<p>Welcome to our newsletter, dear reader,</p><p>• Our first reading this month, <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/modes-of-prayer" title="Modes of Prayer">the masterful chapter “Modes of Prayer” by Frithjof Schuon,</a> illuminates the human and cosmic dimensions of prayer, its psychological aspects and metaphysical implications.</p><blockquote><p>Life is not a sort of space filled with possibilities offering themselves to our good pleasure, as children and worldly people believe; it is a road that becomes more and more narrow, from the present moment to death. At the end of this road there is death and the encounter with God, then eternity; all these realities are already present in prayer, in the timeless actuality of the divine Presence. What matters for a man is not the diversity of the events he may experience as they stretch out along the magic thread we call duration, but perseverance in the “remembrance”, which takes us outside time and raises us above our hopes and our fears. This remembrance already dwells in eternity.</p></blockquote><p>• Then we present <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/frithjof-schuon-and-prayer" title="Frithjof Schuon and Prayer">an article by Reza Shah-Kazemi, “Frithjof Schuon and Prayer”,</a> which draws attention to the subtlety, depth, and comprehensiveness that characterize Schuon’s elucidation of prayer, “an elucidation which renders prayer not only an intelligible necessity for man… but also an irresistible summons and an inestimable gift from God to man.”</p><blockquote><p>On the divine side, grace does not so much descend in response to the human performance of the invocatory rites; rather such rites “provide a means of removing the obstacles which are opposed to the principially permanent radiation of grace.” Grace is never absent, in other words, it is we who are absent from grace, albeit in appearance only; the invocation makes us present to the omnipresent reality of grace, and is thus to be considered not so much as the “cause” of grace, as its “effect”.</p></blockquote><p>• We complete our monthly selection with <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/naau-the-heart-of-wayfinding" title="Na’au: The Heart of Wayfinding">a brief text on the traditional craft of Polynesian navigation, “Na’au: The Heart of Wayfinding”.</a> This timeless discipline is based on the pilots’ intimate realisation of the order of the heavenly spheres and the rhythms of the ocean and the winds.</p><blockquote><p>In the dark void of that night, Nainoa’s mind was a knot of fatigue. He couldn’t think… “And then, somehow, it was almost as if I gave up fighting. I just settled down, and this warmth came over me. All of a sudden I just knew where the moon was, even though I couldn’t see it with my eyes.” […] “From the image of the moon came a strong sense of knowing where to go,” he recalls. “I turned the canoe, got things lined up and felt very, very comfortable, even in the heavy rain and wind… It’s something very deep that has nothing to do with intellect and everything to do with feelings. It’s <em>na’au</em>, the knowledge of the heart.”</p></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/facebook?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fmodes-of-prayer-navigation&linkname=Modes%20of%20Prayer%20and%20the%20Heart%20of%20Wayfinding" title="Facebook"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/whatsapp?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fmodes-of-prayer-navigation&linkname=Modes%20of%20Prayer%20and%20the%20Heart%20of%20Wayfinding" title="WhatsApp"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/linkedin?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fmodes-of-prayer-navigation&linkname=Modes%20of%20Prayer%20and%20the%20Heart%20of%20Wayfinding" title="LinkedIn"></a><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/add_to/bluesky?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themathesontrust.org%2Fmodes-of-prayer-navigation&linkname=Modes%20of%20Prayer%20and%20the%20Heart%20of%20Wayfinding" title="Bluesky"></a></p><p>The post <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org/modes-of-prayer-navigation">Modes of Prayer and the Heart of Wayfinding</a> first appeared on <a href="https://www.themathesontrust.org">The Matheson Trust</a>.</p>
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