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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

undoubtedly better acquainted with the conditions of the next plane of life, than a large percentage of those who have already begun to understand their new experience.

What part of our nature is likely to survive, and how may we become more conscious of it?

Throughout this book We have contended for the existence of a spiritual faculty or organ of receptivity. In the foregoing chapter we have also found evidence for the existence of an unresolvable, indivisible unit, the spiritual ego beneath and owning all these complexities of moods and selves which we call our conscious and subconscious life. However varied the surface, regardless of the conflict of selves, at heart each of us is one soul. The probability is that, as life becomes more abounding in wisdom and repose, this fundamental unity will stand out more and more.

One of the first and profoundest discoveries, when we begin really to know ourselves, is this fact of spiritual unity. In our thoughtless days of unacquaintance with the soul we seemed to be many selves. We were continually cast about, now at the mercy of dominating minds, now prisoners of our own passions. But, when we began to be at home in our mental world, we also began to be centred, to be conscious that deep within this confusion of selves there is a soul capable not only of controlling all passions and conflicting forces, but of holding all phases of personality together as one consistent, ethical individual.

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