The Spirit of Prayer

[Pryr-1.2-20] But Secondly, this Pearl of Eternity is the Wisdom and Love of God within us. In this Pearl  all the Holy Nature, Spirit, Tempers, and Inclinations of Christ, lie as a Seed in the Centre of thy Soul, and Divine Wisdom and heavenly Love grows in Thee, if you truly give  Attention to God. Also hidden in the Depth of thy Nature, is the  Root, or Possibility of all the hellish Nature, the Tempers of the fallen Angels. For Heaven and Hell have their Foundation within us, they do not come from without, but instead spring up according as our Will,  and Heart that can either be turned to the Light of God, or the Kingdom of Darkness. So it is us, in the midst of these two Eternities, that has the opportunity to be either an Angel, or a fallen Devil craven and craving amongst the world at large, no different but the same as our first brother, Adam.

Pryr-1.2-16] See here in short, the State of Man as redeemed. He has a Spark of the Light  & This Holy Spark within Him, has a natural, strong and almost infinite Tendency,  of  Reaching after the eternal Light and Spirit of God, from whence it came.  And in reverse, this Love, or Desire of God towards the Soul of Man, is so great, that He gave his only begotten Son, the Brightness of his Glory, to take the human Nature upon him, in its fallen State, so that this mysterious Union of God and Man, all the Enemies of the Soul of Man might be overcome, and every human Creature might have a Power of being born again according to that Image of God, in which he was first created. To read the gospels, is to know the History of the Love of God for Man. [Pryr-1.2-17] A Grain of Wheat has the Air and Light of this World  incorporated in it: it is a Mystery of Life, its  Power of Growing, and its strong continual Tendency of uniting again with that Ocean of Light ...

[Pryr-1.2-14] Still, the Goodness of God would not leave Man in this sad Condition. A Redemption from it was immediately granted, and the Bruiser [Thug]  of the Serpent brought the Light and Spirit of Heaven once more into the human Nature, not as it was in its first State, when Man was in Paradise, but as a Treasure hidden in the Centre of our Souls, where it could discover, and open itself by Degrees, in such Proportion, as the Faith and Desires of our Hearts were turned to it.  It is this Light and Spirit of God thus freely restored again to the Soul, and lying in it as a secret Source of Heaven, is called Grace, Free Grace, or the Supernatural Gift, or Power of God in the Soul, because it was something that the Natural Powers of the Soul could no more obtain. Hence it is, that in the greatest Truth, and highest Reality, every stirring of the Soul, every Tendency of the Heart towards God and Goodness, is justly and necessarily ascribed to the Holy Spirit, or the Grace ...

[Pryr-1.2-12] But I will now show a little more distinctly, what this Pearl of Eternity is. Pearls from St John of Patmos Monastery. Greece  First, it is the Light and Spirit of God within Thee, which has previously  done you  little Good, because all you want is the things of this World.    Your  Reason, and Sensibility, your  Heart and your Passions, have turned all their Attention to the poor Concerns of this Life, and so in turn you have become a Stranger to Heaven,  and the Riches of Eternity within  God cannot be truly found by anyone  who does not worship Him in Truth, which is why this Light and Spirit of His, though always within us, is not, and cannot be found, felt, or enjoyed, but by those whose whole Spirit and Mind  is turned to it. William Blake - 1st book of Urizen Eternity [Pryr-1.2-13] When Man first came into Being, and stood before God truthfully and openly,  this Light and Spirit of...