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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

of the nobler possibilities of the soul. Not merely through the conscious aspiration, but through the far greater receptivity of the subconscious mind are these nobler powers attracted. It is the general attitude, the atmosphere of the home, the kind of affinity, the degree of love which tells, not simply the beliefs; for these may be superficial or only passing affirmations. The dynamic centre within is the decisive factor, and the idealism must be made as far as possible a mode of life, in order for the spiritual to dominate the undesirable characteristics which may also be transmitted.

Yet it is well to remember with Emerson that "our easy spontaneous action is always best." For what should be sacred may be made common if it become anxiously self-conscious.

The wiser process is to trust the spiritual ideal to the subconscious mind, to send it forth as a prayer into the great universe, to make it part and parcel of the habitual thought of daily life. The Spirit quickens whom it will. It enters where there is greatest receptivity, and this is often where, owing to the humility of those who are chosen, there is the least self-consciousness. For self-consciousness merely prepares the way; it is the Spirit which accomplishes.

Is it not probable that this subconscious spirituality of the parents is in many cases the cause of the more spiritual character of the offspring, wrongly attributed by Theosophists to reincarnation? If the parents are on the ascending scale, so to speak,

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