The Edinburgh lectures on mental science / by T. Troward.

  • Thomas Troward
Date:
1914
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    If the student has followed what has been said regarding the presence of intelligent spirit pervading all space and permeating all matter, he will now have little difficulty in recognizing this all-pervading spirit as universal subjective mind. That it cannot as universal mind have the qualities of objective mind is very obvious. The universal mind is the creative power throughout Nature; and as the originating power it must first give rise to the various forms in which objective mind recognizes its own individu- ality, before these individual minds can re-act upon it; and hence, as pure spirit or first cause, it cannot possibly be anything else than subjective mind ; and the fact which has been abundantly proved by ex- periment that the subjective mind is the builder of the body shows us that the power of creating by growth from within is the essential characteristic of the subjective mind. Hence, both from experiment and from a priori reasoning, we may say that where- ever we find creative power at work there we are in the presence of subjective mind, whether it be work- ing on the grand scale of the cosmos or on the minia- ture scale of the individual. We may therefore lay it down as a principle that the universal all-perme- ating intelligence, which has been considered in the second and third sections, is purely subjective mind, and therefore follows the law of subjective mind, namely that it is amenable to any suggestion, and