Founder, Dr. Masters’ Weekly Mystical Insights

Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.

Do prayers, visualizations, affirmations or other spiritual practices really work, or if they only work sometimes, why?

This question is repeatedly asked by many—by those who ask for prayer, and by those who pray or use some other spiritual practice for themselves or others.  With the progression in spiritual awakening, the answers change.

As an example, in the old-time, basic fundamentalist religion, prayer for most people is a pleading, begging, or hoping for some desired result.  As a person moves in spiritual awareness to a higher plane of consciousness or understanding—such as that of New Thought or basic metaphysics—the pleading and begging cease, and prayer becomes an affirming that, through God’s Power, the desired effect is already so.

Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.

Every day that we awaken from sleep, it is by Grace. To take a breath and to be alive is not by an act of personal ego will, but because of Grace. Some people may argue that the will of their personal egos caused them to survive some difficult time in their lives, but it was not—that was only the illusion. In truth we survive by Grace; it was not yet our cosmic time to surrender our physical existence in the Ultimate Cosmic Scheme of Things, where nothing is by chance or coincidence, and where all is perfectly orchestrated in a harmonious cosmic melody.

So often the phrase, “by the Grace of God,” is used by people, but what is its meaning? Its obvious meaning is that something has happened or will happen because Universal Presence or God allowed it to happen or will allow it to happen. Grace then could be thought of as the Will of God—not the personal ego’s will—having supreme or ultimate power over all things and human existence, and even life itself.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.

Everything that exists physically—even ideas thought by those in physical embodiment—has a deeper, more profound energy existence.  The idea of thanks is part of a deeper, more Mystical Reality, as well.  A person who expresses thanks for any physical life experience is not, in the majority of cases, aware of the profoundness of his or her expression.  A person expressing thanks to God may have little, if any, awareness of the deeper significance of such an expression.  This is because, unless a person has been blessed with real Mystical Awareness, giving thanks is an expression of limited, personal ego identity.

It may be that when giving thanks to God, there is a divide of consciousness or awareness between personal ego identity and Universal Identity, or God. Because of such a divide imagined by the personal ego, the full Mystical Reality of the idea of thanks is lost in the myriad of personal ego subterfuges.  When the personal ego gives thanks to God, the ego is one thing or identity, and God is another identity.

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Audio version read by Rev. Steven Lane Taylor, B.Msc.

Uncertainty, war, fear, confusion, ill health, loneliness—these are just a few of the reasons people often welcome someone who might claim to be Jesus in the physical flesh.  The Christ Mind that was in Jesus warned that there would be those who would appear in his name.  And certainly, there have been.  For reasons already stated, people who are particularly hurting are open and vulnerable to someone handing them a business card with the single name of Jesus on it.

Of course, it takes more than a business card.  It takes giving the outer appearance of what people would believe Jesus should look like.  If you have ever seen any movie about the life of Jesus, you know that the actor who gets the role looks like what people have—from childhood’s conditioning—believed him to look like.  If there were a casting call by a movie producer for an actor to play Jesus, the requirements might be as follows:

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