Chapter 10- Language: Recommended

Activities Recommended:

• Recitations
• Musical verse
• Prayer
• Story listening
• History
• Diary (worded)
• The practice of keeping an inner silence

Recitation is prepared and deliberate speech. It has been empowered in the practicing – in repetition and with intention - as the speaker works his words and concepts over and into his performance of deliverance.


There is a distinction however, between those words spent in ordinarily dialogue to those which are rehearsed. As there are to be found differing characteristics also with that which is sung, prayed or written.


The reason for these differing qualities is that the elements which they conform to also bring about their many attributes to word and to speaker; and these too can differ, once again, depending. We may call into our concepts and words the influences of the holy fire, the free-flowing waters, the heavenly ethers, or the earthy fixed element in our very method of experience and expression.


Musical verse (either words accompanied by music, or simply pronounced with a melodic inflection) encourages the word-beings themselves into a higher life! This phenomenal exchange works upon the individual as well. There is a lighter, brighter constitution afforded to each and every word-creature which is expelled amongst a happy harmonious unison of community cooperation.



In this respect it would be quite morally beneficial to incorporate singing amongst the programs for the criminally inclined. For here we have a process with which any man can begin to set about aiding other beings for their reform and upliftment, bringing about a causal joy and development to entities which are lesser than himself, and in turn going on to experience this within as well.

It is interesting to watch the effects: angered and ill-tempered people cannot convey such lower emotions during sweet singing. If the melody is good the man will be good also! We do not suggest here that it could be wise reform to put blasphemous words to beautiful music. However, it can be experienced that any dire phrase loses its dreadful content, whereas any other will be imbued with a higher happiness!

Prayer comes into three categories here:

1. Prayer silently said
2. Prayer pronounced out loud
3. Prayer sung

When we commune with Father God – straight passage from our heart to His – we do so without words, even though it may appear that they frame the initial calling. The words are left behind at the gateway of the heart and recovered within our consciousness upon the return journey into our day-to-day awareness.


We are free to go to Him at any time, and actually do refer to Him in many ways also which are not as deliberate or self-consciously chosen. Often when a man truly seeks inspiration or answer, it has come because he has gone to his heart (and beyond) for this inner reference. It is described at times as being that of the higher-self - supposing that you might call our dear Father God that, then well and good! But it is rather to be within the conduit confines of a selfhood (advanced or otherwise) that we can and do actually extend out much further, back on the fast track home so to speak, to our Father. 

Often during prayer you might feel that pause, that holy gap…. which no words can fill. You sense the fact that your yearnings have reached their destination and been acknowledged. The very comfort often comes in that communion with Him, and by His attention to this pain or inquiry, and then in the further knowing that from that moment onward things will change from what they were. We know soulfully that although the outer world may not be as responsive to this prayer as we should like, our inner healing has been defined by that very moment of ‘quietness’.

Yet, quite often it is the words of such appeal which do bring us to that quietness. What a lovely contrast again we find; where there is such a paradox of speak bringing us to the chamber of peace. It is the inner-speak, of unpronounced words that will do this.


For once we do say aloud such words, our action becomes one of ego and of affirmation. It is not something that is done to come to quietness, but rather a prayer for the beings of the world that they may also unite with the heavenly resources and respond well.


With prayers which are sung we find the further upliftment as described before, coupled with the appeal now delivered and heard by the higher beings. During silent prayer a higher being may be directed to assist you at a later point because that being is responsive to what should be done. But also, we can go directly to various lesser gods and Saints for their good influence upon us, as well as the angels, and they will best be petitioned through sung prayer. Such practice is to be met with through Christ, for all that is of this World, and of the other Worlds, comes to us through Him, for our protection and combining.

Story listening develops within us an artistic, rather than common, approach to our language. Usually every individual regards their speech to be fundamentally practical in everyday usage. Whether this is held to be true consciously or simply practised with practicality, it is the modern way of the world today, that we are given to a Protestant communication, one which has neither glamour nor beauty nor marked creativity influencing it.


This was not so only a little more than a century ago. In point of fact, this simplistic approach to language is a trend which has not been seen before amongst men. The ‘art’ of conversation – using wit, displaying high thoughts, poetic airs and so forth – the ‘art’ has had many traditions and muses which are now rapidly dying under the oppression of adequacy. This modern notion suggests that if something is adequate it will suffice and anything more than that is an embellishment. Historically though it was the ‘embellishments’ which were regarded as noteworthy, whilst the common or the merely adequate were not.

When we give ourselves to a good story we realise that there is no practical reasoning to be employed. For a while we may relax somewhat out of our functional mentalities and take to us a little of what we have formerly been a part of, and hopefully through such stories and poetry and imaginative works and wording we may revive something of what has been abandoned. 

Continued...