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The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science

by Thomas Troward

The 1904 lectures that gave New Thought its most rigorous framework: subjective and objective mind, the law of growth, causes and conditions, and the creative power of thought. Difficult, influential and the source Hill and Holmes drew on.

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  1. Subjective mind is impersonal and creative, he argued.
  2. Thought is cause; conditions are effect.
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