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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

and cheers, need not be separated by the change miscalled death. This mutual attainment of the soul-plane is surely a greater accomplishment than to attain it alone. It makes spirituality social. It proves it to be still a part of the total, many-sided human life which makes for organic perfection. It is the mastery over the exclusiveness which sometimes characterises the attitude of seekers after the spiritual life. And what a noble ideal, what possibilities of mutual helpfulness and happiness it suggests, this transcendence of the flesh, where soul knows soul, where it feels and loves and is felt and loved by the fellow-soul!

Yet must we stop here? May not our range of soul affinities be extended, so that we shall hold communion with many of those nearest us who have gone forward to the freer life? From the point of view of a spiritual philosophy of life, there is surely no reason why souls should not return. If the soul is the real centre of power and possesses finer senses, a percipient and active spiritual organism which it hears away with it when it leaves this life, it must be able to act upon and to express itself to other souls far more successfully than when here. Of course, one must allow time for the transition and for adjustment to anew environment. But, that granted, why should not these freer souls make their thoughts and feelings known through the perceptive organisms of those still in the flesh, not through mediumship, but by direct transfer of thought and spiritual power?

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