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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

variety, activity, repose, involution and evolution, power, peace, love, wisdom, the divine fatherhood and motherhood.

4. Since Spirit is progressively revealed, human life is progressive and should be studied in the making. It is comprehensible only in the light of the advancing whole.

The soul is born in ignorance of these great facts that it may through individual experience, contrast, experiment, struggle, pain, victory over physical sensation, and triumph over selfishness, through self-knowledge, self-control, and self-help, not only learn the value of the spiritual life, but uplift its fellows, and contribute to the glory and beauty of the spiritual universe.

Thus evil springs from selfishness, which in turn is due to ignorance. Disease is disproportion, ugliness, neglect of the beautiful law of harmony which decrees that in no direction shall there be excess. Freedom from pain, evil, and their consequences comes not merely through soundness of physical life, through self-enlightenment, self-control, and poise, but through the dedication of self in all-round adjustment to the promptings of the creative Spirit.

5. Within each of us there is a purposive instinct, a divine guidance, which, if faithfully followed, will lead into all truth. But as man is many-sided, physical, intellectual, moral, social, and spiritual, the laws of all these sides most be obeyed. Each prompting of the resident creative energy must be understood on its own plane.

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