The Life Radiant is that transfiguration of the ordinary daily events
and circumstances which lifts them to the spiritual plane and sees them
as the signs and the indications of the divine leading. Every
circumstance thus becomes a part of the revelation; and to constantly
live in this illuminated atmosphere is to invest all experiences with a
kind of magical enchantment. Life prefigures itself before us as a
spiritual drama in which we are, at once, the actors and the spectators.
The story of living goes on perpetually. The days and the years
inevitably turn the pages and open new chapters. Nothing is ever
hopeless, because new combinations and groupings create new results. The
forces that determine his daily life are partly with man and partly with
God. They lie in both the Seen and the Unseen. We are always an
inhabitant of both realms, and to recognize either alone and be blind to
the other is to deprive ourselves of the great sources of energy. The
divine aid, infinite and all-potent as it is, capable at any moment of
utterly transforming all the conditions and transferring them to a
higher plane, is yet limited by the degree of spiritual receptivity in
the individual. As one may have all the air that he is able to breathe,
so may one have all the aid of the Holy Spirit which he is capable of
receiving. Man can never accept so gladly and so freely as God offers;
but in just the proportion to which he can, increasingly, lift up his
heart in response, to that degree God fills his life with a glory not of
earth.
"Man may ask, and God may answer, but we may not understand,
Knowing but our own poor language, all the writing of His hand."
Science has discovered the existence of that incalculable energy, the
ether, interpenetrated in the atmosphere. Electro-magnetic currents of
power beyond all conception are revealed, and when intelligently
recognized by some happy genius, like that of Marconi, they begin to be
utilized in the service of human progress. Now as this ethereal energy
which is only just beginning to be recognized can be drawn upon for
light, for heat, for motor power, for communication, just as this
hitherto undreamed-of power can be drawn upon for the fundamental needs
of the physical world, so, correspondingly, does there exist the
infinite reservoir of spiritual energy which God freely opens to man in
precisely the proportion in which he recognizes and avails himself of
its transforming power. And in this realm lies the Life Radiant. If this
transfiguration of life could only be experienced by the aid of wealth
and health and all for which these two factors stand, it would not be
worth talking about. We hear a great deal of the "privileged classes"
and of "fortunate conditions," as if there were certain arbitrary
divisions in life defined by impassable boundaries, and that he who
finds himself in one, is unable to pass to another.
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