The Creative Process in the Individual

The author scientifically explains the sequence of creative action, from the first beginnings of life through the development of the race to the need to the present day - the perfect realization of the divine right of creation. The knowledge of oneself, made in the likeness of the great creative power and necessarily sharing in that power to create what is good, will open up a wonderful vista of possibilities to all who follow unerringly the law of their own being.

From the Foreword: 

In the present volume I have endeavored to set before the reader the conception of a sequence of creative action commencing with the formation of the globe and culminating in a vista of infinite possibilities attainable by every one who follows up the right line for their unfoldment. 

I have endeavored to show that, starting with certain incontrovertible scientific facts, all these things logically follow, and that therefore, however far these speculations may carry us beyond our past experience, they nowhere break the thread of an intelligible connection of cause and effect. 

I do not, however, offer the suggestions here put forward in any other light than that of purely speculative reasoning; nevertheless, no advance in any direction can be made except by speculative reasoning going back to the first principles of things which we do know and thence deducing the conditions under which the same principles might be carried further and made to produce results hitherto unknown. It is to this method of thought that we owe all the advantages of civilization from matches and post-offices to motor-cars and aeroplanes, and we may therefore be encouraged to hope such speculations as the present may not be without their ultimate value. Relying on the maxim that Principle is not bound by Precedent we should not limit our expectations of the future; and if our speculations lead us to the conclusion that we have reached a point where we are not only able, but also required, by the law of our own being, to take a more active part in our personal evolution than heretofore, this discovery will afford us a new outlook upon life and widen our horizon with fresh interests and brightening hopes.

Thomas Troward, June 1910

CONTENTS:

I THE STARTING-POINT 
II THE SELF-CONTEMPLATION OF SPIRIT 
III THE DIVINE IDEAL 
IV THE MANIFESTATION OF THE LIFE PRINCIPLE 
V THE PERSONAL FACTOR 
VI THE STANDARD OF PERSONALITY 
VII RACE THOUGHT AND NEW THOUGHT 
VIII THE DENOUEMENT OF THE CREATIVE PROCESS 
IX CONCLUSION 
X THE DIVINE OFFERING 
XI OURSELVES IN THE DIVINE OFFERING

 The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

From the 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.

-- Thomas Troward, 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

The Dore Lectures on Mental Science

From the Foreword:

The addresses contained in this volume were delivered by me at the Dore Gallery, Bond Street, London, on the Sundays of the 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 same time 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 place which 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 instru-mentality by which the infinite possibilities of the Law can 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 subjects have 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.

Thomas Troward, June 5, 1909.

CONTENTS:

ENTERING INTO THE SPIRIT OF IT 
INDIVIDUALITY 
THE NEW THOUGHT AND THE NEW ORDER 
THE LIPS 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

   ABOUT THOMAS TOWARD

Three highly-influential works by Thomas Troward who was a judge in India from 1869 until his retirement in 1896.  But it is the latter part of his life for which he is best remembered and most celebrated; in it he was at last able to devote himself to his great interest in metaphysical and esoteric studies.  The most notable results were a few small volumes that have had a profound effect on the development of spiritual metaphysics, in particular that of the the New Thought Movement, of which the teaching known as Science of Mind is Troward's most direct legacy. He was a much influential figure in the development of Ernest Holmes' Religious Science/Science of Mind organization due to the impact his philosophy had on Holmes, and Troward's teachings are regularly taught in Science of Mind classes.