Text of the meditation
Become established in Immortality, Heaven and the Spirit, which make up the Empire of Light. Entering into the Infinite is not a mere theory or sentiment. It is a vital experience that is the result of assiduous practice in inward purification. When the body is no longer, even remotely, taken to be the real person; when all appetites and desires are thoroughly subdued and purified; when the emotions are rested and calm; and when the oscillation of the intellect ceases and perfect poise is secured, then, and not till then, does consciousness become one with the Infinite; not till then are childlike wisdom and profound peace secured.
People grow weary and grey over the dark problems of life, and finally pass away and leave them unsolved because they cannot see their way out of the darkness of the personality, being too much engrossed in its limitations. Seeking to save their personal life, a person forfeits the greater impersonal Life of Truth; clinging to the perishable, they are shut out from a knowledge of the Eternal.
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.
