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The Shining Gateway. By James Allen.
Contents
1. Editor’s foreword
2. The Shining Gateway of Meditation
3. Temptation
4. Regeneration
5. Actions and Motives
6. Morality and Religion
7. Memory, Repetition, and Habit
8. Words and Wisdom
9. Truth Made Manifest
10. Spiritual Humility
11. Spiritual Strength
Editor’s foreword
Students of the works of James Allen all over the world will welcome with joy another book
from his able pen. In this work we find the Prophet of Meditation in one of his deepest and yet
most lucid expositions. How wonderfully he deals with fundamental principles ! Here the reader
will find no vague statement of generalities, for the writer enters with tender reverence into every
detail of human experience. It is as though he came back to The Shining Gate, and, standing
there, he reviewed all the way up which his own feet have travelled, passing over no temptation
that is common to man; knowing that the obstacles that barred his ascending pathway, or the
clouds that at times obscured his vision, are the common experiences of all those who have set
their faces towards the heights of Blessed Vision. As we read his words now, he seems to stand
and beckon to us, saying, "Come on, my fellow Pilgrims; it is straight ahead to the Shining
Gateway ; I have blazed the track for you." In sending forth this, another posthumous volume
from his pen, we have no doubt but that it will help many and many an aspiring soul up to the
heights, until at last they too stand within The shining Gateway.
LILY L. ALLEN.
"Bryngoleu," Ilfracombe, ENGLAND
Behold the shining gateway
He who attaineth unto Purity
The faultless Parthenon of Truth doth use
Awake ! Disperse the dreams of self and sin ?
Behold the Shining Gateway! Enter in!
1. 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. To-day he desires, to-morrow he
