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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 profound discovery, that experience is coloured by the state of mind and body of the recipient, and that therefore the recipient's state of development is the condition to be changed and not the external circumstance, has a very important bearing on the problems of pain and evil.

One frequently hears the remark that "somewhere in the universe there is a screw loose," or, Had I been present at creation, I would have ordered things very differently." When questioned further, these critics of the universe confess their utter hatred of the present order of things. They complain bitterly at the existence of sorrow and pain, of evil and disease, which they always trace to some outside source. Man, they assure us, should have been created sound, virtuous, with knowledge of self and knowledge of the meaning of death. In other words, the ministry of suffering is deemed a dismal failure.

More persistent questioning reveals the fact that these critics have never come to judgment. They are constantly condemning others for wounding their feelings. They are in perpetual torment because animals and far-distant peoples suffer. Or they are numbered among those who, puffed up with the pride of family, atheistical, absorbed in a particular branch of study, have never opened wide their hearts to receive all men as brothers and all truth as one. In other words, they lack just this profound knowledge which we are considering in this chapter, that all experience is relative to the state of the recipient.

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