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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

this dedication of the soul to the life of the Spirit will be a spontaneous and natural consequence. Yet even if the parents have not attained a high spiritual level, it is possible for them to transcend their own plane through the earnest aspiration, the deep sympathetic receptivity by which their souls are given day by day to the Highest.

The knowledge that the soul is a centre of spiritually creative power is the first essential. Ever gently and persistently the soul is played upon by the immanent Spirit, welling up from within, seeking to attain higher and higher levels. The immanent power ever seeks an outlet through us. If it does not find it on one plane it seeks it on another. That is, it may be manifested physically, intellectually, or spiritually: through quickening and transcending love. The channel it takes is, of course, dependent on the controlling thought, the habits and directions of mind. If these decisive thoughts are centred upon the ideal, the ascent of man, the life of service and the Christ, the creative power will seek these higher levels, drawing to it forces which otherwise would have run to excess or found expression in passion or selfishness.

Thus the dominant ideal, the conscious and subconscious attitude of the parents, is expressed in the life of the child. There are possibilities so high and probabilities so strongly to be guarded against, that those who recognise them will hardly deem anything of such great importance as the transcendence of these probable tendencies and the realisation

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