One Prosperos Mentor’s perspective: On Translation as Transformative Prayer in the Modern World.
By Calvin Harris, H. W., M.
01 January 2018
As a Mentor for The Prosperos, I find myself often receiving requests for Translation, many times from those who have no understanding of Translation, nor The Prosperos, but who have known and observed my person long enough to understand that when I use Translation, it has a transformative quality that they identify as meditation or prayer. Then, when I am approached with a request to do Translation, it is with a statement such as: “Do that thing that you do.”
A majority of Americans turn to prayer after major catastrophes or tragedies in the hope for healing, or to have something brought into their world that they feel is missing in their life. This begs the question of what is Translation or Transformative prayer?
Prayer, in whatever spiritual context it is found, discerns the nature of Spirit, God, Divine Love, Universal Principal. It then encompasses the spiritual idea of the self and its relationship to the Universal Principal. In Translation, with its practice and manipulation of words, it becomes understood that God, Spirit,
Universal Consciousness is stable and dependable. The Divine Principle is present, no matter the appearance of variation or transitional change, and that Principle is good. This understanding would indicate that human events don’t influence or change Divine Good, or God’s relation to spiritual creation.
Therefore, the role of Translation, as prayer, is to better understand what is eternally true of God, and of us all, as God’s own image. This practice within itself brings about alignment with Truth and naturally brings increased harmony and healing into our experience. Soren Kierkegaard said: “Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
The Lord’s Prayer resonates with Christian’ based faiths during times of crisis and challenge, and its healing message is the basis for Translation. The Lord’s Prayer begins with God acknowledged as the all-encompassing Universal Principal, helping our attention to turn from seeing evil as a controlling power, and to pivot our point of view to the fixed principal of God as good, as the first and the last, and all there is. This in itself gives us a profoundly different starting point for looking at ourselves and our world.
Translation or transformative prayer is more than a repetition of words, The words must be understood, the thoughts behind the words are what are important. and their meaning wholeheartedly recognized as truth here and now. The purpose of Translation is to confirm in Consciousness that perfect spiritual beingness, is the reality behind contrary evidence of the three-dimensional human physical sense.
Translation, like the Lord’s Prayer, begins with acknowledging God as Universal Reality, the Universal Principal, that by its very nature turns the individual toward itself as whole, sound, complete, and as the perpetual fount of solutions. And when understood properly one derives an understanding of all that is real, whole, sound and good.
Translation encourages the practitioner to look again at the second step of sense testimony of the human equation, with its transient conditions of what is good, bad, desirable and evil; then in the third step of Translation, to expose that condition in relationship to a process of reasoning to the nature of Universal Principal as a spiritual understanding of God’s kingdom “as it is in heaven.” This enable one to see more evidence of God’s Kingdom “on earth.” This is true because I have seen, time and again in my experience, that we can rely on Translation to reveal the True Nature of the Universe. The spiritual factor of our permanent relation to God never changes. Consequently, I realize that my Translation reveals the truth in the misconception of the problem that lifted me out of darkness and fear by revealing the Christ Consciousness understanding of God and of man’s true nature of Oneness with God. Translation does not try to have Universal Principal intercede in mortal perceptions, nor bring its designs into a change of mortal human equations; but it can and does change our perception of a false sense of Life, Love, and small truth, uplifting us to Truth and Universal Principal.
This is a way to understand, focus and shine a light of higher understanding on those areas to displace illness, doubt, disagreement, and fear in every place where they seem to lurk.
In Translation or Transformative prayer whether the issue is something big or small, we seek, through Translation, an understanding of the unchangeable nature of Universal Consciousness and the Self, then a restoration of peace and harmony is natural. And it’s not because Universal Consciousness or ‘God’ comes into the problem to fix it or take it away, but because Translation is a means of affirming reality as Universal Consciousness knowing itself as “all there is.”
Unchanging, Universal Love is reshaped by Consciousness from hopelessness to an expectation of good, wholeness, and completeness in life, and the fear and depression dissolved.
This Principle elevates human thought from material beliefs of sin, discord, and dis-ease, to the understanding that Truth is all, whole. Complete. and perfect, lacking nothing.