{"product_id":"on-prayer-perfume-oil","title":"On Prayer Perfume Oil","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eON PRAYER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2022 we created\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/blackphoenixalchemylab.com\/product-tag\/on-children\/\"\u003ea pair of fundraiser oils\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eadapting a chapter from Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet into scent. Considering the challenges that await in 2025, we’ve decided to continue this work with a monthly series of fragrances that will gradually complete the entire book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProceeds from these scents will be donated to a series of trustworthy charitable organizations, selected month by month; everything above the cost of production will be donated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1923, The Prophet (\u003ca\u003eGutenberg Press link\u003c\/a\u003e) has been translated into more than 100 languages, continuing to inspire new readers with its lyrical observations of human nature and open-ended spiritual instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book imagines a series of pronouncements offered by the sage Almustafa (“the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day”) to inhabitants of the fictional city Orphalese as a gesture of gratitude for their hospitality during his twelve-year stay. One by one, various citizens step forward and ask for Almustafa’s thoughts on a long list of topics such as love, death, commerce, justice, and religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Prophet responds with wisdom that could be considered non-denominational, though clearly influenced by the Lebanese author’s familiarity with Sufi and Maronite beliefs as well as the work of Transcendentalist poets. After satisfying the Orphalesians’ many queries, at last he boards a ship setting sail for his homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince Gibran set these events outside of any known time or geographical location, Almustafa’s wisdom can be received today, or in the future, and ring just as true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"woocommerce-product-details__short-description\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTherefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is enough that you enter the temple invisible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI cannot teach you how to pray in words.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGod listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains. But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is thy desire in us that desireth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA scent for wordless communion, an immersion with the divine: silver frankincense and white myrrh, blue lotus absolute and white sandalwood.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003clabel class=\"screen-reader-text\" for=\"quantity_69acb0270648f\"\u003e\u003c\/label\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cform class=\"cart\" action=\"https:\/\/blackphoenixalchemylab.com\/shop\/a-little-lunacy-limited-edition\/the-prophet-2025-lunacy-fundraiser\/on-prayer-perfume-oil\/\" method=\"post\" enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\"\u003e\u003c\/form\u003e","brand":"A scent for wordless communion, an immersion with the divine: silver frankincense and white myrrh, blue lotus absolute and white sandalwood.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46485787934876,"sku":"LunacyActivismProphetNov25-1","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0716\/7891\/8812\/files\/ON_PRAYER_-_The_Prophet_WEB.jpg?v=1772907621","url":"https:\/\/blackphoenixalchemylab.com\/products\/on-prayer-perfume-oil","provider":"Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}