“PRAYER” by PAUL SÉDIR

About a week ago, Bro. Marco van Boekel asked if anyone could translate Paul Sédir’s book on Prayer. Although working on a number of projects, since I have a soft spot for Sédir I was intrigued and took a look at the text.

Its power amazed me. Its importance was evident, and I immediately set aside my other projects to work on this. It’ s short book, barely 36 pages long, but the contents can be read and reread over a lifetime. Each time I seem to see something more, something behind the text. Indeed, in over 20 years of translating, I have never worked on a book which made me cry as I was translating it! That is how powerful the book is.

Paul Sédir at his desk

As well as providing one of the most practical manuals I have ever read on how to pray (somehow it seems most books offered by the Christian mystics – I’m looking at you, St. Theresa of Ávila – write about their experiences in such a way that, instead of teaching you how to do it, you feel like a mere observer to their experiences), it also offers flashes of insight into what lies beyond. His devotion both to Maître Philippe and to Martinism shine through every page.

I hope you find this translation both useful and uplifting.

By the way, if you hover over the BOOKS option on the top menu, you’ll now see a new page appear: UP AND COMING RELEASES. Here you’ll see the projects I and our other authors are currently working on!

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Piers Vaughan

Piers Vaughan was born in Brighton, England, and following sojourns in Germany and Switzerland, lives just outside New York City. He was educated at Brighton College, Oxford and Cranfield Universities, and holds M.A.s in Psychology and Divinity, and an M.B.A. He worked in banking for most of his life, as a Project Manager and Internal Consultant in IT and Operations, later acting as COO of a small training company based in New Jersey. He has been a Freemason most of his life, and is a member of St. John's Lodge No. 1 in New York, which was founded in 1757, and is the guardian of the George Washington Inaugural Bible. He is a 33rd Degree Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and a Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter State of New York, Royal Arch Masons, which he currently serves as Grand Treasurer. He is also a long-standing member of a number of esoteric Orders, having helped to bring a number of these to the United States from England and France. He is also Primate of the Apostolic Church of the Golden & Rosy Cross, a descendent of the Pre-Nicene Church of Richard, Duc de Palatine. He has a particular interest in the Orders, Rituals and protagonists of 18th Century French Masonic and Esoteric Orders, and has built a reputation translating many source documents into English, and lecturing around the world on these topics.

4 thoughts on ““PRAYER” by PAUL SÉDIR”

  1. Brother Piers, thank you for making this work available for free here. The veil is thin and the world more in need of prayer than ever. Effective and continued use of the hows and whys laid out in this work is an excellent tool.

  2. Brother Piers, I’m not able to read Prayers, is it possible to have the opportunity?

    Best Regards

    Walter Crossley

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