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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

This discovery not only means the knowledge of man's relativity, as we have considered it in Chapter X., but the understanding of the positive nature and worth of individuality in all its relationships. It implies so much that it is difficult even to suggest it; it is the discovery of a lifetime. Our entire history is an account of the manner in which we have in part learned this great truth.

Suffice it that when man really knows himself, he learns that deep within his being there is a principle of organic unity whereby his life is persistently held together as one whole. However varied his external experiences, personal relationships, eccentricities, planes of consciousness, and characteristics, more or less mutable during a constantly changing lifetime, he is fundamentally one individual, as the universe is always one universe. There is a principle of cohesion, a profound harmony of parts, a unity which is stronger than the principle of variety which characterises its manifold relationships with Spirit, man, and nature. The centripetal force is never permanently overcome by the centrifugal—that is, so far as we have any evidence.

Some might argue that the universe would be as well served if individuality should disintegrate when a man's chief work is done. But this would be at the expense of one half of our ideal, and if there are any planes of existence yet to come man may not yet know his chief work. It is unfair to judge by the standards of this life only.

In the profoundest sense, this unity amid variety

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