From Passion to Peace

>•>» BF Copy 2 ON VJISSION WitOVETICEm r- r^ :. )^\\\m m ;o<j.f#}M!i fjinrtii FROM PASSION TO PEACE OR €{)e l^at^lDati of tl)e l^ure BY JAMES ALLEN AUTHOR OF **AS A MAN THINKETH," "THE MASTERY OF DESTINY," "FROM POVERTY TO POWER,"

"BYWAYS OF BLESSEDNESS," &C. 2 , ^ ' > * -'^®/...' ■' l^eixj iorft THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. ^ ^^ ^ ^ COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY JAMES ALLEN COMPOSITION AND ELECTROTYPE PLATES BY D. B, UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON Amid the din and strife of men^ The Call Di'vine I hear again ; Its telling is of things apart, Abonje the tumult of the heart.

High oer cohere sin*s dark pathivays ivind Waits the nvise ^willing of the mind ^ Beyond strong Passion s guarded Gates, There Peace aivaits — there Peace aivaits. ifforetPorD THE first three parts of this book, Pas- sion^ Aspiration^ and "TemptatioUy repre- sent the common human life, with its pas- sion, pathos, and tragedy; the last three parts, 'Transcendence^ Beatitude^ and Peace^ present the Divine Life — calm, wise, and beautiful — of the sage and Saviour, The middle part, Transmutation^ is the tran- sitional stage between the two; it is the alchemic process linking the divine with the human life.

Discipline, denial, and re- nunciation do not constitute the Divine State; they are only the means by which it is attained. The Divine Life is established in that Perfed Knowledge which bestows Perfec5l Peace. James Allen Bryngoleu Ilfracomhe^ Devon.

England Content?; PAGE PASSION I ASPIRATION 8 TEMPTATION l6 TRANSMUTATION 24 TRANSCENDENCE 33 BEATITUDE 44. PEACE 50 jftom paMon to ptatt ♦ THE pathway of the saints and sages; the road of the wise and pure; the highway along which the Saviours have trod, and which all Saviours to come will also walk — such is the subjeft of this book; such is the high and holy theme which the author briefly expounds in these pages.

Passion is the lowest level of human life. None can descend lower. In its chilling swamps and concealing darkness creep and crawl the creatures of its sunless world. Lust, hatred, covetousness, pride, vanity, greed, revenge, envy, spite, retaliation, slander, backbiting, lying, theft, deceit, treachery, cruelty, suspicion, jealousy — such are the brute forces and blind, unreasoning im- pulses that inhabit the underworld of pas- sion, and roam, devouring and devoured, [ ^ ] jFrom passion to Peace in the rank primeval jungles of the human mind.