THOMAS TROWARD - THE EDINBURGH LECTURES
6 ONLINE CLASSES.
In 1859, Charles Darwin challenged conventional wisdom with his landmark and controversial book
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. And then 45 years later, in 1904, Thomas Troward again challenged popular thinking through a series of lectures at Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh; lectures which would have a profound effect on the way we view the interaction between our thinking and what happens in our lives.
In this series of 6 classes we’ll look at Troward’s rationale for distinguishing between Spirit and matter, achieve a greater understanding of the unity of Spirit, and look at the two functions of mind and the law of growth.
In the words of Thomas Troward, "We are accustomed to judge only by external appearances and by certain limited significances which we attach to words; but when we being to inquire into the real meaning of our words and to analyse the causes which give rise to the appearances, we find our old notions gradually falling off from us until at last we wake up to the fact that we are living in an entirely different world to that which we formerly recognised. The old limited mode of thought has imperceptibly slipped away, and we discover that we have stepped out into a new order of things where all is liberty and life."
Troward's idea that had the most profound effect on Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind, was the idea of the impersonal-ness of the Law. For Holmes, this resolved the question of how God/principle responds equally to all. It was this revelation which explained how "good" people can experience "bad" things. After reading Troward, Holmes' excitement about the common ideas of all that he was reading, led him to his life's work of synthesising all his studies into his philosophy we now know as the Science of Mind.
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. And then 45 years later, in 1904, Thomas Troward again challenged popular thinking through a series of lectures at Queen Street Hall, Edinburgh; lectures which would have a profound effect on the way we view the interaction between our thinking and what happens in our lives.
In this series of 6 classes we’ll look at Troward’s rationale for distinguishing between Spirit and matter, achieve a greater understanding of the unity of Spirit, and look at the two functions of mind and the law of growth.
In the words of Thomas Troward, "We are accustomed to judge only by external appearances and by certain limited significances which we attach to words; but when we being to inquire into the real meaning of our words and to analyse the causes which give rise to the appearances, we find our old notions gradually falling off from us until at last we wake up to the fact that we are living in an entirely different world to that which we formerly recognised. The old limited mode of thought has imperceptibly slipped away, and we discover that we have stepped out into a new order of things where all is liberty and life."
Troward's idea that had the most profound effect on Ernest Holmes, founder of Science of Mind, was the idea of the impersonal-ness of the Law. For Holmes, this resolved the question of how God/principle responds equally to all. It was this revelation which explained how "good" people can experience "bad" things. After reading Troward, Holmes' excitement about the common ideas of all that he was reading, led him to his life's work of synthesising all his studies into his philosophy we now know as the Science of Mind.
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Required texts:
The Edinburgh Lectures by Thomas Troward. |
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Cost: £15, (€16, $20) per class for a total course fee of £90, (€96, $120) (PPpaypal or Online Banking)
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