WHAT WE WILL DO BEFORE DEATH (QURAN SAYS)

 

                     

                             THE LIFE AFTER DEATH

                     

                            YOUR CREATION AND YOUR RESURRECTION

                             IS BUT LIKE THAT OF A SINGLE SELF.

                             VERILY HE IS THE ALL-HEARING AND SEEING.

                     PEOPLE ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION WILL THINK THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SLEEPING FOR ONLY A WHILE, AND HAD BEEN WOKEN UP. AND IT WILL BE A CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE FOR THEM. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS IN OUR OWN WORLDLY LIFE. WHEN WE LOOK BACK, IT SEEMS BUT A VERY SHORT PERIOD.

                    THE HOLY QURAN ILLUSTRATES THIS WITH THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION OF THE TYPE OF CONVERSATION AMONG THE PEOPLE AT THEIR RESURRECTION.

                               THE GUILTY WILL VOW THAT THEY DID TARRY

                            BUT AN HOUR,

                            BUT THOSE TO WHOM KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH,

                            ARE GIVEN, WILL SAY,

                           THE TRUTH IS, YE HAVE TARRIED BY ALLAH'S

                           DECREE UNTIL THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

                          THIS IS THE DAY OF RESURRECTION,

                           BUT YE USED NOT TO BELIEVE".

            THE DAY OF RESURRECTION IS THE DAY OF GATHERING TOGETHER OF ALL THE GENERATIONS OF MANKIND FROM ALL THE WORLDS, FROM ALL THE TIMES. THAT IS THE DAY OF ACCOUNTABILITY ALSO. THERE IS HARDLY ANY PAGE OF THE HOLY QURAN, WHICH DOES NOT WARN MANKIND OF THEIR RESURRECTION AND THEIR ACCOUTABILITY IN THE LIFE-AFTER-DEATH. "THE EMISSARIS" OF THE HOLY QURAN , IS A POWERFUL REMINDER OF THE SCENARIO OF THE DAY OF RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE-AFTER-DEATH. IT SAYS:

                     THIS IS THE DAY OF DECISION,

                           WE HAVE BROUGHT YOU

                  AND THE MEN OF OLD TOGETHER.

                         IF NOW YE HAVE ANY WIT, OUTWIT ME,'               

                 WOE UNTO THE REPUDIATORS ON THE DAY

                          LO! THOSE WHO KEPT THEIR DUTY

                 ARE A MID SHADE AND FOUNTAINS,

                        AND FRUITS SUCH AS THEY DESIRE.

                 (UNTO THEM IT IS SAID)

                        EAT, DRINK, AND WELCOME,

                  O YE BLESSED, IN RETURN FOR WHAT YE DID,

                       THUS DO WE REWARD THE GOOD.

 

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                         ALL PRAISE IS FOR ALLAH,

                                  THE SUSTAINER AND NOURISHER OF

                        THE WORLD,

                                   THE OUTRIGHT BENEFICIENT AND,

                        MERCIFUL ALWAYS".

                      THE WHOLE SCENARIO OF EXISTENCE HAS BEEN CLASSIFIED INTO THREE CATEGORIES, I.E.THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, AND OTHER WORLDS. ALLAH NOURISHES AND SUSTAINS THESE WORLDS AS HE SUSTAINS AND NOURISHES OUR EARTH. SINCE, NOURISHMENT IS ASSOCIATED WITH LIFE, THEREFORE, ONE CAN CONCLUDE FROM VERSE45 THAT OUR EARTH IS NOT BE THE ONLY LIVING WORLD IN THE UNIVERSE. THERE ARE MANY MORE WORLDS WHICH HAVE LIVING BEINGS, NEEDING NOURISHMENT FROM THEIR CREATOR. HE NOURISHES THEM AND SUSTAINS THEM AS HE LOOK AFTER OUR NEEDS ON THE EARTH.

                       AS FOR THE NATURE OF THESE WORLDS, FROM VERSE 65, IT APPEARS THAT THEY ARE SIMILAR TO OUR EARTH.

                                  ALLAH IT IS, WHO HAS CREATED,'                

                                SEVEN HEAVENS,

                               AND OF THE EARTH, THE LIKE THEREOF,

                               THE (SAME) COMMANDMENT COMES DOWN

                               AMONG THEM GRADUALLY

                              SO THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT

                             ALLAH IS ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS, AND THAT 

                            ALLAH SURROUNDS ALL THINGS IN KNOWLEDGE.

                     IT IS OBVIOUS FROM THE VERSE THAT JUST AS THERE ARE MANY HEAVENS, SIMILARLY THERE ARE MANY EARTHS. THE COMMANDANT COMES DOWN AMONG THEM GRADUALLY". MEANS THAT ALL OF THEM FOLLWO THE SAME PATTERN OF EVOLUATION AND DEVELOPMENT.

                     PRESENCE OF THE INTELLIGENT LIVING BEINGS IN THE OUTER SPACE IS ALSO EVIDENT FROM VERSE 55, WHICH INFORMS THAT EVERYONE, THAT IS IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH SEEK THEIR NEEDS FROM ALLAH.

                        OF HIM SEEKS (ITS NEED)

                        EACH ONE IN THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,

                        EVERYDAY, HE APPEARS IN

                       NEW SPLENDOUR".

                              EVERYDAY HE APPEARS IN NEW SPLENDOUR" MEANS THAT, NEW WORLDS ARE CONTINUOUSLY BEING ADDED TO THE UNIVERSE, BEFITTING FOR CARRYING LIFE. THEY ALL DEPEND ON ALLAH FOR THEIR LIVING AND IN THEIR TURN, EACH ONE OF THEM WILL HAVE ITS OWN DOOMSDAY. IN THE END, ALL OF THEM WILL BE GATHERED TOGETHER AT THE TIME OF THE RESURRECTION.

HOW TO LIVE HAPPY LIFE ?

 

                                THE TIPS FOR THE HAPPY LIFE

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                               👉      MAN, GOD , THE WORLD, EVERY ONE IN THEIR KIND, BEAR SOME FRUITS. ALL THINGS HAVE THEIR PROPER TIME TO BEAR. THOUGH BY CUSTOM, THE WORD ITSELF IS IN A MANNER BECOME PROPER UNTO THE VINE, AND THE LIKE, YET IS IT SO NEVERTHELESS, AS WE HAVE SAID. AS FOR REASON, THAT BEARETH BOTH COMMON FRUIT FOR THE USE OF OTHERS, AND PECULIAR, WHICH ITSELF DOTH ENJOY. REASON IS OF A DIFFUSIVE NATURE, WHAT ITSELF IS IN ITSELF, IT BEGETS IN OTHERS, AND SO DOTH MULTIPLY.

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                                👉        EITHER TEACH THEM BETTER IF IT BE IN THY POWER, OR IF IT BE NOT, REMEMBER THAT FOR THIS USE, TO BEAR WITH THEM PATIENTLY, WAS MILDNESS AND GOODNESS GRANTED UNTO THEE. THE GODS THEMSELVES ARE GOOD UNTO SUCH, YEA  AND IN SOME THINGS, (AS IN MATTER OF HEALTH, OF WEALTH, OF HONOUR) ARE CONTENT OFTEN TO FURTHER THEIR ENDEAVOURS, SO GOOD AND GRACIOUS ARE THEY. AND MIGHTEST THOU NOT BE SO TOO? OR , TELL ME, WHAT DOTH HINDER THEE?

