Review of "The Way to Peace" by James Allen
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Inner peace precedes prosperity. In 'The Way to Peace' James Allen (author of "as a man
thinketh" also known as "as a man thinks") explains how man can achieve lasting peace.
'There is no way to the acquirement of spiritual power except by that inward illumination and
enlightenment which is the realization of spiritual principles; and those principles can only
be realized by constant practice and application. Take the principle of divine Love, and
quietly and diligently meditate upon it with the object of arriving at a thorough understanding
of it. Bring its searching light to bear upon all your habits, your actions, your speech and
intercourse with others, your every secret thought and desire. As you persevere in this
course, the divine Love will become more and more perfectly revealed to you and your own
shortcomings will stand out in more and more vivid contrast, spurring you on to renewed
endeavor; and having once caught a glimpse of the incomparable majesty of that imperishable
principle, you will never again rest in your weakness, your selfishness, your imperfection, but
will pursue that Love until you have relinquished every discordant element, and have brought
yourself into perfect harmony with it. And that state of inward harmony is spiritual power.'
According to James Allen lasting peace cannot be found in the things from the earth.
'Ever striving to believe that complete satisfaction is to be found in material things, he is
conscious of an inward and persistent revolt against this belief, which revolt is at once a
refutation of his essential mortality, and an inherent and imperishable proof that only in
the immortal, the eternal, the infinite can he find abiding satisfaction and unbroken peace.
And here is the common ground of faith; here the root and spring of all religion; here the soul
of Brotherhood and the heart of Love, - that man is essentially and spiritually divine and eternal,
and that, immersed in mortality and troubled with unrest, he is ever striving to enter into a
consciousness of his real nature. The spirit of man is inseparable from the Infinite, and can
be satisfied with nothing short of the Infinite, and the burden of pain will continue to weigh
upon man's heart, and the shadows of sorrow to darken his pathway until, ceasing from his
wanderings in the dream-world of matter, he comes back to his home in the reality of the
Eternal.'
CONTENTS
The Power of Meditation
The Two Masters, Self and Truth
The Acquirement of Spiritual Power
The Realization of Selfless Love
Entering into the Infinite
Saints, Sages, and Saviors: The Law of Service
The Realization of Perfect Peace