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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

must ever be spiritually discerned. Therefore make the supreme leap of faith, even where all the way is dark.

For our souls are bathed in a spiritual atmosphere: a spiritual sunlight falls upon them. Here and now — yes, truly, here, in this living present— we dwell in the spiritual world. There is a realm in which the Spirit is directly manifested, without the media to which we are accustomed in the flesh. There is also in us a faculty by the exercise of which we may draw power from thence. It is the function of this faculty to open, as the petals and leaves of a plant open. The sensation of receiving power is accompanied by a sentiment of reverence, a feeling of sacred humility and worship.

The grandeurs and beauties, the peace and joy of this environing world, no words can reveal. But oh that words could prove to all mankind that this spiritual world exists! Oh that every sorrowing heart could feel its comfort, that every sufferer could be restored by its peace!

My words may sound extravagant to you. I may have utterly failed even to suggest the real message I would bring to you to-day. But where my words fail the Spirit will speak. Let us therefore try once more together in silence to feel that surrounding Presence.

Peace, be still! Forget all else but the Spirit. In calmness and repose send out your thought in all directions into the great universe. Unite in consciousness with that finest, inmost Essence which

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