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order. It did in the Creation, according to the account of it in Genesis, and we have the same process now in creating. In chaos, atoms are lying about in disorder, and the creative act consists in drawing those atoms that are related to each other together into an organic form of life. In the creation of these organic forms there always comes the Quickening.

I am reiterating the term "Quickening" so that you may have it written indelibly in your mind. I want it to fill your consciousness full for a time, until you are permeated with the conviction that a Quickening is to come to you. I want you also to know that you are now working to make it come, working with Creative Law, working with God.

Work that has no happy, pleasurable end in view is a treadmill, and as such it is a torture to a sensitive mind, so I point out to you the end toward which you are moving, as the Apostles of old moved toward the Pentecostal Fire, the Quickening of the Spirit.

As they moved toward the Great Event, so did it move toward them, until there came the Exaltation. Spirit dwells in us continually. Without it we could not draw the breath of life. It does not descend upon us from the outside, but from the inside. Spirit expresses itself through us, but it has lower and higher phases of expression. We have passed through many of the lower forms of this expression and are now being prepared for a higher. When our new mental form is