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

  • Thomas Troward
Date:
1914
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    existing thing, which becomes the root of the corres- ponding external existence. If we thus habituate ourselves to look on the spiritual prototype as the essential being of the thing, and the material form as the growth of this prototype into outward ex- pression, then we shall see that the initial step to the production of any external fact must be the creation of its spiritual prototype. This prototype, being purely spiritual, can only be formed by the operation of thought, and in order to have substance on the spiritual plane it must be thought of as actu- ally existing there. This conception has been elab- orated by Plato in his doctrine of architypal ideas, and by Swedenborg in his doctrine of correspon- dences; and a still greater teacher has said “All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye have received them, and ye shall receive them. (Mark xi. 24, R.V.) The difference of the tenses in this passage is remarkable. The speaker bids us first to believe that our desire has already been fulfilled, that it is a thing already accomplished, and then its accomplishment will follow as a thing in the future. This is nothing else than a concise direction for making use of the creative power of thought by impressing upon the universal sub- jective mind the particular thing which we desire as an already existing fact. In following this direc- tion we are thinking on the plane of the absolute
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