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The Inner Shrine
Basil King
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R909
Discovery Miles 9 090
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The Conquest of Fear is a very personal work by an author who had
first-hand knowledge of the subject matter. From a very early age
Basil King suffered from poor health and eyesight, and had to live
with the very real possibility that he would go completely blind
and die young. These debilitating fears plagued him throughout his
childhood, and would return to haunt him in adulthood at crucial
moments. As King sought a reprieve from his suffering, he became
aware that the answer lay not in physical cure or endurance, but in
spiritual harmony with God. The Conquest of Fear is an explanation
of King's hard-won insights, which are as relevant today as when
the book was written in 1921.
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Though she had counted the strokes
of every hour since midnight, Mrs. Eveleth had no thought of going
to bed. When she was not sitting bolt upright, indifferent to
comfort, in one of the stiff-backed, gilded chairs, she was
limping, with the aid of her cane, up and down the long suite of
salons, listening for the sound of wheels. She knew that George and
Diane would be surprised to find her waiting up for them, and that
they might even be annoyed; but in her state of dread it was
impossible to yield to small considerations. She could hardly tell
how this presentiment of disaster had taken hold upon her, for the
beginning of it must have come as imperceptibly as the first
flicker of dusk across the radiance of an afternoon. Looking back,
she could almost make herself believe that she had seen its shadow
over her early satisfaction in her son's marriage to Diane.
Certainly she had felt it there before their honeymoon was over.
The four years that had passed since then had been spent - or, at
least, she would have said so now - in waiting for the peril to
present itself.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online
at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - There are many books which give some
help to many people. There are books which give a set of rules, or
even one master rule, by which to meet the problems of life. This
is not such a book. It suggests no simple recipe for the conquest
of fear. Instead, it presents, what all too few of us to-day
possess, a philosophy of life. Moreover, in contrast to the
dominant thinking of our age, which is materialistic, King's
philosophy is spiritual and religious. Indeed, the ideas in this
book are so profoundly different from the commonly accepted ideas
of our times that they will come as a shock to many readers. One
purpose of this introduction is to prepare the reader for such a
shock. I have said that the dominant thinking of our age is
materialistic, and by that I mean also physical. Let me illustrate
this broad statement with reference to the subject of fears alone.
The conquest of fear has gone on year after year chiefly through
physical means. Physical pain has always been one of the great
sources of fear.
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