September
The Light of Reason
September 1903
Published Monthly
Edit by James Allen
Vol. 4. September 1st, 1903 No. 9
Devoted to:
The expounding of the laws of being and the higher life.
Published monthly by:
The Savoy Publishing Company
Savoy Steps, Strand, London
All light, all wisdom, all love, are within each one of us. In the hidden place of our being they are the Reality of our life. —L. C.
| Announcements |
Editor |
| Editorial |
Editor |
| Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control |
Tennyson |
| Brotherhood |
James Allen |
| Pure Thoughts (Poem) |
Silvia Cowles |
| Sensuality, arrogance, or false pride, and selfishness or hatred, are the basic causes of all men's misfortunes, while temperance, justice, and love are the virtues or principles that lead upward. |
Arthur F. Milton |
| The longer we live the more we realize the folly and vulgarity of ill-temper, the cruelty of severe criticism, and the necessity for a broad-minded view of life, manners, morals, and customs. |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| Man, seek no longer the origin of evil; thou thyself art its origin. |
Rousseau |
| The Sermon on Abuse |
Paul Carus |
| While so many think it the only valor to command and master others, study thou the dominion of thyself, and quiet thine own commotion. |
Sir Thomas Browne |
| It is perilous to refer the evil in us to any source out of and beyond ourselves; in this way penitence becomes impossible, fictitious. |
F. W. Robertson |
| A hater may do great harm to a hater, or an enemy to an enemy; but a wrongly directed mind will do greater mischief unto himself. |
Buddha |
| The Three Dimensions (Part 1) |
W. H. Gill |
| God and Man |
E. H. Physick |
| Love alone is might |
George MacDonald |
| A Vision of Truth |
Winifred A. Cook |
| Ideals (Poem) |
R. Dimsdale Stocker |
| It is from the inborn dictates of conscience and the inspired principle of duty that the finest growths of character have arisen. |
Samuel Smiles |
| I see a new religion arising, basing itself on trust in man; calling to the hitherto unstirred depths of loyalty in him,—believing that he can love the good without thought of a reward, that the heaven of principle can reign in the human breast. |
W. M. Salter |
| Soul-Life |
Truthseeker |
| Being and Doing |
John Burroughs |
| A Dream of the Hereafter |
C. Dyke |
| Why Do We Wait? (Poem) |
James Wilfred Cryer |
| The wise man lives in the world with modest restraint, but his heart goes out in sympathy to all. |
Lao-Tze |
| Be Still |
L. C. |
| A Prayer (Poem) |
Winifred A. Cook |
| Not till we are ready to throw our very life’s love into the troublesome little things can we be really faithful in that which is least, and faithful also in much. |
James Reed |
| Harmony |
Lily Boyd |
| Open your hearts to the sunshine of eternal truth, and let divine thoughts descend upon you like raindrops from heaven. |
Franz Hartmann |
| Substantial Comfort |
A. B.
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| Therefore if my heart were right |
George MacDonald |
| Thoughts on Love |
J. Caspar Alston |
| Every thought that is not in harmony with the Law of Love must surely be expiated with much suffering by the thinker. |
Charles B. Newcomb |
| Self-assertion tends to brutalize manners; is always threatening social intercourse. |
Frederick Denison Maurice |
| A Song of Law |
K. P. |
| No myth is necessary to arouse ardor for the good and the emotion of universal brotherhood. |
Guyan |
| Our Talk With Correspondents |
Editor |
| Reviews of Books |
Editor |
| Magazines Received |
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