You are to make your starting point from within the Soul, from the Deity; whatever else is said you will not be allowed to deviate from that Divine Center. As in the Middle Ages no astronomy could be correct because the earth was made the center instead of the sun, so whomsoever shall endeavor to follow these lessons should first perceive the Deity as the Infinite Center, the Soul of life. By the individual the center of the universe must be transferred from time and sense to eternity, to that which is absolute, to conceptions which in themselves relate to eternity; and the Soul, in its absolute nature, must be continually before the mind. In all that relates to the Soul and Deity there is no past time, as you term it, nor any future, there is but eternity. There is no change in the relation of the Soul and God; no Soul ever goes astray, no Soul is ever "lost," no Soul is ahadowed, no Soul is darkened. It is impossible for the Soul, in its divine and essential nature ever to be alienated, or estranged, or in any way shut out from God's Omniscient, Omnipresent Love. This being understood as the basis, whatever shadows may be referred to hereafter, in this series of lessons, will not relate to the Soul or God, but will relate to conditions which will be explained Primarily then, you are anchored in the center of all possible conception of intelligence, which is God, in the circumference of all possible intelligence, which is God, in the Infiniverae, which is God. (In contradistinction to the universe, which is the manifestation of God.) You are anchored in the immortality of the Soul, the eternity of its absolute nature, in its unchangeableness, in that which forever was, forever will be, and is forever the same; in the truth that the qualities of the life of the Soul are like the qualities of God in a finite degree; you are anchored in the great certainty of Infinite Love, which, as an all-potent and Central Sun, illumines every Soul, forever inspires, guides and directs.

The individual expression of the Soul is under the government of the individual Soul, but the whole life of the universe is under the government of the Soul of the Universe, God. What the Soul shall express belongs to its individual choice and its individual life under God, but what the universe shall express belongs to the Will of the Infinite, or the Infiniverse. This sphere within a sphere, or light within a light, is the state within the Soul, the chosen light being the Infinite Light, and the manifestation of that chosen light being the life of the Soul. As confidently may you turn to that Soul as the source of all possibilities, as unto the sun the atom turns as the source of all light. No more can yon be excluded from the Divine Source of all possibilities than can the atom, howsoever shadowed by organic conditions, be excluded from the vibrations of light which give expression to its outward being.

Being thus centered in the Absolute, the premises perfect, the conditions so beyond time and sense, yon are requested to receive these propositions as a student would receive propositions in mathematics, knowing they are to be proved in their application. If they are not proved, (each proposition being perfect in itself, containing its own proof, and all being perfect in parts,) then the system must fall; if they are truth, (each proposition based upon them will have been proved at the conclusion,) then the system must be true. If, resembling the higher problems of mathematics, those of geometry, the Pythagorean Proposition, these teachings - being the solution of all the divine potentialities of the universe - are not fully explained and carried out in this system, reject it; but remember the bases of the system, do not depart from them, nor bend them to any system more imperfect, for they will fail yon utterly if yon. do.

Beginning, therefore, with the Absolute, the Infinite, the Divine; beginning with the Infinite Entity and the finite entity, you are requested to accompany us forward, in each succeeding lesson, with such lines of thought as shall ultimately solve to your minds the problems of the universe, or if they do not prove to your minds that the problems are soluble, then the world must seem to be stranded upon the shore of a sea of doubt and of degradation, from which there is no escape.

Necessarily, beloved ones, this lesson is brief because of its magnitude. We might have added more sentences, still they would mean no more. When we draw nearer to your outward expression there will be greater length of discourse