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Heavenly Life by James Allen explores the attainment of inner peace and spiritual enlightenment through purity of thought and selflessness. It emphasizes living in harmony with universal truths, cultivating virtues like love, patience, and wisdom, and transcending personal desires to experience a life of divine serenity and true happiness.
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Heavenly life
James Allen
The Divine Center
THE secret of life, of the abundant life, with its strength, its happiness and its uninterrupted peace, is to find the Divine Center within oneself, and to live in and from it, instead of in that outer circumference of disturbances - the clamors, yearnings and arguments which constitute the animal and intellectual man. These selfish elements constitute the mere chaos of life, and must be discarded by him who would penetrate into the Central Heart of things - into Life itself.
Not to know what is within you that is immutable and defies time and death, is to know nothing, but to play vainly with the in-substantial reflections of the Mirror of Time. Not to find within you those Passionless Principles that are not moved by the struggles and spectacles and vanities of the world, is to find nothing but illusions that fade as they are grasped.
He who resolves that he will not be satisfied with appearances, shadows, illusions, will, by the penetrating light of that resolution, disperse all fleeting fantasy, and enter into the substance and reality of life. He will learn to see and live. He will be the slave of no passion, the servant of no opinion, the votary of no error. Finding the Divine Center within his own heart, he will be pure and calm and strong and wise, and will incessantly radiate the Heavenly Life in which he lives - which is himself.
Having surrendered to the Divine Refuge within, and abiding there, a man is free from sin. All his yesterdays are like the sands washed by the tide and not trodden under foot; no sin shall rise up against him to
torment him and accuse him and destroy his sacred peace; the fires of remorse cannot scorch him, nor can the storms of regret devastate his dwelling. His tomorrows are like seeds that will germinate, sta- lling in beauty and potency of life, and no doubt shall shake his confidence, no uncertainty rob him of repose. The present is his, only in the immortal present does he live, and it is like the eternal vault of blue that looks silently and calmly, but radiant with purity and light, upon the upturned and tear-stained faces of the ages.
Men love their desires, because gratification seems sweet to them, but its end is pain and emptiness; they love the arguments of the intellect, because selfishness seems to them most desirable, but its fruits are human suffering and pain. When the soul has reached the finish of gratification and reaped the bitter fruits of selfishness, it is ready to receive the Divine Sanctity and enter into the Divine Life. Only the crucified can transfi- gure; only by the death of self can the Lord of the heart rise again to the Immortal Life, and remain radiant upon the Olive Tree of Wisdom.
Do you have your tests? Every outward trial is the replica of an inward imperfection. Thou wilt grow wise knowing this, and so transmute trial into active joy, finding the Kingdom where trial cannot come. When wilt thou learn thy lessons, O son of earth? All thy sorrows cry out against thee; every pain is thy just accuser, and thy sorrows are but the shadows of thy unworthy and perishable self. The Kingdom of Heaven is thine; how far wilt thou refuse it, prefiring the lurid atmosphere of the infierno, the infierno of thy selfish self?
Where the self is not, there is the Garden of Heavenly Life, and "There the healing streams spring forth....
There florecen the immortal flores.
Carpeting all the way with joy! There the swiftest and sweetest hours crowd!"
The redeemed children of God, the glorified in body and spirit, have been "bought with a price," and that price is the crucifixion of personhood, the death of self; and having cast off the inner self which is the source of all discord, they have found the universal Music, the abiding Joy.
Life is more than movement, it is Music; more than rest, it is Peace; more than work, it is Duty; more than work, it is Love; more than enjoyment, it is Bliss; more than acquiring money and position and reputation, it is Knowledge, Purpose, strong and lofty Resolution.
Let the impure turn to Purity, and they shall be pure; let the weak turn to Strength, and they shall be strong; let the ignorant fly to Knowledge, and they shall be wise. All things are man's, and he chooses what he wills to have. Today he chooses in ignorance, tomorrow he will choose in Wisdom. He will "work out his own salvation" whether he believes it or not, for he cannot escape from himself, nor transfer to another the eternal responsibility for his own soul. By no theological subterfuge will he deceive the Law of his being, which will overthrow all his artifices and selfish excuses for right thinking and right acting. Nor will God do for him what his soul is destined to do for itself. What would you say of a man who, wanting to possess a mansion in which to dwell peacefully, bought the lot and then knelt down and asked God to build the house for him? Would you not say that he was foolish? And of another man who, having bought the land, set to work the architects, builders and carpenters to erect the building, would you not say that he was wise? And as it happens in the building of a material house, so it happens in the building of a spiritual mansion. Brick by brick, pure thought upon pure thought, good deed upon good deed, the dwelling of a blameless life must rise from its sure foundation, until at last it excels in all the majesty of its blameless proportions.
It is not by whim, nor by gift, nor by favor that man obtains spiritual realities, but by diligence, vigilance, energy and effort.
"Strong is the soul, and wise and beautiful;
The seeds of God's power are still in us; Gods we are, bards, saints, heroes, if we will."
The spiritual Heart of man is the Heart of the universe, and, finding that Heart, man finds the strength to accomplish all things. There he also finds the Wisdom to see things as they are. There he finds the Peace that is divine. At the center of the human being is the Music that orders the stars: Eternal Harmony. He who wishes to find Bliss, let him find himself; let him abandon every disharmonious desire, every inharmonious thought, every unpleasant habit and act, and let him find himself.
He will find the Grace, Beauty and Harmony that form the indestructible essence of his own being.
Men fly from creed to creed, and find - uneasiness; they travel through many lands, and discover - disappointment; they build themselves beautiful mansions, and plant pleasant gardens, and reap - weariness and discomfort. It is not until a man falls back into the Truth within himself that he finds rest and satisfaction; it is not until he builds the inner Mansion of Blameless Conduct that he finds Joy without end and incorruptible, and, having obtained that, he will infuse it into all his outward actions and possessions.
