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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

with its own limitations. When man learns that action and reaction are equal, and that his own activity is the prime cause of all that he suffers or enjoys, he holds the key which unlocks the entire mystery of suffering and evil. The universe is evil only to him who does not understand its laws. Only that man commits evil who is still ignorant that the universe will catch him, even if he escapes the law of man. He only complains of the sufferings of humanity who has failed to grasp the great fact of social evolution, that human life is an organism. Finally, he still suffers pain who has not yet fully learned the great lesson of adjustment.

If with the existence of pain and evil, man is better off than if the world had been created "perfect," it follows that the so-called "perfect" is artificial. If evil be indispensable, it is a part of the evolutionary scheme, and does not by any means imply that there is an adversary rampant in the world. The "devil" is just our own relative imperfection, which is deemed diabolical only so long as the great fact is unknown that all the circumstances of human life are conditioned by man's own lower and higher nature.

The educational value of evil is dependent on the discovery of our true worth in life as moral and spiritual individuals. Half of the mystery is explained when we learn that without relative evil there could not be relative good, that our own ignorance is the prime cause of the "curse" that is upon us. The other half becomes clear with the discovery of "The New Point of View," when we

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