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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

it begins the moment man transfers his consciousness from the flesh to the soul. The soul can conquer the flesh. As rapidly as it conquers, it becomes free. And, as it becomes free, it builds about itself a new body, a finer substance, a finer mode of vibration in the ether than that called material. When it shall have fully conquered, all life will be spiritually understood, and what once was called death will be seen to be but one among thousands of transitions from lower to higher. What seems death on a lower plane is seen as birth from the higher. There is apparent cessation of life only while we are immersed in the process. There is only immortality from the point of view of the higher law.

The essential thought, then, is that life is continuous, that because of our organic many-sidedness we already live in eternity, and need not travel beyond our physical home to find what is real, what is enduring, what is worth while. To realise this great thought, it is necessary to put the mind through a gradual process of transfer of interest and consciousness from the transient to the permanent, from the outer to the inner, from the visible to the invisible. Think of the soul as the life principle, as possessing the life. Think of it as a part of the timeless, spaceless world where, for all we know, life never begins and never ends. Think of it as your true self, as that part of you which you really care for, as that which you love in other people. Become more and more superior to time and place,

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