1 We offer sacrifice to God the Wise Lord, the holy Lord of the ritual order, in thanks for His bountiful gifts, which rule aright and dispose of all aright; and we offer sacrifice in thanks for the entire creation of the clean, the spiritual and the mundane, with the longing blessing of the beneficent ritual, with the longing blessing of the benignant religion, the faith of the worshippers of the Wise Lord.

2 We are praisers of good thoughts, of good words, and of good actions, of those now and those hereafter, of those being done and of those completed. We implant them with our homage, and we do this the more, and yet the more, since we are praisers of the good from whom they spring.

3 That, therefore, would we choose, O Wise Lord, and thou, O beauteous Righteousness, that we should think, and speak, and do those thoughts, and words, and deeds, among actual good thoughts, and words, and actions, which are the best for both the worlds; (4) and together with these gifts and actions which are thus the best, we would pray for the Cow, which represents the pure creation, that she may have comfort and have fodder from the famed, and from the humble, from the potent and the weak.

5 To the best of good rulers is verily the Kingdom, because we render and ascribe it to Him, and make it thoroughly His own; to the Wise Lord do we ascribe it, and to Righteousness the Best. 6. As thus both man and woman know the duty, both thoroughly and truly, so let him, or her, declare it and fulfil it, and inculcate it upon those who may perform it as it is. 7. We would be deeply mindful of Your sacrifice and homage, Yours, O Wise Lord, and the best, and we would be mindful of the nurture of the Cow. And that let us inculcate and perform for You according as we may, and for such praisers as we are.

8 Under the shelter of the ritual Order let us do so in the active fulfilment of its precepts toward every one of the clean and better creatures which are fit to live, with a gift for both the worlds. 9. Yea, those words and sayings, O Wise Lord, we would proclaim as Righteousness, and as of the better mind; and we would make Thee the one who both supports us in our proclamation of them, and who throws still further light upon them as they are,

10 And by reason of Thy righteous Order, Thy Good Mind, and Thy sovereign power, and through the instrumentality of our praises of Thee, O Wise Lord, and for the purpose of still further praises, by Thy spoken words, and for still further spoken words, through Thy worship, and for still further worship, would we thus proclaim them, and make Thee the bestower of our light.