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| We call upon the Spirit of Evolution,
the miraculous force that inspires rocks and dust
to weave themselves into biology.
You have stood by us for millions and billions of years—
do not forsake us now.
Empower us and awaken in us pure and dazzling creativity.
You that can turn scales into feathers,
seawater to blood,
caterpillars to butterflies
—metamorphose our species.
Awaken in us the powers that we need
to survive the present crisis
and evolve into more aeons of our solar journey.
Awaken in us a sense of who we truly are:
tiny ephemeral blossoms on
The Tree of Life.
Make the purposes and destiny of that Tree
our own purpose and destiny.
Fill each of us with love for our true Self,
which includes all of the creatures and plants
and landscapes of the world.
Fill us with a powerful urge for the well-being
and continual unfoldment of this Self.
May we speak in all human councils
on behalf of the animals and landscapes of the Earth.
May we shine with pure inner passion
that will spread rapidly
through these leaden, heavy metal times.
May we all awaken to our true and only nature—
—none other than the Nature of Gaia,
this living planet Earth.
We call upon the power
which sustains the planets in their orbit,
that wheels our Milky Way in its 200-million-year spiral,
to imbue our personalities and our relationships
with harmony, endurance and joy.
Fill us with a sense of immense time
so that our brief, flickering lives
may truly reflect the work of vast ages past
and also millions of years of evolution,
whose potential lies in our trembling hands.
—John Seed
founder of The Council of All Beings
leader of Australia's Deep Ecology movement
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