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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

consciousness, our whole thought would be instantly changed by the grander light from this realm of the creative Spirit which is beyond yet within all forms, all particular modes of manifestation.

Yet it is important to remember that many of the ideas which spring suddenly from this creative realm — given us by spirits, as some think—are self-suggestions. We are reading a paper or listening to a friend, and an idea occurs to us which we would like to realise, but which we dismiss so quickly that all remembrance of it is lost. But our deeper self remembers it; and in due time the idea comes forth full-fledged from the creative world, apparently new, and causing us to wonder whence it came. It is probable that all merely human thought is governed by suggestion in some form. The impulses which we feel that we most obey, and which seem like a separate mind commanding us, are only a suburban portion of ourselves, the richest and noblest portion of which is this subconscious creative receptivity, which in reality is the chief organ of all inspiration.

As we have noted in a foregoing chapter, there are days when the mind is in a constructive mood, when every thought is valuable, when the right word eagerly comes to fit the right place. No analysis of ours can fully account for these days. The utmost we can say is that we supplied the subconscious mind with part of the data and sent out a prayer for light, but that the synthetic process is as mysterious as the combination of powers and substances known as physical life. The mind marvels at its

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