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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

contrast and struggle between lower and higher is, as we shall see more fully in another chapter, the foundation of our moral existence; this contrast is essential to the development of one soul, one moral ego. The soul flourishes amidst the interactions and conflicts of its own hostile moods. The co-presence of many moods or selves is consistent with the existence of one soul. Duality of mind--that is, duality of aspects, does not necessarily mean the separate existence of these aspects.'

All moods and selves are turned to account when the soul comes to judgment. The grand ideal is the supremacy of the soul over all these moods, the triumph of the Spirit over every phase of consciousness.

The most important fact concerning the subconscious mind, therefore, is the possibility of its subserviency as an agent of the soul. The soul most first possess itself, the conscious mind must be trained, and spiritual receptivity must at least be an ideal, before a high degree of subconscious power may be acquired. But in all these attainments it is the subconscious mind which lays the foundations of its own future power. The very desire to develop subconscious power is itself a suggestion. The training of the deeper self goes on simultaneously and co-extensively with the growth of the conscious self. If you would reap only permanently beneficial results, you most therefore set the pace which

For further arguments against the dual theory, see " Hudson's Duality of Mind Disproved," by T. E. Allen, the Arena, July, 1895.

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