# Chain: Earth Conditions And Prayer > *The conditions of the world act on every soul, and prayer is how they are met and neutralized* **The argument it traces:** The thoughts and actions of mankind generate a darkness-field, like weather, that buffets every soul and desensitizes humanity to God → this accounts for why one feels close to God one day and burdened the next → the seeker must come awake to these conditions rather than absorb them → daily prayer neutralizes them both within and around the soul, drawing in Divine Love → the Earth itself is changing to force humanity awake **8** messages · **12** supporting · main statement not yet chosen --- ## Foundation ### 2016-02-29 - [[2016-02-29 Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions|Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions]] Luke anchors the thread: the thoughts and actions of mankind generate a darkness-field that, like weather, comes in waves and buffets every soul, accounting for why one feels close to God one day and burdened the next; daily prayer neutralizes these conditions both within and around the soul, and the seeker must "fight" as a warrior of Light. ## Elaboration ### 2016-05-30 - [[2016-05-30 Staying in the Light|Staying in the Light]] Names the prayer's effect as lawful: "a law is enacted by these prayers, when you earnestly long for the Father's Love and so you bring the angels close," and frames the gathered circle as a constructed respite from the field ("this respite from the human condition"). Luke (2016-02-29, Foundation) establishes the field and that prayer meets it; Augustine supplies the mechanism, a law enacted by earnest longing, and adds the circle as collective defence rather than only individual. ### 2016-07-04 - [[2016-07-04 Receiving Guidance|Receiving Guidance]] Denies that outer calm exists: "You cannot hope to sail your ship upon the calm waters for they do not exist in this world, only in that place between you and your Heavenly Father is there that great and deep peace." Closest member [[2016-02-29 Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions|2016-02-29-af-luke]] (Foundation); new facet: the expectation of calm waters is itself the error, and the only still water is interior, from which the seeker becomes "a calm centre in these rough waters." ### 2016-08-27 - [[2016-08-27 A Description of the Soul and Its Enduring Nature|A Description of the Soul and Its Enduring Nature]] The spirit-side view of the field, in answer to his own question: "And do you know what this looks like from our perspective? Dark clouds. It is not of Light; it is heavy," with the inside-and-outside duality, "They not only surround your planet but they reside within your beings"; and a widened remedy: "the energy of love is the only energy, whether it be the Natural Love or the Divine Love, that will disperse those clouds of the human condition," enacted through ordinary contact, "a look in your eyes, an arm reached around another." Closest member [[2016-02-29 Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions|2016-02-29-af-luke]] (Foundation). Registry-weigh at build: the spine says daily prayer neutralizes the conditions; this widens the remedy to love in action, with natural love admitted as sufficient. ### 2016-09-14 - [[2016-09-14 Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort|Being in the Light Takes Conscious Effort]] The strand in which we help make the field ourselves, stated thinly at [[2016-07-11 Pray Daily|2016-07-11-af-confucius]] and here more strongly, with consent as the hinge: "The conditions of this world and the thought energies of this world which cloud and clog the actions and minds of mankind are powerful indeed and when you choose to engage in these thoughts and these conditions, you bring yourself down from the Light and reinforce a darker place." In the Foundation, [[2016-02-29 Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions|2016-02-29-af-luke]], the field arrives like weather and buffets every soul. Here its hold is consented to, engagement is a choice made thought by thought, and the seeker who engages adds to what he is standing in. One ambiguity recorded and not resolved: "reinforce a darker place" may mean the seeker's own condition rather than the field itself. The role rests on the consent claim, which is unambiguous. ### 2019-02-10 - [[2019-02-10 Choosing Light Over Darkness|Choosing Light Over Darkness]] Light touch: "all of humanity carries a certain amount of darkness within them because the dark conditions of this Earth impinge upon the soul," and prayer for Divine Love "heal the damage of your life" and the places "that are not of light." Same conditions-impinge / heal-with-Love mechanism, though the message's spine is the afterlife-condition teaching rather than the daily-prayer-as-defense argument. ### 2019-03-08 - [[2019-03-08 The Highest Gift of All Is the Blessing of God's Love|The Highest Gift of All Is the Blessing of God's Love]] Adds the resilience facet to the thread whose Foundation is [[2016-02-29 Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions|2016-02-29-af-luke]]. Andrew opens with the thread's signature image - "the cold winds of earth buffet every soul, making for challenging conditions and life experiences that cause much pain, confusion and difficulties" - and gives the grounded-soul response: those who seek God and know the power of prayer stand firm, "all of these winds that blow and buffet you cannot topple you for you are firmly grounded in light. You have God's Hand upon you." Where Luke supplies the mechanism (prayer neutralizes the darkness-field) and Augustine 2023-02-10 supplies the re-sensitization (come awake to the conditions), this adds the note that the soul anchored in Divine Love is not toppled by the winds at all. Complements