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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

to the hours and days of training, when one necessarily delves deeply into temperament, laws, and principles. But when the hour of performance arrives the time is too sacred to spend in thinking what people will say, in fear lest one may not be seen or heard to good advantage.

Perfect wisdom, love, beauty, harmony, and all the virtues spring from this creative world of the unvoiced Spirit. If a man would be great, let him listen here. If a man would progress, let him return here day by day as eagerly as if he had never come before. If a man's life is thus dedicated to the expression of these inmost promptings, he is likely at any time to become the recipient of ideas of which he knew almost nothing until they took shape in words under his pen, or in the act of addressing an audience.

All whose desire is to penetrate the mystery of the human mind are conscious at times that this creative world is larger than their fullest and profoundest consciousness. Soar as we may into the realms of speculation, pursue our thought as we will in the endeavour to chain it fast in language which everyone shall understand, an undefined, unwordable residuum forever eludes us. We seem like one encased in a shell, wherein we may study and inculcate our theory as we wish, but beyond which we never go except in the vaguest way. In these vague moments—vague because they are unwordable visions—we realise the futility of mere speculation. If we could once break through the shell of individual

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