we speak of those who have been quickened through some avenue

You may as well understand that the statement in the Bible, "to judge the quick and the dead," references the world today who are dead in their trespasses and sins and the quick who are quickened in consciousness by the Christ image.      -Messengers M & E C Prophet:  The Enemy Within, 2004, p. 56
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There are very few who are quick, and there are many who are dead:  some who were once alive have chosen to be dead, and others who have never (really) lived and cannot die except they first be quickened, then exercise the conscious choice to be or not to be.  And the Christ whose flame burns brightly in each of us is ordained of God to be their judge and ours.           -Messengers M & E C Prophet:  Lost Teachings of Jesus, 1, 1986, p. 314
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For there is only One God and one purpose that valiantly brings to humanity the power of quickening conditions whereby they themselves can take themselves out of the status of becoming the dead into the realm where there are indeed the quick.      -Saint Germain:  10-11-1971 at Colorado Springs via Messenger Mark Prophet                by C Sindelar
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Now there is a ring of fire that is established round about each one that has proven himself worthy to receive this extraordinary protection from the I AM Presence.  This ring of fire comes only to those who have entered into a certain level of harmony with the universe, with the Holy Spirit, with the I AM Presence....
Now this specific protection was accorded to your Messengers some time ago at the time when they acquired that peaceful presence and that harmony with the Christ....
The next classification of humanity are those who polarize to the mental body, those whose etheric bodies are sufficiently clogged that they must operate from the level of the next dense body which is the body of the mind, which corresponds to the air element.....
Thus when we speak of the quick and the dead we speak of those who have been quickened through some avenue, some chakra or one of the lower bodies to the mind of God and those who through the clogging of one or more of their four lower bodies are dead unto the Christ light.    -Archeia Mary, in Mary's Message of Divine Love, 2009, #9   by R. Hawkins