The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental ScienceTroward, T. (Thomas)
Religion
The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science
Troward, T. (Thomas)
New Thought
Thus it is that the principle of the present age can have no part in
that principle of Perfect Wholeness which the Great Master embodied in
His teaching and in Himself. The two ideas are absolutely incompatible,
and whichever we adopt as our leading principle, it must be to the
entire exclusion of the other; we cannot serve God and Mammon. There is
no such thing as partial wholeness. Either we are still in the
principle of Separateness, and our eyes are not yet open to the real
nature of the Kingdom of Heaven; or else we have grasped the principle
of Unity without any exception anywhere, and the One Being includes all,
the body and the soul alike, the visible form and the invisible
substance and life of all equally; nothing can be left out, and we stand
complete here and now, lacking no faculty, but requiring only to become
conscious of our own powers, and to learn to have confidence in them
through "having them exercised by reason of use."
The following communication from "A Foreign Reader," commenting on the
Number of the Beast, as treated by Judge Troward in "Separation and
Unity," is taken from _EXPRESSION_ for 1902, in which it was first
published. Following is Judge Troward's reply to this letter.
Dear Mr. Editor.--A correspondent in the current number of
_Expression_ points out the reference in the Book of
Revelation to the number 666 as the mark of the Beast,
because the trinity of mind, soul, and body, if considered as
unity, may be expressed by the figures 333, and therefore
duality is 333 × 2 = 666.
I think the inverse of the proposition is still more
startling, and I should like to point it out. Instead of
multiplying let us try dividing. First of all take unity as
the unit one and divide by three (representing of course the
same formula, viz., mind, soul and body). Expressed by a
common fraction it is merely 1/3, which is an incomplete
mathematical figure. But take the decimal formula of one
divided by three, and we arrive at .3 circulating, i. e.,
.3333 on to infinity. In other words, the result of the
proposition by mathematics is that you divide this formula of
spirit, soul, and body into unity, and it remains true to
itself ad infinitum.
Now we come to consider it as a duality in the same way.
Expressed as a vulgar fraction it is 2/3; but as a decimal
fraction it is .6666 ad infinitum. I think this is worth
noting.
Yours very faithfully,
A Foreign Reader.
Brussels, Aug. 14, 1902.
* * * * *
Dear Editor.--I return with many thanks the very interesting
letter received with yours, and I am very glad that my
article should have been instrumental in drawing forth this
further light on the subject.
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