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                                👉           AS ONE WHO IS ALTOGETHER GOVERNED BY NATURE, LET IT BE THY CARE TO OBSERVE WHAT IT IS THAT NATURE IS GENERAL DOTH REQUIRE. THAT DONE, IF THOU FIND NOT THAT THY NATURE, AS THOU ART A LIVING SENSIBLE CREATURE, WILL BE HE WORSE FOR IT, THOU MAYEST PROCEED. NEXT THEN THOU MUST EXAMINE, WHAT THY NATURE AS THOU ART A LIVING SENSIBLE CREATURE, DOTH REQUIRE. AND THAT, WHATSOEVER IT BE, THOU  MAYEST ADMIT OF AND DO IT, IF THY NATURE AS THOU ART A REASONABLE LIVING CREATURE, WILL NOT BE THE WORSE FOR IT. NOW WHATSOEVER IS REASONABLE, IS ALSO SOCIABLE. KEEY THYSELF TO THESE RULES, AND TROUBLE, NOT THYSELF ABOUT IDLE THINGS.

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                                  👉          WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN UNTO THEE, THOU ART NATURALLY BY THY NATURAL CONSTITUTION EITHER ABLE, OR NOT ABLE TO BEAR. IF THOU BEEST ABLE, BE NOT OFFENED, BUT BEAR IT ACCORDING TO THY NATURAL CONSTITUTION, OR AS NATURE HATH ENABLED THEE. IF THOU BEEST NOT ABLE, BE NOT OFFENED. FOR IT WILL SOON MAKE AN END OF THEE, AND ITSELF, (WHATSOEVER IT BE) AT THE SAME TIME END WITH THEE. BUT REMEMBER, THAT WHATSOEVER BY THE STRENGTH OF OPINION, GROUNDED UPON A CERTAIN APPREHENSION OF BOTH TRUE PROFIT AND DUTY, THOU CANST CONCEIVE TOLERABLE, THAT THOU ART ABLE TO BEAR THAT BY THY NATURAL CONSTITUTION.

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                                   👉         HIM THAT OFFENDS, TO TEACH WITH UNTO THEE, IT IS THAT WHICH FROM ALL TIME WAS APPOINTED UNTO THEE. FOR BY THE SAME COHERENCE OF CAUSES, BY WHICH THY SUBSTANCE FROM ALL ETERNITY WAS APPOINTED TO BE, WAS ALSO WHATSOEVER SHOULD HAPPEN UNTO IT, DESTINATED AND APPOINTED.

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                                   👉        AS THE SPIDER, WHEN IT HATH CAUGHT THE FLY THAT IT HUNTED AFTER, IS  NOT LITTLE PROUD, NOR MEANLY CONCEITED OF HERSELF, AS HE LIKEWISE THAT HATH CAUGHT AN HARE, OR HATH TAKEN A FISH WITH HIS NET, AS ANOTHER FOR THE TAKING OF A BOAR, AND ANOTHER OF A BEAR, SO MANY THEY BE PROUD, AND APPLAUD THEMSELVES FOR THEIR VALIANT ACTS AGAINST THE SARMATAI, OR NORTHERN NATIONS LATELY DEFEATED. FOR THESE ALSO, THESE FAMOUS SOLDIERS AND WARLIKE MEN, IF THOU DOST LOOK INTO THEIR MINDS AND OPINIONS, WHAT DO THEY FOR THE MOST PART BUT HUNT AFTER PREY?

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                                 👉          TO FIND OUT, AND SET TO THYSELF SOME CERTAIN WAY AND METHOD OF CONTEMPLATION, WHEREBY THOU MAYEST CLEARLY DISCERN AND REPRESENT UNTO THYSELF, THE MUTUAL CHANGE OF ALL THINGS, THE ONE INTO THE OTHER. BEAR IT IN THY MIND EVERMORE, AND SEE THAT THOU BE THOROUGHLY WELL EXERCISED IN THIS PARTICULAR. FOR THERE IS NOT ANYTHING MORE EFFECTUAL TO BEGET TRUE MAGNANIMITY.

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                             👉        GIVE WHAT THOU WILT, AND TAKE AWAY WHAT THOU WILT, SAITH HE THAT IS WELL TAUGHT AND TRULY MODEST, TO HIM THAT GIVES, AND TAKES AWAY. TAUGHT AND TRULY MODEST, TO HIM THAT GIVES AND TAKES AWAY. AND IT IS NOT OUT OF A STOUT AND PEREMPTORY RESOLUTION, THAT HE SAITH IT, BUT IN MERE LOVE, AND HUMBLE SUBMISSION.

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                     👉      SO LIVE AS INDIFFERENT TO THE WORLD AND ALL WORLDLY OBJECTS, AS ONE WHO LIVETH BY HIMSELF ALONE UPON SOME DESERT HIM. FOR WHETHER HERE, OF THERE, IF THE WHOLE WORLD BE BUT AS ONE TOWN, IT MATTERS NOT MUCH FOR THE PLACE. LET THEM BEHOLD AND SEE A MAN. THAT IS A MAN INDEED, LIVING ACCORDING TO THE TRUE NATURE OF MAN. IF THEY CANNOT BEAR WITH ME, LET THEM KILL ME. FOR BETTER WERE IT TO DIE, THAN SO TO LIVE AS THEY WOULD HAVE THERE.

      

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                             👉  MAKE IT NOT ANY LONGER A MATTER OF DISPUTE OR DISCOURSE, WHAT ARE THE SIGNS AND PROPRIETIES OF A GOOD MAN, BUT REALLY AND ACTUALLY TO BE SUCH.

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                                👉  EVER TO REPRESENT UNTO THYSELF, AND TO SET BEFORE THEE, BOTH THE GENERAL AGE AND TIME OF THE WORLD, AND THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF IT. AND HOW ALL THINGS PARTICULAR IN RESPECT OF THESE ARE FOR THEIR SUBSTANCE, AS ONE OF THE LEAST SEEDS THAT IS, AND FOR THEIR DURATION, AS THE TURNING OF THE PESTLE IN THE MORTAR ONCE ABOUT. THEN TO FIX THY MIND UPON EVERY PARTICULAR OBJECT OF THE WORLD, AND TO CONCEIVE IT, (AS IT IS INDEED), AS ALREADY BEING IN THE STATE OF DISSOLUTION, AND OF CHANGE, TENDING TO SOME KIND OF EITHER PUTREFACTION OR DISPERSION, OR WHATSOEVER ELSE IT IS, THAT IS THE DEATH AS IT WERE OF EVERYTHING IN HIS OWN KIND.

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                            👉  USE THYSELF, AS OFTEN, AS THOU SEEST ANY MAN DO ANYTHING, PRESENTLY (IF IT BE POSSIBLE) TO SAY UNTO THYSELF, WHAT IS THIS MAN'S END IN THIS HIS ACTION? BUT BEGIN THIS COURSE WITH THYSELF FIRST OF ALL. AND DILIGENTLY EXAMINE THYSELF CONCERNING WHATSOEVER THOU DOEST.

