Text of the meditation
To become possessed of a knowledge of the Law of Love, to enter into conscious harmony with it, is to become immortal, invincible and indestructible. It is because of the effort of the soul to realise this Law that people come again and again to live, to suffer and to die; and when it is realised, suffering ceases, personality is dispersed, and the fleshly life and death are destroyed, for consciousness becomes one with the Eternal.
The Law is absolutely impersonal, and its highest manifested expression is that of Service. When the purified heart has realised Truth, it is then called upon to make the last, the greatest and holiest sacrifice: the sacrifice of the well-earned enjoyment of Truth.
It is by virtue of this sacrifice that the divinely emancipated soul comes to dwell among the lowliest and least, and to be esteemed the servant of all humankind. The Spirit of Love alone is singled out as worthy to receive the unstinted worship of posterity.
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.
