Text of the meditation
To the faithful, humble and true will be revealed the sublime Vision of the Perfect One. Good news indeed is that message of Jesus which reveals to humanity its divine possibilities; which says in substance to sin-stricken humanity, "Take up your bed and walk"; which tells us that we need no longer remain creatures of darkness and ignorance and sin, if we will only believe in Goodness, and will watch and strive and conquer until we have actualised in our lives the Goodness that is sinless.
And in thus believing and overcoming, we have not only the guide of that Perfect Rule which Jesus embodied in His precepts, but also the inward Guide, the Spirit of Truth in our own hearts, "the Light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world," which, as we follow it, will infallibly witness to the divine origin of those precepts.
Realise the perfect Goodness of the Eternal Christ.
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.