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                    👉 WHATSOEVER IT IS THAT THOU GOES ABOUT, CONSIDER OF IT BY THYSELF, AND ASK THYSELF, WHAT? BECAUSE I SHALL DO THIS NO MORE WHEN I AM DEAD, SHOULD THEREFORE DEATH SEEM GRIEVOUS UNTO ME?

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WHATI IS THE MEANING OF WEAKNESS ?

 

                            

                              WHAT IS WICKEDNESS ?

  

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                             ❤    IT IS THAT WHICH MANY TIME AND OFTEN THOU HAST ALREADY SEEN AND KNOWN IN THE WORLD. AND SO OFT AS ANYTHING DOTH HAPPEN THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE TROUBLE THEE, LET THIS MEMENTO PRESENTLY COME TO THY MIND, THAT IT IS THAT WHICH THOU HAST ALREADY OFTEN SEEN AND KNOWN. GENERALLY, ABOVE AND BELOW, THOU SHALT FIND BUT THE SAME THINGS. THE VERY SAME THINGS WHEREOF TOWNS ARE FULL, AND HOUSES FULL. THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS NEW. ALL THINGS THAT ARE, ARE BOTH USUAL AND OF LITTLE CONTINUANCE.

   

                          ❤    WHAR FEAR IS THERE THAT DOGMATA, OR PHILOSOPHICAL RESOLUTIONS PROPER POWER AND EFFICACY FANCIES, AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THINGS ON WHICH THEY MUTUALLY DEPEND (WHICH CONTINUALLY TO STIR UP AND REVIVE IS IN THEY POWER) , ARE STILL KEPT FRESH AND ALIVE? IT IS IN MY POWER CONCERNING THIS THING THAT IS HAPPENED. WHATSOEVER IT BE, TO CONCEIT THAT WHICH IS RIGHT AND TRUE. IF IT BY, WHY THEN AM I TROUBLED? THOSE THINGS THAT ARE WITHOUT MY UNDERSTANDING, ARE NOTHING TO IT ALL. AND THAT IS IT ONLY, WHICH DOTH PROPERLY CONCERN ME. BE ALWAYS IN THIS MIND, AND THOU WILT BE RIGHT.

                          ❤    WORD AFTER WORD, EVERYONE BY ITSELF, MUST THE THINGS THAT ARE SPOKEN BE CONCEIVED AND UNDERSTOOD, AND SO THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE, PURPOSE AFTER PURPOSE, EVERYONE BY ITSELF LIKEWISE. AND AS IN MATTER OF PURPOSES AND ACTIONS, WE MUST PRESENTLY SEE WHAT IS THE POWER USE AND RELATION OF EVERY ONE, SO OF WORDS MUST WE BE AS READY, TO CONSIDER OF EVERYONE WHAT IS THE TRUE MEANING, AND SIGNIFICATION OF IT ACCORDING TO TRUTH AND NATURE, HOWEVER IT BE TAKEN IN COMMON USE.

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                          ❤    WHATSOEVER IS MATERIAL, DOTH SOON VANISH AWAY INTO THE COMMON SUBSTANCE OF THE WHOLE, AND WHATSOEVER IS FORMAL, OR, WHATSOEVER DOTH ANIMATE THAT WHICH IS MATERIAL, IS SOON RESUMED INTO THE COMMON REASON OF THE WHOLE, AND THE FAME AND MEMORY OF ANYTHING, IS SOON SWALLOWED BY THE THE GENERAL AGE AND DURATION OF THE WHOLE.

                        ❤    TO A REASONABLE CREATURE, THE SAME ACTION IS BOTH ACCORDING TO NATURE, AND ACCORDING TO REASON.

                       ❤    STRAIGHT OF ITSELF, NOT MADE STRAIGHT.

                        ❤    AS SEVERAL MEMBERS IN ONE BODY UNITED, SO ARE REASONABLE CREATURES IN A BODY DIVIDED AND DISPERSED, ALL MADE AND PREPARED FOR ONE COMMON OPERATION. AND THIS THOU SHALT APPREHEND THE BETTER, IF THOU SHALT USE THYSELF OFTEN TO SAY TO THYSELF, I AM A MEMBER OF THE MASS AND BODY OF REASONABLE SUBSTANCES. BUT IF THOU SHALT SAY I AM MEROZ, OR A PART, THOU DOST NOT YET LOVE MEN FROM THY HEART. THE JOY THAT THOU TAKES IN THE EXERCISES OF BOUNTY, IS NOT YET GROUNDED UPON A DUE RATIOCINATION AND RIGHT APPREHENSION OF THE NATURE OF THINGS. THOU DOST EXERCISE IT AS YET UPON THIS GROUND BARELY, AS A THING CONVENIENT AND FITTING. NOT, AS DOING GOOD TO THYSELF, WHEN THOU DOST GOOD UNTO OTHERS.

                       ❤    OF THINGS THAT ARE EXTERNAL, HAPPEN WHAT WILL TO THAT WHICH CAN SUFFER BY EXTERNAL ACCIDENTS. THOSE THINGS THAT SUFFER LET THEM COMPLAIN THEMSELVES, ACCIDENTS.  IF THEY WILL, AS FOR ME , AS LONG AS I CONCEIVE NO SUCH THING, THAT WHICH IS HAPPENED IS EVIL, I HAVE NO HURT, AND IT IS IN MY POWER NOT TO CONCEIVE ANY SUCH THING.

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                          ❤    WHATSOEVER ANY MAN EITHER DOTH OR SAITH, THOU MUST BE GOOD, NOT FOR ANY MAN'S SAKE, BUT FOR THINE OWN NATURE'S SAKE, AS IF EITHER GOOD, OR THE EMERALD, OR PURPLE, SHOULD EVER BE SAYING TO THEMSELVES, WHATSOEVER ANY MAN EITHER DOTH OR SAITH, I MUST STILL BE AN EMERALD, AND I MUST KEEP MY COLOUR.

                         ❤    THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE, OF THE COMMON SUBSTANCE OF ALL THINGS AS IT WERE OF SO MUCH WAX HATH NOW PERCHANCE FORMED A HORSE, AND THEN, DESTROYING THAT FIGURE, HATH NEW TEMPERED AND FASHIONED THE MATTER OF IT INTO THE FORM AND SUBSTANCE OF A TREE, THEN THAT AGAIN INTO THE FORM AND SUBSTANCE OF A MAN, AND THEN THAT AGAIN INTO SOME OTHER. NOW EVERYONE OF THESE DOTH SUBSIST BUT FOR A VERY LITTLE WHILE. AS FOR DISSOLUTION, IF IT BE NO GRIEVOUS THING TO THE CHEST OR TRUNK, TO BE JOINED TOGETHER, WHY SHOULD IT BE MORE GRIEVOUS TO BE PUT ASUDER?

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                       ❤    WHENSOEVER ANY MAN DOTH TRESPASS AGAINST OTHER, PRESENTLY CONSIDER WITH THYSELF WHAT IT WAS THAT HE DID SUPPOSE TO BE GOOD, WHAT TO BE EVIL, WHEN HE DID TRESPASS. FOR THIS WHEN THOU KNOWEST, THOU WILT PITY HIM THOU WILT HAVE NO OCCASION EITHER TO WONDER, OR TO BE ANGRY. FOR EITHER THOU THYSELF DUST YET LIVE IN THAT ERROR AND IGNORANCE, AS THAT THOU DUST SUPPOSE EITHER THAT VERY THING THAT HE DOTH, OR SOME OTHER LIKE WORLDLY THING, TO BE GOOD, AND SO THOU ART BOUND TO PARDON HIM IF HE HAVE DONE THAT WHICH THOU IN THE LIKE CASE WOULDST HAVE DONE THYSELF. OR IF SO BE THAT THOU DOST NOT ANY MORE SUPPOSE THE SAME THINGS TO BE GOOD OR EVIL, THAT HE DOTH, HOW CANST THOU BUT BE GENTLE UNTO HIM THAT IS IN AN ERROR?

