and prayer. These are the inner conditions which build the prayer house of the heart where we can pray in a constant state of remembrance, every breath prostration to Him, every beat of the heart and pulse of blood bowing to Him. Subtle wisdom uses the six inner obligations of Islam to build this house of prayer, Islam understood to mean the surrender of the lower self to light in a state of purity. These mysterious inner obligations which depend on a rejection of the outer as deceptive, illusory, and a dependence on the inner as access to the permanent, the reality, these are readily described in terms of the pure inner senses we now waken.

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