The second line looks like the least contentful part of the prayer — a formal expression of reverence before the requests begin. This reading turns it into something with a specific claim inside it.
The line as a statement about creation
The interpretation starts from a proposition established elsewhere in Martinus' work: everything within creation is inherently good — the phrase everything is very good.
Hallowed then reports something rather than expressing a wish. The name is holy; the sentence is a recognition of what is already the case.
Which immediately produces the obvious objection.
The contradiction, met directly
If creation is perfect and its author is good, what is all the suffering doing there? The video does not dodge this, and its answer is not that the suffering is unreal.
The answer is about perception. Our inability to see the goodness in things is described as our disharmony with divine reality — a fact about the state we are in, not about the things.
That is a demanding claim and it needs the rest of the framework to stand up. The contrast principle explains why darkness is structurally required; the role of darkness explains what it turns into once understood. Without those, this reads as denial. With them, it is the same argument arriving at the same place.
Where adversaries came from
The most striking section, and the most historically pointed.
Cosmic adversaries and eternal punishment are identified as projections — humanity taking its own conflicts, its own capacity for enmity and vengeance, and casting them onto the largest available screen. A being still in the animal-human transition, describing the universe, produced a universe with enemies in it, because that is what its own experience contained.
On this reading those concepts tell you something reliable about the stage of consciousness that generated them, and nothing about the structure of existence.
What replaces them is unconditional: God's love shines on all beings and all elements of creation without exception. No adversary, and nothing outside.
What the line is actually asking for
The conclusion reframes the whole phrase. Since the name is already holy, the line cannot be asking to make it so.
It is an aspiration toward cosmic consciousness — the capacity to perceive the goodness that is there. Not a request that the world be improved, but that the perceiving be completed, which is exactly the shape what prayers actually work identified as the kind that can be granted.
Part 3 takes up Thy kingdom come.
Key ideas
- The line reports something rather than requesting it: the name is already holy.
- The underlying claim is that everything within creation is inherently good.
- Our inability to perceive that goodness is described as disharmony on our side, not a defect in things.
- Cosmic adversaries and eternal punishment are read as humanity projecting its own conflicts outward.
- The line is an aspiration toward cosmic consciousness — the capacity to perceive what is already the case.
About this article. It summarises the video above from The Eternal World Picture. The writings of Martinus Thomsen are published by the Martinus Institute.
