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FOCUS, BURNING 

An emblem of the Self as the centre from which emanate the rays of the Divine Life to every human soul.

"O Burning Focus! I have come into Thee; I have cast about me the robe of the waters; I have girt myself with the girdle of knowledge." - Book of the Dead, Ch. CX., trans. M. W. BLACKDEN.

The Self is seen to be as a Centre wherein all the rays of the Divine Life are focussed into one Supernal Light; and the ego perceives that about the Divine nature into which he has come there are the garment" and " girdle" of Truth and of Wisdom, i.e. the causal and buddhic vestures.  

See Also

GIRDLE OF KNOWLEDGE
ROBE OF WATERS
SUN