Prayer
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: prayer the idea
prayer · al-ṣalāh · masjid · place of prayer · praying · the delight of my eye has been set in prayer
in the texts
Stromata
The gnostic's continual, thankful, and rightly-ordered prayer.
For thus the gnostic both gives his prayer to those in need, and provides what comes through prayer, at once without their knowing and without ostentation.
And the very form of the prayer is thanksgiving—both for the things gone before, and for things present, and for things to come, as already present through faith.
For his whole life is a prayer and a converse with God;
Meditations
The act of petitioning the gods, reframed by Stoic ethics to concern inner freedom rather than external outcomes.
" In short, turn your prayers this way, and see what comes of it.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Ritual prayer, named in two of the quoted proofs.
“Take your adornment at every place of prayer.