Why do you pray? There is an underlying belief… The reason you pray is to communicate infinitely with the Infinite or at least that which is beyond this world. Prayer is meant to instill certain practices — certain rhythms of thoughts and behavior that ensure loyalty to Him and in turn you will seek out blessings whenever He decides to give them to you… Funny thing is sometimes they are not blessings at all — nothing out of the ordinary, but finding the divine in the mundane is what is so endearing – and sickening about you human beings… ugh… Prayer is meant to train the mind to align itself with the spirit and to recognize resources to influence strength in the physical world; although, few of you understand this process or connection. However, prayer is misused by you… which pleases me and offends Him. He does not like you demanding anything — asking, yes — but demanding — no… Prayers which are powerful with great focus and intent are said to affect the fabric of reality… or at least change your perspective on life… Prayer is meant to be a catalyst of change within you, not always around you — yet you humans are so stuck on the cliché of “seeing is believing” that you fail to note change even when it takes place, internally, and may come to fruition, externally.
Views differ in your numerous religions… The children of Jacob — the Jews pray three times a day. They note these prayers as the Shacharit, Mincha, and Arvit, using the Siddur as their prayer book. Two aspects are suppose to be reached with these prayers known as Kavannah and Keva. Kavannah is intention whereas Keva is more so the ritual itself… The deeper elements of prayer were expended upon in Kabala… Jewish mysticism deemed as a path to me by many… Kavanot, similar to Kavannah, is a system of intention that is considered more of a favorable path to ascend to the level in which He can better comprehend or take notice of your meager requests. Many of these Jews and their related mystics believe prayer actually resettles the universe, physically. This is to a point of fanaticism where each word — each letter — symbolizes or rather represents and responds to some force in the known universe.
Christian Science, a smaller sect of your worship of the Christ, feel prayer is a means to comprehend the mysteries of Him and the underlying nature of His power to create. Prayer is seen as a means to bring the Kingdom of Heaven into the sensory world of the known, human mind… The spiritual reality to the known, physical reality. Christian scientists, similar to the Gnostics of long ago — considered heretics by the Roman Catholic Church and others feel — the physical world is a distortion of the spiritual world, and prayer realigns this distortion or fabrication. Prayer allows you to see the spiritual world in means to understand solely as a physical being… if you pay attention.
Of course Islam, the third religion — born from the lineage of Abraham’s first born, demands Muslims pray five times a day to the East to the Kaaba. They chant a simple phrase, “Allah al-Akbar” (God the great)… yeah… There is philosophy among them, yet they forgot their own depth under Muhammad and expelled or murdered many of their most profound imams and other leaders or referred to them as heretics such as the Sufis…. Such shamelessness rewards me by default for it does not honor Allah.
In the supposed Eastern religions most look away from outward places and actions of external worship… not to say they do not have their temples and rituals such as in Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Shinto or Taoism… but prayer alone is not as powerful in the physical world as it is in the world within… The world within is better reached and explored through dhyana or meditation… Scripture and study are not as strong as living the word imbedded or rather innate to you… Gautama Siddhartha… the Buddha… one who also battled me in his time, similar to the Christ, felt God was not God in the sense of something outside of you, but an element of you… heretical among ideologies of the East and the West to claim either there is no God or man is God…. But Buddha was not so simple… He merely had the capacity to be enlightened and felt one was brought closer to the Creative Force which in itself lies within you…. which is no different from the idea of the Holy Spirit — yet easier to reach through Eastern meditation than Western prayer…
In Hinduism I battle to break the connection many find within the trinity of Brahma (the creator similar to the Father), Vishu (the Preserver) with avatars of Krishna (who is Christ-like) and Rama, and Shiva (the destroyer and who recreates… nothing similar in Western religion) and all of their manifestations… Shinto or “The Way of the Gods” also known as the “Spirit of the Tao” worships immortals similar to Hinduism in a number of ways among many gods who essentially are connected to the deceased and the singularity of God. Taoism or “The Way” is strange to most in the East and West for its followers have a place for polarity and accept what is considered good and evil, but evil is based in desire and taking actions that serve the self. Taoists are selfless, deny the ego, and attempt to remove desire in order to be drawn deeper into the Tao or way of the universe… The only evil among Taoists I can entertain is to entice the ego to supersede the altruistic element that man was intended to have… Prayer and meditation place strength against me… yet many of you fail to do this, thus I prevail, nevertheless…
There is an importance your kind places on the concept of believing. The key is that the living understand to existence is belief… and belief lies in the mind. The spirit knows; it is eternal. It is neither living nor dead. It exists beyond belief for it like God simply is. Your beliefs are based on a system of integrated points of logic and illogic that create your rather childlike perceptions and misconceptions of the world beyond the senses… the real world. I use confusion and means of the utmost perversion to twist and deform your innate sensibilities of good and evil. This is where you go from resisting me, to listening to me, to heeding me as a willing slave, rooted in the sense of isolation from God… and then feel a sense of God’s absence. Fact is God like the sun is always shining… I am merely the clouds that make you believe He has abandoned you or rather I take your focus off of Him enough for you to focus on me and my manifestations by default. Once you are a willing slave that means you are no longer captive, you merely have forfeited control of yourself to me. That is the difference your kind does not seem to understand. I do not seize control over most… except in extreme instances to use them for a purpose to place fear and terror in the hearts of others. It is when you are worn and weak, and simply find giving in and giving up as a relief from the battles I engender within you, you become mine.
Often times, my powers are so convincing and subtle that many of you think there has been no change in you and your pride or false sense of superiority in yourself becomes a buffer between your heart and mind. This buffer doesn’t allow for you to probe yourself through introspection and turn over negative aspects of yourself to further investigate, study, or grow knowledgeable. This buffer is a block that is impermeable once it sets in, and many of you feel self-righteousness which leads to sins known and unknown that you justify, rationalize, or simply ignore — feeling that you can do no wrong.
Then there are those among you who feel these changes are part of some form of growth toward a goal you may or may not attain, but you are somehow on the path to bettering yourselves. The fact is the goal itself you may seek to attain may be good but the path leads you into my grasps covertly — unbeknownst to you. For instance, you may seek to better yourself in areas of strength and physical fitness, but your focus may dull your mental capabilities and emotional maturity. You may become shallow, attacking others similar to you when you were not considered as physically attractive by the shallow multitudes you encounter once you attain this hollow goal of beauty. The fact that your focus was not on health and life, but was based on self-worship and adornment by others is a foolish, temporal investment. You simply may have wanted to be associated with such appearances. Thus all who adore men and women simply for how they look wish to covet them or possess their attraction. This is lust and envy all in one… Such subtly leads one from their course of understanding themselves truthfully to simply understanding the distortion I provide of them in which they fail to see their inadequacies and iniquities and except my tutelage, both obvious and hidden. I then have their allegiance, and even when I reveal myself, few are willing to run back to your beloved God.