POEMS BY JOHN POWE

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HINTS ON MEDIUMISTIC DEVELPOPMENT

LOSING WEIGHT ONE MORE TIME

HINTS ON SPIRITUAL UNFOLDMENT.

DOING GOOD.

To work for the sake of the work and not for the fruits of the work, is a phrase which you should learn and repeat continually, because a constant reminder is needed if spiritual progress is not to be impeded by the clogging details associated with "DOING GOOD".

DISCIPLINE OF THE DAILY LIFE.

Suggestions to help you to cultivate an attitude of acceptance to the discipline of the daily life.

Affirm continually to yourself:- I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.

OR:

God has a perfect plan for me, in His time it will come.

OR:

Not my will, but Thine be done, O Lord!

OR:

O Master, may I seek not so much to be comforted, as to comfort.
To be understood as to understand.
To be loved as to love.
(PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS)

OR:

In the right time, in the right place, the right thing will come.

DETACHMENT.

FEAR.

"Asleep, awake, by night or day
The friends I seek are seeking me.
No wind can drive my barque astray.
Nor change the tide of destiny.

The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave unto the sea.
Nor time, nor space, nor deep nor height,
Can keep my own away from me.

CHERISHED IDEAS.

If you think you have attained to detachment on this plane of ideas, test it by answering the following questions:

• Are you influenced by the opinions of other people?
• Does it worry you if others disapprove of what you say?
• Does it hurt your feelings to hear people criticising your ideas?
• Do you get angry and excited in the midst of an argument?
• Are you worried if you cannot convince other people that your ideas are right?
• Does it matter to you if people refuse to see the truth as you see it?

The answer to these questions should be no, but the probability is that you will have to answer yes, which shows that you are still attached to your ideas. If you can truthfully answer no, it reveals that you have attained to detachment, and so you will be able to understand all I have been trying to convey when I write of the "Peace that passes understanding", because it is a peace over and beyond the understanding of the ordinary mind, which deals only with things and ideas, where as the PEACE IS OF THE SPIRIT.

SUGGESTED SELF - DISCIPLINE.

• Learn something new each week. A new fact. A new word.
• Learn to do something you have never done before, either physically or mentally, for such an exercise of learning will enlarge your consciousness and give you a new view of your own self, and your ideas, and maybe will release some talent in yourself of which you are unaware.

PRACTICAL AIDS. (Body to Relax)

SUGGESTED HELPFUL DISCIPLINES:

• Set yourself a day each week in which to abstain from your favourite food, sweets, tobacco or drink. This will help to strengthen your will and self-control.
• Rise half an hour earlier than usual, deep breathe, stretch the body by exercises, then read and meditate.
• Do something different from your usual routine. Go for a long walk by yourself, or sit and watch the clouds and sky for half an hour, or get up and watch the dawn, or listen to the wind.
• Listen to the birds in the early morning, or listen to music, or learn to smell the freshness of the air, the flowers, the aroma of trees and damp earth. Quicken your awareness of the beauty around you.

CHANGING THE CONSCIOUSNESS.

PRAYER.

Suggested subjects for beginning your meditations (one line from any of the following):

Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good; by itself it makes every thing that is heavy, light: and it bears evenly all that is uneven. For it carries a burden which is no burden, and makes everything that is bitter, sweet and savoury.
Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God.
(Imitation Of Christ, By Thomas 'A Kempis)

I am alone, Thou only art in me.
I am the stream of life which flows through Thee.
I comprehend all substance, fill all space.
I am pure being by whom all things be.

I am thy dawn, from darkness to release.
I am the deep where in thy sorrows cease:
Be still, be still and Know That I Am God:
Acquaint thyself with Me - and be at peace.
(Out Of The Silence By James Rhoades)

or the ideas in the following:

Oh Thou Great Spirit Of Power, may there resound that note of Thy healing and Thy peace, resounding through - out all Thy created universe and vibrating upon all that is attuned to that perfect note.

or

May the lilies of prayer unfold upon the pools of peace and may the light of Spirit, shining upon the still pools of prayer, awaken them to a new life and radiance, so that each one may reflect more perfectly the perfection of Thy Power, may reflect the perfection of Thy purpose.
(Ram-A-Dahn In Talks On The Lord's Prayer)

or

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease,
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess - The beauty of Thy peace.

or

Breathe through the heats of our desire,
Thy coolness and Thy balm.
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire,
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire -
O still, small voice of calm.
("Still, dews of quietness". By John Green Leaf Whittier)

or

The 23rd Psalm.

or

The Beatitudes: Sermon On The Mount.
(Matthew 5, Verses 3 - 9)

DOING GOOD

Suggested Exercises.

• Give secretly something to someone each day, saying nothing about it to anyone.
• To children you can give sweets or toys.
• To the lonely a token of friendship in the form of a visit, or a letter, or a telephone message.
• If you are wealthy give anonymously of your wealth. The object of this is not to do good to other people, but to discipline yourself and to increase your generosity.

PURITY

Suggested Practice.

Meditate on the Purity of Jesus.

or

Meditate on the Love of Jesus.

or

Meditate on the thought that Christ is represented by the whole of humanity.

or

Meditate on His words:
"Whatsoever thing thou doest to the least of these, and lowest, that thou doest unto me".

CLOSING WORDS

A VERSE FROM HERMAN HAGEDORN:

"There is a peace, which is theirs. Who have heard a deep chord sounded, and cannot rest. Till they have tuned their strings to the high vibration, and sent to other strings perpetual overtones".

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