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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

brief, and as yet far beyond the will to control, is nevertheless nearer the real experience, nearest the dreamless life. From this temporary point of view, our daily experience seems only a dream, an experience beset with manifold illusions and imprisoning conditions, a phase of existence which the soul must pass through, no that, by than dreaming and evolving, by becoming unselfish and true, it may know and value the spiritual life, and cleave to that forevermore.

If this be so, if ours is the dream life and that the reality, there is every reason to cultivate these hours of reposeful contemplation, that we may draw power thence, and gradually win our freedom from the sense life, at the same time turning this power to practical account in the expression and ministry of the Spirit.

Oh, what a great, inexpressibly profound and beautiful truth it is that here and now we are denizens of a spiritual world, that we live in eternity, intimately and for over in the immediate presence of the eternal Spirit, the great All-Father!

Let as pause for a moment to realise the meaning of this supreme truth; for from the present point of view it is the first essential, the surest approach to genuine knowledge of the soul, the best preparation for our freer life.

First, this real world of Spirit and the soul, although organically related to it, is in a sense superior to the bondages of the time-world. We are not to think of the immortal world as a realm where we

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