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The Law and the Word

Thomas Troward

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1. Page "THE LAW AND THE WORD", para. 1. THE LAW AND THE WORD
2. Page "BY", para. 1. BY
3. Page "T. TROWARD", para. 1. T. TROWARD Late Divisional Judge, Punjab. Honorary member of the Medico-Legal Society
4. Page 4. CONTENTS
5. Page 21. FOREWORD
6. Page 21. THOMAS TROWARD AN APPRECIATION How is one to know a friend? Certainly not by the dura
7. Page 22. Although the spirit of benign friendliness pervades his writings and illuminated his
8. Page 23. His sincerity was beyond question. However much one might differ from him in opinion,
9. Page 24. To one who has studied Judge Troward, and grasped the significance of his theory of t
10. Page 26. The writer was struck by the apparent parallelism of these two distinctly dissimilar
11. Page 27. But to the wide circle of Judge Troward's friends he will best and most gloriously be
12. Page 31. THE LAW AND THE WORD
13. Page 31. CHAPTER I
14. Page 31. SOME FACTS IN NATURE If I were asked what, in my opinion, distinguishes the thought o
15. Page 32. Now the purpose of the following pages, is to suggest to the reader the lines on whic
16. Page 33. The first question then is, where to begin. Descartes commenced his book with the wor
17. Page 34. Equally true it is on the other hand that the forces of Nature around us do not think
18. Page 35. Let me start, then, by considering some well established facts in the physical world
19. Page 36. Hardly more than a generation ago it was supposed that the analysis of matter could n
20. Page 37. The size of these etheric particles is small beyond anything but abstract mathematica
21. Page 38. The electronic theory which I have just mentioned takes us as far as a universal homo
22. Page 39. But what starts the vibrations? Hertz announced his discovery of the electro-magnetic
23. Page 41. Perhaps some critical reader may object that sound travels by means of atmospheric an
24. Page 41. Perhaps the reader may feel inclined to say with the Irishman that all this is "as dr
25. Page 41. errier. Certain variations in the movements of the planets were mathematically unacco
26. Page 44. Some very interesting experiments have been made by De Rochas, an eminent French scie
27. Page 45. Now to explain this we must have recourse to what I have already said about waves. Th
28. Page 45. he will also see why the succeeding zones of sensation are double the distance from e
29. Page 47. CHAPTER II
30. Page 48. SOME PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES
31. Page 48. The preceding chapter has introduced the reader to the general subject of etheric vib
32. Page 48. visible leg and foot in various ways, all of which the lady felt and described. He th
33. Page 50. My first introduction to Scotland was when I delivered the course of lectures in Edin
34. Page 52. "That explains it," they replied; and then they went on to tell me that at the hour i
35. Page 52. In this case, as I have said, I was not conscious of my psychic visit to Edinburgh, b
36. Page 53. As I have said, I had no reason at that time to suppose I should ever go to Scotland,
37. Page 55. We were just entering our carriage when the garden-gate opened, and who should come o
38. Page 55. I will now relate another curious experience. We had only recently taken up our resid
39. Page 57. About a month later my wife arranged by correspondence for a certain Miss B. to come
40. Page 58. Then I told her what I had seen. She asked what I thought was the explanation of the
41. Page 59. It was about the year 1875, when I was a young Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab,
42. Page 61. "Yes," I replied, "that is what woke me—some one must have fired a shot outside." "Bu
43. Page 62. This statement of the widow convinced me that my wife had really seen what she said s
44. Page 63. "The very same words he spoke to your wife," said Colonel Fox. This is the story I re
45. Page 64. On the other hand, a comparison of the present case with those previously mentioned,
46. Page 65. It appears to me, that such instances as those I have mentioned, point to ranges of e
47. Page 66. I think, then, that the scientific idea of the ether, as a universal medium pervading
48. Page 66. hat the known laws of Nature point to their continuation in modes of matter and of fo
49. Page 68. Now if we realize that the ether is an infinitely subtle fluid, pervading all space,
50. Page 69. On some such lines as these, then, we may picture the desire of the Ego as starting a
51. Page 70. If the reader questions whether thought is capable of generating impulses in the ethe
