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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

greatest interest in life, the subconscious mind is constantly brooding over the great problems of human existence. New data must continually be supplied, but these se only as the merest hints which start long meditations, until, at a favourable hour, the conscious self is gladdened by results wholly unexpected and oftentimes very novel.

Again and again I have tested the ability of the subconscious mind to solve philosophical difficulties, so that I am indulging in no more hypothesis when I say that, the mind once trained to seek light on such problems, one may confidently rely on subconsciousness to solve them. The essential is patient trust, willingness to wait until this deeper self has not only looked up all the references in the library of memory, but has had opportunity to assimilate the data thus collected and intermingle with them the new ideas which are the natural product of this wonderful process of subconscious induction. If you send your messenger for these data before they have been assimilated you will find the result very imperfect. It is not for you to dictate. You must await the spontaneous rising of the completed solution into the pyramid of thought. The subconscious mind knows the fitting time; it wilt not bear dictation. You must adjust yourself to its rhythm, otherwise you shall not know its most wonderful powers. When you at last acquire this adjustment, you will be surprised at the productiveness of your own mind, equally surprised at the ease with which your thinking is done.

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