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280 in the central organ of the head, the brain, in the mysterious interior of which resides a discriminating, judging and law-giving power, so is the visual nerve of the inner eye—Plato's third eye—in connection with God, and beholds the eternal, primal images, as they live in Him and in His kingdom. When this eye, native to the Kingdom of God, turns itself upon earthly things, it involuntarily exercises a primally discriminating, judging and law-giving power. It tries, rejects, approves, or demands something new, something better. It judges according to those eternal, primal images, which it beholds and judges, correctly accordingly as they are clear to its view. Because the eye of the spirit, like that of the body, requires to be educated in order to see correctly. But it is possessed of the faculty for this correct sight. The inner eye is a seeing eye, in the highest sense. It beholds the eternal, the immutable. It is the mirror of the Eternal light.

“Light which enlightens every man that comes into the world.” Light of that light, which was before the world was created, and which came to the earth in order to make it all light, in order to mature it for the Kingdom of Heaven. Thou art my light, primal source of my ability to seek and to find the truth; Thou guidest and enlightenest every man who comes into the world! If I look over the nations of the world, even from the most ancient times, I behold Thee guiding them yet in the morning twilight of the earth; if I look to that which led them onward in