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So is it with the human embryo on a larger scale and to a higher degree. From the instant of Quickening the foetus becomes something dynamic, and finally assists in its own delivery at the time of its birth.

There is an all-pervasive analogy between things physical and things metaphysical, and so I infer that there is a Quickening in the mind of Man for which preparation is made. For a long time the mind is vague and negative in its action, but all the while it is growing, developing, forming for the Quickening. In other words, we are not fully individualized, and we must prepare to take a step upward into a higher individualization. We must make ready for the mental Quickening.

All our vague and desultory thinking is really working to an end in which it shall take on orderly arrangement around a central thought and become organic, for what is true of the embryo is equally true of the embryotic individual, the human being.

And after the Quickening comes the birth into a higher life. All along the line of Evolution things are being born again upon the next higher plane. The one-celled organism is born again as the two-celled, the three-celled, the many-celled organism, and so Life sweeps on in its upward trend.

The sadness, the questioning, the dull monotony, the drawbacks, the heart sickness, are all phenomena of the embryotic life and must be lived through patiently and hopefully if we would