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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

Henceforth it knows whereof it speaks, and is greatly superior in power and sympathy to those who are trying to persuade people that all trust can be acquired through mere perception, without the ministry of suffering.

It is because of the deep reality of these soul experiences that I pass by most of the arguments against immortality. One cannot prove immortality.¹ The immortal life is the only proof. It is less an affair of argument and more an affair of experience than most questions. Therefore, I shall close this discussion with only a brief consideration of the objections from the physical side.

These objections are one and all based, I take it, upon some assumption about reality. Over against these physical assumptions I place, as every whit as good, the sense of reality of those whose point of view is the existence of a spiritual soul. If these deepest in experiences be unreal, it is time to question the reality of every experience in life.

The realities of the inner world have the advantage of being nearer to us. They are affairs of consciousness, to be sure, but so are all the experiences and relations of life, when fundamentally considered; for, in the ultimate analysis, it is all a question of differing planes of organic consciousness.

If, then, the spiritual plane of consciousness is

(1) To some it may seem that spirit manifestations ere a proof. But psychic communication, if proved, only establishes the fact of continued existence; it does not leap beyond the experimental ideal and prove that souls are to live for ever.

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