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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

vegetable and animal kingdoms, civilisation, intellect, morality, art, education, religion, service, the Christ. Of Spirit unmanifested, at rest, or apart from force, feeling, thought, he has no conception and needs none. Spirit for him is simply the life of all that lives, the power active in all force, physical, mental, moral, and spiritual.

Of perfection he therefore knows only what the present life reveals, both as actually accomplished and as prophetically revealed in human consciousness. He describes Spirit as occupied in working out high ideals of harmony or beauty through all the ills we suffer, the errors we think, and the triumphs we win. He reasons that Spirit must know and be actively present in all this, since otherwise there would be no divine consciousness at all, nothing to do, no reason to exist.

When in search of a practical remedy, he therefore turns, not to an imaginary realm of superconscious abstraction to seek divine oneness in a vague, general way. Knowing that the Father is active in his aches and pains, he seeks to remove the obstacle in mind and body, that harmony may be attained. He seeks cooperative adjustment with the divine activity in the disturbed region. He thinks back of that to its cause, turning his consciousness from the painful sensation to the ideal which the Father is realising there, the ideal of health or harmony. Thus his thinking is concrete from start to finish. Thus does he justify more and more the practical criterion as one of the necessary tests of truth.

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