The practitioners of orational magic may have not realized it yet but he is actually using the simple principle, not anything fanciful or complicated as modern technological jargon, but the utilization of the power of prayer.

Oratio is Latin to pray and oracion is Spanish – prayer hence ora pro nobis, pray for us. When someone prays to a spirit he is not, technically speaking, worshipping that spirit. Relatively, when a lawyer prays his petition to a judge, the lawyer is not worshipping the judge. It is simple request that necessitates judgment. Thus, if the prayer appeals to the judge, he decides to grant the petition and therefore if someone makes an oration and appeals to the spirit the oration is granted.

The word petition itself is suggestive of the nature of the one praying. Petit, is French origin, meaning small. It is therefore incumbent upon the one who is praying, the petitioner, to be of smaller, lower or humbler stature compared to the one for whom the petition is being made; who should have a higher or greater nature. Hence, the petitioner is corporeal, a man; and the one being addressed to, is spiritual; a spirit.

The power of prayer, therefore, lies in its potential to be granted. Orational magic has a greater potential in this world to be granted, it seems; for the simple reason that many lower spirits are available to grant the petitions made. Moreover, Satan is still the Prince of this world until the new world had been created come Judgment Day. But since orational magic and use of incantations are impure in their intentions, one should expect results that are impure. The prayer may of course be granted but expect consequences harmful to the purity of the soul.

The power of the prayer is not dependent on its length and form. Its intentions are its most essential feature. Consider the following parable this writer borrows from the saints: A man who would like to see a miracle has resorted to every means possible in order that he can witness at least one miracle in his lifetime. He therefore brought voluminous books of prayers and recited each of them according to the ritual prescribed. He has chosen in fact to be on top of the mountain so he will not miss any opportunity of seeing the said miracle. But decades have passed and even if he has already memorized the said prayers as a hermit and performed the ritual as a magus he did not see any miracle happen. Then a sinner went up the same holy mountain remorseful and repentant of his sinful ways. He would simply strike his breast and pray; “Forgive me my Lord, I’m a direful sinner.” He even chose to stay halfway up the mountain and hide among the goodness of God. But behold, the heavens opened, and a great angel came down to comfort the repentant sinner. But the magus saw this and was ecstatic and exclaimed: “Behold I have waited many long years to witness this miracle. I have prayed my long rituals and finally, I am rewarded with this miracle.” But the great angel declared unto Him, “but I did not come for you but for that sinner over there for the Lord has found him pleasing unto him.

Such is the mystery of prayer, it is never dependent on form nor length. Its quanta of benefits transcend the dimensions of space and time and one finds the least becomes exalted, and the exalted humbled. And the last becomes first while the first is found to be the last.