The Spirit of Prayer

This is out of order from the original, as thematically it is tangential and confusing.  Reverend Law here is  responding to the Midrash, which most Christians are unfamiliar with,  except perhaps as hearsay or at best having read  John Milton's great poem, Paradise Lost,  also heavily based on it.  The link for Paradise Lost takes you not to the poem but to the SparksNotes of it so you can read the highlights of it and see if you want to take up a full study of it. Like Dante's Inferno, it is a big poem and a real undertaking, but again, worth the time and effort. Reverend Law uses Milton, at the time it was widely read or least popularly known, because his audience compromises not only of lapsed or even unknowing Christians (like academics), but also Jews  who neither  understand how Christian theology is indebted to the Old Testament as part of their Holy Bible nor realize the importance of the tie. The Midrash is Jewish commentary...

Justice and the Kabbalah regarding the Spirit of Prayer Posted on   October 25, 2014 by   In My Anguish The Tree of Life, commonly called the Kabbalah, associates Mercy with Judgement, as  they are opposite each other : Mercy is the 4th sefirot and Geburah or Judgement is 5.  These are two of the divine attributes of Yahweh. The Hebrew Alpha-bet reads right to left, and so does the tree.   The left side where  Judgement (Geburah) resides is Feminine, while the Right is Active and Masculine (Chesed #4).  This means that even numbers are active while uneven numbers are unstable and passive – like the atom they receive instructions. Then there is the Middle Pillar or the spine of tree,.  If one reads up  Malkuth #10 to #1 Kether, as you ascend the tree,  you must be one of the Kingdom i.e. a believer.  Nothing happens without that first step towards God.  From there, you need solid foundation (yesod) in Hi...

The Spirit of Prayer or The Soul Rising out of the  Vanity of Time into the  Riches of Eternity In TWO PARTS by William Law, M.A. The Fourth Edition Revised and Corrected by the Author 1758  originally reformatted and annotated In My Anguish January in the year of our of Lord, 2011   Some Matters preparatory to the Spirit of Prayer by William Law. The torments of the damned in hell (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The original format  is here  on Christian  Classics,  but of the 1749 version. Recently I got a hold of the revision by Reverend Law  in 1758.  That made me decide to update my adaptation of the book here on Blogspot,  where I  originally started my work, instead of continuing it on WordPress, where I moved to in 2012. Part of my reasoning for return, was  to the surprising lack of interest in the piece.  Over the two years that I have been WordPress I have notice...