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from within. Rock never grows to tree. Matter has never moved up from polyp to Man. The same chemicals are in the lower order that are in the human brain, but brain is not there.

In my old Massachusetts home there is a huge boulder split in twain by a growing beech. A seed fell in a little crevice of the rock. It grew till it needed more room. Tree or rock must yield. Life in the tree kept pushing till at last the rock gave way. Was tree imprisoned? Did rock oppress it? No! The stone had not changed, but the tree in its growth came in contact with conditions that were natural and appropriate to it till it demanded more. The demand from life in tree was the cause of the oppression, and not the limitation of the rock. Life is a manifestation of Omnipotence in higher vibrations, and lower modes of motion yield to higher. While other necessary conditions of life to the tree were present the rock must yield tree still lives. Learn this lesson. Our demand for liberty does not mean that some person, thing or condition is conscious of oppressing us. It means that the individual has grown and demands more room, and as unfoldment must continue, conditions must give way. The moment the cry for liberty arises we know that Liberty IS already born in the Soul, and as sure as Life is God, that liberty will have expression. Canute could better keep back the sea than any parent, teacher or government can keep back the out rushing of the soul. Attempt to repress it in its chosen direction and it breaks out in others. Crimes, evils, diseases, rebellions and persecutions are but the result of impediments placed against the unfolding Soul. Freedom to act, freedom to express in some way, must be. Rock or tree must yield the Soul never does it is outward forever. Consciousness of power begins where animal limitations cease.