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176 In this spirit and acknowledgment, prayer for health and restoration to active usefulness may be offered for one's self, or for others; and it is impossible to overestimate its possible effect. It is an active agent in a spiritual world where space is an appearance, where thought brings presence, where love conjoins, and good-will is felt. Directed to the Lord Jesus Christ, as the visible God in whom is the invisible, it penetrates heaven; carrying the case of another in love and thought to Him, it brings that other into the sphere of faith in which it is offered; it affects all in the spiritual world within this circle of personality—the spirits about us and about the person who is the subject of our desire and thought. Swedenborg tells us that "supplication, although tacit, with those who supplicate from the heart, is heard as a cry in heaven. This is the case when such only think, much more when they groan from a sincere heart." Think, then, of all the influences of goodwill, enlightenment, power and healing, waiting in heaven to flow down through the world of spirits to man, by every way that opens. The source is inexhaustible. The impulse is continually towards us. The flow is measured only by the truth,