Sol 5.6

  1. My God, You fashioned the universe in a Creator’s act of invention,

    without a model to imitate or any workmanship,

  2. nor was there a law—exalted are You—that You might follow,

    nor did it arise through the workings of nature or causation.

  3. O Originator, who split the heavens’ joined fabric, sending down

    by Your command the order of spirits and the angelic realm;

  4. O Originator of the earth, bringing forth its vegetation

    and our bodies from the realm of intermediate existence;

  5. O Originator, You did not fashion the universe in vain,

    but made it signs of wise decrees and wisdom;

  6. O Originator of all things, with an Almighty One’s origination,

    holy beyond needing aid in bringing them into being;

  7. O Originator of good and evil, ordaining

    that we acquire them in accordance with the divine Will;

  8. O Originator of all things however You willed them,

    determining them in the realm of forms;

  9. O Originator of attributes in all their diversity,

    embodying them within the mold of corporeal existence—

  10. fulfill, by the mystery of the true Originator, my heart’s desire,

    bringing it forth for me from the hiddenness of nonbeing.

Sol 5.6