Efficacy of prayer — Mythoi

Motif

Efficacy of prayer.

Religion. · Religious beliefs. · Particular dogmas. · view the constellation · filed as V316

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Literary Crystallization Masnavi i Ma'navi: The Spiritual Couplets (abridged) , Book 6, Story 6
Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter III: Thoth the Master of Wisdom
Reference The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged) , Chapter III III. Sympathetic Magic
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 5, Section CXCIX

Filed across the traditions

Jewish *Neuman.

Within the index

Filed under Particular dogmas.

1 finer motif beneath it

"He that asks shall receive." Hermit wants to prove truth of these words of the Gospel and asks for the hand of the princess. Performs the difficult task imposed upon him

Filed beside it

Belief in the life to come Belief in Immaculate Conception. (Cf. T510.) Last judgment Belief in the Atonement The chosen people

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