From Poverty To Power Or The Realization Of Prosperity And Peace

Author : Associate Professor of Philosophy James Allen
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230393995
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book From Poverty to Power; Or, the Realization of Prosperity and Peace written by Associate Professor of Philosophy James Allen and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... THE WAY OUT OF UNDESIRABLE CONDITIONS HAVING seen and realized that evil is but a passing shadow thrown by the intercepting self across the transcendent Form of the Eternal Good, and that the world is a mirror in which each sees a reflection of himself, we now ascend by firm and easy steps to that plane of perception whereon is seen and realized the Vision of the Law. With this realization comes the knowledge that everything is included in a ceaseless interaction of cause and effect, and that nothing can possibly be divorced from law. From the most trivial thought, word, or act of man, up to the groupings of the celestial bodies, law reigns supreme. No arbitrary condition can, even for one moment, exist; such a condition would be a denial and an annihilation of law. Every condition of life is, therefore, bound up in an orderly and harmonious sequence, and the secret and cause of every condition is contained within itself. The law, "Whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap," is inscribed in flaming letters upon the portal of Eternity, and none can deny it, none can cheat it, none can escape it. He who puts his hand in the fire must suffer the burning until such time as it has worked itself out, and neither curses nor prayers avail to alter it. Precisely the same law governs the realm of mind. Fear, hatred, anger, jealousy, envy, lust, covetousness, all these are fires that burn, and whoever even so much as touches them must suffer the torments of burning. All these conditions of mind are rightly called evil, for they are the efforts of the soul to subvert, in its ignorance, the law; they, therefore, lead to chaos and confusion within, and are sooner or later actualized in the outward circumstances as disease, failure, and misfortune, ...