Hidden Power 1

II The Perversion of Truth 42

III The "I Am" 59

IV Affirmative Power 63

V Submission 67

VI Completeness 74

VII The Principle of Guidance 81

VIII Desire as the Motive Power 85

IX Touching Lightly 92

X Present Truth 96

XI Yourself 99

XII Religious Opinions 105

XIII A Lesson from Browning 113

XIV The Spirit of Opulence 118

XV Beauty 123

XVI Separation and Unity 129

XVII Externalisation 141

XVIII Entering into the Spirit of It 146

XIX The Bible and the New Thought
I. The Son 153
II. The Great Affirmation 166
III. The Father 178
IV. Conclusion 185

XX Jachin and Boaz 192

XXI Hephzibah 197

XXII Mind and Hand 204

XXIII The Central Control 209

XXIV What is Higher Thought 213

XXV Fragments 215

THE HIDDEN POWER AND OTHER ESSAYS

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THE HIDDEN POWER

To realise fully how much of our present daily life consists in symbols
is to find the answer to the old, old question, What is Truth? and in
the degree in which we begin to recognise this we begin to approach
Truth. The realisation of Truth consists in the ability to translate
symbols, whether natural or conventional, into their equivalents; and
the root of all the errors of mankind consists in the inability to do
this, and in maintaining that the symbol has n