OLD MOORE'S MONTHLY MESSENGER

London, England

July 1908

(page 200)

WHAT IS PRAYER?

IS IT SELF-HYPNOTISM?

On a recent Sunday the South London Ethical Society had a very interesting address on the above subject from Mr. Harry Snell, in the Surrey Masonic Hall, Camberwell. He prefaced his address by readings from Tennyson and Aleister Crowley. In opening his lecture proper, Mr. Snell asked them to note that in all the forms and different stages of prayer, the source of prayer was the universal desire to get into some sort of communication with the extra-natural powers. The gods of the earlier peoples, and of present-day . . .