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reach the Quickening which is close at hand. Grief, pain and trouble are the pangs of gestation and pass away when the embryo attains its growth.

In the forming of the embryo the yolk of the egg in which it dwells is fed by the albumen in the surrounding white of the egg. The germ of the future life lies in the yolk and the yolk is in the centre, surrounded by the white. So does Man lie in the centre of his environment, and that which the environment contains in the way of event and circumstance is necessary to the forming of his mind while it is preparing for the Quickening.

You are now organizing your mind, making of yourself an organic being mentally. You are already organized physically, but the present organization is imperfect and is being unsettled preparatory to a reorganization of a more perfect character. Old habits of body are being disturbed for the purpose of forming new habits.

It is the same with the mind, only the mind has never been organized like the body, and not having been organized, it is the more easily made to conform to a new order of thought. There are, of course, many old habits of thought to break up, and new habits to form, but the old habits are not crystallized in organic formation, so they are plastic and yield readily to formative influences. If your mind feels peculiarly chaotic and unsettled, it merely shows that a new order is about to form, for chaos always precedes a new