The Magical Use of Prayer Beads by Jean-Louis de Biasi

336 Pages
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
Release Date: April 8, 2016

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Prayers, Rituals, Meditation

The book is broken down into these chapters.

Chapter 1: What are prayer beads
Chapter 2: Main principles for a successful practice
Chapter 3: Consecration of your prayer beads
Chapter 4: Qabalistic tradition
Chapter 5: Hermetic tradition
Chapter 6: Wiccan tradition
Chapter 7: Druid tradition

There is a consecration ritual and blessing ritual to be performed before using your prayer beads. After performing these rituals, the reader can decide which chapter to read next. The rest of the book discusses the different religions that use prayer beads. Each of these chapters contains the purpose of using prayer beads, description of the beads (including the number of beads), symbolism of the beads, meditation, and rituals.

Prayer beads have always been in my life in some for When I was young, my grandmother gave me a set of Rosary beads. I still have them today in a little box. When I was in my teens, I was able to travel to Italy and Greece. I noticed so many people rubbing small beads on a piece of leather. I learned they were called “worry beads.” About 15 years ago I made my own set of element prayer beads and loved the feel of them in hands. Recently I purchased a set of Mala beads and I would like to use them but wasn’t sure what to do with them. Although, this book only mentions these beads in the introduction, I felt I could adapt some of the meditations and rituals listed to use them.

I really liked the consecration and blessings rituals for the prayer beads and plan on doing them on a regular basis. If you are interested in using prayer beads from one of the listed traditions, I highly recommend this book. The meditations and rituals are very easy to follow.