Text of the meditation
The Christ is the Spirit of Love. When Jesus said, "Without Me you can do nothing," He spoke not of His perishable form, but of the Universal Spirit of Love, of which His conduct was a perfect manifestation; and this utterance of His is the statement of a simple truth; for the works of people are vain and worthless when they are done for personal ends, and they remain perishable beings, immersed in darkness and fearing death, so long as they live in their personal gratifications.
The animal in us can never respond to and know the divine; only the divine can respond to the divine. The spirit of hatred in us can never vibrate in unison with the Spirit of Love; Love only can apprehend Love, and become linked with it. A human being is divine; they are of the substance of Love; this they may realise if they will relinquish the impure, personal elements they have until now been blindly following, and will fly to the impersonal Realities of the Christ Spirit.
In this Principle of Love, all knowledge, Intelligence and Wisdom are contained.
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.
