The Hidden Power
Thomas Troward · 1921
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About the book
The papers Troward left in his desk, published after his death: short essays on the I AM, desire as motive power, guidance, and the art of touching a subject lightly. The informal Troward — same machinery, conversational register.
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Part 1 · The power at the centre, finally named. The first six slides, free.
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A handshake is two hands moving up and down. A wedding ring is a loop of metal. Nobody who has shaken a hand at a funeral believes that is all they are. The outward thing carries something that is not visible in it.
Troward opens his last book with exactly this, and then widens it to everything. There is an inner side to things, he says, and "until this inner side is known, the things themselves are not known."
The mistake he cares about is not believing in the wrong symbol. It is the flatter assumption that the symbol has nothing behind it, and resting content with the outside. Like the folds of a cloth that hint at a figure underneath, the outside is real and even truthful. It just is not the whole of what you are looking at.
Inside the course
12 parts- The hidden power, named at lastFree above
- The perversion of truth: how good ideas go wrong
- The «I am», and what it is allowed to claim
- Affirmative power
Questions
Is The Hidden Power free to read in Astra Trainer?
Yes. The full book opens free in the app’s reader, in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian.
What is the short course?
12 short parts that walk through the book’s key ideas in slides, each with a quick quiz. The first six slides are free to try on this page.
Where do I get the app?
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