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    The Shining Gateway
    The Shining Gateway
    The Shining Gateway
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    The Shining Gateway

    By James Allen

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    James Allen was a British philosophical writer and poet and a pioneer of the self-help movement. At the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most popular writers on spirituality, his many books comforting millions of readers with their simple, unpretentious wisdom about living a joyful life.

    This book is one of Allen's deepest works, dealing with fundamental principles of the human experience. It is is a guide to meditation and the use of the power of positive thinking. Compiled after his death, it covers topics such as actions and motives, dealing with temptation, religion, and more.

    “Be watchful, fearless, faithful, patient, pure:
    By earnest meditation sound the depths
    Profound of life, and scale the heights sublime
    Of Love and Wisdom. He who does not find
    The Way of Meditation cannot reach
    Emancipation and enlightenment” –James Allen
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG&D Media
    Release dateAug 11, 2019
    ISBN9781722523398
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    James Allen

    James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. He took his first job at age 15 to support his family, after his father was murdered while looking for work in America. Allen was employed as a factory knitter and a private secretary until the early 1900s, when he became increasingly known for his motivational writing. His 1903 work As a Man Thinketh earned him worldwide fame as a prophet of inspirational thinking and influenced a who's-who of self-help writers, including Napoleon Hill.

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      The Shining Gateway - James Allen

      The Shining Gateway of Meditation

      Be watchful, fearless, faithful, patient, pure:

      By earnest meditation sound the depths

      Profound of life, and scale the heights sublime

      Of Love and Wisdom. He who does not find

      The Way of Meditation cannot reach

      Emancipation and enlightenment.

      The unregenerate man is subject to these three things—desire, passion, sorrow. He lives habitually in these conditions, and neither questions nor examines them. He regards them as his life itself, and cannot conceive of any life apart from them. Today he desires, tomorrow he indulges his passions, and the third day he grieves; by these three things (which are always found together) he is impelled, and does not know why he is so impelled; the inner forces of desire and passion arise, almost automatically, within him, and he gratifies their demands sans question; led on blindly by his blind desires, he falls, periodically, into the ditches of remorse and sorrow. His condition is not merely unintelligible to him, it is unperceived; for so immersed is he in the desire (or self) consciousness that he cannot step outside of it, as it were, to examine it.

      To such a man the idea of rising above desire and suffering into a new life where such things do not obtain seems ridiculous. He associates all life with the pleasurable gratification of desire, and so, by the law of reaction, he also lives in the misery of afflictions, fluctuating ceaselessly between pleasure and pain.

      When reflection dawns in the mind, there arises a sense (dim and uncertain at first) of a calmer, wiser, and loftier life; and as the stages of introspection and self-analysis are reached, this sense increases in clearness and intensity, so that by the time the first three stages are fully completed, a conviction of the reality of such a life and of the possibility of attaining it is firmly fixed in the mind. Such conviction, which consists of a steadfast belief in the supremacy of purity and goodness over desire and passion, is called faith. Such faith is the stay, support, and comfort of the man who, while yet in the darkness, is searching earnestly for the Light, which breaks upon him for the first time in all its dazzling splendour and ineffable majesty when he enters the Shining Gateway of Meditation. Without such faith he could not stand for a single day against the trials, failures, and difficulties which beset him continually, much less could he courageously fight and overcome them, and his final conquest and salvation would be impossible.

      Upon entering the stage of meditation, faith gradually ripens into knowledge, and the new regenerate life begins to be realised in its quiet wisdom, calm beauty, and ordered strength, and day by day its joy and splendour increase.

      The final conquest over sin is now assured. Lust, hatred, anger, covetousness, pride and vanity, desire for pleasure, wealth, and fame, worldly honour and power—all these have become dead things shortly to pass away for ever; there is no more life nor happiness in them; they have no part in the life of the regenerate one, who knows that he can never again go back to them, for now the old man of self and sin is dead, and the new man of Love and Purity is born within him. He has become (or becomes, as the process of meditation ripens and bears fruit) a new being, one in whom Purity, Love, Wisdom, and Peaceful ness are the ruling qualities, and wherein strifes, envies, suspicions, hatreds, and jealousies cannot find lodgment. Old things have passed away, and, behold, all things have become new; men and things are seen in a different light, and a new universe is unveiled; there is no confusion; as out of the inner chaos of conflicting desires, passions, and sufferings the new being arises, there arises in the outer world of apparently irreconcilable conditions a new Cosmos, ordered, sequential, harmonious, ineffably glorious, faultless in equity.

      Meditation is a process both of purification and adjustment. Aspiration is the purifying element, and the harmonising power resides in the intellectual train of thought involved.

      When the stage of meditation is reached and entered upon, two distinct processes of spiritual transmutation

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