1. God is Love. Man, having the
understanding of God, speaks the Word of Power.
2. Man gives utterance to God.
3. The Father is Equilibrium.
The Son is Concentration of the same Spirit.
The Spirit is Projection.
(I) The Potential
The Potential is Life in its
most highly abstract mode not yet brought into Form even as Thought. Not
particularised in any way.
(II) The Ideal
The Ideal is the
particularising of the Potential into a certain Formulated Thought.
(III) The Concrete.
The Concrete is the Manifestation of the Formulated Thought in
Visible Form.
What everybody wants is to become more
alive--as Jesus said, "I am come that they might have Life and might have
it more abundantly"--and it is only on the basis of realising ourselves as a perfect
unity throughout, not made up of opposing parts, and that unity Spirit, that we can realise in
ourselves the Livingness which Spirit is, and which we as Spirit ought to be.
HENCE PERFECT DEMONSTRATION.
"The Truth shall make you
Free"
The Ultimate Truth will always
be found to consist of these three, and anything that is contrary to them is contrary
to Fundamental Truth.
Life :
Love :
Liberty :
= The Truth
Some of us, doubtless, have often
wondered why the Heavenly Jerusalem is described in the Book of Revelations as
a cube; "the length and the breadth and the height of it are equal."
This is because the cube is the figure of perfect stability, and thus
represents Truth, which can never be overthrown. Turn it on what side you will,
it still remains the perfect cube, always standing upright; you cannot upset
it. This figure, then, represents the manifestation in concrete solidity of
that central life-giving energy, which is not itself any one plane but
generates all planes, the planes of the above and of the below and of all four
sides. But it is at the same time a city, a place of habitation; and this is
because that which is "the within" is Living Spirit, which has its
dwelling there.
As one plane of the cube
implies all the other planes and also "the within," so any plane of
manifestation implies the others and also that "within" which
generates them all. Now, if we would make any progress in the spiritual side of
science--and every department of science has its
spiritual side--we must always keep our minds fixed upon this "innermost
within" which contains the potential of all outward manifestation, the "fourth
dimension" which generates the cube; and our common forms of speech show
how intuitively we do this. We speak of the spirit in which an act is done, of
entering into the spirit of a game, of the spirit of the time, and so on.
Everywhere our intuition points out the spirit as the true essence of things;
and it is only when we commence arguing about them from without, instead of
from within, that our true perception of their nature is lost.
The scientific study of
spirit consists in following up intelligently and according to definite method
the same principle that now only flashes upon us at intervals fitfully and
vaguely. When we once realise that this universal and unlimited power of spirit
is at the root of all things and of ourselves also, then we have obtained the
key to the whole position; and, however far we may carry our studies in
spiritual science, we shall nowhere find anything else but particular
developments of this one universal principle. "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
The Hidden Power And Other Papers
upon Mental Science
by
Thomas Troward
1921
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