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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
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