Thomas Troward - The Law and the Word

Thomas Troward

The Law and the Word

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CONTENTS CONTENTS The Law and the Word Author: Thomas Troward FOREWORD SOME FACTS IN NATURE SOME PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES MAN'S PLACE IN THE CREATIVE ORDER THE LAW OF WHOLENESS THE SOUL OF THE SUBJECT THE PROMISES DEATH AND IMMORTALITY TRANSFERRING THE BURDEN

FOREWORD

SOME FACTS IN NATURE

SOME PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES

MAN'S PLACE IN THE CREATIVE ORDER

THE LAW OF WHOLENESS

THE SOUL OF THE SUBJECT

THE PROMISES

DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

TRANSFERRING THE BURDEN

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The Law and the Word

Author: Thomas Troward

FOREWORD

SOME FACTS IN NATURE

SOME PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES

MAN'S PLACE IN THE CREATIVE ORDER

THE LAW OF WHOLENESS

THE SOUL OF THE SUBJECT

THE PROMISES

DEATH AND IMMORTALITY

TRANSFERRING THE BURDEN

THOMAS TROWARD

AN APPRECIATION

How is one to know a friend? Certainly not by the duration of

acquaintance. Neither can friendship be bought or sold by service

rendered. Nor can it be coined into acts of gallantry or phrases of

flattery. It has no part in the small change of courtesy. It is outside

all these, containing them all and superior to them all.

To some is given the great privilege of a day set apart to mark the

arrival of a total stranger panoplied with all the insignia of

friendship. He comes unannounced. He bears no letter of introduction. No

mutual friend can vouch for him. Suddenly and silently he steps

unexpectedly out of the shadow of material concern and spiritual

obscurity, into the radiance of intimate friendship, as a picture is

projected upon a lighted screen. But unlike the phantom picture he is an

instant reality that one's whole being immediately recognizes, and the

radiance of fellowship that pervades his word, thought and action holds

all the essence of long companionship.

Unfortunately there are too few of these bright messengers of God to be

met with in life's pilgrimage, but that Judge Troward was one of them

will never be doubted by the thousands who are now mourning his

departure from among us. Those whose closest touch with him has been the

reading of his books will mourn him as a friend only less than those who

listened to him on the platform. For no books ever written more clearly

expressed the author. The same simple lucidity and gentle humanity, the

same effort to discard complicated non-essentials, mark both the man and

his books.

Although the spirit of benign friendliness pervades his writings and

illuminated his public life, yet much of his capacity for friendship was

denied those who were not privileged to clasp hands with him and to sit

beside him in familiar confidence. Only in the intimacy of the fireside

did he wholly reveal his innate modesty and simplicity of character.

Here alone, glamoured with his radiating friendship, was shown the

wealth of his richly-stored mind equipped by nature and long training to

deal logically with the most profound and abstruse questions of life.

Here indeed was proof of his greatness, his unassuming superiority, his

humanity, his keen sense of honour, his wit and humour, his generosity

and all the characteristics of a rare gentleman, a kindly philosopher

and a true friend.

To Judge Troward was given the logician's power to strip a subject bare

of all superfluous and concealing verbiage, and to exhibit the gleaming

jewels of truth and reality in splendid simplicity. This supreme

quality, this ability to make the complex simple, the power to

subordinate the non-essential, gave to his conversation, to his

lectures, to his writings, and in no less degree to his personality, a

direct and charming naïveté that at once challenged attention and

compelled confidence and affection.

His sincerity was beyond question. However much one might differ from

him in opinion, at least one never doubted his profound faith and

complete devotion to truth. His guileless nature was beyond ungenerous

suspicions and selfish ambitions. He walked calmly upon his way wrapped

in the majesty of his great thoughts, oblivious to the vexations of the

world's cynicism. Charity and reverence for the indwelling spirit marked

all his human relations. Tolerance of the opinions of others,

benevolence and tenderness dwelt in his every word and act. Yet his

careful consideration of others did not paralyze the strength of his

firm will or his power to strike hard blows at wrong and error. The

search for truth, to which his life was devoted, was to him a holy

quest. That he could and would lay a lance in defence of his opinions is

evidenced in his writings, and has many times been demonstrated to the

discomfiture of assailing critics. But his urbanity was a part of

himself and never departed from him.

Not to destroy but to create was his part in the world. In developing

his philosophy he built upon the foundation of his predecessors. No good

and true stone to be found among the ruins of the past, but was

carefully worked into his superstructure of modern thought, radiant with

spirituality, to the building of which the enthusiasm of his life was

devoted.

To one who has studied Judge Troward, and grasped the significance of

his theory of the "Universal Sub-conscious Mind," and who also has

attained to an appreciation of Henri Bergson's theory of a "Universal

Livingness," superior to and outside the material Universe, there must

appear a distinct correlation of ideas. That intricate and ponderously

irrefutable argument that Bergson has so patiently built up by deep

scientific research and unsurpassed profundity of thought and

crystal-clear reason, that leads to the substantial conclusion that man

has leapt the barrier of materiality only by the urge of some external

pressure superior to himself, but which, by reason of infinite effort,

he alone of all terrestrial beings has succeeded in utilizing in a

superior manner and to his advantage: this well-rounded and exhaustively

demonstrated argument in favour of a super-livingness in the universe,

which finds its highest terrestrial expression in man, appears to be the

scientific demonstration of Judge Troward's basic principle of the

"Universal Sub-conscious Mind." This universal and infinite

God-consciousness which Judge Troward postulates as man's

sub-consciousness, and from which man was created and is maintained,

and of which all physical, mental and spiritual manifestation is a form

of expression, appears to be a corollary of Bergson's demonstrated

"Universal Livingness." What Bergson has so brilliantly proven by

patient and exhaustive processes of science, Judge Troward arrived at by

intuition, and postulated as the basis of his argument, which he

proceeded to develop by deductive reasoning.

The writer was struck by the apparent parallelism of these two

distinctly dissimilar philosophies, and mentioned the discovery to Judge

Troward who naturally expressed a wish to read Bergson, with whose