The mechanics of the quantum leap are not enough. The world's gurus have stumbled into pieces of them for centuries — what they never found is the meaning.

In Part 1 we named the mechanics: the asymptote, the curve and the line, the bridling sequence, the shift from horizontal to vertical, the direct line to the Father, grace begetting grace. Today, Kent gives the meaning behind every piece.

Physics observed that particles leap — moving from one state to another without crossing the space between — but could not name the Guide who carries the disciple across. We can name Him: the Holy Ghost, a personage of the Godhead. The territory is uncharted only to the natural man; to the disciple yielded in covenant, it is the kingdom of the Father.

The personal development tradition — Hill, Allen, Jordan, Emerson — sensed the compounding and saw the curve, but had no fixed line. That is why the genre keeps producing accomplished men who arrive at the end and find something missing. The form tradition found the curve. The gospel reveals the line. The Atonement breaks the asymptote at the resurrection, where approach becomes union and the disciple is made like Him — co-heirs with Christ, to whom all the Father hath shall be given.

Then the warning: the disciple who experiences the leap is in maximum danger of mistaking the curve for the line. The moment a curve believes it has arrived, it stops approaching and becomes a line of its own — Lucifer's error. The only safeguard is the childlike posture that never stops approaching.

What you'll hear:

• Why the mechanics alone leave disciples (and gurus) at a dead end
• What physics saw but could not name
• The Guide the personal development tradition reached for and could not deliver
• How the Atonement breaks the asymptote at the resurrection
• The one danger every disciple who leaps must be warned about
• Joseph Smith at the King Follett pulpit, 1844 — the personage within
• Kent's own testimony: 30 years in books, and the key that was always a Person

Scripture & references: 1 Corinthians 13:12 (through a glass, darkly); Romans 8:17 (joint-heirs with Christ); John 5:19, 30 (the Son doeth what He seeth the Father do); the King Follett discourse (Joseph Smith, 1844); Fred Alan Wolf, Taking the Quantum Leap; Napoleon Hill, James Allen, William George Jordan, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The spark is to live the teachings of Christ. The fire is to be perfected in Him. Come, do greater works than these.

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• (00:00:00) - Kent Nielsen on the Quantum Leap
• (00:00:58) - The Spark and the Fire
• (00:01:34) - Quantum Leap
• (00:06:33) - The Meaning of the Quantum Leap

An asymptote is a line a curve approaches infinitely close but never quite touches — and it is the most hopeful math the gospel offers. In Part 1 of this two-part study, we walk the mechanics: how a disciple actually moves from plodding obedience to hyperdrive.

The curve is the disciple, finite and in motion. The line is Christ, fixed and personal. The gap shrinks by covenant. We trace the whole sequence:

• Line upon line, precept upon precept — linear progress is real progress. Don't despise the manna season.
• The infant learning to walk: crawl, stand, step, fall, step again. Every stage is a gift, every stage prepares the next.
• Rudimentary endowment — receiving the Spirit before you know how to walk in Him. Most disciples spend decades here.
• The bridling sequence — tongue, then body, then thoughts. The order is the doctrine (James 3:2). Each bridling unlocks the next velocity.
• Horizontal to vertical — honorable progress becomes a direct line to the Father (John 10:30).
• Counsel from the Man of Counsel (Moses 7:35) replacing the wisdom of men (2 Nephi 28:31).
• Compounding, not addition — grace begets grace, brighter and brighter until the perfect day (D&C 50:24). A penny doubled daily for 30 days exceeds five million dollars. That's the math of grace upon grace.

Take it to the Lord today: ask Him what He is asking you to bridle next — the tongue, the body, or the thought.

Part 2 brings the meaning: what the physicist saw without being able to name the source, the Atonement that breaks the asymptote, and the danger most disciples are never warned about when the leap comes.

The spark is to live the teachings of Christ. The fire is to be perfected in Him. Come, do greater works than these.

— Kent

The Spark and The Fire · thesparkandthefire.com

• (00:00:00) - The Value of Mature Disciple
• (00:00:51) - Asymptote: The Math of Discipleship
• (00:04:49) - 13 The Law of Compounding

On Mother's Day this year, I was asked to give a sacrament meeting address — and in the writing of it, the Lord taught me something about motherhood I had never seen before. I wanted to share it while it was still warm.

Episode 10 is about the labor the world cannot see: the endowment given natively to every mother, and vicariously to every woman who has poured her life into children of any kind.

The claim is simple, and it is doctrine. The charity most disciples receive by covenant in the temple is planted in the soil of motherhood from the beginning. A mother does not have to be taught to love her child — that love unfolds in her the moment the child is placed in her arms. It is the same love the Father has for His children, the same pure love of Christ spoken of in Moroni 7. Endowment is native equipment for the labor, not a reward for it.

I close with my own mother, who received her temple endowment while I served my mission in Mongolia — the covenant version of the love she had been pouring out since the day I was placed in her arms.

To every mother, and to every woman raising children of the body or of the spirit: you have been endowed. The Father sees what no one else can see.

A PDF and audio version of the original address (not in my voice) is available at dogreaterworks.com.

The spark is to live the teachings of Christ. The fire is to be perfected in Him. Come, do greater works than these.

• (00:00:00) - All About It
• (00:00:49) - The Endowment of Motherhood
• (00:07:03) - Sacrament Meeting Address