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and living beauty into the conception of oneness, for while the star itself radiates life in the form of light, this is not fully expressed in a geometrical design upon paper. Nothing appeals to the heart and stirs it to new life like an organized form of beauty, and the thought of unfolding like a flower from the centre of Divinity, must be an incentive to better and more beautiful action. The form, the color, the aroma of a flower delight us through the senses it is true, but at the same time there is a subtle and unrecognized appeal to the inner life, because the still small voice of Divinity is saying through the flower: "Behold Me in this my symbol. I AM at the centre and I AM at the circumference. I AM God at the centre of the rose, I AM Man in its petals, and beside ME there is none."

To feel this, dear friends, is the first step in realization. It is not so difficult a thing. We are accustomed to look upon the things external, which can be seen and touched, as real, and the unseen things as unreal, while just the 1 reverse is true. We have developed crude senses by which we see and touch these external things and it remains for us to develop finer senses by which we feel the inner things. A seer once said: "The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."