52. Page 71. Before passing on to the more practical generalizations to be drawn from the suggesti
53. Page 72. In the early part of 1902 Marconi made some experiments on board the American liner P
54. Page 73. CHAPTER III
55. Page 74. MAN'S PLACE IN THE CREATIVE ORDER In the preceding chapters we have found certain def
56. Page 75. Whatever may be our theory of the origin of life on the physical plane, whether we re
57. Page 76. In the opening chapter of Genesis, we are told that "the Spirit of God moved upon the
58. Page 77. This conception of conflict between two opposite principles, Light and Darkness, Comp
59. Page 78. The reader should note, however, that I am here speaking of that Primeval Substance,
60. Page 78. Mind, has to be taken into account, if we would form an intelligent conception of the
61. Page 81. We see, then, that the material universe, including our own bodies, has its origin in
62. Page 82. Now we know, as a scientific fact, that solar systems have a definite beginning in th
63. Page 84. Now it is this power of inauguration that all the ancient systems of teaching attribu
64. Page 85. Creative vibration in the Universal Substance can, therefore, only be conceived of, a
65. Page 87. We see, therefore, both from a priori reasoning, and from observed facts, that it is
66. Page 88. Jesus, indeed, possessed the Word of Power, though not in the way told in the legend,
67. Page 89. At the same time, simple though it be, it has Law and Reason at the back of it, like
68. Page 89. "Nomen," a Name, is derived from this Greek word, and in this sense everything has it
69. Page 91. If I have made my meaning clear, you will see that what is wanted is not the knowledg
70. Page 92. It matters, then, very little what particular words we use. What does matter is the i
71. Page 93. This brings us to another important question—is not the creative power of the Word li
72. Page 94. Then the question very naturally suggests itself: Why did not God create us so that w
73. Page 95. If we grant the truth of the maxim "Nature unaided fails" the whole thing becomes cle
74. Page 97. We may generalize the whole position thus. When we first observe the working of the L
75. Page 98. Now we cannot conceive any limit to Evolution. To suppose a point where it comes to a
76. Page 98. should have been by the law" (Gal. iii, 21). Note the words "a law given," that is to
77. Page 101. It should be remembered that the will is not the Creative Faculty in us. It is the fa
78. Page 101. usness of its nature, but in many ways which are the first steps on the Left-hand Pat
79. Page 104. CHAPTER IV
80. Page 105. THE LAW OF WHOLENESS It may seem a truism to say that the whole is made up of its par
81. Page 106. What, then, is the "Motif" of Life? Surely it must be, to express its own Livingness.
82. Page 107. Thus we see that however infinitesimal any part may be as compared with the whole, it
83. Page 108. We must not, however, suppose that Unity means Uniformity. St. Paul puts this very cl
84. Page 109. But it must find suitable channels. Let there be no mistake about this. Perhaps some
85. Page 110. "So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life." This mode of crea
86. Page 111. It is here that we find the value of the maxim "Nature unaided fails." The more we co
87. Page 111. If we do this we need not fear to spread the wings of fancy, even though some may not
88. Page 114. CHAPTER V
89. Page 115. THE SOUL OF THE SUBJECT We may now turn to speculate a little on some conceivable app
90. Page 115. Creation being by type, everything must have a generic basis of being in the Cosmic L
91. Page 115. y impression is conveyed in terms of this medium, and if I paint one in water-colours
92. Page 118. The whole thing comes to this, that we impart to this impersonal element the reflecti
93. Page 119. In those hypnotic experiments in which the operator merely makes the subject do some
94. Page 120. The same powers are shown in spontaneous cases also, of which my own experiences rela
95. Page 122. All such evidence on the subject as has come my way, appears to me to point to the fa
96. Page 123. But this power of sending out a subtle influence, call it magnetism or what you will,
97. Page 124. In what manner, then, is this influence conveyed? It is here that our study of etheri
98. Page 124. it from all being mixed up together in an indistinguishable mass. If now, we combine
99. Page 127. Finally, to this add the power of the Word to start trains of etheric vibration, and
100. Page 127. But the conception we are considering is not limited to concrete entities, whether pe