Category: Philosophy & Ethics

The Life Radiant

THE SUPREME ILLUMINATION 24 CREATING THE NEW WORLD 26 ELIMINATING ANXIETIES 33 HEAVEN'S PERFECT HOUR 37 LOVE AND GOOD WILL 46 THE DIVINER POSSIBILITIES 51 THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST 64

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

THE SUPREME ILLUMINATION 24 CREATING THE NEW WORLD 26 ELIMINATING ANXIETIES 33 HEAVEN'S PERFECT HOUR 37 LOVE AND GOOD WILL 46 THE DIVINER POSSIBILITIES 51 THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST 64

2. Chapter 2

pledging his faith at the Altar of Perpetual Adoration that one has only but to believe in happiness and make room for it in his life in order to live in this constant exhilarat...

3. Chapter 3

Physicians and scientists have long since recognized that intense mental depression is as inevitably an accompaniment of _la grippe_ as are its physical symptoms, and the more f...

4. Chapter 4

The deepest loyalty to the divine ideal involves, however, not only the striving after perfection, but the charity for imperfection. To denounce evil is a part of rectitude; to...

5. Chapter 5

"Along certain lines, with certain limitations, he argued, a working knowledge of the things of the future was practicable and possible. As during the past century the amazing s...

6. Chapter 6

In these lines lies the secret of all that makes for that mental and moral energy whose union is spiritual power. The question of what happens to one daily and constantly, as we...

7. Chapter 7

This absolute personal control of each man over his own future lies in a twofold power: the one being that integrity, moral purpose, aspirations, have a creative power of the mo...

8. Chapter 8

"It is, I suppose, inevitable that timid hearts, rooted in the traditions of the past, iron-bound in antiquated definitions, should imagine that the foundations of faith are sha...

9. Chapter 9

Perhaps the initial step is that of clearly realizing--of holding the luminous conception--of one's self as a spiritual being in the psychical body, _temporarily inhabiting_ a p...

10. Chapter 10

The great truth of life--that which we may well hold as its central and controlling and dominating truth--is that "our best moments are not departures from ourselves, but are re...

11. Chapter 11

"To work, to help and to be helped, to learn sympathy through suffering, to learn faith by perplexity, to reach truth through wonder,--behold! this is what it is to prosper, thi...

12. Chapter 12

Is there not, then, a need for the gospel of one's own endeavor? that a given line of work, plainly revealed in hours of mystic communion with the Divine, indicated by the subtl...

13. Chapter 13

Every deed granted forbade the sale of intoxicating liquors. The town was founded in the purest moral ideals of education, culture, faith, and prayer, and Greeley is everywhere...

14. Chapter 14

One may tread,--not the "whole round of creation," as Browning phrases it, but a minor segment of it, at least, and come back with added and more profound conviction that happin...

15. Chapter 15

One comes to know, for instance, of an act of his neighbor's which is really one of treachery and betrayal of trust. Circumstances arise in which he could put his finger upon th...

16. Chapter 16

It is a phase in which one feels his own peculiar sorrow as the most unendurable of all. Perhaps it is--but one _must_ abandon that point of view. "That way madness lies." His l...

17. Chapter 17

"That paragraph from Doctor Parkhurst expresses my idea regarding immortality. There must be a master (good) thought or passion. It is the angel with wings that wafts the soul w...

18. Chapter 18

For this alone is the Life Radiant. It may not be ease or pleasure, but it is that ceaseless joy of the soul that may be the daily experience of every human being. And to gain t...

19. Chapter 19

Kaiser Wilhelm II., the, 150. Kelvin, Lord, 263. Kerchsoff, 337. Kingsford, Dr. Anna, née Bonus, remarkable mystic writings of, 255; marriage of, 256; theories of, 257, 259; rem...