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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

moderation in mental work, in social life, in every department of daily activity.

All these departments need special consideration. In one direction after another one must study the natural impulses until the habit or activity in question has been mastered and brought into subjection to the headquarters of poise in the centralised soul.

To rule means first to understand. In order to understand, one must investigate in detail. And probably the best method is the analysis of some excess. Therefore trace your physical excesses back to their origin until, by overcoming the cause, you at last conquer the effect.

No one rules his body who lacks poise. And poise in a general way is, as I have shown, the centralised result of varied endeavours to understand and control. No one rules the body who eats too much, who eats rapidly, echo uses intoxicants, tobacco, or drugs, who is the victim of any kind of sexual excess, who has disease or vice in any form— the list is too long to print.

The total problem, then, is this. It matters little what are your abstract affirmations, what your religion is, or what you profess to believe but do not practise. The vital consideration is, What use are you making of your forces? Undoubtedly, each of us is the recipient of a certain aunt of force, a stream of power playing persistently upon us. If we are perfectly adjusted, the sum-total of force produces a sum-total of harmony. If any obstruction

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