rather than merely restates. ### 2023-02-10 - [[2023-02-10 The Impediments of Soul Awakening|The Impediments of Soul Awakening]] Develops the thread whose Foundation is [[2016-02-29 Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions|2016-02-29-af-luke]]: humanity is desensitized from childhood and absorbs the world's conditions; one must come awake to these rather than absorb them, neutralize them with light, and the Earth itself is changing to force humanity awake. Shifts the emphasis from Luke's weather-field that buffets the soul to the awakening/re-sensitization needed to meet it. --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **2014-07-26** [[2014-07-26 Free Will Makes for a Free Wheeling World, Nothing Is Guaranteed|Free Will Makes for a Free Wheeling World, Nothing Is Guaranteed]] (witness) - The field described, with what meets it given as a standing relation rather than a daily practice. The conditions are man-made and pressing, "the conditions in the world bring strife, the conditions in the world are far from the conditions in the Celestial Heavens," and what turns them is the alliance itself: "in this alliance that you have with Heaven, with your Creator, with the Love flowing within your lives much of that darkness, much of that chaos, much of those conditions set about by humans, is turned to light and harmony within your lives." Augustine also bounds the field to mortal life: "When you pass into Spirit, these situations, this impinging darkness will not beset you and cause you strife. But until that day, you are mortal." - **2015-03-29** [[2015-03-29 The Greatest of All Types of Healing Is Divine Love Healing|The Greatest of All Types of Healing Is Divine Love Healing]] (witness) - The human condition as an active opponent rather than a passive weight, "it does indeed work against the human condition which is always conspiring to distract and detract from this burning Love." - **2016-05-29** [[2016-05-29 Aman Speaks of the Original State of Humanity and the Fall from Grace|Aman Speaks of the Original State of Humanity and the Fall from Grace]] (sighting) - The world's state traced to accumulated choice rather than to any single cause, in the millennia passage above; recorded once. - **2016-07-11** [[2016-07-11 Pray Daily|Pray Daily]] (sighting) - One thin real facet, the disruptive field partly self-generated ("in many ways you bring your beings out of harmony through all of these pursuits and distractions"); promote only if the self-generated-scatter strand recurs. - **2016-09-03** [[2016-09-03 Pray for Mankind|Pray for Mankind]] (witness) - The generating side of the darkness-field stated actively, "You add to the conditions, you add to the energies of this world in ways that are disruptive, that will bring chaos in time," with humanity as an ongoing contributor rather than an inheritor. That chain is defensive, the field met by daily prayer for respite and protection, and James offers no defensive remedy; his remedy is outward and belongs to the entry above. - **2016-09-03** [[2016-09-03 Love Brings Resolution to Disturbances|Love Brings Resolution to Disturbances]] (considered and set aside) - "keeping the conditions at a higher level" uses that chain's vocabulary, but the conditions are those of a room and a group rather than the world's darkness-field, and no daily-prayer remedy is prescribed. - **2016-09-06** [[2016-09-06 Be with God|Be with God]] (sighting) - The damage attributed to humanity's turning away, "Too long humanity has turned away from God and in this turning away they have done themselves and this world great damage." The generating claim without the field, and without the daily-prayer remedy that chain prescribes. - **2016-11-07** [[2016-11-07 Love Is the Key|Love Is the Key]] (witness) - The world's conditions are usually described in this chain as weather, heaviness, dark clouds. Here they say something: "So much of the world distracts you and brings a message to you that you are unworthy, that humanity is not a beautiful creation of God and this is not true." No prayer remedy is attached, which is what the chain's argument turns on, so it sits alongside. - **2016-11-28** [[2016-11-28 Why Complicate Life|Why Complicate Life?]] (sighting) - The world's conditions described as felt weather, "this world so full of stress and pressure and tightness," with a remedy that is not prayer, "This is a tonic, a blessing that many need." [[2016-08-27 A Description of the Soul and Its Enduring Nature|2016-08-27-af-brother-mandus]] similarly widens the remedy, to love in ordinary contact. - **2016-12-02** [[2016-12-02 A Gift of Joy|A Gift of Joy]] (sighting) - The world's conditions named as what holds joy back, "do not let the conditions of this world and the burdens of the past hold you back from experiencing this joy that is Love," with joy rather than prayer as the remedy, as at [[2016-11-28 Why Complicate Life|2016-11-28-af-goldie]]. - **2016-12-05** [[2016-12-05 Be Scientists of the Soul|Be Scientists of the Soul]] (witness) - The world's pull on attention as a condition rather than a fault, "a world that constantly bombards you with much error, many intellectual thoughts and stimuli... in many cases this is not of your fault or your desire but is a fact of life," with daily prayer as the answer, "each day is a struggle and yet it need not to be so as you start each day with a prayer, with the desire to be close to God." - **2018-06-18** [[2018-06-18 The Reality of the Soul Can Be Merged with the Mind|The Reality of the Soul Can Be Merged with the Mind]] (witness) - The world's thought conditions as an active force shaping what people take to be real, "the thought conditions of this world are powerful indeed and fixate certain realities, understandings, within most of you who dwell upon this earth."