The Life Radiant

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Lilian Whiting. The Life Radiant

The Life Radiant

Table of Contents

THE LIFE RADIANT

THE GOLDEN AGE LIES ONWARD

DISCERNING THE FUTURE

THE ETHEREAL REALM

THE POWER OF THE EXALTED MOMENT

THE NECTAR OF THE HOUR

INDEX

Lilian Whiting's Works

The World Beautiful. First Series. The World Beautiful. Second Series. The World Beautiful. Third Series. After Her Death. The Story of a Summer. The Spiritual Significance. Kate Field: A Record. From Dreamland Sent. Verses of the Life to Come. A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The World Beautiful in Books. Boston Days. The Life Radiant. The World Beautiful

By LILIAN WHITING

After Her Death

The Story of a Summer

From Dreamland Sent

Verses of the Life to Come

Kate field: A Record

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Lilian Whiting

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The Life Radiant comes when one can as sincerely thank God for pain as for joy; when, after long groping in the darkness, clinging, indeed, to his faith in God (for without that he could not live an hour, though that faith be totally without sight), he suddenly realizes how a great sorrow has wrought in him a great result; that it has perfected and crystallized all that was nebulous in his faith, and that it has absolutely brought him into perfect rest in the Divine Will; that it has forged that indissoluble link which forevermore identifies his will with the will of God, and thus opens to him a realm fairer far than a "World Beautiful"—even a World Divine. Only in this finer ether is revealed to him the Life Radiant; in the atmosphere made resplendent and glorious by this revelation of the soul's union with God. It is a life only experienced after one who has seen before him the Promised Land is led into the Wilderness instead, and who, standing there in the midst of denial, and defeat, and desolation, can rejoice in the sea of glass mingled with fire through which he must pass. Only in this supreme surrender of the soul to God; only in this rapture of union with the divine power, lies the Life Radiant. It is a glory not of earth; it is the instant crystallization of an intense and infinite energy that pours itself into every need of the varied human life. It is the igniting of a spark that flashes its illumination on every problem and perplexity. It is the coming to "know God" in the sense meant by Saint Paul, and thus to enter into the eternal life. For the eternal life is not a term that implies mere duration. It implies present conditions. The eternal life is now. It is a spiritual state, and implies the profound and the realized union with God, rather than a prolongation of existence through countless ages. Only the eternal life can thus prolong itself. The life of the spirit is alone immortal.

Creating the New World.

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