Prayer, from a kabbalistic point of view, is merely a tapping of energy, just as the aforementioned stars are bottled-up energies in a metaphysical cosmos. Prayer is not an appeal to a higher court; a plea for mercy, justice, or gain. The kabbalist knows the channels that convey the only power worth having, the one that neutralizes the Desire to Receive for the Self Alone. This is the crippler that renders what the religious call “prayer” to little more than empty rhetoric. Pity the man who anchors the destiny of his soul in the shifting, treacherous sands of what men call prayer.
