文档介绍：THOUGHT POWER
ITS CONTROL AND CULTURE
BY
ANNIE BESANT
THE THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE
ADYAR, MADRAS, INDIA
1952
FOREWARD
THIS little book is intended to help the student to study his own nature, so far as its
intellectual part is concerned. If he masters the principles herein laid down, he will be in a
fair way to co-operate with Nature in his own evolution, and to increase his mental stature far
more rapidly than is possible while he remains ignorant of the conditions of his growth.
The introduction may offer some difficulties to the lay reader, and may perhaps be skipped by
such at the first reading. It is necessary, however, as a foundation for those who would see
the relation of the intellect to the other parts of their nature and to the outer world. And those
who would fulfil the maxim, "Know thyself," must not shrink from a little mental exertion,
nor must expect mental food to drop ready-cooked from the sky into a lazily-opened mouth.
If the booklet help even a few earnest students, and clear some difficulties out of the way, its
purpose will have been served.
ANNIE BESANT
CONTENTS
PAGE
Foreword . . . . . 2
Contents . . . . . 3
Introduction . . . . . 4
CHAPTER
I. The Nature of Thought . . . . 7
II. The Creator of Illusion . . . . 10
III. Thought-Transference . . . . 15
IV. The Beginnings of Thought . . . 18
V. Memory . . . . . 21
VI. The Growth of Thought . . . 25
VII. Concentration . . . . 30
VIII. Obstacles to Concentration . . . 35
IX. The Strengthening of Thought Power . . 39
X. Helping Others by Thought . . . 44
Afterword . . . . . 48
INTRODUCTION
THE value of knowledge is tested by its power to purify and enable the life, and all earnest
students desire to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired in their study of Theosophy to the
evolution of their own character and to the helping of their fellow men. It is for such students
that is written this little book, with a hope that a be