Prayers

Consagração Do Apresento - Consecration Of The Space

This is a longer consecration prayer recited over the apresento — the altar area where the Daime and other sacred objects are set out — affirming a series of divine qualities held to fill the space.

Structure: Seven Qualities

The prayer moves through seven declared presences in turn — harmony, love, truth, justice, goodness, life, and prosperity — repeating a refrain that whoever enters the space will feel each one. This repetitive, litany-like structure builds a cumulative sense of the space being wholly given over to these qualities.

Shared Material with Other Prayers

Its closing section incorporates the same passage used in the separate Asas Divinas (Divine Wings) prayer, describing a symbolic image of wings and the communion between an everyday self and a "Higher Self" understood as God within. The two prayers are closely related in the tradition's use, with this Consecration of the Space functioning as a fuller, combined version recited specifically over the ritual apresento.

A Metaphysical Understanding of Thought

As with the Key of Harmony, the prayer holds that thought itself has a stored, radiating effect: the vibrations generated by those present are described as accumulating in the space and extending outward to others, in keeping with a broader current within the tradition's prayer life that treats thought as an active spiritual force.