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Preface - Introduction - The New Point of View - Educational Ideals - Equanimity - The Subconscious Mind - The Spiritual Ideal in Childhood - An Experiment in Education - The Expression of the Spirit - An Ideal Summer Conference - The Ministry of the Spirit - The Mystery of Pain and Evil - The Philosophical Ideal - The Criteria of Truth - Organic Perfection - Immortality - Index - p. 247

6. The great lesson of life is harmonious adjustment to the immanent Spirit, unceasingly welling up into manifestation as beauty of form and nobility of life, guiding the soul in the development of originality of thought and strength of character, through the power of love and the sense of duty.

7. The prime essential is therefore to awaken to spiritual consciousness, to knowledge of the fact that each of us is a social member of eternity in the republic of the Spirit. For as all life is in reality spiritual, and the soul is by birthright a master, all conduct should be guided by the ideals of creative activity and spiritual service. Here and now, the soul dwells in an eternal spiritual world whence it may draw wisdom, life, and power at need. Here and now, it may transcend the bondages of space and time, so that death itself shall lose its terrors, and all experiences shall be understood from the point of view of progressively higher and higher planes.

Man awakens to his full dignity as an individual soul only when thus viewing his life from the point of view of the whole, when educating himself as an eternal, universal being. He is first of all a creative agent, building as no man ever built before. Through him the great universe reproduces itself afresh, through him the All-Father beholds himself anew.

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