James Allen - James Allen - Complete Collection

6. Light on Adherence to Principle

7. Light on the Sacrifice of the Self

8. Light on the Management of the Mind

9. Light on Self-Control: The Door of Heaven

10. Light on Acts and Their Consequences

11. Light on the Way of Wisdom

12. Light on Disposition

13. Light on Individual Liberty

14. Light on the Blessing and Dignity of Work

15. Light on Good Manners and Refinement

16. Light on Diversities of Creeds

17. Light on Law and Miracle

18. Light on War and Peace

19. Light on the Brotherhood of Man

20. Light on Life’s Sorrows

21. Light on Life’s Changes

22. Light on the Truth of Transitoriness

23. The Light That Never Goes Out

16. Foundation stones to happiness and success (1913)

Preface

Foreword

1. Right principles

2. Sound methods

3. True actions

4. True speech

5. Equal-mindedness

6. Good results

17. James Allen’s book of meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913)

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Preface

1. January

2. February

3. March

4. April

5. May

6. June

7. July

8. August

9. September

10. October

11. November

12. December

18. Men and systems (1914)

Introduction

1. Their correlations and combined results

2. Work, wages, and well-being

3. The survival of the fittest as a divine law

4. Justice in evil

5. Justice and love

6. Self-protection: animal, human, and divine

7. Aviation and the new consciousness

8. The new courage

19. The Shining Gateway (1915)

Foreword

1. The shining gateway of meditation

2. Temptation

3. Regeneration

4. Actions and motives

5. Morality and religion

6. Memory, repetition, and habit

7. Words and wisdom

8. Truth made manifest

9. Spiritual humility

10. Spiritual strength

20. The Divine Companion (1919)

Foreword

I. The Divine Companion

1. Truth as Awakener

2. Truth as Consoler

3. Truth as Redeemer

4. Truth as Reconciler

5. Truth as Protector

II. The Divine Dialogue

6. Of Seeking and Finding

7. Of Entering the Way

8. Of Discipline and Purification

9. Of Renunciation

10. Of Purity of Heart

11. Of Righteousness

12. Of Knowledge of the Law

13. Benediction

III. The Divine Messages

14. The First Prophecy, called the Awakening

15. The Second Prophecy, called the Messiah

16. The Third prophecy, called the All - One

17. The Fourth Prophecy, called Unrest

18. The Fifth Prophecy, called Transition

19. The Sixth Prophecy, called Peace

20. The First Exhortation, concerning Purity

21. The Second Exhortation, concerning Humility

22. The Third Exhortation, concerning Love

23. Instruction, concerning the Master

24. Instruction, concerning the Law

25. Instruction, concerning The Great Reality

26. Discourse Concerning The Way of Truth

James Allen(28 November 1864 – 24 January 1912) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh , has been mass-produced since its publication in 1903. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors.

Born in Leicester, England, into a working-class family, Allen was the elder of two brothers. His mother could neither read nor write. His father, William, was a factory knitter. In 1879 following a downturn in the textile trade of central England, Allen's father travelled alone to America to find work and establish a new home for the family. Within two days of arriving his father was pronounced dead at New York City Hospital, believed to be a case of robbery and murder. At age fifteen, with the family now facing economic disaster, Allen was forced to leave school and find work.

For much of the 1890s, Allen worked as a private secretary and stationer in several British manufacturing firms. In 1893 Allen moved to London and later to South Wales, earning his living by journalism and reporting. In South Wales he met Lily Louisa Oram ( Lily L. Allen) who he then wed in 1895. In 1898 Allen found an occupation in which he could showcase his spiritual and social interests as a writer for the magazine The Herald of the Golden Age. At this time, Allen entered a creative period where he then published his first of many books, From Poverty to Power (1901). In 1902 Allen began to publish his own spiritual magazine, The Light of Reason , later retitled The Epoch .

In 1903 Allen published his third and most famous book As a Man Thinketh . Loosely based on the Biblicalpassage of Proverbs23:7, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," the small work eventually became read around the world and brought Allen posthumous fame as one of the pioneering figures of modern inspirational thought. The book's minor audience allowed Allen to quit his secretarial work and pursue his writing and editing career. In 1903, the Allen family retired to the town of Ilfracombewhere Allen would spend the rest of his life. Continuing to publish the Epoch, Allen produced more than one book per year until his death in 1912. There he wrote for nine years, producing 19 works.

Following his death in 1912, his wife continued publishing the magazine under the name The Epoch . Lily Allen summarised her husband's literary mission in the preface to one of his posthumously published manuscripts, Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success saying:

"He never wrote theories, or for the sake of writing; but he wrote when he had a message, and it became a message only when he had lived it out in his own life, and knew that it was good. Thus he wrote facts, which he had proven by practice."

I looked around upon the world, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked around, but could not find it; I looked in books, but could not find it; I looked within, and found there both the cause and the self-made nature of that cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy.

I found one Law, the Law of Love; one Life, the Life of adjustment to that Law; one Truth, the truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart. And I dreamed of writing a book which should help men and women, whether rich or poor, learned or unlearned, worldly or unworldly, to find within themselves the source of all success, all happiness, all accomplishment, all truth. And the dream remained with me, and at last became substantial; and now I send it forth into the world on its mission of healing and blessedness, knowing that it cannot fail to reach the homes and hearts of those who are waiting and ready to receive it.

James Allen.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life. There is no heart in all the world that has not felt the sting of pain, no mind has not been tossed upon the dark waters of trouble, no eye that has not wept the hot blinding tears of unspeakable anguish.

There is no household where the Great Destroyers, disease and death, have not entered, severing heart from heart, and casting over all the dark pall of sorrow. In the strong, and apparently indestructible meshes of evil all are more or less fast caught, and pain, unhappiness, and misfortune wait upon mankind.