Text of the meditation
Error is sifted away. The Gold of Truth remains. Spiritual transmutation consists in an entire reversal of the ordinary self-seeking attitude of mind toward people and things, and this reversal brings about an entirely new set of experiences. Thus the desire for a certain pleasure is abandoned, cut off at its source, and not allowed any place in the consciousness; but the mental force that desire represented is not annihilated; it is transferred to a higher region of thought, transmuted into a purer form of energy.
The law of conservation of energy holds universally in mind as in matter, and the force shut off in lower directions is liberated in higher realms of spiritual activity. The clear and cloudless heights of spiritual enlightenment.
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.
