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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

Thus the discrimination between egoism and altruism is one of the essentials of this higher development. It is when I begin to distinguish between merely personal motives and inclinations, on the one hand, and the higher promptings, on the other, that I pass from the superficial, transient self to the centralised soul which is fit to survive. I must attain that stage of insight where I am no longer hoodwinked by myself. I must be perfectly honest. I most know myself through and through. Out of the tendencies than discovered, I must take firm hold of those which express the soul at its best, leaving all else to fall into oblivion through lack of attention.

This power of self-command becomes in time the basis of a larger spiritual experience. For, when one has learned to select the divine promptings from among the merely personal, one may substitute the higher sources of knowledge for the lower, even regard to matters of minor importance. Under this head, as evidence of the soul's existence as an immortal spirit, functioning independently of matter, I class the higher impressions, guidances, spiritual insights, intuitions, and the power to communicate with other souls at a distance. I do not now refer to messages from excarnate souls, although guidance may sometimes come in this way, but rather to the soul's native ability to obtain knowledge by a quicker process than through the physical senses, or by the function of reason. Take, for example, the ability which many possess to describe the states of mind

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