Columbus set his eye toward an unknown and unbelieved-in shore, and landed his ships upon it. Thus goes he toward the unknown I AM, who sets his eye Himward. "Take sanctuary with Him alone, 0 Bharata's son, and thou shalt find the eternal abode."

Speech follows the direction of the visional sense. A man's words therefore soon expose why he is unfortunate or triumphant, great or inconsequent.

"Therefore will I direct my prayer unto thee,
whom my outer eyes behold not, and I will look up.
Early in the morning will I lift mine eyes unto thee."

"The ruffian looked at me, and wrought against me . . . diseases.
So mayest Thou heal me, Thou most glorious One."
-- Zend Avesta.

It is the lifting up of this sense out of the network of materiality, the wheel of incessant grind, that takes man above his disasters and difficulties. "Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net," cried David.

David's net was the wheel of events that harassed him, exactly as untoward events and disappointing circumstances worry the sons of men today. Down into these shadows streams a divine radiance, discovering to such as turn their gaze toward the Source of the Light Hypostatic, another outlook over affairs, more than compensating for the failures that menaced while the gaze was buried in misfortunes.

One above looketh toward man and his affairs. He is of purer eyes than to behold evil. Looking unto Him giveth some gleams of His view, for, "In thy light shall we see light."

Nothing David could say disturbed these effulgent beams from doing according to their own upholding