Metaphysical Interpretations of the Bible

Metaphysical  Interpretations of the Bible

 

Based on  

Thomas Troward's 'Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning' 

Thomas Troward, late Divisional Judge, Punjah, India, is recognized as one of the greatest authorities on the subject of Mental Science. His sincerity, the lucidity and profoundity of this thought, his great ability to make the complex simple, his profound faith and complete devotion to truth, made him a rare messenger of G-d.

     Troward opens his Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning by saying, The Bible Is the Book of the Emancipation of Man. Really? I say. Maybe to some degree.

Here is and ex cert from the book, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life:

We all remember that Jesus admonished his followers: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. He had already located the Kingdom of Heaven within. Moses affirmed that there is a creative word in our own mouth which is the arbiter of our fate. Again we are told that we shall decree a thing and it will happen; that our word will not return unto us void but that is shall accomplish and prosper.

Troward tells us that these promises are based on the idea of our acquiring a certain type of information. Jesus declared that it depends on our keeping his sayings; Job said that it depends on a right interpretation of the meaning of some law or presence in nature, and Moses said that the gift which he offered his followers would be either a blessing or a curse, according to whether or not they kept the Commandments.

Just what does these saying mean, and what are these Commandments> It is evident that they must have something to do with Universal Truth and our relationship to It. The Bible begins with the simple proposition that the Creative Intelligence of the Universe, which it call G-d, is pure, evenly-distributed Spirit, Mind, or Intelligence. The only instrument of Mind is the movement of Its Intelligence within Itself. This we call thought or contemplation. the Bible clearly states that creation is the result of the Word of G-d.

The Bible assumes a Law of Mind through which Creative Intelligence works to produce form, thus giving us a trinity which we call The Thing, the Way It Works and What It Does. From beginning to end the Bible teaches that everything which happens in our lives depends on an understanding of the right relationship between the Universe and ourselves.It assumes that just as G-d, or the Creative Spirit, is a Trinity, so is man a trinity; spirit, soul, and body. In other words man is a microcosm within a macrocosm; a little world with a big world.  He partakes of the nature of the Creative Principle. This is neither by preference nor by compulsion.Thought is creative not because we will it so but because it is its nature to be creative.

The Bible teaches what might be called a law of parallels. That is, the physical universe is an out-picturing of a mental universe; laws of mind are just as tangible as are laws of physics. Of course both are invisible. The invisible is always the cause of the visible. Spirit passes from the Universal into an individualized consciousness. Whatever form the consciousness of Spirit takes it is always in accord with One Primary Law. The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

If you want to begin to make changes in your life, the above mentioned book is a good first step.

Happy reading!