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The Radiant Center

stantly widened conception of the Infinite Spirit. The history of the development of humanity has been the feeling of man towards God. True, it was the divine in him feeling after the Divine in the Universal, as Plotinus said, "The flight of the alone to the Alone." Man has been thought into manifestation. He has been incarnated in a body, but not wholly incarnated, for as the same writer said, "The Soul leaves something of itself above." Here is the secret of the Radiant Center, that it keeps a string, so-tospeak, on all that is manifested out of it.

Science and philosophy, therefore, show us the Radiant Center at the heart of the universe. The next thing is to find it in ourselves. We then make in ourselves a co-ordinate Radiant Center around which the divine energies can play. Then the Infinite pours itself into every need of the various human experiences, directing the intellect, opening up to it the fountain of wisdom, subordinating all the transient and imperfect to the great Life force which is from everlasting to everlasting.

When, then, man rises to the height of being consciously co-creator with God, the original Divine power is augmented in its capacity for manifestation by all man's manifestation of this power, and God and man are co-workers.

When a magnet magnetizes other bodies