Xiii. In Touch With Subconscious Mind : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 94 XIII. IN TOUCH WITH SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND. The preceding pages have made the student in some measure aware of the immense importance of our dealings with the sub-conscious mind. Our relation to it, whether on the scale...
X. Intuition : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 71 X. INTUITION. We have seen that the subjective mind is amenable to suggestion by the objective mind; but there is also an action of the subjective mind upon the objective. The individual's subjective mind is his own...
Vi. The Law Of Growth : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 40 VI. THE LAW OF GROWTH. A correct understanding of the law of growth is of the highest importance to the student of Mental Science. The great fact to be realized regarding Nature is that it is natural. We may pervert...
Ix. Causes And Conditions : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 63 IX. CAUSES AND CONDITIONS. The expression "relative" first cause" has been used in the last section to distinguish the action of the creative principle in the "individual" mind from Universal First Cause on the one h...
Iv. Subjective And Objective Mind : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 21 IV. SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND. Up to this point it has been necessary to lay the foundations of the science by the statement of highly abstract general principles which we have reached by purely metaphysical...
V. Further Considerations Regarding Subjective : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 29 V. FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND. An intelligent consideration of the phenomena of hypnotism will show us that what we call the hypnotic state is the "normal" state of the subjective...
Iii. The Unity Of The Spirit : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 17 III THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT. We have now paved the way for understanding what is meant by "the unity of the spirit." In the first conception of spirit as the underlying origin of all things we see a universal substance...
Xv. The Soul : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 117 XV. THE SOUL. Having now obtained a glimpse of the adaptation of the physical organism to the action of the mind we must next realize that the mind itself is an organism which is in like manner adapted to the acti...
Viii. Reciprocal Action Of The Universal : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 55 VIII. RECIPROCAL ACTION OF THE UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL MINDS. It must be admitted that the foregoing considerations bring us to the borders of theological speculation, but the student must bear in mind that as a Mental...
Vii. Receptivity : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 45 VII. RECEPTIVITY. In order to lay the foundations for practical work, the student must endeavour to get a clear conception of what is meant by the intelligence of undifferentiated spirit. We want to grasp the ide...
Ii. The Higher Mode Of Intelligence Controls : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 8 II. THE HIGHER MODE OF INTELLIGENCE CONTROLS THE LOWER. We have seen that the descent from personality, as we know it in ourselves, to matter, as we know it under what we call inanimate forms, is a gradual descent...
Foreword : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], FOREWORD. This book contains the substance of a course of lectures recently given by the writer in the Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh. Its purpose is to indicate the "Natural Principles" governing the relation between Mental...
I. Spirit And Matter : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 1 THE EDINBURGH LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE. I. SPIRIT AND MATTER. In commencing a course of lectures on Mental Science, it is somewhat difficult for the lecturer to fix upon the best method of opening the subject. It c...
Xvi. The Spirit : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 126 XVI. THE SPIRIT. What must the Supreme All-originating Spirit be in itself? That is the question before us. Let us start with one fact regarding it about which we cannot have any possible doubt--it is "creative". If it...
Xi. Healing : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 74 XI. HEALING. The subject of healing has been elaborately treated by many writers and fully deserves all the attention that has been given to it, but the object of these lectures is rather to ground the student in those...
Xiv. The Body : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 107 XIV. THE BODY. Some students find it difficult to realize that mental action can produce any real effect upon material substance; but if this is not possible there is no such thing as Mental Science, the purpose...
Title Page : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], THE EDINBURGH LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE BY THOMAS TROWARD LATE DIVISIONAL JUDGE, PUNJAB New York: Dodd, Mead [1909] Proofed and formatted , August 2009, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because...
Xii. The Will : * "The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science", by Thomas Troward, [1909], p. 83 XII. THE WILL. The Will is of such primary importance that the student should be on his guard against any mistake as to the position which it holds in the mental economy. Many writers and teachers insist on will-power...
Untitled : * Title Page Foreword Contents I.--Spirit and Matter II.--The Higher Mode of Intelligence Controls the Lower III.--The Unity of the Spirit IV.--Subjective and Objective Mind V.--Further Considerations Regarding Subjective and Objective Mind VI.--The Law of Growth VII.--Receptivity VIII...