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after that. There is not a weather bureau in existence which will predict cloudy days forever, and there is a perfect analogy between the physical and mental world, so I am sustained by science in my fair-weather prediction. Somehow, somewhen, somewhere, your sun will rise and shine, whether you believe it or not.

But you never can grasp sunshine in your hand. That has been your mistake. Moreover, it would not do you any good if you could so grasp it, for sunshine, by virtue of its fine, etheric nature, permeates you and fills you with its life-giving power, which it could not do if solid enough to be held in your hand. Do not quarrel with the sunshine for being just what it is, but place yourself in a certain relation to it and receive its influx.

And now look at the diagram which heads this lesson while I explain it to you. It is that of a radiant figure set in a dark background, and I have chosen it to represent a central truth in the law of Being. This truth is that God and Man are one. If you can get a realizing sense of this you are on the path of realization. You will notice that as the rays from the centre push outward they grow narrower, until finally they reach a point, and just for the purpose of illustration I am going to suppose that this point of the ray represents the mind of man before it