Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not
care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for
anything you may have done or failed to do which requires
forgiveness.

Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else
may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you
may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case
may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said
benefit.

I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary
between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but
which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as
much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and
which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony.
Amen.

-- Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness, 1969

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