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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

easily written. Commit your thought to the subconscious mind. Let it germinate, and await its maturity. You will then produce a better piece of work than by sheer labour. The subconscious mind has a power of combining even dry facts in a manner which the conscious mind can seldom equal. It is therefore one of the secrets of successful literary work to study the workings of the subconscious mind and to rely upon it to perform a large share of the toil.

The conventional method of literary production is to consult authorities, copy quotations, ask advice, compel the brain to think by reasoning from premises to conclusions, arrange the data under various heads, divisions, and subdivisions, then work the brain, revise, and rewrite. The result is fairly satisfactory, but it possesses little originality.

In the creative subconscious process, on the other hand, there is gradual assimilation of all that is thought day by day, and trustful brooding over the subject at hand. Then a day comes when one awakens with a strong desire to write upon that specific theme. The essay comes forth out of a full mind. It is original. It possesses fresh life. All that one knows has been worked in. Passages in some forgotten journal, or stray notes made at different times, are found to belong with it. And to and behold! it is as rational, as systematic as though it had been consciously arranged under various heads and subdivisions. Better still, it possesses that carrying power which only the Spirit can impart.

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