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Bible Mystery and Bible MeaningWritingsThe Edinburgh Lectures on Mental ScienceThe Doré LecturesThe Creative Process in the IndividualBible Mystery and Bible MeaningThe Years 1914 to 1923 in Bible ProphecyThe Law and the WordThe Hidden PowerTroward’s Comments on the Psalmsii
Bible Mystery and BibleMeaning1913T. Troward1847–1916信YOGeBooks: Hollister, MO2013:09:02:12:14:07iii
Bible Mystery and Bible MeaningCopyrightYOGeBooks by Roger L. Cole, Hollister, MO 65672 2011 YOGeBooks by Roger L. ColeAll rights reserved. Electronic edition published 2011isbn: 978‑1‑61183‑214‑3 (pdf)isbn: 978‑1‑61183‑215‑0 (epub)www.yogebooks.comiv
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ContentsI.The Creation.II. The Fall.III.Israel.IV. The Mission of Moses.V.The Mission of Jesus.VI.The Building of the Temple.VII. The Sacred Name.VIII. The Devil.IX.The Law of Liberty.X. The Teaching of Jesus.XI.The Forgiveness of Sin.XII.Forgiveness.XIII.The Divine Giving.XIV.The Spirit of Antichrist.vii
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Publisher’s NoteFor several years we have watched carefully the literarytrend of the metaphysical movement and withoutdisparaging the excellent work of many other writers, wehave no hesitation in saying that the books written by JudgeTroward are unique in circulating themselves. The explanationfor this is simple. There is such a wealth of philosophic thoughtin each chapter that the reader of one book is not satisfied untilall of the series have been read.The author of these books is a profound psychologist. He isa master of English. Through years of scholarly research he haspenetrated into the depths of divine truth. Therefore his worksare deservedly recognized as classics in the metaphysical field.He combines delicacy of feeling and expression, forceful logicand scholarly simplicity. More over, he imparts the fundamentalprinciples governing the “finer forces” in such a manner as toinspire certainty in regard to the correctness of the methodsadvocated, for meeting “life problems” on the objective plane.It is significant to note that societies, study clubs and classesare now taking up the study of Troward just as they have forso long studied Browning and Emerson. We would be gratefulfor information regarding the work of such organizations in anylocality.ix
Bible Mystery and Bible MeaningWe invite, those who are interested, to send us their names,in order that we may advise them of other forth‑coming booksand to the end that we may co‑operate in any constructivework, of common interest, that may present itself.x
Foreword.The favorable reception accorded to my EdinburghLectures on Mental Science has encouraged me to offeranother book to my readers. The present volume iswritten from the standpoint that we possess latent powerswhich a better knowledge of the truth regarding ourselves willenable us to develop, and that the purpose of the Bible is tolead us into this knowledge in a perfectly natural manner, whileguarding us against the dangers arising from misuse of it. Thatwe should ever arrive at a point when we shall be no longerconfronted by the element of mystery which is inherent in thelivingness of Life is impossible; but this mystery is the Mystery ofLight and not of darkness, and will continually unfold itself intomore light in response to our earnest inquiry into its meaning;and I have therefore given this book a title indicative of theever‑presence of an august Mystery together with intelligibleLaw.Although my presentment of the Bible is in many respectsvery different from the generally accepted one, it will be foundin no way really at variance with the doctrines of Christianity;on the contrary, I hope that by helping, in however small ameasure, to elucidate them, it will show the reasonablenessxi
Bible Mystery and Bible Meaningof great truths which those who reject them as unreasonablediscredit to their own incalculable loss.This book was originally the outcome of a number of lecturesgiven by me in London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham andelsewhere, but the great interest shown in it by a continuallyincreasing circle of readers has led me to extend the presentvolume by four additional chapters touching on certain topicsholding a pre‑eminent place in Bible study. There is one othersubject to which I have only been able to advert casually inthe concluding pages, but which is of peculiar importance atthe present day, that of chronological prophecy. The marchof events and the rapid developments in various fields ofknowledge show such a marked correspondence with theprophetic measures of time given in the Bible that the seriousstudent cannot but feel convinced that we are very rapidlyapproaching that climax which the Bible speaks of as the Endof the Age. I would most earnestly ask my readers to give thissubject their attention, for the time is at hand. Its wide extentmakes it impossible for me to treat of it in this book, but if suchbe the Lord’s will, I may make it the subject of another volume.T. Troward.Ruan Minor, August, 1913.xii
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I.TThe Creation.he Bible is the Book of the Emancipation of Man. Theemancipation of man means his deliverance from sorrowand sickness, from poverty, struggle, and uncertainty,from ignorance and limitation, and finally from death itself. Thismay appear to be what the euphuistic colloquialism of the daywould call “a tall order,” but nevertheless it is impossible to readthe Bible with a mind unwarped by antecedent conceptionsderived from traditional interpretation without seeing thatthis is exactly what it promises, and that it professes to containthe secret whereby this happy condition of perfect liberty maybe attained. Jesus says that if a man keeps his saying he shallnever see death (John viii. 51): in the Book of Job we are toldthat if a man has with him “a messenger, an interpreter,” he shallbe delivered from going down to the pit, and shall return tothe days of his youth (Job xxxiii. 24): the Psalms speak of ourrenewing our youth (Psalm ciii. 5): and yet again we are toldin Job that by acquainting ourselves with God we shall be atpeace, we shall lay up gold as dust and have plenty of silver, weshall decree a thing and it shall be established unto us (Job xxii.21–23).3
