Connect to the center

'The whole of our future can be summed up in a single question: which direction are we going in? Are we going inwards or outwards? Towards the centre or towards the periphery?

Human existence is such that people have to continually go out of themselves. As soon as they wake up in the morning they move towards the outer world. They look and listen and talk to others. They leave home and go out to work, or to shop for... This is all perfectly normal, but in the long run many people become so absorbed in their different external activities that they lose touch with themselves. They no longer know who they really are.

For the initiates everything is simple, because they have learned to reduce the infinite number of facts and situations to a few basic principles. What are these principles? They are geometrical figures. Take a circle, for instance. It is very interesting to see how we proceed when drawing a circle. We start by placing the point of the compass where we want the centre of the circle to be, and it is only by keeping this point firmly on the spot that it is possible to draw a circumference. The centre comes first therefore. A circumference can be drawn only if a centre already exists. This is why initiates see a circle as the symbol of creation, because it expresses the idea that everything that exists is linked to the centre and can only continue to exist and prosper if that link is maintained. Those who sever their link with the centre can no longer have a clear perception of the world or of the entities and forces at work in it. And not only that: they deprive themselves of the tide of pure life flowing from this centre, from God, the source. The equilibrium of cosmic life is founded on the uninterrupted relationship between the centre and the periphery. All the parts of the whole must converge on the centre, for it is the centre that ensures their continued existence.