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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

enlarges reason; reason must interpret and test experience.

It has been assumed that intuition infallibly, or by some occult law of inspiration or revelation, tells us what is truth. But we have already noted that no revelation is so pure that it is not defiled by the relativity and state of development of the medium through which it comes. What is to eliminate these defilements but further experience tested by reason? What alleged revelation has ever been accepted as entirely true, or consistent, even by "the consensus of the competent "? The theologians of one school may deem themselves competent. But what of the thousand other sects whose leaders can also quote scripture?

A revelation is true only for the man who proves it in his own life, and then only true for him. No other can see it precisely as he does, because no other man has had precisely his experience. In this profound fact we have found the chief reason why the elective system should prevail in education, why every man should make it his supreme purpose in life individually to discover and manifest the Spirit.

If you ask a person whose life is ruled by intuition for an experimental test, somehow the faculty fails to act just then: it functions spontaneously. Again and again we hear such people say that probably they were mistaken this time, or that self crept in and marred the result. Somehow the revelations of different seers do not harmonise. Obviously, there is no faculty in the human being whether

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