The essential spirituality of the new teaching must not be confused with religious affairs as they are known and exploited in the world. You cannot teach the New Age religion of the world's kind. It has its own. No dry as dust sage will do. A snort will answer your sanctimoniousness; flexible science will reply to the abysses of your logic.... You must be the consummate artist if never before in your life, to teach the beauty of the soul to youth. The young workers of the new social order will never bring forth their great harvests from your _reflected_ light. You must be spontaneous--you must flood them with pure solar gold; you must show them by your life and your work, how you come and go into the Unseen. There is no rest.... One commands his disciples to go forth at last. The teacher strides forward faster when they cling. He tells them one day they must race the gamut to follow him; and the next day he puts another in his place and begs to be allowed a cushion in the midst of the children.... We hold them by setting them free--the first law of love. All unions of the future--in trade and friendship and matrimony--will be founded upon the principle of freedom; and this is the essence of the new teaching--to liberate the children into their larger and God-quickened selves. No rest and no two days alike. A Bob White called me this morning across the uncut hayfields at the edge of the lake-bluff.... His two smooth and patient notes seemed to contain the secret of putting off all fret and fear and unrest. He seemed to ask if I had not done this already--had not yet put all boyish and merely temporal things away? "Not yet?... Not yet?" he called the question. I answered that I would try again, and I set out straightway to be honest once more with the world, with the soil and with myself. I would begin with the clay again to be clean--to rise and think and dwell in cleanliness, to think no thought, to perform no action second-rate--to begin with the Laugh again--the warm laugh of conquest that always opens some inner door to fresh powers--to arise afresh in the glory and gamble of the Unseen.... I returned and saw the young ones one by one--from Tom and John up to the men and women--doing their work. I set about mine with a laugh and called the day good. The teacher knows best who is taught. 3 CONQUEST OF FEARS An interesting boy of ten and I have been much together in the open weather. We have learned many things, but nothing more important than what a sham Fear is. I do not mean that we take chances or that it is wise to risk life or limb. Fine discrimination is back of all training in the arts of life; still we certainly have found that Fear is a waster and diminisher of beauty and power--and that it can be mastered.