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF PRESENT MOVEMENT? (THE POWER OF MEDITATION)

 

        

                          THE POWER OF PRESENT

                                     MEDITATION 

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                         👀 WHATSOEVER IS NOW PRESENT, AND FROM DAY TO DAY HATH ITS EXISTENCE, ALL OBJECTS OF MEMORIES, AND THE MINDS AND MEMORIES THEMSELVES, INCESSANTLY CONSIDER, ALL THINGS THAT ARE, HAVE THEIR BEING BY CHANGE AND ALTERATION. USE THYSELF THEREFORE OFTEN TO MEDITATE UPON THIS, THAT THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE DELIGHTS IN NOTHING MORE, THAN IN ALTERING THOSE THINGS THAT ARE, AND IN MAKING OTHERS LIKE UNTO THEM. SO THAT WE MAY SAY, THAT WHATSOEVER IS, IS BUT AS IT WERE THE SEED OF THAT WHAT WHICH SHALL BE. FOR IT THOU THINK THAT, THAT ONLY IS SEED, WHICH EITHER THE EARTH OR THE WOMB RECEIVETH, THOU ART VERY SIMPLE.

                       👀     THOU ART NOW READ TO DIE, AND YET HAST THOU NOT ATTAINED TO THAT PERFECT SIMPLICITY, THOU ART YET SUBJECT TO MANY TROUBLES AND PERTURBATIONS, NOT YET FREE FROM ALL FEAR AND SUSPICION OF EXTERNAL ACCIDENTS, NOR YET EITHER SO MEEKLY DISPOSED TOWARDS ALL MEN, AS THOU SHOULDEST, OR SO AFFECTED AS ONE, WHOSE ONLY STUDY ONLY WISDOM IS, TO BE JUST IN ALL HIS ACTIONS.

                         👀 IN ANOTHER MAN'S MIND AND UNDERSTANDING THY EVIL CANNOT SUBSIST, NOR IN ANY PROPER TEMPER OR DISTEMPER OF THE NATURAL CONSTITUTION  OF THY BODY, WHICH IS BUT AS IT WERE THE COAT OR COTTAGE OF THY SOUL. WHEREIN THEN, BUT IN THAT PART OF THEE, WHEREIN, THE CONCEIT, AND APPREHENSION OF ANY MISERY CAN SUBSIST? LET NOT THAT PART THEREFORE ADMIT ANY SUCH CONCEIT, AND THEN ALL IS WELL. THOUGH THY BODY WHICH IS SO NEAR IT SHOULD EITHER BE CUT OR BURNT, OR SUFFER ANY CORRUPTION OR PUTREFACTION, YET LET THAT PART TO WHICH IT BELINGS TO JUDGE OF THESE, BE STILL AT REST, THAT IS, LET HER JUDGE THIS, THAT WHATSOEVER IT IS, THAT EQUALLY MAY HAPPEN TO A WICKED MAN, AND TO A GOOD MAN, IS NEITHER GOOD NOR EVIL. FOR THAT WHICH HAPPENS EQUALLY TO HIM THAT LIVES ACCORDING TO NATURE, AND TO HIM THAT DOTH NOT, IS NEITHER ACCORDING TO NATURE, NOR AGAINST IT, AND BY CONSEQUENT, NEITHER GOOD NOR BAD.

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                        👀 EVER CONSIDER AND THINK UPON THE WORLD AS BEING BUT ONCE LIVING SUBSTANCE, AND HAVING BUT ONE SOUL, AND HOW ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD, ARE TERMINATED INTO ONE SENSITIVE POWER, AND ARE DONE BY ONE GENERAL MOTION AS IT WERE, AND DELIBERATION OF THAT ONE SOUL, AND HOW ALL THINGS THAT ARE, CONCUR IN THE CAUSE OF ONE ANOTHER'S BEING, AND BY WHAT MANNER OF CONNECTION AND CONCATENATION ALL THINGS HAPPEN.

                       👀 WHAT ART THOU, THAT BETTER AND DIVINE PART EXCEPTED, BUT AS EPICTETUS SAID WELL, A WRETCHED SOUL, APPOINTED TO CARRY A CARCASS UP AND DOWN?

                       👀 TO SUFFER CHANGE CAN BE NO HURT, AS NO BENEFIT IT IS, BY CHANGE TO ATTAIN TO BEING. THE AGE AND TIME OF THE WORLD IS AS IT WERE A FLOOD AND SWIFT CURRENT, CONSISTING OF THE THINGS THAT ARE BROUGHT TO PASS IN THE WORLD. FOR AS SOON AS ANYTHING HATH APPEARED, AND IS PASSED AWAY, ANOTHER SUCCEEDS, AND THAT ALSO WILL PRESENTLY OUT OF SIGHT.

                       👀 WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN IN THE WORLD, IS, IN THE COURSE OF SUMMER. AS USUAL AND ORDINARY AS A ROSE IN THE SPRING, AND FRUIT IN SUMMER. OF THE SAME NATURE IS SICKNESS AND DEATH, SLANDER, AND LYGING IN WAIT, AND WHATSOEVER ELSE ORDINARILY DOTH UNTO FOOLS USE TO BE OCCASION EITHER OF JOY OR SORROW. THAT,WHATSOEVER IT IS, THAT COMES AFTER, DOTH ALWAYS VERY NATURALLY, AND AS IT WERE FAMILIARITY, FOLLOW UPON THAT WHICH WAS BEFORE. FOR THOU MUST CONSIDER THE THINGS OF THE WORLD., NOT AS A LOOSE INDEPENDENT NUMBER, CONSISTING MERELY OF NECESSARY EVENTS, BUT AS A DISCREET CONNECTION OF THINGS ORDERLY AND HARMONIOUSLY DISPOSED. THERE IS THEN TO BE SEEN IN THE THINGS OF THE WORLD, NOT A BARE SUCCESSION, BUT AN ADMIRABLE CORRESPONDENCE AND AFFINITY.

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                     👀 EVEN AS IF ANY OF THE GODS SHOULD TELL THEE, THOU SALT CERTAINLY DIE TOMORROW, OR NEXT DAY THOU WOULDST NOT, EXCEPT THOU BE EXTREMELY BASE AND PUSILLANIMOUS, TAKE IT FOR A GREAT BENEFIT, RATHER TO DIE THE NEXT DAY AFTER, THAN TOMORROW, (FOR ALAS, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE) SO, FOR THE SAME REASON, THINK IT NO GREAT MATTER TO DIE RATHER MANY YEARS AFTER, THAN THE VERY NEXT DAY.

                     👀THOU MUST BE LIKE A PROMOTORY OF THE SEA, AGAINST WHICH THOUGH THE WAVES BEAT CONTINUALLY, YET IT BOTH ITSELF STANDS, AND ABOUT IT ARE THOSE SWELLING WAVES STILLED AND QUIETED.

