October
The Light of Reason
October 1903 Published Monthly Edit by James Allen Vol. 5. October 1st , 1903 No. 10 Devoted to: The expounding of the laws of being and the higher life. Published monthly by: The Savoy Publishing Company Savoy Steps, Strand, London It is not the stress of circumstances which are external to use that desires us; it is our own weakness within ourselves that does so. —R. Dimsdale Stocker
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The Three Worlds
James Allen
Speak the truth; do not yield to anger; give if thou art asked; by these three steps thou wilt become divine.
Buddha
Heaven (Poem)
H. L. Koopman
Those whom we must love and admire are those to whom the thought of self seems never to occur; who do simply, and with no ulterior aim, that which is good, and right, and generous.
J. A. Froude
Passion and Hell
Rev. F. M. Bennett
Upward (Poem)
Angela Hope
A Vision
H. Twelvetrees
Wisdom, Knowledge, and Truth (Poem)
Amber Elizabeth Robinson
That by which a man conquers in any passage is a profound secret to every other being in the world, and it is only as he turns his back upon us and all men, and draws on this most private wisdom that any good can come to him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only abounding love and trust and faith that produce abounding energy. To him who believes in nothing, nothing can exist. It is the exhaustion of the spiritual atmosphere.
Lilian Whiting
It is well to fight one foe at a time; to cast away, by conquest, one bad habit, and replace it by a new and better one.
Ruth Lamb
The supreme message of science to this age is, that all Nature is on the side of the man who tries to rise.
Henry Drummond
The Three Dimensions (Part II)
W. H. Gill
Hold thou! Where runnest thou? Know Heaven is in thee!
Angelus Silesius
The love that sees goodness and beauty in all human nature helps to make goodness.
Dean Farrar
No Vision, No Life
J. S. F. Miller
If thou desirest peace of mind and true unity of purpose, thou must still put all things behind thee, and look upon thyself.
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Love or Justice
Arthur F. Milton
Only by choosing the good in presence of the evil are true manhood and real maturity gained.
Dr. Marcus Dods
Right action is true thought realized. Every fragment of right done is so much truth made visible.
Bishop Westcott
Happiness
Emma Allum
One Day (Poem)
Florence M. Solomon
Obstacles
Mariella
A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which Nature works.
Emerson
Fruits of Meditation
R. Dimsdale Stocker
Not the brilliancy of success, but the purity of his endeavors and faithful perseverance in duty, even when the result is scarcely visible, will decide as to the value of a man’s life.
Von Moltke
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