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The Hidden Power

Thomas Troward, the Bengal judge whose lectures became the intellectual backbone of the New Thought movement, gathered these papers late in life from unpublished manuscripts and magazine pieces, and they are widely counted his last and most mature work. The title essay sets the method: everything has an inner and an outer side, and the whole error of superficial thinking is to rest in the symbol while missing what generates it. From that germinal principle Troward unfolds twenty-five short studies, on the perversion of truth, on the I Am as the creative center, on affirmative power, submission, completeness and the principle of guidance, on desire as the motive power of creation, on touching things lightly and on present truth. His range is wider than the movement's usual fare: there are papers on beauty, on the spirit of opulence, on separation and unity, a lesson from Browning, extended readings of the Bible as mental science, and studies of Jachin and Boaz and Hephzibah that carry the same law into scripture and symbol. Precise, unhurried and remarkably modern, it remains the clearest statement of the mental-science position.

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