Thomas Troward, 1915. Complete text.
This is Troward's longest sustained argument and the last of his major books. Where the lectures were spoken and therefore compressed, here he takes the time to build the case from the beginning: what a starting point is, why spirit contemplating itself produces form, and what part the individual actually plays in a process that did not begin with them.
The chapter on the personal factor is the one to read first if you only read one. It answers the objection that flattens most manifestation teaching, namely that if the process is universal and impersonal then nothing you do matters. Troward's answer is that the impersonal power can only act through a particular, and that the particular is you.
Read alongside the Edinburgh lectures it is the difference between a statement of law and a description of law in operation.
Transcribed from the Project Gutenberg edition. First published in 1915 and long out of copyright worldwide.