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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

insight, what strength! The universe seems at our command. All powers and orders of being are centralised where we abide. The soul listens, peers for forward and out over the surface of things, is given an instant's glimpse of the organisation which holds all things and beings together, then withdraws to its problems and its undeveloped lower life, that it may carry those problems and that life a stage farther in the outward manifestation of these sublime insights.

Henceforth, the soul really knows that the Spirit exists, that there is a spiritual world where individual souls eternally dwell. There is no need of argument. The usual discussions and manifestations of spiritism seem low and foreign in the extreme. That is direct, central, sure; these are derived, superficial, more or less subject to doubt. While the vision lasts, all is perfectly clear. It is only when the vision ceases that the realisation of it seems difficult, the evidences of it wholly intangible, its interpretation to others almost impossible.

Personal preparation for the future life is, however, only one aspect of our doctrine. Two or more congenial souls may attain a high level together. There is a higher law of love than the love of the flesh. It is the discovery, while we are still on earth, of the soul's affinity, which draws together those who live on the same plane, regardless of space. Souls that really know each other here, those whose love has conquered the flesh, so that it is the spiritual presence, not the body, which comforts

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