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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

apexes of thought, but they are not permitted to become such, because I choose to have them serve now only as the mere filling of the pyramid. In other words, I concentrate, and the reason why my mind is a pyramid is just because of this rejection of all thoughts except so far as they reveal a relationship to the one idea under consideration, namely, subconsciousness.

Every moment, as I think, there is a continual upflow from the great world on which the pyramid rests. Every experience of my life is registered there, every word with which I am acquainted, every thought that ever passed through Illy mind. At least, this is the hypothesis. That it is a true statement is clear from the fact that if I send down my messenger, or desire, it will bring up any memory I wish, although sometimes when I forget the shelf number the hunt is a long one, and even the librarian is occasionally puzzled.
For example, while I write these lines my messenger is hunting for records of experiences which throw light on our subject. I am not conscious of his searchings. For my vividly conscious thought has all it can attend to in the study and arrangement of the data which steadily rise into the pyramid, and the act of writing requires no small amount of conscious power.

But as I approach the end of a paragraph and pause for a moment to take a new observation,—for the contents of the pyramid are like the pictures in a biograph, the combination changes every instant,

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