Permit me to call your attention to a most wonderful book published by MacMillan & Co & entitled: "Amiel's Journal or the Journal Intime by Henri Frederic Amill translated by Mrs Ward." It is full of thoughts that breathe and words that burn. AmillEditorial Note: Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) was a Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic who is best known for Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1885), which was published posthumously. came as near to the borderlandAs Written:border land of Christian Science as Moses did to the Promised Land. I have enclosed some extracts from the book thinking you might like to peruse if not publish them in the C. S. Journal–
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To be misunderstood even by those we love is the cross & bitterness of life. But God is the Great misunderstood. Thought is like opium. It can intoxicate us and yet leave us broad awake. The intoxication of the Infinite.
The Whole of things - that sum of Knowledge the Infinite, the Absolute, alone has value or reality.
– There is no repose for the mind except in the Absolute – for feeling except in the Infinite; for the Soul except in the divine. Nothing finite is true. There is nothing nonexclusiveAs Written:non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the Whole of Being.
– Leave behind you a legacy of feeling & ideas; you will be most useful so.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the Soul– over the flesh.
Action is but Coarsened thought.