Bible Mystery and Bible MeaningNow, what I propose is that we shall re‑read the Bible on thesupposition that Jesus and these other speakers really meantwhat they said. Of course, from the standpoint of the traditionalinterpretation this is a startling proposition. The traditionalexplanation assumes that it is impossible for these things to beliterally true, and therefore it seeks some other meaning in thewords, and so gives them a “spiritual” interpretation. But in thesame manner we may spiritualize away an Act of Parliament,and it hardly seems the best way of getting at the meaning of abook to follow the example of the preacher who commencedhis discourse with the words, “Beloved brethren, the textdoth not mean what it saith.” Let us, however, start with thesupposition that these texts do mean what they say, and tryto, interpret the Bible on these lines: it will at least have theattraction of novelty, and I think if the reader gives his carefulattention to the following pages, he will see that this methodcarries with it the conviction of reason.If a thing is true at all there is a way in which it is true, andwhen the way is seen, we find that to be perfectly reasonablewhich, before we understood the way, appeared unreasonable:we all go by railroad now, yet they were esteemed level‑headedpractical men in their day who proposed to confine GeorgeStephenson as a lunatic for saying that it was possible to travelat thirty miles an hour.The first thing to notice is that there is a common elementrunning through the texts I have quoted; they all contain theidea of acquiring certain information, and the promised resultsare all contingent on our getting this information, and using it.Jesus says it depends on our keeping his saying, that is, receivingthe information which he had to give and acting upon it. Jobsays that it depends on rightly interpreting a certain message,and again that it depends on our making ourselves acquaintedwith something; and the context of the passage in the Psalmsmakes it clear that the deliverance from death and the renewalof youth there promised are to be attained through the “ways”4
The Creation.which the Lord “made known unto Moses.” In all these passageswe find that these wonderful results come from the attainmentof certain knowledge, and the Bible therefore appeals to ourReason. From this point of view we may speak of the Scienceof the Bible, and as we advance in our study we shall find thatthis is not a misuse of terms, for the Bible is eminently scientific,only its science is not primarily physical but mental.The Bible contemplates Man as composed of “Spirit, soul,and body” (I. Thess. v. 23), or in other words as combininginto a single unity a threefold nature, spiritual, psychic, andcorporeal; and the knowledge which it proposes to give us isthe knowledge of the true relation between these three factors.The Bible also contemplates the totality of all Being, manifestedand unmanifested, as likewise constituting a threefold unity,which may be distributed under the terms “God,” “Man,” and“the Universe”; and it occupies itself with telling us of theinteraction, both positive and negative, which goes on betweenthese three. Furthermore, it bases this interaction upon twogreat psychological laws, namely, that of the creative power ofThought and that of the amenability of Thought to control bySuggestion; and it affirms that this Creative Power is as innatelyinherent in Man’s Thought as in the Divine Thought.But it also shows how through ignorance of these truthswe unknowingly misuse our creative power, and so producethe evils we deplore; and it also realizes the extreme dangerof recognizing our power before we have attained the moralqualities which will fit us to use it in accordance with thoseprinciples which keep the great totality of things in an abidingharmony, and to avoid this danger the Bible veils its ultimatemeaning under symbols, allegories, and parables. But theseare so framed as to reveal this ultimate meaning to thosewho will take the trouble to compare the various statementswith one another, and who are sufficiently intelligent to drawthe deductions which follow from thus putting two and twotogether; while those who cannot thus read between the5
Bible Mystery and Bible Meaninglines are trained into the requisite obedience to the UniversalLaw by means of suggestions suited to the present extent oftheir capacity, and are thus gradually prepared for the fullerrecognition of the Truth as they advance.Seen in this light, the Bible is found not to be a merecollection of old‑world fables or unintelligible dogmas, buta statement of great universal laws, all of which proceedsimply and naturally from the initial truth that Creation is aprocess of Evolution. Grant the evolutionary theory, whichevery advance in modern science renders clearer, and all therest follows, for the entire Bible is based upon the principleof Evolution. But the Bible is a statement of universal Law,of that which obtains in the realm of the invisible as well asthat which obtains in the realm of the visible, and thereforeit deals with facts of a transcendental nature as well as withthose of the physical plane, and accordingly it contemplatesan earlier process anterior to Evolution, the process, namely,of Involution, the passing of Spirit into Form as antecedentto the passing of Form into Consciousness. If we bear this inmind, it will throw light on many passages which must remainwrapped in impenetrable obscurity until we know somethingof the psychic principles to which they refer. The fact that theBible always contemplates Evolution as necessarily preceded byInvolution should never be lost sight of, and therefore much ofthe Bible requires to be read as referring to the involutionaryprocess taking place upon the psychic plane. But Involutionand Evolution are not opposed to one another, they are onlythe earlier and later stages of the same process, the perpetualurging onward of Spirit for Self‑expression in infinite varietiesof Form; and therefore the grand foundation on which thewhole Bible system is built up is that the Spirit which is thuscontinually passing into manifestation is always the same Spirit,in other words it is only ONE.These two fundamental truths, that under whatever varietiesof Form the Spirit is only ONE, and that the creation of all forms,6
