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The Radiant Center

rising to the conviction that we are a part of nature and so a part of God—that the whole universe is traveling together toward some great end. We are no aliens in a strange universe, governed by an outside God. This strengthening vision, this sense of union with Divinity—this is what science will some day tell us is the inner meaning of the redemption of man."

Science has achieved such marvels that humanity fearlessly accepts her most stupendous claim. We exercise a credulity toward her claims that we have long forborne to show to the claims of religion. Trust in Science has supplanted trust in Revelation and now we are looking to Science to carry its demonstrations into the realm of the spiritual as she has already taken us to its borderland in her recent discoveries.

Radiant matter was discovered by Sir William Crookes in 1889 and he called it "Fourth State Matter." He must have meant by that fourth dimensional matter which is claimed as that condition of matter in which all super-sensible phenomena transpire. Radial energy travels, scientists tell us, 120,000 miles a second and acts with undiminished power, yet this is called a physical force. Surely, here we stand before the secret of Life at the point where Spirit and Matter are demonstrably the same, at the place where the hitherto materialist or