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    A Twelve Part Lecture Series
    A Twelve Part Lecture Series
    A Twelve Part Lecture Series
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    A Twelve Part Lecture Series

    By Thomas Parker Boyd

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    Experience the life-changing power of Thomas Parker Boyd with this unforgettable book.
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    PublisherAndura Publishing
    Release dateOct 4, 2020
    ISBN9791220204125
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      A Twelve Part Lecture Series - Thomas Parker Boyd

      A Twelve Part Lecture Series

      Thomas Parker Boyd

      1) Introduction to the Christ Science of Being

      2) That Something

      3) The Great Within

      4) The Word of Power

      5) Methods of the Master

      6) Life Understood

      7) The Morale of Well-Being

      8) Life’s Picture Gallery

      9) Removing the Hidden Hindrances

      10) Freedom Through the Truth

      11) Elements of a Powerful Personality

      12) Overcoming by Right Thinking

      13) How to Create a Reliable Memory

      Edna Lister’s mentor, Thomas Parker Boyd, created this series of lessons is to unfold the Science of Being, to develop a rational philosophy of living, and to teach a technique in the fine art of living, the synthesis of which will produce greater human efficiency.

      Lesson 1

      Introduction

      The purpose of these lessons is to unfold the Science of Being, to develop a rational philosophy of living, and to teach a technique in the fine art of living, the synthesis of which will produce greater human efficiency.

      Humanity’s progress up from animalism began when we started to think. Thinking brought us a knowledge of the value and use of arms in securing food and defending themselves against enemies, either animal or human. It brought us the secret of making a fire, which added greatly to comfort and protection, and the satisfaction of cooked food. It led us up to the classification of vocal sounds and thence to language. The next step was the discovery of symbols of speech and the development of the records of sayings and doings. Thus, humanity moved forward in the discovery and development of all the symbols of the arts, sciences and philosophies of life. It must be plain, therefore, that to discover the powers of mind and the laws of their use will enable us to develop far beyond our present attainment.

      As great as our development was under the old empirical methods of art and philosophy, we began to use a safe and certain method with the unfoldment of the modern scientific method, which seeks to deal with the phenomena of life as facts, discovering the laws of their existence, building a rational philosophy, and to develop life as a fine art. Science concerns itself solely with facts, the methods of their operation, and formulates certain hypotheses that explain any general class of facts to which they pertain. When science discovers new facts unexplained by the theory, they either abandon or adapt the theory to include and explain the new discoveries.

      All operations of nature proceed by definite forms of action called laws. Under these laws they explain all the happenings of existence. If anything ever happened, it did so under the operation of law, and therefore may happen again. If it does not so happen, one or two inferences are sure, we have not found the law by which it occurs, or else it never happened in the first place. Science applies this general principle in dealing with the forces and processes of nature, but it is equally pertinent in dealing with the mental powers and activities, and in seeking an explanation of those powers of life associated with spiritual things. Science treats such problems as longevity and general efficiency of living by offering a rational program of diet, hygiene, breathing, exercise, rest, diversion of tasks, the relation of heat and cold, light and darkness, color and harmony, sound and silence, and other elements found in life’s circumstances.

      Science seeks to understand the mind through a study and classification of its actions and processes to define the various functions of mind clearly, its field of operation, and the outcome of its action. They classify certain activities of mind as objective, concerning external things, such as the reports of the five senses, and the ideas that come in through our contacts with the world about us. It also handles reports from indefinite sources, such as the subjective phases of mind from which hunches and various prompts arise, and other reports coming through the intuitive powers in moments of vision and inspiration.

      Science has concerned itself with that great realm of consciousness in which so many factors of mental life arise without our being conscious of their source. The scientific method has boldly invaded this vast undetermined realm, and classified certain of its activities as subconscious activity. Subconscious activities include the experiences that rise in dream life, and experiences that are accountable only on the hypothesis of telepathy. This subconsciousness has charge of the functional activities and processes of the body, so that we often call it the organic mind. This realm of subconsciousness contains a great storehouse of memories and impressions of experiences, which include those experiences that arise in human life, and those that could have risen only in some ancestral life lived out in the animal world. Science explains the strange anomaly of irrational animal impulses, rising and becoming dominant in rational and spiritual beings, by hypothesizing that they are accumulated memories of other existences, not inherent in mind itself.

      Inevitably science must deal with those high potencies of mind that we call spiritual. Human history abounds with incidents in which a higher form of knowing is apparent. Science is left to posit the proposition of an essentially Divine Mind, or superconsciousness, which includes ways of knowing and powers of action do not fall within the other classifications. The language of this superconscious knower is not I think, therefore I am, but I am, therefore I know. In this realm of knowing, time and spacial relationships do not exist; all places are here; all time is now, and what is now in the superconscious knower may be very many years distant in the objective experience.

      The scientific method recognizes that nothing comes out of nothing. Some antecedent cause exists for every effect, some antecedent source for all the issues of life. No life is in substance without antecedent life. Any mind, power, motion, or anything else in a manifested experience has its source in a being of adequate causation. Here science invades a realm previously held sacred in philosophical speculation, and proceeds to investigate Being, or the Is-ness of all existence. Since life, mind, intelligence, substance and principle are all manifested in the facts science is constantly dealing with, it grounds the final hypothesis that God is the undifferentiated of which all the forms of existence are differentiations.

      Humanity’s origin is in God, despite the accidents, incidents or processes by which we have come to our present development, and science holds before us a hope that life, which through ignorance of its source, its nature, its relationships, and its destiny has been well nigh intolerable, will become tolerable and delightful through this newfound knowledge. The ancient specters of fear that have haunted our imagination are fading. In this new

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