                      👀 THOU MUST COMFORT THYSELF IN THE EXPECTATION OF THY NATURAL DISSOLUTION, AND IN THE MEANTIME NOT GRIEVE AT THE DELAY, BUT REST CONTENTED IN THOSE TWO THINGS. FIRST, THAT NOTHING SHALL HAPPEN UNTO THEE, WHICH IS NOT ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE. SECONDLY, THAT IT IS IN THY POWER, TO DO NOTHING AGAINST THINE OWN PROPER GOD, AND INWARD SPIRIT. FOR IT IS NOT IN ANY MAN'S POWER TO CONSTRAIN THEE TO TRANSGRESS AGAINST HIM.

                      * WHAT IS THE USE THAT NOW AT THIS PRESENT I MAKE OF MY SOUL? THUS FROM TIME TO TIME AND UPON ALL OCCASIONS THOU MUST PUT THIS QUESTION TO THYSELF, WHAT IS NOW THAT PART OF MIND WHICH THEY CALL THE RATIONAL MISTRESS PART, EMPLOYED ABOUT? WHOSE SOULD DO I NOW PROPERLY POSSESS? A CHILD'S? OR A YOUTH'S ? A WOMEN'S ? OR A TYRANT'S ? SOME BRUTE, OR SOME WILD BEAST'S SOUL?

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                       * ALL THAT I CONSISTS OF, IS EITHER FORM OR MATTER.  NO CORRUPTION CAN REDUCE EITHER OF THESE UNTO NOTHING, EVERY PART OF MINE THEN WILL BY MUTATION BE DISPOSED INTO A CERTAIN PART OF THE WHOLE WORLD, AND THAT IN TIME INTO ANOTHER PART, AND SO IN INFINITUM, BY WHICH KIND OF MUTATION, I ALSO BECAME WHAT I AM, AND SO DID THEY THAT BEGOT ME, AND THEY BEFORE THEM, AND SO UPWARDS IN INFINITUM. FOR SO WE MAY BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK, THOUGH THE AGE AND GOVERNEMENT OF THE WORLD, BE TO SOME CERTAIN PERIODS OF TIME LIMITED, AND CONFINED.

THE MEANING OF MEDITATION (GOD)

 

                      

                           

                             WHAT IS MEDITATION?

                        THE LOVELY CITY OF GOD 

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                  *      HOW EASY A THING IS IT FOR A MAN TO PUT OFF FROM HIM ALL TURBULENT ADVENTITIOUS IMAGINATIONS, AND PRESENTLY TO BE IN PERFECT REST AND TRANQUILLITY!

               * THINK THYSELF FIT AND WORTHY TO SPEAK, OR TO DO ANYTHING THAT IS ACCORDING TO NATURE, AND LET NOT THE REPROACH, OR REPORT OF SOME THAT MAY ENSURE UPON IT, EVER DETER THEE. IF IT BE RIGHT AND HONEST TO BE SPOKEN OR DONE, UNDERVALUE NOT THYSELF SO MUCH, AS TO BE DISCOURAGED FROM IT. AS FOR THEM, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN RATIONAL OVER-RULING PART, AND THEIR OWN PROPER INCLINATION , WHICH THOU MUST NOT STAND AND LOOK ABOUT TO TAKE NOTICE OF, BUT GO ON STRAIGHT, WHITHER BOTH THINE OWN PARTICULAR, AND THE COMMON NATURE DO LEAD THEE, AND THE WAY OF BOTH THESE, IS BUT ONE.

                  * I CONTINUE MY COURSE BY ACTIONS ACCORDING TO NATURE, UNTIL I FALL AND CASE, BREATHING OUT MYLAST BREATH INTO THAT AIR, BY WHICH CONTINUALLY BREATHENED IN I DID LIVE, AND FALLING UPON THAT EARTH, OUT OF WHOSE GIFTS AND FRUITS MY FATHER GATHERED HIS SEED, MY MOTHER HER BLOOD, AND MY NURSE HER MILK, OUT OF WHICH FOR SO MANY YEARS I HAVE BEEN PROVIDED, BOTH OF MEAT AND DRINK. AND LASTLY, WHICH BEARETH ME THAT TREAD UPON IT , AND BEARTETH WITH ME THAT SO MANY WAYS DO ABUSE IT, OR SO FREELY MAKE US OF IT, SO MANY WAYS TO SO MANY ENDS.

                    

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                  * NO MAN CAN ADMIRE THEE FOR THY SHARP ACUTE LANGUAGE, SUCH IS THY NATURAL DISABILITY THAT WAY. BE IT SO, YET THERE BE MANY OTHER GOOD THINGS, FOR THE WANT OF WHICH THOU CANST NOT PLEAD THE WANT OR NATURAL ABILITY. LET THEM BE SEEN IN THEE, WHICH DEPEND  WHOLLY FROM THEE, SINCERITY, GRAVITY, LABORIOUSNESS, CONTEMPT OF PLEASURES, BE NOT QUERULOUS, BE CONTENT WITH LITTLE, BE KIND, BE FREE, AVOID ALL SUPERFLUITY, ALL VAIN PRATTLING, BE MAGNANIMOUS. DOES NOT THOU PERCEIVE, HOW MANY THINGS THERE BE, WHICH NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PRETENCE OF NATURAL INDISPOSITION AND UNFITNESS, THOU MIGHTEST HAVE PERFORMED AND EXHIBITED, AND YET THOU DOES VALUNTARILY CONTINUE DROOPING DOWNWARDS? OR WILT THOU SAY.

                    *NOT TO WANDER OF THE WAY, BUT UPON EVERY MOTION AND DESIRE, TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS JUST, AND EVER TO BE CAREFUL TO ATTAIN TO THE TRUE  NATURAL APPREHENSION OF EVERY FANCY, THAT PRESENTS ITSELF.

                   * WHATSOEVER IS EXPEDIENT UNTO THEE, O WORLD, IS EXPEDIENT UNTO ME, NOTHING CAN EITHER BE UNSEASONABLE UNTO ME, OR OUT OF DATE, WHICH UNTO THEE IS SEASONABLE. WHATSOEVER THY SEASONS BEAR, SHALL EVER BY ME BE ESTEEMED AS HAPPY FRUIT, AND INCREASE. O NATURE! FROM THEE ARE ALL THIBGS, IN THEE ALL THINGS SUBSIST, AND TO THEE ALL TEND. COULD HE SAY OF ATHENS, THOU LOVELY CITY OF CECROPS, AND SHALT NOT THOU SAY OF THE WORLD, THOU LOVELY CITY OF GOD?

                    * EITHER THIS WORLD IS A KOSMOZ OR A COMELY PIECE, BECAUSE ALL DISPOSED AND GOVERNED  BY CERTAIN ORDER. OR IF IT BE A MIXTURE, THOUGH CONFUSED, YET STILL IT IS A COMELY PIECE. FOR IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IN THEE THERE SHOULD BE ANY BEAUTY AT ALL, AND THAT IN THE WHOLE WORLD THERE SHOULD BE NOTHING BUT DISORDER AND CONFUSION? AND ALL THINGS IN IT TOO, BY NATURAL DIFFERENT PROPERTIES ONE FROM ANOTHER DIFFERENCED AND DISTINGUISHED, AND YET ALL THROUGH DIFFUSED, AND BY NATURAL SYMPATHY, ONE TO ANOTHER UNITED, AS THEY ARE?

