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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

spiritual man thinks through and beyond his brain until he learns to control it, and transcend physical sensation. He depends more and more upon spiritual intuition.

As for memory, if any part of our character survives, memory must survive with it. There would be a break in the continuity of life and of evolution, a dropping back, if the actor survived without remembrance of how he acted as this particular individual. It is when the physical body is out of the way, in the dreamless life, that the soul can truly perceive what it is and what it has done. It may not reason by the slow processes of the flesh-bound soul. But the direct vision of things, which is sure to come when it begins to be at home in the spiritual world, will undoubtedly include all that our intellects now know and very much more. A new phase will thus be added to our experimental life, and new material furnished for philosophical thought.

Memory is not an affair of cerebral impressions alone. It is part and parcel of our nature. Our deeds become a part of us: they make us for good or ill. By the eternal law of cause and effect we cannot escape them. That late must hold true of the new life, or it is not a law at all, and is not binding even here. We must begin life there where we left it here. There are no sudden leaps in evolution, except in cases where evolution has prepared for them, as in the bursting of the bud, which I have compared to the blossoming of the soul.

In the eternal order of things we stand for what

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