Those
people
who
get
through
so
much
do
not
profit
from
it;
the
bees
can
only
draw
the
juice
from
the
flowers
by
resting
on
them,
not
by
flying
round
them.
Much
reading
is
more
for
scholastic
than
for
spiritual
science
;
but
in
order
to
derive
profit
from
spiritual
books,
we
should
read
them
in
this
way
;
and
I
am
sure
that
this
manner
of
reading
accustoms
us
gradually
to
prayer,
and
gives
us
a
deeper
desire
for
it.
The
other
way
is
Meditation^
in
which
we
should
engage
at
a
chosen
time,
and
not
in
the
hour
given
to
reading.
I
think
the
way
to
enter
into
it
is
this
:
—
After
having
brought
ourselves
into
the
presence
of
God
by
a
definite
act
of
faith,
we
should
read
something
substantial,
not
so
much
to
reason
upon
it,
as
to
fix
the
attention,
observing
that
the
principal
exercise
should
be
the
presence
of
God,
and
that
the
subject
should
rather
fix
the
attention
than
exer-cise
reason.
This
faith
in
the
presence
of
God
within
our
hearts
must
lead
us
to
enter
within
ourselves,
col-lecting
our
thoughts,
and
preventing
their
wan-dering;
this
is
an
effectual
way
of
getting
rid
of
