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The Radiant Center

and sky and cloud behind it and is of the same nature as the sea from which it came and to which it will at last return, but one would get little idea of the ocean from studying the drop. We come from the Infinite and we are on our journey back to it; we have its push behind us to impel us to perform the smallest service with the realization that it is related to the infinite dignity, power and peace of our Source, but the way to understand our nature, our purpose and our destiny is to center our thought on the allinclusive personality of which each created being is a manifestation.

We must have a surer basis of knowledge of Spirit than we can find in man short of his attaining Christhood, We cannot wholly rely on leaders and teachers, however much they may help and inspire. Human nature is so variable and limited that it must have as a standard of values that which is without variableness or shadow of turning. In all ages humanity has sought to find outside itself a perfection on which it may lean. With earlier theological interpretations this led to the belittlement of the human. With the new exaltation of the human we have to see to it that we do not get a belittled idea of the Divine, that we do not try to measure the Infinite with our own yard stick. Even with the new joy of working for spiritual development from the standpoint of evolving