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is ours to manifest. It could not be otherwise. The ray is of sun substance and manifests the sun.

Naturally we cannot use the whole of the Eternal Energy at once, for that would be out of proportion to our needs. We do not want an avalanche of power, but just enough for our purpose at the moment.

To use a homely illustration — We are like pipes or channels that convey Energy from its Divine Centre to its Human Circumference.

Pipes limit or narrow Energy to their own capacity, but in so narrowing they focus it to definite use. Electricity floating freely in space cannot light our houses, run our cars, or turn the wheels of the world's activity. To do this it must be narrowed, focussed or confined to the limits of a tiny wire.

In our inner, spiritual selves we are this very Energy itself, and like the electricity floating freely in space, while our outer, functioning selves may be compared to pipes or wires or conductors of Energy.

Remember this distinction, for it is very important. It is as though the ray said to the sun "I am with you at the Centre of Substance, but I go forth from that Substance into the activities of light and heat."

At first we tap Energy at a low level, then at higher and higher levels, as we rise to higher planes of thinking and living. It is, therefore, true that at present we cannot form an adequate conception of the great and wonderful achievement