that God can, in fact, lead one into temptation (which hearkens back to Isaiah 45:7, "I make peace, and create evil.") The darkness as well as the light.

Speaking as an heterodox Christian, although there's certainly a lot of theology packed in there, the prayer additionally has an extremely potent quality when used in the proper circumstances...befitting a prayer given to humankind by the Divine (the other name for it is, of course, "The Lord's Prayer.")

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