The Spirit of Prayer

[Pryr-1.2-24] Fourthly, and Lastly, this Pearl of Eternity is the Peace and Joy of God within You, but can only be found by the Manifestation of the Life and Power of Jesus Christ in your Soul. Christ cannot be your Power and your Life, till in Obedience to his Call, you deny yourself, takes up your daily Cross, and follows Him, in the Regeneration. This is peremptory, it admits of no Reserve or Evasion, it is the one Way to Christ and Eternal Life. But be where you wilt, either here in London, or at Los Angeles, Vancouver, DC or Sydney; if Self is undenied, if you live to heeding only your own Will, and beckon to the Pleasures of your natural Lust and Appetites, Senses and Passions, and in Conformity to the vain Customs, and Spirit of this World, then you are dead though you think you are alive. The seed of the Woman is crucified within You, & Christ can profit You Nothing, because you are a Stranger to all that is holy and heavenly within You, and you are ut...

[Pryr-1.2-23] Thirdly, this Pearl of Eternity is the Church, or the Temple of God within You.   This is the consecrated Place of Divine Worship, where alone you can worship God in Spirit, & Truth. In Spirit, because it is your Spirit is that alone in You, and it is that which can unite, and cleave unto God, and so receive the Workings of his Divine Spirit in You. In Truth, because of this Adoration in Spirit, Truth and Reality, of which all outward Forms and Rites, & instituted by God, are but a Figure of Time, this Worship is Eternal. So accustom yourself to the Holy Service of this inward Temple. In the midst of it is the Fountain of Living Water, of which drink, and live forever. There the Mysteries of your Redemption are celebrated, or rather they opened & shown to you, in Life and Power. There the Supper of the Lamb is kept; the Bread that came down from Heaven, that give s Life to the World, & is your true Nourishment: for all is done, and k...

[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-1.2-12] 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...