The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science. T. Troward

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       T. Troward

      The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664640079

Table of Contents

       THE HIDDEN POWER AND OTHER ESSAYS

       I The Hidden Power

       II

       III

       IV

       V

       VI

       II The Perversion of Truth

       III The “I Am”

       IV Affirmative Power

       V Submission

       VI Completeness

       VII The Principle of Guidance

       VIII Desire as the Motive Power

       IX Touching Lightly

       X Present Truth

       XI Yourself

       XII Religious Opinions

       XIII A Lesson from Browning

       XIV The Spirit of Opulence

       XV Beauty

       XVI Separation and Unity

       I

       II

       XVII Externalisation

       XVIII Entering into the Spirit of It

       XIX The Bible and the New Thought

       I The Son

       II The Great Affirmation

       III The Father

       IV Conclusion

       XX Jachin and Boaz

       XXI Hephzibah

       XXII Mind and Hand

       XXIII The Central Control

       XXIV What Is Higher Thought?

       XXV Fragments

THE HIDDEN POWER AND OTHER ESSAYS

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I

       The Hidden Power

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      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