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Sacha Weakland
There is nothing like physical pain to drive you to your knees in prayer. For 20 years, I was plagued by crippling back pain and sciatica. Time after time, I cried out to God for His healing power on my body, but nothing improved. Even as a prayer warrior, I grew weary in going to God about the same thing day in and day out.
One of the hardest challenges of the Christian walk is waiting for God to answer our prayers when we urgently need Him to intervene in a circumstance that is breaking our heart, testing our faith, and robbing us of peace and joy. I have been on my knees many times with my Bible in hand, tearfully reminding God of His promises when my husband and I were in a financial crisis, a friend was stricken with a life-threatening disease, or one of my children was in trouble.
And for years, many of my prayers have been centered on my own need for a miracle. In 2017, after 20 years of pain, I had back surgery to un-pinch my spinal cord, replace deteriorated discs, and straighten my back. The surgery was the answer to my prayers in many ways. I am grateful every day that I can now walk without leg pain and do many of the things I love, like working in my garden, standing long enough to bake cookies with my granddaughter, and traveling to speak for World Vision. However, the trauma to the nerves in my back is taking much longer to heal, and I continue to cry out to God.
Remember Naaman and his miracle with the muddy Jordan? Are you looking for a miracle to help with mental health issues? Perhaps the Lord will have you seek counseling and appropriate psychiatric medication. That makes sense. But what if the Spirit advises that in addition to such efforts, He wants you to do more temple and family history work? What in the world would genealogy have to do with mental health management? For most people, perhaps nothing. But if this is part of an individual, heaven-ordained plan for your miracle, then do your best to follow counsel. I know that when the Lord commands, if we follow in faith, we will see results. Trust in and follow any plan that the Lord prescribes to move your mountain.
The brother of Jared was faced with a dilemma. After he and his people arrived at the ocean, he knew that the promised land lie beyond the shores. They needed a way to cross the great waters. He went to work, crafting barges sufficient for such transportation. Shortly after the construction was complete, he discovered two problems. First, the barges were so water-tight that they were air-tight as well, meaning the people inside would surely die during a long journey. Second, when closed the interior was pitch black. He took his problem to the Lord for counsel, perhaps expecting a miracle.
In the case of a typical cleric it's pretty obvious that the spell means that it is actually the cleric's deity that intervenes, but what about a caster that uses miracle from its own Divine Source (as it is gained from some domains at rank 9)? In that case, the deity is the caster!
The special ability Divine Source says a mythic rank 9 creature really can grant the spell miracle to others, so there's no reason to make it just not work or make some other entity solve it instead (as might be the case for oracles, or clerics who revere a concept). So what actually happens when a Divine Source casts miracle through Divine Source?
Not exactly, it could be his herald, or some being that serves him. Direct divine intervention is pretty damn rare and should be saved for rare moments in history, like the closing of the Worldwound or a new god ascending through the Starstone Cathedral.
Golarion's gods are known for (almost) never interfering with the material plane, unless something of catastrophic proportions is going on (see Rovagug). But that's something of the setting and not valid as a rule.
Now, who answers this plead? Well, any being who should be listening and has something to gain from it. Normally it's your god and his servants, as you are a faithful follower of their ideals. But this could also mean any outsider with enough power to carry your request, as long as your ideals and beliefs match.
So a cleric of a concept of Good and Nature could be answered by some Chaotic Good outsider, or demigod, or god. An oracle would call for powers that are likely related to whoever granted her the oracle powers she has. And a mythic character, probably whoever granted him his mythic power, or is the source of that power, or even the character's willpower allowing him to shape reality based on his faith on what he believes (why not, the GM has that power here).
Pretty much any Archfiend (devils) could answer the requests of a Lawful Evil cleric with no deity, for instance. Most would be rejoice if they could talk to someone that powerful and maybe seduce her to be a follower.
For a mythic character who can actually grant miracles to his followers, the GM could send him dozens of small notes with small requests each day (prayers). But when a powerful follower capable of casting miracle, he has the chance to personally answer the call, teleporting to his follower and use his own abilities to solve his problem.
Long story short, you pray to your deity, or powers that you believe, but who they send, or if they appear personally to answer the call, is up to your GM and how awesome he wants that scene to be.
As written, it would appear that a 9th tier mythic character who can grant the Miracle spell and has enough cleric levels to cast Miracle, can grant himself the Miracle. He is basically a minor god at this point. Note that in Golarion, there is currently some sort of divine restriction preventing gods from directly interfering with the world. I personally would rule that a character granting Miracle to himself would run into this restriction, possibly getting himself banished from Golarion.
The "powerful requests" is where it gets interesting, since it is only limited by your imagination. For anyone else the god in question is supplying the mechanics of the change thus the limits are what they will allow and what they can do, when you yourself are supplying it it is undefined what your limits are. As written there is no answer for powerful requests so you need to talk with your DM before you try this. It gets even stranger when one of your clerics cast miracle. I will share some of the house-rules we invented to keep it reasonable.
We decided you could only achieve these more powerful effects within your domains as a divine source, thus those requests also involved a discussion with the DM about what was within our domain of influence. For example a fledgling god of repair should be able fix a damaged demiplane or heal a fatal injury(repair a body) but probably not sway the tide of battle or stop a hurricane (although they should be able to fix the city hit by the hurricane afterwards). Or a fledgling god of war might be able to sway the tide of battle but would not be able to stop an earthquake or remove a city wide curse.
Limiting it to things related to your domains as a demi-god made your 9th tier mythic demi-god feel like a demi-god, by doing things otherwise impossible without turning it into the solution to all problems. this also shows your character is close to reaching the point where they are barred from direct intervention (full fledged god) you are beginning to be able to make direct large scale changes to the world.
We also decided that such "powerful requests" cost mythic power to use (I think we settle on a minimum of 2 mythic points for self-cast, we settled on two because that is what the most powerful form of mythic wish costs and on 1 for requests from worshipers) just to keep it from being too game breaking. It also helped us work out the difference between a full fledged god and a 9th tier mythic, you can only grant a certain number of miracles a day. As a relatively weak godling you should not have that many high level worshipers to begin with. This was done more for ballance more than anything.
We are like Emergency Medical Technicians, the people who come to us in ambulances to bring us to the ER. I like this metaphor because it captures three important elements. Like Emergency Medical Technicians, as miracle-working EMTs we are called upon to:
In the original dictation, the Course gives us a whole map of the mind which was unfortunately edited out of the Foundation for Inner Peace edition (pieces of it remain there, but not the entirety). The map describes various levels of the mind and how they relate to one another. I want to present this map briefly because it is vital to our understanding of how to work miracles. Here it is, in summary:
The state of miracle-mindedness is attained through what I call the internal miracle, given by the Holy Spirit within our minds to shift our perception. In essence, He brings miracle-mindedness from the miracle level of our mind to our conscious mind.
According to the early dictation, the external miracle is a result of miracle-mindedness at the miracle level of the mind generating a miracle-drive which produces miracle impulses. The miracle drive is the strongest drive we have, much stronger than things we think of as drives, like the drive for food or sex. Imagine that!
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