James allen’s

Book of Meditations
For Every Day In the Year
(Compiled by his wife Lilly L. Allen, after his death)

Published 1913

By Thought we rise; by Thought we fall, by Thought We stand or go; all destiny is wrought By its swift potency , and he who stands Master of Thought, and his desires commands, Willing and weaving thoughts of Love and Alight, Shapes his high end in ’Truth’s unerring Light.

He who does not find The way of Meditation cannot reach Emancipation and enlightenment. But thou wilt find the way of Holy Thought; With mind made calm and steadfast, thou will see The Permanent amid the mutable, The Truth eternal in the things that change: Thou wilt behold the Perfect Law: Cosmos From Chaos rises when the conquered self Lies underneath man’s heel: Love be thy strength; Look on the passion-tortured multitudes, And have compassion on them; know their pain By thy long sorrow ended. Thou wilt come To perfect peace, and so wilt bless the world, Leading unto the High and Holy Way The feet of them that seek.—And now I go To my Abode; go thou unto thy work.

Editor’s preface James Allen may truly be called the Prophet of Meditation. In an age of strife, hurry, religious controversy, heated arguments, ritual and ceremony, he came with his message of Meditation, calling men away from the din and strife of tongues into the peaceful paths of stillness within their own souls, where the Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world ever burns steadily and surely for all who will turn their weary eyes from the strife without to the quiet within. Many of the Meditations were written as he came down from the Cairn in the early morning, where he spent those precious hours alone with God while the world slept. Others are gleaned from his many writings, published and unpublished, and are arranged for daily readings at his request, and, we believe, under his spiritual guidance. The book must ever be a stronghold of Spiritual Truth and blessing