A Prayer does not consist of words, a Prayer is not done in thought. All communal "prayers" are songs of thanksgiving.

The silent prayer of the solitary devotee consists of ourselves becoming the witness of the need, in the heart, to express its concern and its attraction gravitating towards the Divine Reality; supplication, thanksgiving, beseeching, wishing and so forth - standing aside, allowing the interchange between that Real One that dwells within it and itself.

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, also known as the Unknown Philosopher, said of Prayer that it was the "Breathing" of the Soul. In view of this assertion - we can say that the Soul could not live without prayer. Prayer constitutes the exchange of darkness for light at every instance gives it an integrity from darkness, to exchange ignorance for knowing at every instance gives it an ability to discern, yet never close its door to the knocking of that Real One that calls at every hour, every moment.

This is something which consistently and irrevocably occurs in every sentient life, yet it is seldom recognized for what it is, and therefore not intensified in the lives and hearts of men who live under the sway of this limiting and delimited zeitgeist.

Every moment is the prima materia for awakening - every particle, not only evidence or a clue, but the essence from which any vision or revelation can take form and shape in our world, being presented to our consciousness as nutrition, as a food.

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Let the Light of the Divine Soul illumine us, that we may be guarded from distress and want:
That all our days be perfect, holy and peaceful:
That what is good and profitable for our souls and for the peace of the world may be granted us:
That the rest of our lives may be spent in the knowledge of Truth. So let the Light of the Divine Soul illumine us. Amen

Post communion prayer from the Holy Gnostic Eucharist Liturgy of
Ecclesia Gnostica.