The document discusses the importance, effectiveness, and understanding of prayer. It explains that prayer strengthens one's ability to resist evil and receive help from good spirits. While specific words are not important, directing one's thoughts to higher powers with confidence and conviction is meaningful. Prayer establishes a fluidic connection that allows thoughts to be transmitted from one being to another, whether on Earth or in the spirit world. The document provides perspectives on prayer from Spiritism and other religious texts.

1. Prayer
IMPORTANCE, EFFECTIVENESS AND ACTION

3. Why pray?
“Prayer is an elevation above all
earthly things, an ardent appeal to
the higher powers”
After Death - Leon Denis (free translation)

4. How to Pray
“The form means nothing but the thought is everything. Say your
prayers in accordance with your convictions and in the manner which is
most agreeable to you since a good thought is worth more than
numerous words which do not touch the heart.”
A Collection of Spiritist Prayers - TGAS

5. The Importance of Prayer
Q660 - Does prayer make humankind better?
“Yes. Those who enthusiastically and confidently pray have more
strength to withstand the temptations of evil, and to get help from the
good spirits sent by God to assist them in so doing. Such help is
never refused when honestly asked for.”
TSB - Book Three - Chapter II - Moral Laws - Law of Worship

6. Effectiveness of
prayer
“Beyond all doubt there are natural and
immutable laws which cannot be annulled at
the caprice of each individual.”
“What God will concede if we direct
ourselves to Him with confidence is
courage, patience and resignation. What He
will also concede are the means of resolving
situations with the help of ideas suggested
to us by good Spirits at God's instigation,
whereby we retain the merit for the
decisions taken.”
TGAS - Chapter XXVII - Ask and Shall be Given, items 6,7

7. Understanding Prayer
“Spiritism makes the act of prayer understandable by explaining
how thought is transmitted.”
“In order to understand what happens in this circumstance, it is
necessary to consider all incarnate and discarnate beings as
immersed in the Universal Cosmic Fluid which occupies space, as
we on Earth are immersed in the atmosphere.”
TGAS - Chapter XXVII - Ask and Shall be Given, item 10

8. Understanding Prayer
“This fluid receives an impulse from will-power, which is the vehicle
of thought just as air is the vehicle for sound, with the difference
that the vibrations of air are circumscribed, whereas those of the
Universal Cosmic Fluid extend infinitely.”
“When a thought is directed at someone either on Earth or in space,
(…) a fluidic current is established between them which transmits
the thought from one to the other, just as air transmits sound.”
TGAS - Chapter XXVII - Ask and Shall be Given, item 10

9. Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is not asking. It is a
longing of the soul. It is daily
admission of one's weakness. It is better
in prayer to have a heart without words than
words without a heart.”

10. May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
May good luck be with you Wherever you go, and your blessings
outnumber the shamrocks that grow.
May your days be many and your troubles be few, May all God’s
blessings descend upon you, May peace be within you, May
your heart be strong, May you find what you’re seeking
wherever you roam.
May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been
the foresight to know where you’re going
and the insight to know when you’re going too far.
Travel Blessings

11. Bibliography
The Holy Bible - Mark 14:38
After Death - Chapter 10 The Prayer - Leon Denis
The Gospel According to Spiritism - Chapter XXVIII - A Collection of Spiritist Prayers
The Spirit’s Book - Book Three - Chapter II - Moral Laws - Law of Worship
The Gospel According to Spiritism - Chapter XXVII - Ask and Shall be Given, items 6, 7 and 10

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Spiritist Society of Ireland
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13. Thank You!