                        * A BLACK OR MALIGN DISPOSITION, AN EFFEMINATE DISPOSITION, AN HARD INEXORABLE DISPOSITION, A WILD INHUMAN DISPOSITION, A SHEEPISH DISPOSITION, A CHILDISH DISPOSITION, A BLOCKISH, A FALSE, A SCURRIL, A FRAUDULENT, A TYNANICAL, WHAT THEN? IF HE BE A STRANGER IN THE WORLD, THAT KNOWS NOT THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, WHY NOT HE A STRANGER AS WELL, THAT WONDERS AT THE THINGS THAT ARE DONE IN IT?

                       * HE IS A TRUE FUGITIVE, THAT FLIES FROM REASON, BY WHICH MEN ARE SOCIABLE. HE IS BLIND, WHO CANNOT SEE WITH THE EYES OF HIS UNDERSTANDING. HE IS POOR, THAT STANDS IN NEED OF ANOTHER, AND HATH NOT IN HIMSELF ALL THINGS NEEDFUL FOR THIS LIFE. HE IS AN APOSTEME OF THE WORLD, WHO BY BEING DISCONNECTED WITH THOSE THINGS THAT HAPPEN UNTO HIM IN THE WORLD, DOTH AS IT WERE APOSTATISE, AND SEPARATE HIMSELF FROM COMMON NATURE'S RATIONAL ADMINISTRATION. FOR THE SAME NATURE IT IS THAT BRINGS THIS UNTO THEE, WHATSOEVER IT BE,THAT FIRST BROUGHT THEE INTO THE WORLD. HE RAISES SEDITION IN THE CITY, WHO BY IRRATIONAL ACTIONS WITHDRAWS HIS OWN SOUL FROM THAT ONE AND COMMON SOUL OF ALL RATIONAL CREATURES.

                      * THERE IS, WHO WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A COAT, AND THERE IS, WHO WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A BOOK, DOTH PUT PHILOSOPHY IN PRACTICE, I AM HALF NAKED, NEITHER HAVE I BREAD TO EAT, AND YET I DEPART NOT FROM REASON, SAITH ONE. BUT I SAY, I WANT THE FOOD OF GOOD TEACHING, AND INSTRUCTIONS, AND YET I DEPART NOT FROM REASON.

                     * WHT ARE AND PROFESSION WHATSOEVER THOU HAST LEARNED, ENDEAVOUR TO AFFECT IT, AND COMFORT THYSELF IN IT, AND PASS THE REMAINDER OF THY LIFE AS ONE WHO FROM HIS WHOLE HEART COMMITS HIMSELF AND WHATSOEVER BELONGS UNOT HIM, UNTO THE GODS, AND AS FOR MEN, CARRY NOT THYSELF EITHER TYRANNICALLY OR SERVILELY TOWARDS ANY.

                     * CONSIDER IN MY MIND, FOR EXAMPLE'S SAKE, THE TIMES OF VESPASIAN, THOU SHALT SEE BUT THE SAME THINGS, SOME MARRYING, SOME BRINGING UP CHILDREN, SOME SICK, SOME DYING, SOME FIGHTING, SOME FEASTING, SOME MERCHANDISING, SOME TILLING, SOME FLATTERING, SOME BOASTING, SOME SUSPECTING, SOME UNDERMINING, SOME WISHING TO DIE, SOME FRETTING AND MURMURING AT THEIR PRESENT ESTATE, SOME WOOING, SOME HOARDING, SOME SEEKING AFTER MAGISTRACIES, AND SOME AFTER KINGDOMS. AND IS NOT THAT THEIR AGE QUITE OVER, AND ENDED?

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AFTER DOING MEDITATION , HOW YOU SEE - YOUR LIFE

                                THE EXACT ART OF LIFE 

                                     MEDITATION

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        THAT INWARD MISTRESS PART OF MAN IF IT BE IN ITS OWN TRUE NATURAL TEMPER, IS TOWARDS ALL WORLDLY CHANCES AND EVENTS EVER SO DISPOSED AND AFFECTED, THAT IT WILL EASILY TURN AND APPLY ITSELF TO THAT WHICH MAY BE, AND IS WITHIN ITS OWN POWER TO COMPASS, WHEN THAT CANNOT BE WHICH AT FIRST IT INTENTED. FOR IT NEVER DOTH ABSOLUTELY ADDICT AND APPLY ITSELF TO ANY ONE OBJECT, BUT WHATSOEVER IT IS THAT IT DOTH NOW INTEND AND PROSECUTE, IT WITH EXCEPTION AND RESERVATION, SO THAT WHASOEVER IT IS THAT FALLS OUT CONTRARY TO ITS FIRST INTENTIONS, EVEN THAT AFTERWARDS IT MAKES ITS PROPER OBJECT. EVEN AS THE FIRE WHEN IT PREVAILS UPON THOSE THINGS THAT ARE IN HIS WAY. BUT A GREAT FIRE DOTH SOON TURN TO ITS OWN NATURE, AND SO CONSUME WHATSOEVER COMES IN HIS WAY, YEA BY THOSE VERY THINGS IT IS MADE GREATER AND GREATER.

                        * LET NOTHING BE DONE RASHLY, AND AT RANDOM, BUT ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE MOST EXACT AND PERFECT RULES OF ART.

                        * THEY SEEK FOR THEMSELVES PRIVATE RETIRING PLACES, AS COUNTRY VILLAGES, THE SEASHORE, MOUNTAINS, YEA THOU THYSELF ART WANT TO LONG MUCH AFTER SUCH PLACES. BUT ALL THIS THOU MUST KNOW PROCEEDS FROM SIMPLICITY IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE. AT WHATTIMESOEVER THOU WILT, IT IS IN THY POWER TO RETIRE INTO THYSELF, AND TO BE AT REST, AND FREE FROM ALL BUSINESSESS. A MAN CANNOT ANY WHITHER RETIRE BETTER THAN TO HIS OWN SOUL, HE ESPECIALLY WHO IS BEFOREHEAD PROVIDED OF SUCH THINGS WITHIN, WHICH WHENOEVER HE DOTH WITHDRAW HIMSELF TO LOOK IN, MAY PRESENTLY AFFORT UNTO HIM PERFECT EASE AND TRANQUILLITY. BY TRANQUILLITY I UNDERSTAND A DECENT ORDERLY DISPOSITION AND CARRIAGE, FREE FROM ALL CONFUSION AND TUMULTUOUSNESS. AFFORD THEN THYSELF. LET THESE PRECEPTS BE BRIEF AND FUNDAMENTAL, WHICH AS SOON AS THOU DOST CALL THEM TO MIND, MAY SUFFICE THEE TO PURGE THY SOUL THOROUGHLY, AND TO SEND THEE AWAY WELL PLEASED WITH THOSE THINGS WHATSOEVER THEY BE, WHICH NOW AGAIN AFTER THIS SHORT WITHDRAWING OF THY SOUL INTO HERSELF THOU DOST RETURN UNTO.

