Social Repercussions of Prayer-{ 3 }-Urantia Papers

Part 5- Social Reprecussions of Prayer.

In ancestor worship, prayer leads to the cultivation of ancestral ideals. But prayer as a feature of Diety worship,trancends all other practices since it leads to the cultivation of divine ideals.As the concept of the Alter Ego of prayer becomes supreme and divine, so are man's ideals accordingly elevated from mere Human toward supernal and divine levels, and the result of all such praying is the enhancement of human character and the profound unification of human personality.

But prayer need not always be individual.Group or congregational praying is very effective in that it is highly socializing in it's repercussions. When a group engages in community prayer for moral enhancement and spiritual uplift, such devotions are reactive upon the individuals composing the group;they are all made better because of particapation.Even a whole city or a entire Nation can be helped by such prayer devotions. Confession, repentance, and prayer have led individuals. cities, nations, and whole races to mighty efforts of reform and Courageous Deeds of Valorus Achiievement.

If you truly desire to overcome the habit of criticizing a friend, the quickest and surest way of achieving such a change in a attitude is to establish the habit of praying for that person every day of your life. But the social repercussions of such prayers are dependent largely on two condiions:

1.The Person who is prayed for should know that he/she is being prayed for.

2.The person who prays should come into intimate social contact with the person whom he/she is praying.

Prayer is a technique whereby sooner or later, every religon becomes institutionalized.And in time prayer becomes associated with numerous secondary agencies, some helpful, others decidedly deleterious, such as priests, holy books, worship rituals, and ceremonials.

But the minds of greater spiritual endowed intellects that crave symbolism for the mobilization of their feeble spiritual insight. The strong must not look with disdain upon the weak. Those who are God-conscious without symbolism must not deny the grace-ministry of the symbol to those who find it difficult to worship Diety and to revere Truth, Beauty and Goodness without the form or ritual. In prayerful worship, most mortals envision some symbol of the object-goal of their devotions.

Well I guess I am going to extend this to 7 posts instead of five so I can limit the amount of reading on each post so as not to Overload the reader and allow the brain to process this better.

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