The Creation.and consequently of the whole world of conscious relations isthe result of Spirit’s ONE mode of action, which is Thought, arethe basis of all that the Bible has to teach us, and therefore fromits first page to its last, we shall find these two ideas continuallyrecurring in a variety of different connections, the ONE‑nessof the Divine Spirit and the Creative Power of Man’s Thought,which the Bible expresses in its two grand statements, that“God is ONE,” and that Man is made “in the image and likenessof God.” These are the two fundamental statements of theBible, and all its other statements flow logically from them; andsince the whole argument of Scripture is built up from thesepremises, the reader must not be surprised at the frequencywith which our analysis of that argument will bring us back tothese two initial propositions; so far from being a vain repetition,this continual reduction of the statements of the Bible to thepremises with which is originally sets out, is the strongest proofthat we have in them a sure and solid foundation on which tobase our present life and our future expectations.But there is yet another point of view from which the Bibleappears to be the very opposite of a logically accurate systembuilt up on the broad foundations of Natural Law. From this pointof view it at first looks like the egotistical and arrogant traditionof a petty tribe, the narrow book of a narrow sect, instead ofa statement of universal Truth; and yet this aspect of it is soprominent that it can by no means be ignored. It is impossibleto read the Bible and shut our eyes to the fact that it tells usof God making a covenant with Abraham, and thenceforwardseparating his descendants by a divine interposition from theremainder of mankind, for this separation of a certain portionof the race as special objects of the Divine favour, forms anintegral part of Scripture from the story of Cain and Abel to thedescription of “the camp of the saints and the beloved city” inthe Book of Revelation. We cannot separate these two aspectsof the Bible, for they are so interwoven with one another thatif we attempt to do so, we shall end by having no Bible left, and7
Bible Mystery and Bible Meaningwe are therefore compelled to accept the Bible statement as awhole or reject it altogether, so that we are met by the paradoxof a combination between an all‑inclusive system of NaturalLaw and an exclusive selection which at first appears to flatlycontradict the processes of Nature. Is it possible to reconcilethe two?The answer is that it is not only possible, but that this exclusiveselection is the necessary consequence of the Universal Law ofEvolution when working in the higher phases of individualism.It is not that those who do not come within the pale of thisSelection suffer any diminution, but that those who do comewithin it receive thereby a special augmentation, and, as weshall see by and by, this takes place by a purely natural processresulting from the more intelligent employment of thatknowledge which it is the purpose of the Bible to unfold tous. These two principles of the inclusive and the exclusive areintertwined in a double thread which runs all through Scripture,and this dual nature of its statements must always be borne inmind if we would apprehend its meaning. Asking the reader,therefore, to carefully go over these preliminary remarks asaffording the clue to the reason of the Bible statements, I shallnow turn to the first chapter of Genesis.The opening announcement that “in the beginning Godcreated the heaven and the earth” contains the statement ofthe first of those two propositions which are the fundamentalpremises from which the whole Bible is evolved. From theMaster’s instruction to the woman of Samaria we know that“God” means “Spirit”; not “a Spirit,” as in the AuthorisedVersion, thus narrowing the Divine Being with the limitationsof individuality, but as it stands in the original Greek, simply“Spirit”—that is, all Spirit, or Spirit in the Universal. Thus theopening words of the Bible may be read, “in the beginningSpirit”—which is a statement of the underlying Universal Unity.8
The Creation.Here let me draw attention to the two‑fold meaning of thewords “in the beginning.” They may mean first in order of time,or first in order of causation, and the latter meaning is broughtout by the Latin version, which commences with the words “inprincipio”—that is, “in principle.” This distinction should beborne in mind, for in all subsequent stages of evolution theinitial principle which gives rise to the individualised entitymust still be in operation as the fons et origo of that particularmanifestation just as much as in its first concentration; it is theroot of the individuality, without which the individuality wouldcease to exist. It is the “beginning” of the individuality in orderof causation, and this “beginning” is, therefore, a continuousfact, always present, and not to be conceived of as somethingwhich has been left behind and done with. The same principlewas, of course, the “beginning” of the entity in point of timealso, however far back in the ages we may suppose it to havefirst evolved into separate existence, so that whether we applythe idea to the cosmos or to the individual, the words “in thebeginning” both carry us back to the primordial out‑pushfrom non‑manifestation into manifestation, and also rivet ourattention upon the same power as still at work as the causalprinciple both in ourselves and in everything else around us.In both these senses, then, the opening words of the Bible tellus that the “beginning” of everything is “God,” or Spirit in theuniversal.The next statement, that God created the heaven and theearth, brings us to the consideration of the Bible way of usingwords. The fact that the Bible deals with spiritual and psychicmatters, mak
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