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The Radiant Center

THE RADIANT CENTER

An Address Given in San Francisco, August 30, 1915

A sure and unimpeachable basis for the New Thought point of view must be sought in the very nature of things. It must be axiomatic so that its opposite is inconceivable, when the proposition is stated. Such is the conception of unity in which science and philosophy at last find their common meeting ground. To find any point of contact between individual manifestations we must go back to the Center from which all have come. As Bergson says, "the unity lies in the initial impulse behind and not in the direction along which objects are moving." Thinking back as far as our minds can go we come to Unity. We can think back as far as the One Source from which all have come. Since there is this diversity of manifestation we must look back to the Source to understand the essential essence of the manifested. We must look to the Universal to understand the Individual. There is an everlasting difference between the deductive and the inductive thought, both necessary modes of reasoning to enable all kinds of minds to arrive at some degree of truth. Some minds find it only possible to reason from what we know. But as a great Danish psychologist recently said