IS IT NECESSARY TO PRAY? Should we believe in prayer, and do we ever pray? We should not. We should act, instead of talking. Should we offer prayers even to the Absolute Principle? Why should we? Being well-occupied people, we can hardly afford to lose time in addressing verbal prayers to a pure abstraction. Should we not believe at all in the efficacy of prayer? Not in prayer taught in so many words and repeated externally, if by prayer you mean the outward petition to an unknown God as the addressee, which was inaugurated by the Jews and popularised by the Pharisees. Is there any other kind of prayer? Most decidedly; it is called WILL-PRAYER, and it is rather an internal command than a petition. To whom, then, should we pray when you do so? To our Father in heaven — in its esoteric meaning. An Occultist or a Theosophist addresses his prayer to his Father which is in secret (read, and try to understand, ch. vi. v. 6, Matthew), not to an extra-cosmic and therefore finite God; and that Father is in man himself. We call our Father in heaven that deific essence of which we are cognizant within us, in our heart and spiritual consciousness, and which has nothing to do with the anthropomorphic conception we may form of it in our physical brain or its fancy: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the spirit of (the absolute) God dwelleth in you? Yet, let no man anthropomorphise that essence in us. Let no Theosophist, if he would hold to divine, not human truth, say that this God in secret listens to, or is distinct from, either finite man or the infinite essence — for all are one. Nor, as just remarked, that a prayer is a petition. It is a mystery rather; an occult process by which finite and conditioned thoughts and desires, unable to be assimilated by the absolute spirit which is unconditioned, are translated into spiritual wills and the will; such process being called spiritual transmutation. The intensity of our ardent aspirations changes prayer into the philosophers stone, or that which transmutes lead into pure gold. The only homogeneous essence, our will-prayer becomes the active or creative force, producing effects according to our desire. So is prayer is an occult process bringing about physical results? Will-Power becomes a living power. But woe unto those Occultists and Theosophists, who, instead of crushing out the desires of the lower personal ego or physical man, and saying, addressing their Higher Spiritual EGO immersed in Atma-Buddhic light, Thy will be done, not mine, etc., send up waves of will-power for selfish or unholy purposes! For this is black magic, abomination, and spiritual sorcery. Unfortunately, all this is the favourite occupation of our Christian statesmen and generals, especially when the latter are sending two armies to murder each other. Both indulge before action in a bit of such sorcery, by offering respectively prayers to the same God of Hosts, each entreating his help to cut its enemies throats.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 20:50:01 +0000
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