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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

intimate relationship of mind and matter, by learning to control the physical forces and the nerves. Many physical aids may be called in to assist the process of developing and retaining perfect health. For example, regular physical exercise, the proper care of the body, proper foods, and a simple, pure life. It is the rushing, nervous, heated, sensuous life that kills.

I mention these physical methods first, because of their value in connection with the spiritual methods; and, second, because they are wofully neglected. Man lives an animal or nervous life, then complains because he is ill and subject to death. He expects and hopes to reach old age, yet is unwilling to observe the conditions of equanimity and equilibrium which render long life possible. He must reform his habits if he wishes to be long-lived and healthy. He must adopt the ideal of perpetual youth, and permit no day to pass without its activity and care with that end in view. He must not only keep young in spirit, but keep the body young.

Disease can be wholly overcome! It rests with man to destroy it, if he approaches the problem on both its mental and physical sides. Disease once mastered, the race can begin a thoroughly healthy study of the mind, its powers of controlling the physical system and of transmitting thought. The healthy mind can then turn toward the spiritual world with wonderfully increased psychic power.

When this purer, wiser phase of life, equanimity, mental and physical health, shall be attained, man

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