Saturday, April 24, 2010

Blessed are the peacemakers



Tubwayhun lahwvday shlama dawnaw(hie) dalaha nitqarun. (The language is Aramaic.)

'Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.'

All the major traditions that arose from the Middle East, that is, Jewish, Christian and Islamic have their roots in the same source, the same Mother Earth and probably from the same language. They are believed to have all originally called God either El or Al which means that the One or that One which expresses itself uniquely through all things. From this root arises the sacred names Allaha (aramaic) Allah (Arabic) Elohim (Hebrew), and Elat (Old Canaanite).

(Above translation from Prayers from the Cosmos, Meditations on the Aramaic words of Jesus translated and with commentary by Neil Douglas- Klotz.)