<a href="http://www.audioenlightenment.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.audioenlightenment.com/</a><br /><br />CONTENTS.<br /><br />I.–SPIRIT AND MATTER.<br />II.–THE HIGHER MODE OF INTELLIGENCE CONTROLS THE LOWER<br />III.–THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT<br />IV.–SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND<br />V.–FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE MIND<br />VI.–THE LAW OF GROWTH<br />VII.–RECEPTIVITY.<br />VIII.–RECIPROCAL ACTION OF THE UNIVERSAL AND INDIVIDUAL MINDS<br />IX.–CAUSES AND CONDITIONS<br />X.–INTUITION<br />XI.–HEALING<br />XII.–THE WILL<br />XIII.–IN TOUCH WITH SUBCONSCIOUS MIND<br />XIV.–THE BODY<br />XV.–THE SOUL<br />XVI.–THE SPIRIT<br /><br />I.<br /><br />SPIRIT AND MATTER.<br /><br />In commencing a course of lectures on Mental Science, it is somewhat<br />difficult for the lecturer to fix upon the best method of opening the<br />subject. It can be approached from many sides, each with some peculiar<br />advantage of its own; but, after careful deliberation, it appears to me<br />that, for the purpose of the present course, no better starting-point could<br />be selected than the relation between Spirit and Matter. I select this<br />starting-point because the distinction–or what we believe to be such–<br />between them is one with which we are so familiar that I can safely assume<br />its recognition by everybody; and I may, therefore, at once state this<br />distinction by using the adjectives which we habitually apply as expressing<br />the natural opposition between the two–_living_ spirit and _dead_ matter.<br />These terms express our current impression of the opposition between spirit<br />and matter with sufficient accuracy, and considered only from the point of<br />view of outward appearances this impression is no doubt correct. The<br />general consensus of mankind is right in trusting the evidence of our<br />senses, and any system which tells us that we are not to do so will never<br />obtain a permanent footing in a sane and healthy community. There is<br />nothing wrong in the evidence conveyed to a healthy mind by the senses of a<br />healthy body, but the point where error creeps in is when we come to judge<br />of the meaning of this testimony. We are accustomed to judge only by<br />external appearances and by certain limited significances which we attach<br />to words; but when we begin to enquire into the real meaning of our words<br />and to analyse the causes which give rise to the appearances, we find our<br />old notions gradually falling off from us, until at last we wake up to the<br />fact that we are living in an entirely different world to that we formerly<br />recognized. The old limited mode of thought has imperceptibly slipped away,<br />and we discover that we have stepped out into a new order of things where<br />all is liberty and life. This is the work of an enlightened intelligence<br />resulting from persistent determination to discover what truth really is<br />irrespective of any preconceived notions from whatever source derived, the<br />determination to think honestly for ourselves<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MueuHcdQXtM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MueuHcdQXtM</a>