During recent centuries, the nature of prayer has been misunderstood in all sorts of ways by this or that spiritual movement, and to gain a true understanding of it will not be easy.
If, however, we remember that these centuries have been marked especially by the emergence of egotistic spiritual trends which have laid hold of wide circles of people, we shall not find it surprising that prayer has been dragged down to the level of egotistic wishes and desires.
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And it must be said that prayer can hardly be more utterly misunderstood than when it is permeated by some form of egotism.
In this lecture we shall try to study prayer entirely in the light of spiritual science, free from any sectarian or other influence.
