Psalm 5:3 My voice shall you hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer to you, and will look up. It is said that the monks of Mount Athos are accustomed to hypnotise themselves into trance conditions by gazing at their own bodies — no very ennobling objective if true. In some of the Buddhist monasteries of Eastern Asia devotees are pointed out who have sat facing blank walls for twenty or thirty years and have gazed themselves into mysterious ecstasies. In the modernised Buddhism of London and New York theosophy the same virtue is ascribed to intense and sustained contemplation. What change, think you, ought to effect itself within us if with the same steadfastness we contemplate the personality of Him who is the leader and consummator of our faith? (Thomas G. Selby.) Parallel Verses KJV: My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. |
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