CAN PRAYER CHANGE THE LAWS OF NATURE?

Many think so. Others doubt or deny because, for them, the laws of nature are immutable, and prayer is a product of ignorance and superstition.

However, some facts are beyond the reason of unbelievers.

Here is a very sick man about to die, discredited by medicine. Doctors are unanimous in saying he will die soon. However, the following day, this man, condemned to death by science, awakens in perfect health and continues to live without any trace of a medical problem.

Cases like this are not fictitious. They are and have been real through all the centuries.

Science does not explain, weaving a thousand hypotheses around the fact without getting the real explanation right.

Religious men speak of miracles, divine intervention, supernatural beyond the forces of nature.

However, neither science nor the supernatural cured him. He was healed under entirely natural forces, which go beyond the scope of the matter. Resorting to a supernatural order is nothing more than a refuge from human ignorance. What is called the supernatural is just the zone of the natural beyond the zone identified by man. In the remote past, almost everything natural to science and technology would have been supernatural! The more man mentalizes and spiritualizes, the more he integrates into nature. For the wholly spiritual man, everything is natural, and nothing is supernatural.

What happened was a miracle but within the laws of nature. Someone or the patient himself, asked, prayed in faith. That faith saved him, as revealed by one of the initiates in the mysteries of the spiritual world, the apostle James, who witnessed the miracles of Jesus, seeing the invasion of the spiritual world into the material world of nature.

The day will come when the so-called “miracle” will become an integral part of the science and everyday life of man, just as the mysterious forces of the past, and known today, are part of the life of man.

Mental and spiritual forces are by their nature invisible; they are energies, not material. The spiritual force has an intimate affinity with light, the most significant force known to science. If this immaterial force is applied to a material object, such as a sick organism, it will significantly impact it. The whole secret is how to apply this immaterial force, the prayer of faith, to the material body.

What then does the man who asks and prays in faith?

Apply to the material part a spiritual force; apply the strongest to the least strong. It rests a lever on a support point located beyond the boundaries of matter, executing a movement, displacing the enormous weight of the physical illness.

Jesus is not said to have failed in his miraculous cures because the invisible spiritual world was as real as the visible world of matter. The laws governing the invisible world were mathematically certain and clear to him. Indeed, the laws of the spiritual world act with the same mathematical precision as all other laws of science on the material level.

Human beings, unfortunately, are not interested in discovering the mathematics of the spiritual world since they live so much anesthetized by material forces because the knowledge and application of these laws would defeat their worst enemies. Jesus was never sick because he knew these laws and lived in perfect harmony with them. He allowed, for some time, that adverse forces could hurt him – later, he also became invulnerable in this sector – but an opposing party that made him suffer was never born inside his own body.

Health is natural; disease is not. Nobody tries to explain what is natural; everyone wants to explain what is not natural. Why does anyone suffer this or that? The first thought is that of a punishment inflicted by some invisible being, some avenging god. Punishment for what? For some sin. But if that someone is not aware of any sin, as Job said: My sin must have been committed, then, in a previous existence whose memory does not persist in my current incarnation. But what matters most is not knowing why I suffer, but the reason why. The cause of my suffering is mysterious, but the purpose of my suffering is evident. I suffer to evolve or to free myself from some impurity. If I created the cause, I could also abolish it.

If man were able to ascend to higher spheres, surpassing the area of matter and invading the domains of the spirit, the whole problem of suffering would disappear.

The error in the spiritual zone is sin; the error in the material one is suffering. Since that is the cause of this, it is logical that suffering cannot be abolished without abolishing the cause, sin. Only in a transitory, intermittent, sporadic character is suffering abolished on the level of sin. Still, for the permanent and definitive abolition, the permanent destruction of evil and the ability to sin is required.

With the dawn of intelligence, the world of sin began. “Thorns and thistles”, “labour with sweat”, “birth with pain” are the consequences of man’s intellectualization because the intellect zone is the zone of the ability to sin. Where there is no intellect, there is no “knowledge of good and evil”, there is no oscillation between light and darkness, between positive and negative. When man ate “of the fruit of the tree of knowledge” when the sensitive man of Eden became the intellective man of the serpent, he entered the zone of sin, and sin is compulsory suffering.

To be freed from suffering, man must be freed from sin. How? Losing intelligence? Not because of the loss of this divine gift, but because of the integration of intelligence into reason, that is, into the spirit.

When man, coming from Eden and entering the serpent’s domain, moaned oppressed with pain and suffering, he perceived, in the intimate depths of his nature, a voice saying: “From your lineage will be born someone who will crush the head of the serpent”.

And this is the distant voice of man’s redemption, of the first sign, rising after the darkness and twilight of today’s sinful and suffering humanity. And what power is this that will emerge from the depths of human nature itself and will subject its intelligence to its dominion?

It is the power of Reason, of the divine Spirit latent in man! The prayer and faith, the frequent and intense submersion in the ocean of divinity, the communion with God, the permanent “walking in the presence of God”!