Preface 4 Foreword 5 Part 1 - Entering the Kingdom 6 1. The Soul's Great Need 6 2. The Competitive Laws and The Law of Love 9 3. The Finding of a Principle 36 4. At Rest in The Kingdom and All Things Added 60 Part 2 - The Heavenly Life 74 5. The Divine Centre 74 6. The Eternal Now 82 7. The "Original Simplicity" 88 8. The Unfailing Wisdom 94 9. The Might of Meekness 101 10. The Righteous Man 109 11. Perfect Love 113 12. Perfect Freedom 119 13. Greatness and Goodness 124 14. Heaven in the Heart 132 Preface It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realisation of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can give prosperity to, nay it cannot prevent the ruin of, a man or a nation that has become lax and decadent in the pursuit and practice of virtue. The moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul of greatness. They endure for ever, and all the works of man which endure are built upon them. Without them there is neither strength, stability, nor substantial reality, but only ephemeral dreams. To find moral principles is to have found prosperity, greatness, truth, and is therefore to be strong, valiant, joyful and free. JAMES ALLEN "Bryngoleu," Ilfracombe, England.