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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

should put the mind in a special mood, lifting the soul to the plane of the universal in an attitude of worship or prayer. Rise above yourself, rise above your anticipated audience to that height where, one in consciousness with the Spirit, your entire being is offered in deepest humility to the Father.

Thus, by the power of association, this form of words, " for the glory of the whole," or a similar phrase, will at any time serve to put the mind into the receptive mood. Such a phrase is a powerful suggestion, acting upon the subconscious mind with searching, prayerful life, and presently bringing forth results limited in power only by the earnestness of the consecrated appeal. The mind is thus put in touch with the undifferentiated Spirit, when it is not yet either distinctively love or reason, beauty, harmony, or truth, but all of these. Then the Spirit will voice itself in melody or harmony, as love, reason, truth, all that is beautiful, according to the temperament of the listener.

The close observer will detect this receptive waiting on the part of the great artist, or the speaker who expresses the Spirit. More and more this ideal is taking hold of the growing minds of the day, Singing teachers are aiding their pupils to voice the soul, and pianists are discarding conventional methods and seeking to voice the inner spiritual mood.

No one will be troubled by unpleasant self-consciousness and shyness who rises to the universal plane. Here all is for the Spirit, and there is no time to think of self. The thought of self belongs

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