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The Radiant Center

things under his feet, but we see not yet all things put under him, but we see Jesus." This is the way God looks at man. He sees Jesus as the true type of man and Christhood as man's destiny.

In the Gnostic Gospel Jesus is quoted as saying, "Do ye not understand that ye are all angels, all archangels, God's and Lord's, all rulers, all the great invisibles—that ye are all, of yourselves and in yourselves in turn, from one mass and one matter and one substances?" When we shape our thoughts according to this conception we will not live a life of shreds and tatters but of divine unity. The forces of the seen will mingle with the forces of the unseen and complete the magnetic battery. We have to become the inhabitants of both realms living the divine life on the human plane, and the human life on the divine plane. This is only possible with the realization that Jesus had, that "the Father and I are One," and that One is God. He looked from his own perfection always toward the Father.

Placing one's self consciously in the currents of Divine energy we too may keep a Radiant Center under every limitation or experience. We are no longer "worms of the dust," crawling through life in a debased attitude, but we look erect at Life from the Divine viewpoint and we see that the Radiant Center in ourselves is, as Paul put it,


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