Meditation on the One Life
according to
Clara Codd
1. Let lift ourselves in thought above our house and gaze down on all in it, pouring down on all our love and charity. There must be no ill feelings to anyone. Remember the people who come to the house, the garden outside with the birds, insects and flowers.
2. Do not drop; do no let the thoughts lower. Get well up above the town and look down on it. Let our love pour down, especially on the ignorant and unhappy. Remember the children everywhere, the criminals, the drunkards, the women of the streets, the prisoners in prison. Think of the doctors, ministers, judges, town councilors. May the Divine Life inspire them to rule and help aright.
3. Higher, higher! All the country is below us now. See the meeting places of those who aspire to Reality everywhere, the churches, the house of representatives, the senate. Pour love on all our countrymen. Do not forget the animals, the dumb animals everywhere, the trees and the beautiful flowers. Let us pour down love on all.
4. Higher—still higher! Now the whole world lies below us. The white races, the yellow races, the negroes. Let us love them all. See all the sailors on the sea, the Arabs in the desert. See the lines of the living light of brotherhood that flow around the world. See kings, presidents, governments, religions. May the Divine Love inspire them all, purify them all.
5. Look around and cast our thoughts down no more. See those other worlds, planets, stars, clusters, nebulae. Thousands upon thousands that no man can number, but because the Eternal Life made them, we know that Love is radiating through them and with us. How vast is the universe! How vast is God!
6. Now look into the worlds invisible. Pierce the light. Let us lift our eyes to the Perfect Ones, and adore Them. Do not fear. Blessed is God in His Holy Angels and in His Saints, the Hierarchy of Love and Wisdom that guides all the worlds. Let us think of our brothers who have passed into the worlds invisible and surround them with all our love. Let us think too of the angels, the shining ones, and give them joyous greeting.
7. Eternal Love Himself.
Meditation, Its Practice and Results, Chap. V, “Meditation on Love and Charity”, pp. 66-68
2. Do not drop; do no let the thoughts lower. Get well up above the town and look down on it. Let our love pour down, especially on the ignorant and unhappy. Remember the children everywhere, the criminals, the drunkards, the women of the streets, the prisoners in prison. Think of the doctors, ministers, judges, town councilors. May the Divine Life inspire them to rule and help aright.
3. Higher, higher! All the country is below us now. See the meeting places of those who aspire to Reality everywhere, the churches, the house of representatives, the senate. Pour love on all our countrymen. Do not forget the animals, the dumb animals everywhere, the trees and the beautiful flowers. Let us pour down love on all.
4. Higher—still higher! Now the whole world lies below us. The white races, the yellow races, the negroes. Let us love them all. See all the sailors on the sea, the Arabs in the desert. See the lines of the living light of brotherhood that flow around the world. See kings, presidents, governments, religions. May the Divine Love inspire them all, purify them all.
5. Look around and cast our thoughts down no more. See those other worlds, planets, stars, clusters, nebulae. Thousands upon thousands that no man can number, but because the Eternal Life made them, we know that Love is radiating through them and with us. How vast is the universe! How vast is God!
6. Now look into the worlds invisible. Pierce the light. Let us lift our eyes to the Perfect Ones, and adore Them. Do not fear. Blessed is God in His Holy Angels and in His Saints, the Hierarchy of Love and Wisdom that guides all the worlds. Let us think of our brothers who have passed into the worlds invisible and surround them with all our love. Let us think too of the angels, the shining ones, and give them joyous greeting.
7. Eternal Love Himself.
Meditation, Its Practice and Results, Chap. V, “Meditation on Love and Charity”, pp. 66-68