The dore lectures on mental science E-Book

Thomas Troward

• Herausgeber: GIANLUCA
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This is a series of conferences held at Dore Gallery, Bond Street, London in 1909. Self-help subjects such as the creative power of thought and affirmations, mixed with some Christian teachings.

Leseprobe

THE DORE LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE

BY

THOMAS TROWARD

First digital edition 2017 by Gianluca Ruffini

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT

INDIVIDUALITY

THE NEW THOUGHT AND THE NEW ORDER

THE LIFE OF THE SPIRIT

ALPHA AND OMEGA

THE CREATIVE POWER OF THOUGHT

THE GREAT AFFIRMATIVE

CHRIST THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW

THE STORY OF EDEN

THE WORSHIP OF ISHI

THE SHEPHERD AND THE STONE

SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS

FOREWORD

FOREWORD

The addresses contained in this volume were delivered by me at the Dore Gallery, Bond Street, London, on the Sundays ofthe first three months of the present year, and are now published at the kind request of many of my hearers, hence their title of “The Dore Lectures.” A number of separate discourses on a variety of subjects necessarily labours under the disadvantage of want of continuity, and also under that of a liability to the frequent repetition of similar ideas and expressions, and the reader will, I trust, pardon these defects as inherent in the circumstances of the work.

At the sametime,it will be found that, although not specially so designed, there is a certain progressive development of thought through the dozen lectures which compose this volume, the reason for which is that they all aim at expressing the same fundamental idea, namely that, though the laws of the universe can never be broken, they can be made to work under special conditions which will produce results that could not be produced under the conditions spontaneously provided by nature.

This is a simple scientific principle and it shows us the placewhich is occupied by the personal factor, that, namely, of an intelligence which sees beyond the present limited manifestation of the Law into its real essence, and which thus constitutes the instrumentality by which the infinite possibilities of the Lawcan be evoked into forms of power, usefulness, and beauty.

The more perfect, therefore, the working of the personal factor, the greater will be the results developed from the Universal Law; and hence our lines of study should be two-fold, on the one hand the theoretical study of the action of Universal Law, and on the other the practical fitting of ourselves to make use of it; and if the present volume should assist any reader in this two-fold quest, it will have answered its purpose.

The different subjectshave necessarily been treated very briefly, and the addresses can only be considered as suggestions for lines of thought which the reader will be able to work out for himself, and he must therefore not expect that careful elaboration of detail which I would gladly have bestowed had I been writing on one of these subjects exclusively. This little book must be taken only for what it is, the record of somewhat fragmentary talks with a very indulgent audience, to whom I gratefully dedicate the volume.

JUNE 5, 1909.

T.T.

ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT

ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT

We all know the meaning of this phrase in our everyday life. The Spirit is that which gives life and movement to anything, in fact it is that which causes it to exist at all. The thought of the author, theimpression of the painter, the feeling of the musician, is that without which their works could never have come into being, and so it is only as we enter into the IDEA which gives rise to the work, that we can derive all the enjoyment and benefit from it which it is able to bestow. If we cannot enter into the Spirit of it, the book, the picture, the music, are meaningless to us: to appreciate them we must share the mental attitude of their creator. This is a universal principle; if we do not enter into theSpirit of a thing, it is dead so far as we are concerned; but if we do enter into it we reproduce in ourselves the same quality of life which called that thing into existence.