The Washington herald., 1914-06-07

his thoughts, and is swiftly shaped into
forms whose very life Is to carry out the
feeling or the thought that ensouls them:
thus he can create at will an army of
obedient servants who range the astral
world to do his pleasure.
Yet again there are available human,
though invisible helpers. whose attentive
ear may catch a cry for aid. and who
gladly serve as veritable 'ministering
angels to the soul in need. And to crown
all there is the ever-present, ever-con-
scious life of the Logos Himself, potent
and responsive at every point In His
realm, of Him without whose knowledge
not a sparrow falleth to the ground, not
a dumb creature trills in joy or pain. not
child laughs or sobs-that all-pervading
all-embracing. all-sustaining life and love
in which all live and move. As nought
that can give pleasure or pain can touch
the human body without the sensory
nerves carrying the message of its i'm
pact to the brain centers, and as there
thrills down from those centers through
the motor nerves the answer that well
comes or withdraws, so does every vibra-
ton in the universe. which is His body.
reach His consciousness and draw thence
responsive action.
Feeling and Motion.
Nerve-cells, nerve-threads, and mus
cular fiber may be the agents of
feeling and motion, but It is tho man
that feels and acts; so may myriad of
intelligences be the agents, but 1t is the
Logos that knows and answers. Moth
ing can be SO small as not to affect that
delicate omnipresent consciousness, moth
ing so vast as to transcend It. We are
so limited that the very idea Of such
an all-embracing consciousness staggers
and confounds US; yet perhaps, the gnat
might be as hard bestead IL he tried to
measure the consciousness of Pythagoras.
1t is impossible to deny the fact that
prayers are answered, and that many
can give out of their own experience clear
and decisive cases Of ANSWERS to
prayer" Moreover many of these do not
refer to what are termed subjective ex-
periences. but to hard facts of the So
called objective world. A man has
prayed for money and the post has
brought him the needed amount;
woman has prayed for food. and food
has arrived at her door. In connection
with charitable and undertakings, there
is plenty of evidence of help prayed
for in direct need, and of speedy and
liberal response. On the other hand,
there is also plenty of evidence of pray
ers left unanswered. of the hungry
starving to death. of the child snatched
from its mothers arms by death, despite
the most passionate appeal to God. Any
reasonable view of prayer must take
into consideration these conflicting facts.
must neither refuse to admit the answers
nor evade the recognition of the failures
to obtain any. All facts must fall into
their place in any true theory Of prayer.
We will take separately our three
classes of prayers, and We shall find that
the occult lives in nature are the agents
which bring about answers to prayer.
the particular agents at work being those
suitable to the kind Of prayer put forth.
Several Agencies.
When a man utters a prayer of class
A, he may obtain an answer through
one of several agencies. His concen-
trated thought and earnest desire will
affect the elemental essence Of the astral
plane. and he creates a powerful arti-
ficial elemental. whose one idea Is to
bring about what its creator desires. This
elemental, where the prayer Is for money,
food, clothing. employment. for anything
that can be given by one man to an
other. viii seek out a person able to
give, and Hill impress on that persons