Meditation Retreat

Just about to go for a month long meditation retreat, and thought it might be of interest to keep a commentary on the progress. Meditation can be a very powerful tool, but as with most things, there are many variations and styles. Also, the objective of meditation varies. Read more

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The Spirit

Last of three from Thomas Troward.. Paul.

THE SPIRIT.

WHAT must the Supreme All-originating Spirit be in itself? That is the question before us. Let us start with one fact regarding it about which we cannot have any possible doubt-it is creative. If it were not creative nothing could come into existence; therefore we know that its purpose, or Law of Tendency, must be to bring individual lives into existence and to surround them with a suitable environment. Now a power which has this for its inherent nature must be a kindly power. Read more

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The Soul

Second of three from Thomas Troward.. Paul.

THE SOUL.

HAVING now obtained a glimpse of the adaptation of the physical organism to the action of the mind we must next realize that the mind itself is an organism which is in like manner adapted to the action of a still higher power, only here the adaptation is one of mental faculty. As with other invisible forces all we can know of the mind is by observing what it does, but with this difference, that since we ourselves are this mind, our observation is an interior observation of states of consciousness. Read more

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The Body

I’m away for a week, off to do some meditation, and as it’s Sunday, the day when I like to read Thomas Troward, I thought I’d post three lectures, on the body, the soul, and the spirit..

Have a fantastic week yourself..

Paul

THE BODY.

SOME students find it difficult to realize that mental action can produce any real effect upon material substance; but if this is not possible there is no such thing as Mental Science, the purpose of which is to produce improved conditions both of body and environment, so that the ultimate manifestation aimed at is always one of demonstration upon the plane of the visible and concrete. Read more

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