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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

may have successive incarnations. All that is secondary, and is another subject. The soul gains experience and expresses itself through the world of time, possibly in more than one physical existence. But in itself, as we are now considering it, it is above time, in a limitless world where one is not under compulsion to meet an appointment or catch a train. In itself the soul is an individual manifestation of the eternal Father. In this, the Father's timeless world, the source and ruler of all lesser realms of being, there is peace, uninterrupted love, entire restfulness.

Let as not forget this its most helpful aspect. Its power, its peace, is like food whereof we may eat. Its love and beauty are spiritual elements which the soul may assimilate and manifest. Its atmosphere we may breathe and absorb, expanding while see dwell in its sacred precincts, becoming more hopeful, more in earnest, more loving and sympathetic. We may lay aside our burdens, put away our problems, for the time being, and so find rest from all striving, rest and peace for the soul.

Yet higher still, highest of all, most beautiful and most abounding in peace, although the most difficult to suggest, is that sublime presence, that enfolding love, that sustaining peace which we call Spirit. The Father is literally and truly present. No bounds and no barriers separate him from the soul. Oh, the joy of that ineffable communion, the deep, calm, abiding joy! What repose is ours in the love which sustains us, what guidance, what

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