We begin with: The Song of Prayer. Prayer, Forgiveness, Healing—these last two are the subheadings.
Then it says, "An Expansion of the Principles of A Course in Miracles."
I don't know which principles it refers to, whether the 50 principles of Chapter 1 or the concepts of ACIM. Jesus wouldn't make such a grammatical error. Jesus did speak of the principles of miracles and used that name when dictating the 50 principles of miracles.
Now let's move on to the introduction of Prayer.
The text says, "Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son when He created Him." Actually, it is the Extension of His Love that is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son when He created Him. When we were created by God, prayer didn't exist. What are they talking about?
And Jesus taught prayer; the prayer of forgiveness, which is the Lord's Prayer. In creation, why would we need prayer? What comes after is all empty rhetoric. Except for the part that says harmony is perpetual... (remember I told you they took a handful of concepts from the text and mixed everything up).
Then it says: and in this way creation extends. How are they talking to me about this? Creation extends by His Children sharing the same Thoughts of their Father. In eternity there is no prayer. Why would there be? God doesn't have an ego, and neither do we, along with Him. These guys didn't understand anything, and on top of that, they were teaching. But as a tango in Argentina says: a donkey is no different from a great professor.
Then it says: Prayer must now be the means by which the Son of God abandons his separate goals and interests. First, "son" is lowercase since it says separate goals. And second, Atonement is the means by which the Son of God abandons his separate goals and interests and turns in holy joy to the Truth (not the truth as it's written) of Union with his Father and with himself. Then it says that prayer is the gift that God gives you. In reality, it is the Atonement that is the gift God gives us.
Then comes a title that says: True Prayer.
It begins by saying that prayer is a path offered by the Holy Spirit to reach God. It is not simply a request or a supplication. First, the path is the Atonement, and second, the Lord's Prayer consists of seven petitions. Let's review them:
-Hallowed be Thy Name,
-Thy Kingdom come,
-Thy will be done,
-Give us this day our daily bread,
-Forgive us our trespasses,
-Lead us not into temptation,
-But deliver us from evil.
7 petitions.
And as Jesus said: Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing, in this case, what they did.