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The

EDINBURGH

LECTURES

ON MENTAL SCIENCE

THOMAS TROWARD

LATE DIVISIONAL JUDGE, PUNJAB

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 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.

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.--RECIPROCAL ACTION OF THE

UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL MINDS

IX.--CAUSES AND CONDITIONS

X.--INTUITION

XI.--HEALING

XII.--THE WILL

XIII.--IN TOUCH WITH SUBCONSCIOUS

MIND

XIV.--THE BODY

XV.--THE SOUL

XVI.--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 obtain a permanent

footing in a sane and healthy community. There

is nothing wrong in the evidence conveyed to a

healthy mind by the senses of a healthy body, but

the point where error creeps in is when we come

to judge of the meaning of this testimony. We are

accustomed to judge only by external

appearances and by certain limited significances

which we attach to words; but when we begin to

enquire into the real meaning of our words and

to analyse the causes which give rise to the

appearances, we find our old notions gradually

falling off from us, until at last we wake up to the

fact that we are living in an entirely different

world to that we formerly recognized. The old

limited mode of thought has imperceptibly

slipped away, and we discover that we have

stepped out into a new order of things where all

is liberty and life. This is the work of an

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