The Complete Works of Thomas Troward by Thomas Troward

Author:Thomas Troward [Troward, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788027303601
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2017-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

What is it that answers to this description? Again we find the solution of the enigma in the names. “Jesse” means “to be,” or “he that is,” which at once brings us back to all we have learned concerning the Universal I AM—the ONE Eternal Spirit which is “the Everlasting Father.”

“David” means “the Beloved,” or the man who realizes his true relation to the Infinite Spirit; and the description of Daniel as a man greatly beloved and who had set his heart to understand (Daniel x. 11), shows us that it is this set purpose of seeking to understand the nature of the Universal Spirit and the mode of our own relation to it, that raises the individual to the position of David or “the Beloved.”

This is in strict agreement with the Master’s teaching to the woman of Samaria, that the Eternal Spirit, which is “the Father,” seeks those who will worship, not according to this or that traditionary form, but in spirit and in truth, having a real knowledge of what it is they worship and of the true nature of the mental act they perform—“we know what we worship” is the mark by which Jesus distinguishes the worship of the “Israelites indeed,” the “People of the I AM,” from that of the Samaritans, though fully recognizing the right intention of their worship of the “unknown God.”

It was after his successful wrestling with the Divine Being, and in consequence of his determination not to let go until it had been fully revealed, that Jacob obtained the name of “Israel.”

Then from the individual’s illuminated recognition of the Truth of Being—the discovery that he himself is the concentration of the Universal Spirit into particular personality—there necessarily arises the reproduction of the Universal Spirit in the Individual Mind. This is re-generation; that is to say, the second generating of the Divine UNIT as another Unity or manifestation of itself in the form of the Individual, in no way differing in nature from the original all-embracing Unit, but only in mode of expression, having now become individual personality with all the attributes of personality.

On the plane of the universal, the place of these more highly specialized attributes was held by a generic tendency towards life-givingness, increase, and beauty; and this generic tendency the reproduced Unit now follows up with the additional powers it has evolved by the attainment of self-recognizing individuality.

The new personality thus generated may be considered as the child of the individual soul which gives birth to it; and since there is only ONE Spirit anywhere and everywhere, it can be only another mode of the original ONE—consequently the “Son” who is thus born to David “the Beloved,” is Himself “the Everlasting Father,” and thus the answer to the sacred puzzle is that the man, who has really learned the inner meaning of the words “know thyself,” discovers that the true I AM in himself is one with the Universal I AM, which is the root of all individualized being.

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