Life Radiant

Lilian Whiting (1859–1942) was an American journalist and author. Born at Niagara Falls, New York, she was literary editor of the Boston Traveler from 1880 to 1890, editor of the Boston Budget in 1890-93, and afterward spent much of her time in Europe. She died in 1942.

Know well, my soul, God's hand controls

Whate 'er thou fearest;

Round Him in calmest music rolls

Whate 'er thou hearest.

What to thee is shadow, to Him is day.

And the end He knoweth.

And not on a blind and aimless way

The spirit goeth.

Whittier.

" The Golden Age lies onward, not behind.

The pathway through the past has led us up:

The pathway through the future will lead on,

And higher."

Thought is the motor of the future. " As a man thinketh, so is he," is one of the most practical and literal truths.

Think of the power of anticipation everywhere I

Think of the difference it would make to us if events

rose above the horizon of our lives with no twilight that

announced their coming. God has given man the powers

which compel him to anticipate the future for something.

Phillips Brooks.

As Archdeacon Wilberforce so finely points out, God is ever the same, "but what men see of Him changes,—changes without contradiction of the past conceptions."

In the last analysis one comes to realize that happiness is a condition depending solely on the relation of his soul to God ; that neither life, nor death, nor principalities, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any living creature can separate him from it, because happiness and the love of God are one and identical, and it is not in the power of this world to give, or to take away, this sense of absolute oneness with the Divine life that comes when man gives himself, his soul and body, his hopes and aspirations and ideals, in complete consecration to the will of God.

For this alone is the Life Radiant. The life radiant (1903)

Her other publications included:

·         The World Beautiful (three series, 1894, 1896, 1898)

·         A Study of the Life and Character of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1899)

·         Kate Field: a Record (1899)

·         The World Beautiful in Books (1901)

·         Boston Days (1902)

·         The Life Radiant (1903)

·         The Florence of Landor (1905)

·         Land of Enchantment (1906)

·         Italy: The Magic Land (1907)

·         Paris, the Beautiful (1908)

·         Louise Chandler Moulton: Poet and Friend (1909)

·         The Brownings (1911)

·         Athens (1913)

·         The Lure of London (1914)

·         Women Who Have Ennobled Life (1915)

·         The Golden Road (1918)

Special to The New York Times. May 16, 1904,

BOSTON, May 15. 1904 -- Lilian Whiting, who wrote "World Beautiful," "The Spiritual Significance," "The Life Radiant," and other well-known works, has been charged in an affidavit filed in Greeley Colo., with conspiring with Ralph C. Meeker, a New York newspaper man, to defraud his sister, Rose E. Meeker. Lilian Whiting Said to Have Conspired to Defraud Rose Meeker.

 Professor John D. Quackenbos has recently said of Hypnotism : —

" Investigations extending over many years have led me to a belief in the dual personality of man— that is, each human unit exists in two distinct states of superior consciousness. One of these states is called the primary or superliminal consciousness,— the personality by which a man is known to his objective associates, which takes cognizance through the senses of the outside world, and carries on the ordinary business of every-day life. The second or subliminal personality is the superior spiritual self, the man's own oversoul, which automatically superintends all physical functions and procedures, and influences mental and moral attitudes. " It happens to be a fact of mind that in sleep — natural or induced —this subliminal or submerged self may be brought into active control of the objective life. My experiments have forced me to the conclusion that there is no difference as regards suggestibility between natural sleep and the so-called hypnotic trance. In the induced sleep the subject is in rapport exclusively with the operator ; in natural sleep only with his own objective self, perhaps with a multitude of discarnate personalities, who think and feel in common with him, and, in case he be of superior parts, possibly with all well-wishing extra human intelligences."

Here we have the basis of truth. That condition of vigor, poise, vitality, and harmony which we call good health depends on the degree of control exercised over the physical body by that " second or subliminal personality, the superior spiritual self, the man's own oversoul, which," as Doctor Quackenbos so truly observes, " superintends all physical functions and procedures, and influences mental and moral attitudes."

" Hypnotic suggestion is a summoning into ascendency of the true man ; an accentuation of insight into life and its procedures ; a revealing, in all its beauty and strength and significance, of absolute, universal, and necessary truth ; and a portraiture of happiness as the assured outcome of living in consonance with this truth." The learned doctor regards hypnotism, indeed, as " a transfusion of personality." Quackenbos

The life radiant (1903)

Lilian Whiting