The Basis for Mental Healing ~ Ernest Holmes
"Much in this field is as yet obscure and imperfectly understood, for the scientific study of the mind is still in its infancy; but the fact that a misuse of mental and spiritual laws is at the root of many unhappy conditions incident to the physical life stands out clear and sharp.
The first principle fundamental to the understanding of the operation of thought is, that we are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence. The possibility of healing physical disease, changing environment, attracting friends and demonstrating supply through the power of right thinking, rests entirely on the theory that we are surrounded by an Infinite Mind, which reacts to our thought according to Law.
We comprehend the meaning of Infinite Intelligence only in a small degree, but because we are spiritual beings, we do sense the presence of an Intelligence which is beyond human comprehension - an Intelligence which is great enough to encompass the past, to understand the present, and to be Father of the future. It is the Cause of everything that has been, and is that out of which must unfold everything that is to be. Our own intelligence is one of Its activities and is of like nature to It.
The Act of Incarnation
At the level of our self-comprehension, we know and understand the nature of God. This self-knowing, which is God-knowing, has the possibility of an eternal expansion. As individual intelligence, we communicate with each other - are able to respond to each other - and in so doing we establish the fact that intelligence responds to intelligence. This same law must hold good, whether we think of finite intelligence responding to finite intelligence, or Infinite Intelligence responding to finite intelligence - for intelligence is the same in ESSENCE wherever we find it. We may conclude that Infinite Intelligence responds to us by the very necessity of being true to Its own Nature.
But how does It respond? It can respond only by corresponding, which means that the Infinite Intelligence responds to us by a direct impartation of Itself through us. "The highest God and the innermost God is One God." So with Jesus we may say: "The Father and I are One." Whatever intelligence we possess is some degree of the One Intelligence, which we call God.
The Infinite Mind, then, imparts Itself to the finite, through the act of incarnation. The progress of the human race is a result of that process whereby Intelligence passes, by successive degrees of incarnation, through evolution, into the human mind."
"Much in this field is as yet obscure and imperfectly understood, for the scientific study of the mind is still in its infancy; but the fact that a misuse of mental and spiritual laws is at the root of many unhappy conditions incident to the physical life stands out clear and sharp.
The first principle fundamental to the understanding of the operation of thought is, that we are surrounded by an Infinite Intelligence. The possibility of healing physical disease, changing environment, attracting friends and demonstrating supply through the power of right thinking, rests entirely on the theory that we are surrounded by an Infinite Mind, which reacts to our thought according to Law.
We comprehend the meaning of Infinite Intelligence only in a small degree, but because we are spiritual beings, we do sense the presence of an Intelligence which is beyond human comprehension - an Intelligence which is great enough to encompass the past, to understand the present, and to be Father of the future. It is the Cause of everything that has been, and is that out of which must unfold everything that is to be. Our own intelligence is one of Its activities and is of like nature to It.
The Act of Incarnation
At the level of our self-comprehension, we know and understand the nature of God. This self-knowing, which is God-knowing, has the possibility of an eternal expansion. As individual intelligence, we communicate with each other - are able to respond to each other - and in so doing we establish the fact that intelligence responds to intelligence. This same law must hold good, whether we think of finite intelligence responding to finite intelligence, or Infinite Intelligence responding to finite intelligence - for intelligence is the same in ESSENCE wherever we find it. We may conclude that Infinite Intelligence responds to us by the very necessity of being true to Its own Nature.
But how does It respond? It can respond only by corresponding, which means that the Infinite Intelligence responds to us by a direct impartation of Itself through us. "The highest God and the innermost God is One God." So with Jesus we may say: "The Father and I are One." Whatever intelligence we possess is some degree of the One Intelligence, which we call God.
The Infinite Mind, then, imparts Itself to the finite, through the act of incarnation. The progress of the human race is a result of that process whereby Intelligence passes, by successive degrees of incarnation, through evolution, into the human mind."
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