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higher than them all, and it shines on every man's face and illuminates it, and at last men will realise tliat the sun is one,
But you see so many faiths, because you need Manas, the mind, to grow and develope. Take a ray of our sun-light and pass it throngh a prism; on the other side, seven colors will be painted. Take a spiritnal truth and pass it through the prism of the human intellect, and the one white truth shines out in seven different colors. That is necessary, because man's mind must be developed, his intellect must grow; it grows by trouble and struggle, it grows by challenge and by questioning, it grows by fighting and by war. But higher than intelleet is Buddhi, the Pure Reason, that sees unity where Manas sees division, and higher yet the Spirit which is the same in all, and which, realised, makes the feeling of human unity.
Now we may say that when the Theosophical Society was founded, there was made what is called a nuclens. What is a nucleus? A nucleus is the growing point, the growing centre rather, in a cell, wherein all the life-forces are gathered and whence they radiate out. Take a cell as science sees it, and the scientific man will tell you of the growth of the cell; its organisation, its innltiplication, depend on a tiny point visib}e under a high power of the microscope. From that all organisation, all growth, all multiplication, must proceed. That is a nucleus. That is what the Society is a melens, nothing more. I little thing, a small thing, but in it are the life-forces which
