Text of the meditation
Rise above the allurements of sin, and enter the Divine Consciousness, the Transcendent Life. There comes a time in the process of transmutation when, with the decrease of evil and the accumulation of good, there dawns in the mind a new vision, a new consciousness, a new person.
And when this is reached, the saint has become a sage; they have passed from the human life to the divine life. They are "born again," and a new round of experiences begins for them; they wield a new power; a new universe opens out before their spiritual gaze. This is the stage of Transcendence; this I call the Transcendent Life.
When Transcendence is attained, the limited personality is outgrown, and the divine life is known; evil is transcended, and Good is all in all. As passion is the keynote of the self-life, so serenity is the keynote of the transcendent life.
James Allen (1864–1912), Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913) – public-domain text, gently modernised.
The original 1913 text is in the public domain.