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                  * AS GENERATION IS, SO ALSO DEATH, A SECRET OF NATURE'S WISDOM, A MIXTURE OF ELEMENTS, RESOLVED INTO THE SAME ELEMENTS AGAIN, A THING SURELY WHICH NO MA OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF, IN A SERIES OF OTHER FATAL EVENTS AND CONSEQUENCES, WHICH A RATIONAL CREATURE IS SUBJECT UNTO, NOT IMPROPER OR INCONGRUOUS, NOR CONTRARY TO THE NATURAL AND PROPER CONSTITUTION OF MAN HIMSELF.

                           * SUCH AND SUCH THINGS, FROM SUCH AND SUCH CAUSES, MUST OF NECESSITY PROCEED. HE THAT WOULD NOT HAVE SUCH THINGS TO HAPPEN, IS AS HE THAT WOULD HAVE THE FIG-TREE GROW WITHOUT ANY SAP OR MOISTURE. IN SUM, REMEMBER THIS, THAT WITHIN A VERY LITTLE WHILE, BOTH THOU AND HE SHALL BOTH HE DEAD, AND AFTER A LITTLE WHILE MORE, NOT SO MUCH AS YOUR NAMES AND MEMORIES SHALL BE REMAINING.

                         * LET OPINION BE TAKEN AWAY, AND NO MAN WILL THINK HIMSELF WRONGED. IF NO MAN SHALL THINK HIMSELF WRONGED, THEN IS THERE NO MORE ANY SUCH THING AS WRONG. THAT WHICH MAKES NOT MAN HIMSELF THE WORSE, CANNOT MAKE HIS LIFE THE WORSE, NEITHER CAN IT HURT HIM EITHER INWARDLY. IT WAS EXPEDIENT IN NATURE THAT IT SHOULD BE  SO, AND THEREFORE NECESSARY.

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                   * WHATSOEVER DOTH HAPPEN IN THE WORLD, DOTH HAPPEN JUSTLY, AND SO IF THOU DOST WELL TAKE HEED, THOU SHALT FIND IT. I SAY NOT ONLY IN RIGHT ORDER BY A SERIES OF INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCES, BUT ACCORDINGLY TO JUSTICE AND AS IT WERE BY WAY OF EQUAL DISTRIBUTION, ACCORDING TO THE TRUE WORTH OF EVERYTHING. CONTINUE THEN TO TAKE NOTICE OF IT, AS THOU HAS BEGUN, AND WHATSOVEVER THOU DOST, DO IT NOT WITHOUT THIS PROVISO, THAT IT BE A THIG OF THAT NATURE THAT A GOOD MAN (AS THE WORD GOOD IS PROPERLY TAKEN) MAY DO IT. THUS OBSERVE CAREFULLY IN EVERY ACTION.

                      * CONCEIT NO SUCH THINGS, AS HE THAT WRONGETH THEE CONCEIVETH, OR WOULD HAVE THEE TO CONCEIVE, BUT LOOK INTO THE MATTER ITSELF, AND SEE WHAT IT IS IN VERY TRUTH.

                      * THESE TWO RULES, THOU MUST HAVE ALWAYS IN A READINESS. FIRST, DO NOTHING AT ALL, BUT WHAT REASON PROCEEDING FROM THAT REGAL AND SUPREME PART, SHALL FOR THE GOOD AND BENEFIT OF MEN, SUGGEST UNTO THEE. AND SECONDLY, IF ANY MAN THAT IS PRESENT SHALL BE ABLE TO RECTIFY THEE OR TO TURN THEE FROM SOME ERRONEOUS PERSUASION, THAT THOU BE ALWAYS READY TO CHANGE THY MIND, AND THIS CHANGE TO PROCEED, NOT FROM ANY RESPECT OF ANY PLEASURE OR CREDIT THEREON DEPENDING, BUT ALWAYS FROM SOME PROBABLE APPARENT GROUND OF JUSTICE, OR OF SOME PUBLIC GOOD THEREBY TO BE FURTHERED, OR FROM SOME SUCH INDUCEMENT.

OUR THOUGHTS AND MEDITATION

 

                                                  MIND AND BODY

                                                           MEDITATION

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                 👉  *    CONSIDER HOW QUICKLY ALL THINGS ARE DISSOLVED AND RESOLVED. THE BODIES AND SUBSTANCES THEMSELVES, INTO THE MATTER AND SUBSTANCE OF THE WORLD, AND THEIR MEMORIES INTO THE GENERAL AGE AND TIME OF THE WORLD. CONSIDER THE NATURE OF ALL WORLDLY SENSIBLE THINGS, OF THOSE ESPECIALLY, WHICH EITHER ENSNARE BY PLEASURE, OR FOR THEIR IRKSOMENESS ARE DREADFUL, OR FOR THEIR OUTWARD LUSTRE AND SHOW ARE IN GREAT ESTEEM AND REQUEST, HOW VILE AND COMTEMPTIBLE, HOW BASE AND CORRUPTIBLE, HOW DESTITUTE OF ALL TRUE LIFE AND BEING THEY ARE .

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                👉  *   IT IS THE PART OF A MAN ENDOWED WITH A GOOD UNDERSTANDING FACULTY, TO CONSIDER WHAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE IN VERY DEED, FROM WHOSE BARE CONCEITS AND VOICES, HONOUR AND CREDIT DO PROCED. AS ALSO WHAT IT IS TO DIE, AND HOW IF A MAN SHALL CONSIDER THIS BY ITSELF ALONE, TO DIE, AND SEPARATE FROM IT IN HIS MIND ALL THOSE THINGS WHICH WITH IT USUALLY REPRESENT THEMSELVES UNTO US, HE CAN CONCEIVE OF IT NO OTHERWISE, THAN AS OF A WORK OF NATURE, AND HE THAT FEARS ANY WORK OF NATURE, IS A VERY CHILD. NOW DEATH, IT IS NOT ONLY A WORK OF NATURE, BUT ALSO CONDUCING OF NATURE.

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                 👉  *   CONSIDER WITH THYSELF HOW MAN, AND BY WHAT PART OF HIS, IS JOINED UNTO GOD, AND HOW THAT PART OF MAN IS AFFECTED, WHEN IT IS SAID TO BE DIFFUSED. THERE IS NOTHING MORE WRETCHED THAN THAT SOUL, WHICH IN A KIND OF CIRCUIT COMPASSET ALL THINGS, SEARCHING  (AS HE SAITH) EVEN THE VERY DEPTHS OF THE EARTH, AND BY ALL SIGNS AND CONJECTURES PRYING INTO THE VERY THOUGHTS OF OTHER MEN'S SOULS, AND YET OF THIS, IS NOT SENSIBLE THAT IT IS SUFFICIENT FOR A MAN TO APPLY HIMSELF WHOLLY, AND TO CONFINE ALL HIS THOUGHTS AND CARES TO THE TENDANCE OF THAT SPIRIT WHICH IS WITHIN HIM, AND TRULY AND REALLY TO SERVE HIM. HIS SERVICE DOTH CONSIST IN THIS, THAT A MAN KEEP HIMSELF PURE FROM ALL VIOLENT PASSION AND EVIL AFFECTION, FROM ALL RASHNESS AND VANITY, AND FROM ALL MANNER OF DISCONTENT, EITHER IN REGARD OF THE GODS OR MEN. FOR INDEED WHATSOVER PROCEEDS FROM THE GODS, DESERVES RESPECT FOR THEIR WORTH AND EXCELLENCY, AND WHATSOVER PROCEEDS FROM MEN, AS THEY ARE OUR KINSMEN, SHOULD BY US BE ENTERTAINED, WITH LOVE, ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, AS PROCEEDING FROM THEIR IGNORANCE, OF THAT WHICH IS TRULY GOOD AND BAD, (A BLINDNESS NO LESS, THAN THAT BY WHICH WE ARE NOT ABLE TO DISCERN BETWEEN WHICH AND BLACK), WITH A KIND OF PITY AND COMPASSION ALSO.

