THOMAS TROWARD
THE EDINBURGH LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE
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THE EDINBURGH LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE
THE HIGHER MODE OF INTELLIGENCE CONTROLS THE LOWER.
SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND.
FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND.
RECIPROCAL ACTION OF THE UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL MINDS.
IN TOUCH WITH SUB-CONSCIOUS MIND.
THE EDINBURGH LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE
THE EDINBURGH LECTURES ON MENTAL SCIENCE
BY THOMAS TROWARD
THE WRITER AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATES THIS LITTLE VOLUME TO HIS WIFE
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 Action and
Material Conditions, and thus to afford the student an intelligible
starting-point for the practical study of the subject.
T.T.
March, 1904.
CONTENTS.
SPIRIT AND MATTER.
THE HIGHER MODE OF INTELLIGENCE CONTROLS THE LOWER
THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT
SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND
FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND
THE LAW OF GROWTH
RECEPTIVITY.
RECIPROCAL ACTION OF THE UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL MINDS
CAUSES AND CONDITIONS
INTUITION
HEALING
THE WILL
TOUCH WITH SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
THE BODY
THE SOUL
THE SPIRIT
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 can be approached from many sides, each with some peculiar
advantage of its own; but, after careful deliberation, it appears to me
that, for the purpose of the present course, no better starting-point could
be selected than the relation between Spirit and Matter. I select this
starting-point because the distinction--or what we believe to be such--
between them is one with which we are so familiar that I can safely assume
its recognition by everybody; and I may, therefore, at once state this
distinction by using the adjectives which we habitually apply as expressing
the natural opposition between the two--_living_ spirit and _dead_ matter.
These terms express our current impression of the opposition between spirit
and matter with sufficient accuracy, and considered only from the point of
view of outward appearances this impression is no doubt correct. The
general consensus of mankind is right in trusting the evidence of our
senses, and any system which tells us that we are not to do so will never
