WHAT The MYSTICS HAVE TAUGHT
Ernest Holmes
Ultimate Salvation for All (Continued)
"In mental healing, the spiritual practitioner should sense everyone as a Divine Being, thus causing an awakening of the Divinity which is latent in all people. The spiritual awakening should never be divorced from the mental act, which is to awaken the mind to the realization of Spirit. The Universe is now a spiritual system. The problem of evil does not enter into this contemplation. This does not mean that we can keep on doing evil. It is a personal and not a cosmic problem and disappears when we no longer contemplate it.
Our individualized Universe is forever complete, yet forever completing Itself, in order that every experience may teach us to transcend some previous one, in ever ascending cycles, upward bound. This is the true meaning of misfortune or vicissitude or suffering, which is never a thing in itself. Our recognition of Truth is Its pronouncement of Itself, and when a man says "I am," it is God proclaiming His own Being. Emerson said he was often conscious of Jove nodding to Jove from behind our backs.
For a practical application, suppose one is treating a person who is low in vitality. The practitioner must recognize not low vitality but Real vitality, recognizing the I-Amness, the All-Powerfulness, God. IN SUCH DEGREE AS WE CONTEMPLATE THE SPIRIT OF LIVINGNESS, IT BECOMES MANIFEST. A clear idea of livingness personifies itself as physical vitality. Thus our recognition of It becomes Its recognition of us at the level of our recognition of It.
There is a great difference in our reaction when we believe that evil is an entity and when we understand that we merely have the possibility of experiencing it. The Universe does not demand suffering! Suffering is man-made, through ignorance. It will continue until man learns how to make it negative in his experience. Someday we shall decide that we have had enough suffering."
Ernest Holmes
Ultimate Salvation for All (Continued)
"In mental healing, the spiritual practitioner should sense everyone as a Divine Being, thus causing an awakening of the Divinity which is latent in all people. The spiritual awakening should never be divorced from the mental act, which is to awaken the mind to the realization of Spirit. The Universe is now a spiritual system. The problem of evil does not enter into this contemplation. This does not mean that we can keep on doing evil. It is a personal and not a cosmic problem and disappears when we no longer contemplate it.
Our individualized Universe is forever complete, yet forever completing Itself, in order that every experience may teach us to transcend some previous one, in ever ascending cycles, upward bound. This is the true meaning of misfortune or vicissitude or suffering, which is never a thing in itself. Our recognition of Truth is Its pronouncement of Itself, and when a man says "I am," it is God proclaiming His own Being. Emerson said he was often conscious of Jove nodding to Jove from behind our backs.
For a practical application, suppose one is treating a person who is low in vitality. The practitioner must recognize not low vitality but Real vitality, recognizing the I-Amness, the All-Powerfulness, God. IN SUCH DEGREE AS WE CONTEMPLATE THE SPIRIT OF LIVINGNESS, IT BECOMES MANIFEST. A clear idea of livingness personifies itself as physical vitality. Thus our recognition of It becomes Its recognition of us at the level of our recognition of It.
There is a great difference in our reaction when we believe that evil is an entity and when we understand that we merely have the possibility of experiencing it. The Universe does not demand suffering! Suffering is man-made, through ignorance. It will continue until man learns how to make it negative in his experience. Someday we shall decide that we have had enough suffering."
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