It seems as though the laws of its being are at last beginning to be understood; giving a new content to the ancient command "Know thyself." We are learning that psycho-therapy, which made such immense strides during the war, is merely one of the directions in which this knowledge may be used, and this control exercised by us.

That regnancy of spirit over matter towards which all idealists must look, is by way of coming at least to a partial fulfilment in this control of the conscious over the unconscious, and thus over the bodily life.

Such control is indeed an aspect of our human freedom, of the creative power which has been put into our hands.

In all this religion must be interested: because, once more, it is the business of religion to regenerate the whole man and win him for Reality.
If we could get rid of the idea that the unconscious is a separate, and in some sort hostile or animal entity set over against the conscious mind; and realize that it is, simply, our whole personality, with the exception of the scrap that happens at any moment to be in consciousness--then, perhaps, we should more easily grasp the importance of exploring and mobilizing its powers.

As it is, most of us behave like the owners of a well-furnished room, who ignore every aspect of it except the window looking out upon the street.