The Hidden Power and Other Papers on Mental Science  (1921)

by Thomas Troward

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"A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him."--Thomas Troward

Combining his logician's eye with his artistic sensibilities, Thomas Troward was able to communicate truths on the most esoteric of subjects, giving them the intellectual and spiritual respect they deserve. This 1921 collection of brief essays from one of the most respected forefathers of New Age thought covers topics from the sacred to the sublime, shedding new light on mysteries that have challenged mankind for centuries. For any explorer of Being and Thought, Troward here provides invaluable insights into positive psychology, the self, God, beauty, and truth.

Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. Influences on his thinking, as well as his later writing, included the teachings of Christ, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Thomas Troward's "The Hidden Power" essay represents a major work in his contributing influence to Religious Science, the New Thought Movement in the United States and Great Britain.

1. The Hidden Power; 2. The Perversion of Truth; 3. The "I Am"; 4. The Drawing Power of Mind; 5. Affirmative Power; 6. Submission; 7 Completeness; 8. The Principles of Guidance; 9. Desire as the Motive Power; 10. Touching Lightly; 11. Present Truth; 12. Yourself; 13 Religious Opinions; 14. A lesson From Browning; 15. The Spirit of Opulence; 16. Beauty; 17. Seperation and Unity; 18. Externalisation; 19 Entering Into the Spirt of It; 20 The Bible and the New Thought; 21. Jachin And Boaz; 22. Hephzibah; 23. Mind and Hand; 24. The Central Control; 25 What is Higher Thought; 26. Fragments.

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...

The Master summed up his teaching in the aphorism that knowledge of the Truth would make us free. Here is no announcement of anything we have to do, or of anything that has to be done for us, in order to gain our liberty, neither is it a statement of anything future. Truth is what is. He did not say, you must wait till something becomes true which is not true now. He said: "Know what is Truth now, and you will find that the Truth concerning yourself is Liberty." If the knowledge of Truth makes us free it can only be because in truth we are free already, only we do not know it....

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