anew by the divine breath of the Word, prayer has occult activity. . . . We say no prayers -- prayer forms within us; it is a faculty which acts of itself; it has attained a way of action which lifts it outside of forms; it links the soul to God. . . . When you possess the faculty of praying without weariness, with love, with force, with certainty, with intelligence, your spiritualized nature will presently be invested with power. Like a rushing wind, like a thunder-bolt, it cuts its way through all things and shows the power of God.

"With a prayer, He lifted himself up to die."

"Soul of all things, oh my God, thou whom I love for thyself! . . . receive a love which has no limit! . . . Take me that I no longer be myself! Am I not purified? then cast me back into the furnace. . . . Rejected, I will bless thy justice. But if excess love may win in a moment that which hard and patient labor cannot attain, then bear me upward in thy chariot of fire. . . . if thou wilt, reject me! Thou are He who can do no evil!"

"The violence of that last prayer had burst her bonds."

"The aspiration of the soul toward heaven was so contagious that Wilfred and Minna, beholding those radiant scintillations of Life, perceived not Death."

"The veil of flesh which until now had hidden that glory from their eyes, dissolved imperceptibly away, and left them free to behold the Divine substance."