July 24 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

FROM THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS

By Ernest Holmes

In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions (John 14:2)

“In my father’s house are many mansions.”  This world, with all its wonders, is not the only one that we shall inhabit.  There are many others and we shall inhabit each in time.  If this life were the only life, Jesus would have told his followers so.  He held out no false promises, never deceived.  He spoke only the Truth.

“I go to prepare a place for you.”  What more beautiful thought than that those who go before shall be there when we arrive!  There is no doubt, only an expansion of the soul, an enlargement of the experience.  But Thomas, who was a disciple, said that he did not know where Jesus was going nor did he know the way.  Jesus answered, “I am the way, the truth and the life.”  Again he is referring to the individual “I” the son of the eternal “I AM.”  This son is the way to the Father.  We approach Reality through our own natures and through no other source.  “No man cometh unto the Father but by me.”  God is within and it is here that we meet Him.  The inward gaze alone can reveal the Father.

Who Sees the Son Sees the Father (John 14:9)

“He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”  Many think, from this statement, that Jesus was claiming to be God, but such was not the case.  God is the invisible Life Essence of all that is, the Intelligent Energy running through all.  This Life we feel but do not see.   We see only what It does, never the Thing Itself.

Life manifests Itself through the individual.  Therefore, when one manifests goodness and purity, he is revealing the Father.  This is what Jesus meant when he said, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

He said that his words were the words of God.  As all forms of energy return again into their source, so the word of Truth is the word of God, no matter who speaks it, or when it is spoken.  Man reveals, but does not absorb, the Divine Nature.

“He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.”  It could not be otherwise.  The nature of Reality was not exhausted in the man Jesus, but made manifest through his life and works.  We are to do likewise, and what we ask in the name (which is our own name) believing in the Father which is God, and in the son, which is ourselves, we shall receive.  In this way, the Father is glorified in the Son.

The Holy Comforter (John 14:16)

We are told that The Holy Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, will make all things known to us, for He is with us and in us.  No more comprehensive statement could be made.  The Spirit of Truth is in all people – not unto Jesus alone – but unto all alike…again the revelation of the self to the self; a divine awakening to the eternal Reality inhabiting eternity and finding its abiding place in time, through our own natures.

As the Holy Comforter comes, He makes all things known to us.  Intuition is the speech of this Comforter.  “I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you.”  The eternal Father begets the eternal Son.  This Son is generic, all are members of this Universal Sonship, all are members of the one Tree of Life, from which every individual shoot springs.  The Trinity is a Unity.

And that peace which comes from the innermost recesses of the Spirit is left with us:  a peace which the world cannot take away, for it springs from the bosom of the Father of light, love, life and wisdom.”