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John St. John

John St. John (1909), PDF p. 121

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JOHN ST. JOHN 4.10. Has not John St. John possibly been stuffing himself 5.4. both with Methods and Results? Certainly this morning was more like the engorgement of the stomach with too much food than like the head- ache after a bout of drunkenness. A less grave fault, by far; it is easy and absurd to get a kind of hysterical ecstasy over religion, love, or Wine. A German will take off his hat and dance and jodel to the sunrise—and nothing comes of it! Darwin studies Nature with more reverence and enthusiasm, but without antics—and out comes the Law of Evolution. 50 it is written “ By their fruits ye shall know them" But about this question of spiritual overfeeding—what did Darwin do when he got to the stage (as he did, be sure! many a time) when he wished every pigeon in the world at the devil? Now this wish has never really arisen in John St. John ; however bad he feels, he always feels that Attainment is the only possible way out of it. This is the good Karma of his ten years’ constant striving. Well, in the upshot, he will get back to Work at once, and hope that his few hours in the world may prove a true strategic movement to the rear, and not a euphemism for rout! There are further serious considerations to be made concerning Adonai. This title for the Unknown Thought was adopted by Ο. Μ. in November, 19--͵ in Upper Burma, on the occasion of his passing through the ordeal and receiving the grade which should be really attributed to Daath (on account of its nature, the 119
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