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                 👉  *  IF THOU SHOULDST LIVE THREE THOUSAND, OR AS MANY AS TEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS, YET REMEMBER THIS, THAT MAN CAN PART WITH NO LIFE PROPERLY, SAVE WITH THAT LITTLE PART OF LIFE, WHICH HE NOW LIVES, AND THAT WHICH HE LIVES, IS NO OTHER, THAN THAT WHICH AT EVERY INSTANT HE PARTS WITH. THAT THEN WHICH IS LONGEST OF DURATION, AND THAT WHICH IS SHORTEST, COME BOTH TO ONE EFFECT. FOR ALTHOUGH IN REGARD OF THAT WHICH IS ALREADY PAST THERE MAY BE SOME INEQUALITY, YET THAT TIME WHICH IS NOW PRESENT AND IN BEING , IS EQUAL UNTO ALL MEN. AND THAT BEING IT WHICH WE PART WITH WHENSOEVER WE DIE, IT DOTH MANIFESTLY APPEAR, THAT IT CAN BE BUT A MOMENT OF TIME, THAT WE THEN PART WITH. FOR AS FOR THAT WHICH IS EITHER PAST OR TO COME, A MAN CANNOT BE SAID PROPERLY TO PART WITH IT.  FOR HOW SHOULD A MAN PART WITH THAT WHICH HE HATH NO? 

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                             THESE TWO THINGS THEREFORE THOU MUST REMEMBER, FIRST, THAT ALL THINGS IN THE WORLD FROM  ALL ETERNITY, BY A PERPETUAL REVOLUTION OF THE SAME TIMES AND THINGS EVER CONTINUED AND RENEWED, ARE OF ONE KIND AND NATURE, SO THAT WHETHER FOR A HUNDRED OR TWO HUNDRED YEARS ONLY, OR FOR AN INFINITE SPACE OF TIME, A MAN SEE THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE STILL THE SAME, IT CAN BE NO MATTER OF GREAT MOMENT. AND SECONDLY, THAT THAT LIFE WHICH ANY THE LONGEST LIVER, OR THE SHORTEST LIVER PARTS WITH, IS FOR LENGTH AND DURATION THE VERY SAME, FOR THAT ONLY WHICH IS PRESENT, IS THAT, WHICH EITHER OF THEM CAN LOSE, AS BEING THAT ONLY WHICH THEY HAVE, FOR THAT WHICH HE HATH NOT, NO MAN CAN TRULY BE SAID TO LOSE.

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                   👉  *   REMEMBER THAT ALL IS BUT OPINION AND CONCEIT, FOR THOSE THINGS ARE PLAIN AND APPARENT, WHICH WERE SPOKEN UNTO MONIMUS THE CYNIC, AND AS PLAIN AND APPARENT IS THE USE THAT MAY BE MADE OF THOSE THINGS, IF THAT WHICH IS TRUE AND SERIOUS IN THEM, BE RECEIVED AS WELL AS THAT WHICH IS SWEET AND PLEASING.

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                        👉  *  A MAN MUST NOT ONLY CONSIDER HOW DAILY HIS LIFE WASTETH AND DECREASETH, BUT THIS ALSO, THAT IF HE LIVE LONG, HE CANNOT BE CERTAIN, WHETHER HIS UNDERSTANDING SHALL CONTINUE SO ABLE AND SUFFICIENT, FOR EITHER DISCREET CONSIDERATION, IN MATTER OF BUSINESSESS, OR FOR COMTEMPLATION, IT BEING THE THING, WHEREON TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF THINGS BOTH DIVINE AND HUMAN, DOTH DEPEND. FOR IF ONCE HE SHALL BEGIN TO DOTH, HIS RESPIRATION, NUTRITION, HIS IMAGINATIVE, AND APPETITIVE, AND OTHER NATURAL FACULTIES, MAY STILL CONTINUE THE SAME, HE SHALL FIND NO WANT OF THEM. BUT HOW TO MAKE THAT RIGHT USE OF HIMSELF THAT HE SHOULD, HOW TO OBSERVE EXACTLY IN ALL THINGS THAT WHICH IS RIGHT AND JUST, HOW TO REDRESS AND RECTIFY ALL WRONG, OR SUDDEN APPREHENSIONS AND IMAGINATIONS, AND EVEN OF THIS PARTICULAR, WHETHER HE SHOULD LIVE ANY LONGER OR NO, TO CONSIDER DULY, FOR ALL SUCH THINGS, WHEREIN THE BEST STRENGTH AND VIGOUR OF THE MIND IS MOST REQUISITE, HIS POWER AND ABILITY WILL BE PAST AND GONE. THOU MUST HASTEN THEREFORE, NOT ONLY BECAUSE THOU ART EVERY DAY NEARER UNTO DEATH THAN OTHER, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THAT INTELLECTIVE FACULTY IN THEE, WHEREBY THOU ART ENABLED TO KNOWTHE TRUE NATURE OF THINGS, AND RO ORDER ALL THY ACTIONS ALL THY ACTIONS BY THAT KNOWLEDGE , DOTH DAILY WASTE AND DECAY, OR MAY FAIL THEE BEFORE THOU DIE.

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                     👉  *  DO NOTHING AGAINST THY WILL, NOR CONTRARY TO THE COMMUNITY, NOR WITHOUT DUE EXAMINATION, NOR WITH RELUCTANCY. AFFECT NOT TO SET OUT THY THOUGHTS WITH CURIOUS NEAT LANGUAGE. BE NEITHER A GREAT TALKER, NOR A GREAT UNDERTAKER. MOREOVER, LET THY GOD THAT IS IN THEE TO RULE OVER THEE, FIND BY THEE, THAT HE HATH TO DO WITH A MAN, AN AGED MAN, A SOCIABLE MAN, THAT HE HATH TO DO WITH A MAN, AGED MAN, A SOCIABLE MAN, A ROMAN, A PRINCE, ONE THAT HATH ORDERED HIS LIFE, AS ONE THAT EXPECTETH, AS IT WERE, NOTHING BUT THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, SOUNDING A RETREAT TO DEPART OUT OF THIS LIFE WITH ALL EXPEDITION. ONE WHO FOR HIS WORD OR ACTIONS NEITHER NEEDS AN OATH, NOR ANY MAN TO BE A WITNESS. 

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                     👉  *  TO BE CHEERFUL, AND TO STAND IN NO NEED, EITHER OF OTHER MEN'S HELP OR ATTENDANCE, OR OF THAT REST AND TRANQUILLITY, WHICH THOU MUST BE BEHOLDING TO OTHERS FOR. RATHER LIKE ONE THAT IS STRAIGHT OF HIMSELF. OR HATH EVER BEEN STRAIGHT, THAN ONE THAT HATH BEEN RECTIFIED.