Read those prayers carefully. Understand the words and you will find that the words are revealing to you Light in all its dimensions. Light in its dimension of compassion, light in its dimension of truth, light in its dimension of wisdom, light in its dimension of healing, light in its dimension of power. That is all that prayers are. The prayers of no religion ask for something of this light. It is only an affirmation of what light is. That is a prayer. And through that affirmation of what light is it asks you to praise that light within you which is the microcosm.

When religion came into existence, when prayers were written, they were written by those who understood the higher truth of what light is. This wisdom they attempted to pass to people around them, to those who were still trapped in the trap of the ego and self conflict. And just as sometimes our words are wrongly heard and so often misunderstood, that is what happened to the truth.

NO master has ever taken embodiment in order to establish religion. Those of you who know your history well will vouch for this. No religion was established when the master was in living embodiment. It is after the master had thrown away the physical that a religion was established by those who desired to follow the teachings of the master and desired that others follow the same. Their wishes were at most time humanitarian. But the true essence of the master’s words was not completely taken in and absorbed and therefore what was related came through that filter and that is why each religion had ‘a should and a should not’, where the physical then was given more importance. And the living sages who attempted to bring out to those who were not as wise the depth of the words of the master had to sometimes necessarily use physical objects in order to teach.

The sacred thread, my son that you wear around your waist is only a physical manifestation of an ancient spiritual symbol called the antakarana. The antakarana is a sacred thread of light intensity that weaves itself around you. It is the silver cord that extends itself beyond spirit to Light itself. But how was the living sage to explain such a truth that even to you is so abstract? And therefore the sacred thread. And the number of the threads used also have a symbolism. The way it is tied has a symbolism. As the truth began filtering from person to person and generation to generation the filters became less and less clean and therefore more and more physical came into religion. In every scripture little one, if you are open enough to be able to read and comprehend, in every scripture there are moments of pure channeling. The scriptures you must remember are not the words of those you call the prophets. They were written after the masters left their physical embodiment and many, many scriptures were initially passed from mouth to mouth and then very lately written down. And yet in all scriptures there are large extracts of pure and complete channeling. And there are also extracts in which the physical has entered itself. It is for you to discern.

Prayers of help are written in no scripture. They were written by those like you who thought there was a power outside of them who could help them. There is a power and that is the Divine Consciousness but it is untrue that the Divine Consciousness is more powerful than what you are. The power of Divine Consciousness has entered you as a spark, yes, but in no way is this spark diluted in its strength. When you remove a drop of water from the sea, analyze it with the rest of the water from the sea and you will find that the drop is exactly the same. There is no difference in its composition. So that which you call God you may continue to call god with the complete knowledge and awareness that ‘that which I call god is the Divine Consciousness which is I.’