PRAYER FOR LIGHT
“You must dwell with God ere you can think God’s thoughts or respond to the vibrations of His Soundless Voice.”
We maintain that man is intended to unfold and manifest his spiritual development right in the environment where the Great Law leads him in the various epochs of his life. And these teachings are an effort to show man how he can thus unfold his true spiritual nature in the midst of his everyday affairs, and thus help on the evolution of all the world by radiating to everything he contacts, in all worlds, and kingdoms, the degree of spiritual radiation he has been able to manifest.
To assist in your spiritual development, repeat the following prayer together with its attendant visualisation, first thing in the morning and last thing before dropping of to sleep, and many times during the day:
PRAYER FOR LIGHT
O Christ! Light Thou within my heart
The Flame of Divine Love and Wisdom,
That I may dwell forever in the Radiance of Thy Countenance
And rest in the Light of Thy Smile!
After repeating this prayer, see with the mind’s eye the Divine Light descending upon you like the beam of a gigantic searchlight, pouring down from above upon your head and flooding you with its radiance. See the beam of Light surrounding you with a circle of brilliant white Light, forming the Ring-Pass-Not, within which no inharmonious or evil thing can penetrate without being consumed by that Divine Fire.
Then see it illumine your mind, expand your consciousness and deepen your understanding of life, love and law, and the experiences of your daily life.
As the Light surrounds you, see it awaken in your heart a tiny, bright Flame. Watch this Flame spring up and grow until it illumines every fibre of your being with Divine Love and Compassion. Feel the Flame send an actual glow of warmth throughout your physical body to the tips of your fingers and toes, purifying, spiritualising and transmuting the very atoms of your flesh with its spiritual radioactivity.
Then see it ascend and blend into and make you one with the Divine Flame that is pouring down upon you from above.
Then ascend in consciousness within the column of this Divine Light to the realms of Divine Consciousness where you lose yourself in Oneness with the Divine and think of the smile that the Divine One turns on all those who tune in to His consciousness through the aspirations of their hearts. And rest in the joy of that smile.
The above simple prayer is a most potent invocative force for calling down the Divine Light into us. Performing this ritual and prayer cannot but have a positive effect on the wellbeing of the individual and its positive effects should be felt immediately. Repeating rituals and prayers often, preferably in the same place and at the same time, strengthens such rituals. All things of the spirit are strengthened through repeated use. That these prayers were given directly from on High increases their potency. They have also been used by thousands of people all over the world and by such Invocation one taps into a limitless source of Divine Blessing. Invoking and correlating with the Divine Fire is a most potent exercise.
(As used in these teachings, the term “Christ” refers to the Universal Christ Principle or the individualized Ray of God within each heart. This Ray is often called the First Begotten Son of God, the Spiritual Self, the Real Self, the Higher Self, the I Am Presence, the God within, the Christ-within, the Name of God, The Word, etc.)
