The Roads to Truth Table of Contents
Part One
I. Groundwork
Cosmology * Cosmogony * Esoteric and Metaphysical Cosmology Physical Cosmology * Eschatology * Epistemology * Ontology * Theism Fundamentalism * Existentialism * Deism * Atheism * Humanism Agnosticism * Pantheism * Asceticism * Monism * Dualism * Pluralism Materialism * Mechanism * Realism * Idealism * Rationalism * Empiricism Cynicism * Stoicism * Skepticism
II. A Short Jaunt Through History
A brief history of America as it applies to the formative years of New Thought
III. Final Preparations
What is New Thought? * What is Metaphysics? * Why is New Thought a science? * Is New Thought Christian? * Why is it called New Thought?
IV. The Pathfinders
Divine Science * Unity * Religious Science
V. The Keys
God exists * Name is nature * Freedom is our birthright * Mind is superior to, or more real than, matter
Part Two
VI. The Road to Well-Being
Emma Curtis Hopkins * Mary Baker Eddy * Phineas Parkhurst Quimby * Warren Felt Evans * Emanuel Swedenborg
VII. The Rebellious Road
Catholic Corruption * The Protestant Reformation * The American Colonies * Unitarianism * Transcendentalism * Influences on Transcendentalism * Transcendental "Heresy" * Summary
VIII. The Esoteric Road
Spiritualism * Theosophy * Rosicrucianism * Mysticism * Kabbala * Hermeticism
IX. The Road to Unity
H. Emilie Cady * William Shakespeare * Native American Spiritualities
X. The Road of the Intellectuals
The Science of Mind * Henry Drummond * Christian D. Larson * Ralph Waldo Trine * William Walker Atkinson * Thomas Troward * Intellectual Influences
XI. All Roads Lead to Jesus
The Common Concepts of New Thought * Jesus and his Teachings * The Mental Healing Connection
XII. The End of the Road
The Ancient World * Hinduism * Buddhism * Reincarnation * Sri Aurobindo
XIII. Side Trip to China
Taoism * Blending of the Philosophies * Paradox * Parallels with New Thought
Part Three
XIV. Merging Roads
Parallels with the Teachings of Jesus * The Missing Years * Jesus and the Essenes * The Formative Years * The Gnostic Jesus
XV. The Rules of the Roads
Law of Cause and Effect * Law of Subconscious Activity * Law of Belief Law of Attraction * Law of Mental Equivalents * Law of Correspondence Law of Circulation * Law of Polarity * Law of Synthesis * Law of Growth Law of Tendency * Law of Influence * Law of Substitution * Law of Non-Resistance * Divine Law and Mental Healing
XVI. Truth: The Ballast of the Roads
The Basic Components * Science and the Perennial Philosophy * The Parallels
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Appendix I: Resources
Appendix II: Bibliography
Index
Supplemental Materials
Seminar Information