GENERAL SUMMARY
Ernest Holmes
"Mind is forever conscious of Itself and of what It does. Its consciousness is Its law. Its consciousness is perfect and Its laws are perfect. Mind cannot be conscious of anything but Itself, since It is all. Spirit is conscious of man since man exists and since God must be conscious of all that is. Therefore man is, because God is conscious of him. And God's consciousness of man must be complete and perfect. Generic man must be held in the Mind of God as a complete and perfect manifestation of the Divine.
Mind is all-inclusive and all-pervading. Mind is also self-governing and self-propelling. Spirit is conscious of love as Its is conscious of life. It is inspired by love and Its government is one of love. Thus love is the fulfilling of the perfect law. Law is the outcome of love and love is the outpusher through law. Love and law go hand in hand to produce a complete and perfect manifestation.
Man's consciousness of God constitutes his real and immortal self. There is really only one man viewed from the Universal sense, but in this one, or "grand man" as it has been called, there are innumerable persons. Each is in direct relationship to the Whole. Each is an image of God but God is not lessened by being represented in innumerable forms and through limitless numbers of mentalities any more than the figure five would become exhausted by being used by innumerable mathematicians.
Our consciousness of God is our real self and at the same time it is both personal and impersonal. It is personal in that it is personified through us and it is impersonal in that we are all using a universal power. When we know that we are using such a power all doubt as to our ability to use it will vanish and our words will be spoken with spontaneous reliance on Truth.
In spiritual healing the practitioner deals with thought alone. He is not dealing with a sick body or a sick man. There is no one to be healed in the Truth and we must think in the Truth if we expect to heal. There is no material body to be healed and no material man to suffer pain or anguish. Disease is neither person, place nor thing to the one who wishes to heal. The practitioner must try to become conscious of perfection alone and nothing else. In whose mind is he to become conscious of perfection? In the only person's mind he can ever be conscious of anything, in his own mind. The first man to be healed is the practitioner.
Here in his own mind he meets the belief in the necessity of sickness or discord. He repudiates this belief and explains to himself what the real truth is. He is conscious, as his explanation goes on, that he is meeting and neutralizing false claims held to be true about his patient. Knowing that they are false, he resolves them into thoughts and heals the thought. The whole process is one of thought and realization and could not be anything else.
The practitioner works within his own mind until he is mentally satisfied, until the whole reaction in his thought causes him to understand that his patient is now healed. This healing is really the action of Spirit upon the mind of the healer, the active Principle of truth, goodness and harmony.
Since the Divine must hold us as some part of Its eternal perfection, we are fulfilling our destiny when we think of ourselves as already Divine and perfect. To contemplate that Divine Life which is at the very center of everyman's life - this is the very essence of mental healing.
This is what we mean by realization. Words carry the mind forward to a place in thought where realization begins. At this point the most effective work is done. It is an inward feeling, a silent sense of Divine Reality. Troward tells us that the Divine Spirit is the limitless potential of human life. Which means that the human is really Divine but will ever evolve into newer and better states of conscious being.
In practice we state clearly in words what these ideas mean to us and then we relate these statements to some needed experience or to some desired good which we have not been experiencing. After using whatever words will bring conviction to our thought we pause and try to realize the presence of the All Power from which every special good comes. This is the adding the Spirit to the letter of the Law. However we should never forget that both the letter and the Spirit are necessary in our work. The letter molds while the Spirit creates. The thought is a mold, conviction is the molten substance poured into this mold. One is not complete without the other and many people make the mistake of using only one of these essential states of consciousness.
When we live in obedience to the Power which is over us we shall be able to consciously direct the lesser conditions that are around us. Adam was permitted to name all creation and man was supposed to exercise an authority over all that is below him. This means his whole physical environment, of course. But this power was abused and the experience of lack, sickness and limitation fell upon humanity. Adam symbolizes everyman's experience. The allegory of Eden is the story of human evolution.
Wherever the image of thought is set, there the Power to create resides. "God if thou seest God, Dust if thou seest dust." Can we see good where evil appears to be? Then we can remove the evil. When we bring a lamp into a darkened room, where does the darkness go? The darkness neither came nor did it go, anywhere. It never was a thing of itself, merely a condition. And we have power over conditions."
