tktt: Is It Necessary To Pray?

Enq:  Christians would call it pride and blasphemy. Are they wrong?

 
Theo:  Entirely so. It is they, on the contrary, who show Satanic pride in their belief that the Absolute or the Infinite, even if there was such a thing as the possibility of any relation between the unconditioned and the conditioned – will stoop to listen to every foolish or egotistical prayer.

 
And it is they again, who virtually blaspheme, in teaching that an Omniscient and Omnipotent God needs uttered prayers to know what he has to do!

 
This – understood esoterically – is corroborated by both Buddha and Jesus. The one says “seek nought from the helpless Gods – pray not! but rather act; for darkness will not brighten. Ask nought from silence, for it can neither speak nor hear.”

 
And the other – Jesus – recommends: “Whatsoever ye shall seek ask in my name (that of Christos) that will I do.” Of course, this quotation, if taken in its literal sense, goes against our argument.

 
But if we accept it esoterically, with the full knowledge of the meaning of the term, “Christos”, which to us represents Atma-Buddhi-Manas, the “SELF”, it comes to this:

 
the only god we must recognize and pray to, or rather act in unison with, is that spirit of God of which our body is the temple, and in which it dwelleth.”

 
H. P. Blavatsky