that which I purpose, and succeed in the thing for which I sent it" (Is. 55:11). We want the manifestation to us of the Father in us so that we can know Him personally. We want to be conscious of God working in us "both to will and to work" (Phil. 2:13) so that we may "work out" our "salvation" (Phil. 2:12). We have been learning how to do the outworking but have now come to a point where we must learn more of how to place ourselves in an attitude where we can each be conscious of the divine inner working.

Mary talked with the risen Jesus, supposing that He was the gardener, until suddenly, as He spoke her name, there flashed into her consciousness a ray of pure intelligence, and in an instant the revelation of His identity was made to her.

According to the same sacred history, Thomas Didymus had walked daily for three years with the most wonderful teacher of spiritual things that has ever lived. He had watched this teacher's life and had been partaker of his very presence, physical and mental. He had had just what you and I have thus far received of mental training and external teaching. But there came a time when there was an inner revealing that made him exclaim, "My Lord and my God!" On. 20:28) The secret name, which no other man could know for him, had that moment been given to him. There had come, in the twinkling of an eye, the manifestation to his consciousness