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The Doré Lectures - being Sunday addresses at the Doré Gallery, London, given in connection with the Higher Thought Centre by Thomas Troward
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creative work of Thought in each of us is to make us consciously
"sons and daughters of the Almighty," realizing that by our
divine origin we can never be really separated from the Parent
Mind which is continually seeking expression through us, and that
any apparent separation is due to our own misconception of the
true nature of the inherent relation between the Universal and
the Individual. This is the lesson which the Great Teacher has so
luminously out before us in the parable of the Prodigal Son.



THE GREAT AFFIRMATIVE.

The Great Affirmative appears in two modes, the cosmic and the
individual. In its essence it is the same in both, but in each it
works from a different standpoint. It is always the principle of
Being--that which is, as distinguished from that which is not;
but to grasp the true significance of this saying we must
understand what is meant by "that which is not." It is something
more than mere non-existence, for obviously we should not trouble
ourselves about what is non-existent. It is that which bath is
and is not at the same time, and the thing that answers to this
description is "Conditions." The little affirmative is that which
affirms particular conditions as all that it can grasp, while the
great affirmative grasps a wider conception, the conception of
that which gives rise to conditions. Cosmically it is that power
of Spirit which sends forth the whole creation as its expression
of itself, and it is for this reason that I have drawn attention
in the preceding lectures to the idea of the creation ex nihilo
of the whole visible universe. As Eastern and Western Scriptures
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