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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

—I notice a messenger ascending with an attractive volume which promises to be of value. It is dusty, and has occupied a shelf for over eighteen years, with but few calls for its circulation. I open it and read that once when I was a telegraph operator in California I was called into my office at night, because of an accident at an adjoining station. A flood of memories rush into mind as I read, and it is with difficulty that I restrain them. Among them I choose first the fact that, as Jack-at-all-trades in the railroad station, it was my duty to listen to the telegraph instrument whatever else I was doing— selling tickets, adding figures, or conversing this must always be next below the apex of thought, ready to become the apex if I heard the magic letters "Po,"—my call.

Now an this particular night I fell asleep in my chair, not a fatal lapse of duty, as I was not in a signal-tower, and as I was at my post only because a locomotive was side-tracked at my station until orders should come for its departure. But at any rate I fell asleep. Suddenly I awakened—the magic call, "Po." The instruments had been busy all the time, no doubt, for it was an exciting time, and at most stations night operators were on duty. But I had heard nothing. Yet something heard while I slept—that is, while the entire pyramid was below the surface. For the familiar sound brought up, by association, the whole pyramid. It was brought up because I had trained my mind to respond to that call under any and all circumstances. Its effect was

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