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for the growing form that is to be quickened when it is complete.

I know a number of honest, reliable people who have related to me their experience of the Quickening, and while differing somewhat in details all the experiences were very much alike. One in particular appealed to me so strongly that I will give it to you for your encouragement. The individual saw and touched a three-tongued spiritual flame, such as came to the Apostles at Pentecost. It was not a hallucination or a vision, but the experience of a perfectly wide-awake normal person, one not given to trances or psychic states. When this flame touched her on the temple she heard a voice saying — " This is the Healing Power." She mentally recognized it as such before she was told so by the Spirit, for when the flame touched her, electric waves quivered through her body, and she was filled with vitality as never before. For days afterward she walked as on air, so great was her sense of exhilaration and lightness of body. She seemed to herself to be all Spirit, and believed that she could have walked on water or floated in the air. In course of time this exhilaration became less intense but she never fell back to the old level of heaviness and stolidity, neither did her mind ever go back to its old plane which was haunted by doubts, anxieties, worries and fears. By nature she had a sad, morbid temperament, apprehensive of the future and given to brooding over sorrows of the past. The Quickening made of her a new creature, completely