E-text prepared by Kevin Handy, John Hagerson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Transcriber's note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings. Obvious typographical errors in punctuation (misplaced quotes and the like) have been corrected. Corrections [in brackets] in the text are explained in a note at the end of the book. Numbers within curly brackets preceded by a carat character were superscripted in the original. Example: X^{2}. THE HIDDEN POWER And Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. TROWARD Late Divisional Judge, Punjab. Honorary Member of the Medico-Legal Society of New York. First Vice-President International New Thought Alliance New York Robert M. McBride & Company Copyright, 1921, by S. A. Troward All rights reserved Sixth Printing September 1936 Printed in the United States of America PUBLISHER'S NOTE The material comprised in this volume has been selected from unpublished manuscripts and magazine articles by Judge Troward, and "The Hidden Power" is, it is believed, the last book which will be published under his name. Only an insignificant portion of his work has been deemed unworthy of permanent preservation. Whenever possible, dates have been affixed to these papers. Those published in 1902 appeared originally in "EXPRESSION: A Journal of Mind and Thought," in London, and to some of these have been added notes made later by the author. The Publishers wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. Daniel M. Murphy of New York for his services in the selection and arrangement of the material. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Hidden Power 1 II The Perversion of Truth 42 III The "I Am" 59 IV Affirmative Power 63 V Submission 67 VI Completeness 74 VII The Principle of Guidance 81 VIII Desire as the Motive Power 85 IX Touching Lightly 92 X Present Truth 96 XI Yourself 99 XII Religious Opinions 105 XIII A Lesson from Browning 113 XIV The Spirit of Opulence 118 XV Beauty 123 XVI Separation and Unity 129 XVII Externalisation 141 XVIII Entering into the Spirit of It 146