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The Radiant Center

analogy we conclude that this vital force which is all around us operates from its own center and this, since all activity generates heat and radiates light, I have called the "Radiant Center."

It matters not by what name we know it but it does matter that we know it as the Center from which we have come forth and to which we are still attached as a ray to its sun. By the Radiant Center I mean that from which all physical manifestation, all sense of beauty, all intellectual activity, and all spiritual aspirations have come forth. It is axiomatic that anything that comes forth from the Universal remains still attached to its center. You cannot take anything from the Infinite. You cannot separate anything from Omnipresence. You cannot know anything apart from Omniscience. We are created out of a general substance yet still abide in it, with this difference in man's relation to it, that while the rest of creation appropriates unconsciously and negatively the heat and light of the Spiritual Center, man has to supply the moral conditions which make him the recipient of it consciously and positively.

Playing upon the dull, opaque cells of our body with the pure white light of Spirit, we set free their wondrous power and we find they are pure spirit, also man takes these rays and makes them new centers of ra 95