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of escape flooded his muscles with the energy to act.

I gave a similar incident earlier in this chapter, but the two cases differed in that the first was a mental paralysis, while the second was a physical affection, but both yielded to the power of thought.

Evolution is working with you to unchain the Giant within. The chains are weakening in places, and will finally give way.

Is it harder to believe that you have a Giant within you than to believe that in a tiny acorn lies hidden the mighty oak, giant of the forest?

Given the right conditions and the oak breaks through its bonds, the Giant breaks its chains. The real, spiritual Man that is made in the Image of God is the Giant within. It is Man before his fall into Matter and the illusions attendant upon Matter. The processes of Involution and Evolution demand that this Giant Man shall become entangled in the illusions of Matter, even as the oak is imprisoned in the acorn. The Giant must be bound hand and foot by its chains up to a certain time, and shall then set to work to free itself. This is for some reason a necessary experience. The why and wherefore is still largely unknown to us. We only know such to be the process. We do not know why a seed has to germinate under the burden of the dark earth, instead of in the light and air, but our lack of knowledge in this respect does not hinder or alter the fact.

What we do know is that such is the law, and