From Passion to Peace

By James Allen

These are James Allen’s thoughts on personal fulfillment. The first three parts of this book, Passion, Aspiration, and Temptation, represent the common human life, with its passion, pathos, and tragedy. The last three parts, Transcendence, Beatitude, and Peace, represents the Divine Life-calm, wise and beautiful-of the sage and Savior. The middle part, Transmutation, is the transitional stage between the two; it is the alchemic process linking the divine with the human life. Discipline, denial, and renunciation do not constitute the Divine State; they are only the means by which it is attained.







“The Divine Life is established in that Perfect Knowledge which bestows Perfect Peace." – James Allen

• Language: English
• Publisher: G&D Media
• Release date: Aug 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781722523473

James Allen

James Allen was born in Leicester, England, in 1864. He took his first job at age 15 to support his family, after his father was murdered while looking for work in America. Allen was employed as a factory knitter and a private secretary until the early 1900s, when he became increasingly known for his motivational writing. His 1903 work As a Man Thinketh earned him worldwide fame as a prophet of inspirational thinking and influenced a who's-who of self-help writers, including Napoleon Hill.

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From Passion to Peace

JAMES ALLEN TITLES

Above Life’s Turmoil

All These Things Added

As a Man Thinketh

Byways of Blessedness

Eight Pillars of Prosperity

Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success

From Passion to Peace

From Poverty to Power

James Allen’s Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year

Light on Life’s Difficulties

Man: King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance

Men and Systems

Morning and Evening Thoughts

Out from the Heart

Poems of Peace

The Life Triumphant

The Mastery of Destiny

The Shining Gateway

Through the Gate of Good

From Passion to Peace

James Allen

Published 2019 by Gildan Media LLC

aka G&D Media

www.GandDmedia.com

No part of this book may be used, reproduced or transmitted in any manner whatsoever, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. No liability is assumed with respect to the use of the information contained within. Although every precaution has been taken, the author and publisher assume no liability for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request

ISBN: 978-1-7225-0253-9

eISBN: 978-1-7225-2347-3

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Contents

Foreword

Passion

Aspiration

Temptation

Transmutation

Transcendence

Beatitude

Peace

James Allen: A Memoir

by Lily L. Allen

About the Author

Foreword

The first three parts of this book—Passion, Aspiration, and Temptation—represent the common human life, with its passion, 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 transitional stage between the two; it is the alchemic process linking the divine with the human life. Discipline, denial, and renunciation do not constitute the Divine State; they are only the means by which it is attained. The Divine Life is established in that Perfect Knowledge which bestows Perfect Peace.

—James Allen

Bryngoleu,

Ilfracombe, England

Passion

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 subject 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 impulses that inhabit the underworld of passion, and roam, devouring and devoured, in the rank, primeval jungles of the human mind.

There also dwell the dark shapes of remorse, and pain, and suffering; and the drooping forms of grief, and sorrow, and lamentation.

In this dark world the unwise live and die, not knowing the peace of purity, nor