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less sleep. We do not step into new and better conditions on the instant, but grow toward them imperceptibly, until, all at once, comes the Quickening, as is the case with all embryonic growth, and the Quickening is followed by the New Birth into a higher, stronger life on this earth and in this body.

Sometimes a release of power comes suddenly, as in the case of a man who was so crippled by rheumatism that he was practically helpless. He had to be dressed and undressed, and even fed, for he could not use his hands. One Sunday evening the entire family went to church, after undressing and putting to bed this apparently helpless man. The house caught fire during their absence, and no one responded to his cries for help. Higher and higher crept the flames, and more intense became the terror of the poor man, until, with a sudden influx of power, he leaped from the bed, dragged everything out of the bureau drawers, and filling a sheet with his belongings, he shouldered the great bundle and ran downstairs into the street.

His muscles had been held in the belief of rheumatism, but when his mind was filled to overflowing with fear of the fire, the belief in rheumatism was crowded out and found not a nook or a corner to lurk in. The chains of belief were broken and the Giant set free. The chains were essentially mental, as you see, and they were broken by THOUGHT. The man thought he would be burned to death unless he managed to get out of the burning house, and the thought