Prayer is one of the most intimate moments that someone can experience. It is the necessary breadth for us to connect with God in the spontaneity of a heart that seeks its Soul so that through this, in an amplified way, this dialogue with God can happen. Dialogue that is always heart-to-heart.
In prayer, we enter into this Inner Temple, the sacred enclosure of our Soul, and there, fully surrendered, we unite with the presence of God. Nothing should interfere with the intimacy of this moment, nor force it to happen on the rhythm of other wills than ours.
But it is not always like that.
In ancient Greece, through their mythology, which speaks about Atlantean realities, the gods fed on the devotion of men. It was from their prayer that they withdrew their power. When Men ceased to pray, and the power of these gods diminished, they opened the gates of the underworld and released the titans who came to the surface to terrify the populations that, driven by fear, returned to the temples to pray to these same gods. With the new power invested in them, they defeated the Titans and save the people. It was a vicious game in which these gods, who never were, nourished by human devotion, invaded this sacred space within each person through rituals and forms of prayer that were imposed to serve their interests.
As in the past, nothing has changed today. These same entities, with other garments and purposes, continue to enslave mankind under the yoke of imposed formulas, promising the redemption of humanity in return for that same devotion. In order to keep us trapped by their egregores, they nourish us with an illusory psychic peace that, like a drug into our energy system, keeps us addicted, numb, trapped in a hypnotic bubble that prevents us from feeling the true Peace that comes from our Soul.
The time has come to free ourselves from these "gods" that nourish superstition and idolatry. The time has come for us to no longer allow this sacred space within us to be invaded by these astral vampires that feed themselves from our energetic blood.
To pray is to connect with God within that Sacred Temple that is the Soul itself. Something that must sprout naturally and spontaneously at our own pace, for only from an open Heart can we truly express Love, and no Heart will open without the fragrances of the Soul becoming present within us. To pray is to respect this inner space and allow the Silence to settle so that the Voice of God can be heard. There are no rhythms or correct ways of praying, there is only the intention of connecting to this Source, and, therefore, the form can be anything: the one with which we feel more comfortable. I can establish this sacred union with God with a Rosary in my hand, as I can achieve it with a walk in nature, with full concentration on a daily task, with the simple act of sitting in silence, always in the internal rhythm of my own Soul and never by the will of forces external to me.
The redemption of Humanity as a whole is part of this game that the "gods" have always wanted to nurture by feeding us with guilt and fear; an illusion created to take people to the temples where they pray in their names. There is only the redemption of every individual being, and this happens within that Sacred Temple that inhabits us and that only awaits that, barefooted, we decide, once and for all, to drop all the walking sticks, all the saddlebags, and with firm steps and fully naked walk to the Center of this Temple led by the only hand that can truly guide us: that of the Divine Being that always Was and will never cease to Be. Our own SELF.
From the book Spiritual Reflections for a New World
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