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The Radiant Center

diance. Men have called this Radiant Center by every name that expressed their profound feeling that it is their Source, that in it they live and move and have their being.

"In Zeus begin we—let no mortal voice Leave Zeus unpraised. Zeus fills the haunts of men, The streets, the marts, Zeus fills the sea, the shore, The harbors; everywhere we live in Zeus, We are His offspring too."

Hermes Trismegistus taught the Egyptians that the first Truth was "One and Only":—

"In the Universe there is nothing which is not the God, for He is the Universe. There is nothing in the universal world which is not He. He is both the Entities and the NonEntities, for the Entities He hath manifested, but the Non-Entities He hath in Himself."

"Thou art what I may be, Thou art what I may do, Thou art what I may speak."

In the Vedic philosophy Brahm stands for Being in the sense of the Absolute, a Force manifested in nature as eternal, pure, intelligent, free, omniscient and omnipotent. The Sankhya philosophy calls Being, the Soul, which is the real person of a man, the universal Spirit from which the soul emanates. Rolle, a fourteenth century mystic, traced