Action of Prayer - Transmission of Thoughts

The Prayer is an invocation. Through it, we put our thoughts in contact with the entity we are addressing. It can be a request, a thanks, or a glorification. It can be said for oneself or the dead.

Prayers addressed to God are heard by the Spirits in charge of executing His will; those directed to good Spirits are taken to God. When you pray to beings other than God, it is directed to intermediaries or intercessors, as nobody can obtain anything without God's will.

 

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Spiritism makes us understand the action of prayer by explaining the process of thought transmission: either the being for whom we pray comes to our call or our thought reaches them (see "The Gospel According to Spiritism").

For us to make it clear, it is significant to consider that all beings, incarnate and discarnate, are immersed in the same universal fluid that occupies space, just as we are in the atmosphere on this planet. This fluid receives an impulse from the will. It is the vehicle of sound, except that the vibrations of the air are circumscribed, whereas those of the universal fluid extend to infinity.

Thus, as soon as a thought is led towards any being on Earth or in space, from incarnate to disincarnate or vice versa, a fluidic current is established from one to the other, transmitting thoughts like air transmits sound. The energy of the current is in proportion to the thought and energy's will. It is by this means that prayer is heard by spirits wherever they may be; they communicate with each other; they transmit their inspirations to us, and their

relationships are established at a distance between incarnates, etc.

This explanation is mainly given to those who don't understand the usefulness of purely mystical prayer.

Its purpose is not to materialize prayer, but to

proportionate to it an intelligible effect.

It demonstrates that it can have an effective direct action, without thereby ceasing to be subordinate to the will of God, the Supreme Judge of all things, on whom alone the effectiveness of the action depends.

Allan Kardec.