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finished the Spirit will flow into it, and lo, the Quickening and later the new birth.

When you feel inclined to lament your apparent failure to make your life what you wish it to be, take comfort in the blessed truth that you are preparing for your Quickening, that no matter how dull and wretched the outlook, how sharp the pain of conflict, how deep the grief, how heavy the trouble, all are factors in producing the great result. All are formative influences, shaping you into the perfect form that shall be a fit dwelling for the Spirit. All things have to be shaped for their Apotheosis and Man is not exempt from the universal law.

If the embryo of a bird had mind or consciousness it would feel joy as it grows more definite in shape, more like the bird that is to be, but the probability is that the intelligence of the embryo is not equal to this cognizance. However, the larger mind of the biologist, watching through his glass the gradual formation of the bird, sees what it heralds, knows the ultimate of the unfoldment, is sure of the result.

There is in Man a larger mind, a higher consciousness, that sees and waits for the Quickening, the finished product, the perfect individual, but this larger mind is not always in evidence, and when it is not, the smaller, everyday mind is appalled by difficulties, troubled by fear, disturbed by doubt, worn by monotony, and anguished by pain, but under the Creative Hand the difficulties, the fear, the doubt, the monotony and the pain are all worked in as building material