The Drama of the Spiritual Life a Study of Religious Experience And Ideals
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The truly spiritual, form of prayer is at once an appeal to an ideal reality, and a concentration of the mind upon its own thought of the highest good ; further it is a resolve to carry out the vision. It is, i. E. , an active attitude. The prayer is for the coming of the spirit of enlightenment and devotion, "the understanding heart" for which Solomon is said to have prayed. Or, as the prayer of Socrates, which was " simply for things good, because the gods know best what is good. " If there i...s a petition for the fulfilment of any particular de- sires, these desires are, to speak symbolically, laid upon the altar of the Lord ; that is, the petition is like that of the prayer in Gethsemane, it involves the condition : be it granted only if in accord with the will of the world. Further, as Emerson said, there is no need to seek for the solution of private riddles, no need for oracles and divi- nations, for such prayer is the beginning of its own response. The question and the answer, the prayer and the response, are one.
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