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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

that the discussion may bring into prominence certain aspects of the problem which have been neglected in the zeal for psychical research. For it is not when we examine the data of external spirit manifestation that we approach the problem most directly. It is when we turn immediately to the soul itself, when we await and interpret its highest inspirations, when the soul's relationship with the Father is discovered in the spiritual life.

The spiritual life is not the result of scientific research. It does not come by observation. Man may consciously lay the foundations for it: he may become virtuous, trustful, abounding in repose, in peace and love. We have already considered certain aspects of it in our study of equanimity. But the qualities of the highest spiritual life surpass our merely analytical understanding. The Spirit comes as the crowning touch, while we go on living the noblest life. It chooses and inspires whom it will. Its inspirations outstrip the highest flights of self-conscious thought.

The supreme assurance of immortality is the life which deserves it, that spirituality which would be rudely marred and shattered if immortality were untrue. Unless we are one and all fated to be suddenly transported to a heaven of eternal perfection, whether we are good or bad—this seems improbable from what we know of the moral constitution of things— unless we are spiritually immortal despite character and conduct, it seems probable that a certain kind of life on our part is a better preparation

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