Thomas Troward - The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science

Thomas Troward

The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE PUBLISHER'S NOTE The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science Author: Thomas Troward Late Divisional Judge, Punjab. Honorary Member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York. First Vice-President International New Thought Alliance New York Robert M. McBride & Company Copyright, 1921, by S. A. Troward All rights reserved Sixth Printing September 1936 Printed in the United States of America The material comprised in this volume has been selected from unpublished manuscripts and magazine articles by Judge Troward, and "The Hidden Power" is, it is believed, the last book which will be published under his name. Only an insignificant portion of his work has been deemed unworthy of permanent preservation. Whenever possible, dates have been affixed to these papers. Those published in 1902 appeared originally in "EXPRESSION: A Journal of Mind and Thought," in London, and to some of these have been added notes made later by the author. The Publishers wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. Daniel M. Murphy of New York for his services in the selection and arrangement of the material.

CONTENTS CONTENTS The Hidden Power The Perversion of Truth The "I Am" Affirmative Power Submission Completenes The Principle of Guidance Desire as the Motive Power Touching Lightly Present Truth Yourself Religious Opinions A Lesson from Browning The Spirit of Opulence Beauty Separation and Unity Externalisatio Entering into the Spirit of It The Bible and the New Thought The Son The Great Affirmation The Father Conclusion Jachin and Boaz Hephzibah Mind and Hand The Central Control What is Higher Thought

THE HIDDEN POWER

THE PERVERSION OF TRUTH

THE "I AM"

AFFIRMATIVE POWER

SUBMISSION

COMPLETENESS

THE PRINCIPLE OF GUIDANCE

DESIRE AS THE MOTIVE POWER

TOUCHING LIGHTLY

PRESENT TRUTH

YOURSELF

RELIGIOUS OPINIONS

A LESSON FROM BROWNING

THE SPIRIT OF OPULENCE

BEAUTY

SEPARATION AND UNITY

EXTERNALISATION

ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT

THE BIBLE AND THE NEW THOUGHT The Son_

The Great Affirmation_

JACHIN AND BOAZ

HEPHZIBAH

MIND AND HAND

THE CENTRAL CONTROL

WHAT IS HIGHER THOUGHT?

FRAGMENTS

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The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science

Author: Thomas Troward

Late Divisional Judge, Punjab. Honorary Member of the

Medico-Legal Society of New York. First Vice-President

International New Thought Alliance

New York

Robert M. McBride & Company

Copyright, 1921, by S. A. Troward

All rights reserved

Sixth Printing September 1936

Printed in the United States of America

The material comprised in this volume has been selected from unpublished

manuscripts and magazine articles by Judge Troward, and "The Hidden

Power" is, it is believed, the last book which will be published under

his name. Only an insignificant portion of his work has been deemed

unworthy of permanent preservation. Whenever possible, dates have been

affixed to these papers. Those published in 1902 appeared originally in

"EXPRESSION: A Journal of Mind and Thought," in London, and to some of

these have been added notes made later by the author.

The Publishers wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. Daniel M.

Murphy of New York for his services in the selection and arrangement of

the material.

The Hidden Power

The Perversion of Truth

The "I Am"

Affirmative Power

Submission

Completenes

The Principle of Guidance

Desire as the Motive Power

Touching Lightly

Present Truth

Yourself

Religious Opinions

A Lesson from Browning

The Spirit of Opulence

Beauty

Separation and Unity

Externalisatio

Entering into the Spirit of It

The Bible and the New Thought

The Son

The Great Affirmation

The Father

Conclusion

Jachin and Boaz

Hephzibah

Mind and Hand

The Central Control

What is Higher Thought

To realise fully how much of our present daily life consists in symbols

is to find the answer to the old, old question, What is Truth? and in

the degree in which we begin to recognise this we begin to approach

Truth. The realisation of Truth consists in the ability to translate

symbols, whether natural or conventional, into their equivalents; and

the root of all the errors of mankind consists in the inability to do

this, and in maintaining that the symbol has nothing behind it. The

great duty incumbent on all who have attained to this knowledge is to

impress upon their fellow men that there is an _inner side_ to things,

and that until this _inner_ side is known, the things themselves are not

known.

There is an inner and an outer side to everything; and the quality of

the superficial mind which causes it to fail in the attainment of Truth

is its willingness to rest content with the outside only. So long as

this is the case it is impossible for a man to grasp the import of his

own relation to the universal, and it is this relation which constitutes

all that is signified by the word "Truth." So long as a man fixes his

attention only on the superficial it is impossible for him to make any

progress in knowledge. He is denying that principle of "Growth" which is

the root of all life, whether spiritual intellectual, or material, for

he does not stop to reflect that all which he sees as the outer side of

things can result only from some germinal principle hidden deep in the

centre of their being.

Expansion from the centre by growth according to a necessary order of

sequence, this is the Law of Life of which the whole universe is the

outcome, alike in the one great solidarity of cosmic being, as in the

separate individualities of its minutest organisms. This great principle

is the key to the whole riddle of Life, upon whatever plane we

contemplate it; and without this key the door from the outer to the

inner side of things can never be opened. It is therefore the duty of

all to whom this door has, at least in some measure, been opened, to

endeavour to acquaint others with the fact that there is an inner side

to things, and that life becomes truer and fuller in proportion as we

penetrate to it and make our estimates of all things according to what

becomes visible from this interior point of view.

In the widest sense everything is a symbol of that which constitutes its

inner being, and all Nature is a gallery of arcana revealing great

truths to those who can decipher them. But there is a more precise

sense in which our current life is based upon symbols in regard to the

most important subjects that can occupy our thoughts: the symbols by

which we strive to represent the nature and being of God, and the manner

in which the life of man is related to the Divine life. The whole

character of a man's life results from what he really believes on this

subject: not his formal statement of belief in a particular creed, but