Ernest Holmes
"Mind is forever conscious of Itself and of what It does. Its consciousness is Its law. Its consciousness is perfect and Its laws are perfect. Mind cannot be conscious of anything but Itself, since It is all. Spirit is conscious of man since man exists and since God must be conscious of all that is. Therefore man is, because God is conscious of him. And God's consciousness of man must be complete and perfect. Generic man must be held in the Mind of God as a complete and perfect manifestation of the Divine.
Mind is all-inclusive and all-pervading. Mind is also self-governing and self-propelling. Spirit is conscious of love as Its is conscious of life. It is inspired by love and Its government is one of love. Thus love is the fulfilling of the perfect law. Law is the outcome of love and love is the outpusher through law. Love and law go hand in hand to produce a complete and perfect manifestation.
Man's consciousness of God constitutes his real and immortal self. There is really only one man viewed from the Universal sense, but in this one, or "grand man" as it has been called, there are innumerable persons. Each is in direct relationship to the Whole. Each is an image of God but God is not lessened by being represented in innumerable forms and through limitless numbers of mentalities any more than the figure five would become exhausted by being used by innumerable mathematicians.
Our consciousness of God is our real self and at the same time it is both personal and impersonal. It is personal in that it is personified through us and it is impersonal in that we are all using a universal power. When we know that we are using such a power all doubt as to our ability to use it will vanish and our words will be spoken with spontaneous reliance on Truth.
In spiritual healing the practitioner deals with thought alone. He is not dealing with a sick body or a sick man. There is no one to be healed in the Truth and we must think in the Truth if we expect to heal. There is no material body to be healed and no material man to suffer pain or anguish. Disease is neither person, place nor thing to the one who wishes to heal. The practitioner must try to become conscious of perfection alone and nothing else. In whose mind is he to become conscious of perfection? In the only person's mind he can ever be conscious of anything, in his own mind. The first man to be healed is the practitioner.
Here in his own mind he meets the belief in the necessity of sickness or discord. He repudiates this belief and explains to himself what the real truth is. He is conscious, as his explanation goes on, that he is meeting and neutralizing false claims held to be true about his patient. Knowing that they are false, he resolves them into thoughts and heals the thought. The whole process is one of thought and realization and could not be anything else.
The practitioner works within his own mind until he is mentally satisfied, until the whole reaction in his thought causes him to understand that his patient is now healed. This healing is really the action of Spirit upon the mind of the healer, the active Principle of truth, goodness and harmony.
Since the Divine must hold us as some part of Its eternal perfection, we are fulfilling our destiny when we think of ourselves as already Divine and perfect. To contemplate that Divine Life which is at the very center of everyman's life - this is the very essence of mental healing.
This is what we mean by realization. Words carry the mind forward to a place in thought where realization begins. At this point the most effective work is done. It is an inward feeling, a silent sense of Divine Reality. Troward tells us that the Divine Spirit is the limitless potential of human life. Which means that the human is really Divine but will ever evolve into newer and better states of conscious being.
In practice we state clearly in words what these ideas mean to us and then we relate these statements to some needed experience or to some desired good which we have not been experiencing. After using whatever words will bring conviction to our thought we pause and try to realize the presence of the All Power from which every special good comes. This is the adding the Spirit to the letter of the Law. However we should never forget that both the letter and the Spirit are necessary in our work. The letter molds while the Spirit creates. The thought is a mold, conviction is the molten substance poured into this mold. One is not complete without the other and many people make the mistake of using only one of these essential states of consciousness.
When we live in obedience to the Power which is over us we shall be able to consciously direct the lesser conditions that are around us. Adam was permitted to name all creation and man was supposed to exercise an authority over all that is below him. This means his whole physical environment, of course. But this power was abused and the experience of lack, sickness and limitation fell upon humanity. Adam symbolizes everyman's experience. The allegory of Eden is the story of human evolution.
Wherever the image of thought is set, there the Power to create resides. "God if thou seest God, Dust if thou seest dust." Can we see good where evil appears to be? Then we can remove the evil. When we bring a lamp into a darkened room, where does the darkness go? The darkness neither came nor did it go, anywhere. It never was a thing of itself, merely a condition. And we have power over conditions."
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