The Dignity of Self Reliance
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The following link is to an essay originally published in 1898 in The Saturday Evening Post. The author William George Jordan then collected his series and had them published in a little book titled The Majesty of Calmness.
www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/22956
I have thoroughly enjoyed these essays and see a deep resonance with the tenants of Thelemic Ideals: True Will, HGA, KnC, liberty, equality of sexes to name a few.This particular essay is worth sharing because I repeatedly see questions arise about TrueWill, self doubt, and what comes next......
I am sure to some here this article will be a simple or dumbed down statement of the things you already Know, so just be possibly tickled by the fact that this was in 1898. Some readers will enjoy his refreshing parallels and gain stimulation by reading something 115 years old.
I personally learned something that hadn't known before, in the essay The Power of Personal Influence
All the forces of Nature,--heat, light, electricity and gravitation,-- are silent and invisible. We never see them; we only know that they exist by seeing the effects they produce. In all Nature the wonders of the "seen" are dwarfed into insignificance when compared with the majesty and glory of the "unseen." The great sun itself does not supply enough heat and light to sustain animal and vegetable life on the earth. We are dependent for nearly half of our light and heat upon the stars, and the greater part of this supply of life-giving energy comes from invisible stars, millions of miles from the earth. In a thousand ways Nature constantly seeks to lead men to a keener and deeper realization of the power and the wonder of the invisible.
I never had given much thought at all to that.
