Xxi. Hephzibah : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 197 XXI HEPHZIBAH "THOU shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married" (Isaiah lxii, 4)...
Title Page : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], THE HIDDEN POWER And Other Papers On Mental Science BY THOMAS TROWARD "Fides et Amor Veritas et Robur" New York, R. M. McBride & Company [1921] NOTICE OF ATTRIBUTION Scanned , October 2005. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is...
Xi. Yourself : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 99 XI YOURSELF I WANT to talk to you about the livingness there is in being yourself. It has at least the merit of simplicity, for it must surely be easier to be oneself than to be something or somebody else. Yet that is what so many are constantly...
X. Present Truth : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 96 X PRESENT TRUTH IF Thought power is good for anything it is good for everything. If it can produce one thing it can produce all things. For what is to hinder it? Nothing can stop us from thinking. We can "think" what we please, and if to think is...
Viii. Desire As The Motive Power : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 85 VIII DESIRE AS THE MOTIVE POWER THERE are certain Oriental schools of thought, together with various Western offshoots from them, which are entirely founded on the principle of annihilating all desire. Reach that point at which you have no wish...
Xvii. Externalisation : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 141 XVII EXTERNALISATION WHO would not be happy in himself and his conditions? That is what we all desire--more fulness of life, a greater and brighter vitality in ourselves, and less restriction in our surroundings. And we are told th...
Vii. The Principle Of Guidance : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 81 VII THE PRINCIPLE OF GUIDANCE IF I were asked which of all the spiritual principles ranked first, I should feel inclined to say the Principle of Guidance; not in the sense of being more essential than the others, for every portion is equally...
Xix. The Bible And The New Thought : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 153 XIX THE BIBLE AND THE NEW THOUGHT I "The Son" A DEEPLY interesting subject to the student of the New Thought movement is to trace how exactly its teaching is endorsed by the teaching of the Bible. There is no such thing as new thought...
Vi. Completeness : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 74 VI COMPLETENESS A POINT on which students of mental science often fail to lay sufficient stress is the completeness of man--not a completeness to be attained hereafter, but here and now. We have been so accustomed to have the imperfection of m...
Xv. Beauty : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 123 XV BEAUTY Do we sufficiently direct our thoughts to the subject of Beauty? I think not. We are too apt to regard Beauty as a merely superficial thing, and do not realise all that it implies. This was not the case with the great thinkers...
Xxiv. What Is Higher Thought : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 213 XXIV WHAT IS HIGHER THOUGHT? Resolution passed October, 1902, by the Kensington Higher Thought Centre. "That the Centre stands for the definite teaching of absolute Oneness of Creator and Creation--Cause and Effect--and that nothing which may...
Publisher's Note : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], PUBLISHER'S NOTE 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...
Ix. Touching Lightly : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 92 IX TOUCHING LIGHTLY WHAT is our point of support? Is it in ourselves or outside us? Are we self-poised, or does our balance depend on something external? According to the actual belief in which our answer to these questions is embodied so will...
Iii. The 'i Am : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 59 III THE "I AM" WE often do not sufficiently recognise the truth of Walt Whitman's pithy saying, "I am not all contained between my hat and my boots," and forget the two-fold nature of the "I AM," that it is at once both the manifested...
Xviii. Entering Into The Spirit Of It : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 146 XVIII ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT "ENTERING into the spirit of it." What a common expression! And yet how much it really means, how absolutely everything! We enter into the spirit of an undertaking, into the spirit of a movement, ...
Xii. Religious Opinions : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 105 XII RELIGIOUS OPINIONS THAT great and wise writer, George Eliot, expressed her matured views on the subject of religious opinions in these words: "I have too profound a conviction of the efficacy that lies in all sincere faith, and the spiritual...
Xx. Jachin And Boaz : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 192 XX JACHIN AND BOAZ "AND he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz." (II Chron. 17.) Very likely some...
Xxiii. The Central Control : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 209 XXIII THE CENTRAL CONTROL IN contemplating the relations between body, soul, and spirit, between Universal Mind and individual mind, the methodised study of which constitutes Mental Science, we must never forget that these relations indicate...
I. The Hidden Power : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 1 THE HIDDEN POWER AND OTHER ESSAYS I THE HIDDEN POWER 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...
Iv. Affirmative Power : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 63 IV AFFIRMATIVE POWER THOROUGHLY to realise the true nature of affirmative power is to possess the key to the great secret. We feel its presence in all the innumerable forms of life by which we are surrounded and we feel it as the life...
Xvi. Separation And Unity : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 129 XVI SEPARATION AND UNITY I "THE prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me" (John xiv, 30). In these words the Grand Master of Divine Science gives us the key to the Great Knowledge. Comparison with other passages shows that the terms...
Xxv. Fragments : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 215 XXV FRAGMENTS I. God is Love. Man, having the understanding of God, speaks the Word of Power. 2. Man gives utterance to God. 3. The Father is Equilibrium. The Son is Concentration of the same Spirit. The Spirit is Projection. "The Tri-une...
V. Submission : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 67 V SUBMISSION THERE are two kinds of submission: submission to superior force and submission to superior truth. The one is weakness and the other is strength. It is an exceedingly important part of our training to learn to distinguish between...
Xiii. A Lesson From Browning : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 113 XIII A LESSON FROM BROWNING PERHAPS you know a little poem of Browning's called "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experiences of Karshish, the Arab Physician." The somewhat weird conception is that the Arab physician, travelling...
Xxii. Mind And Hand : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 204 XXII MIND AND HAND I HAVE before me a curious piece of ancient Egyptian symbolism. It represents the sun sending down to the earth innumerable rays, with the peculiarity that each ray terminates in a hand. This method of representing the sun is...
Xiv. The Spirit Of Opulence : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 118 XIV THE SPIRIT OF OPULENCE IT is quite a mistake to suppose that we must restrict and stint ourselves in order to develop greater power or usefulness. This is to form the conception of the Divine Power as so limited that the best use we can make...
Ii. The Perversion Of Truth : * The Hidden Power, by Thomas Troward [1921], p. 42 THE PERVERSION OF TRUTH THERE is a very general recognition, which is growing day by day more and more widespread, that there is a sort of hidden power somewhere which it is within our ability, somehow or other, to use. The ideas on this subject...