WHAT The MYSTICS HAVE TAUGHT
Ernest Holmes
Evolution (Continued)
"To repeat: The aim of evolution is to produce a man who, at the objective point of his own self-determination, may completely manifest the inner life of the Spirit. Even the Spirit does not seek to control us. It lets us alone to discover ourselves. The most precious thing a man possesses is his own individuality; indeed, this is the only thing he really has, or is. For one instant to allow any outside influence to enter or control this individuality is a crime against his real self.
In the bible we read: "Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as he is." Even though this process of evolution is still taking place - has not stopped and perhaps never will stop because we shall forever unfold - even in this state of incompletion, "NOW are we the sons of God." As we more completely evolve, we shall see the Christ appear and "when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is," being transformed from glory to glory, by reason of that Divine Urge within each one of us. Even now the Divine Reality is accomplished in Infinite Mind. Within each one of us is an indestructible, an eternal, God-intended man, a perfect Being...our perfect being.
Always the idea of perfected man must have been in the Divine Mind; involved within the cause is its effect. And in the Mind of the Eternal, man must be perfect. God is perfect Mind and cannot conceive imperfect ideas, hence the idea of man as held in the Mind of God, must be a perfect idea. The perfect man is the only man God knows!
Man, being an individual, may do as he wills with himself- as Browning said, he may desecrate but he can never lose his life. The Spirit ever has a witness within us and the God-intended man already knows that he is One with the Whole; that Nature is comprised of One ultimate Power, using many instruments and having many avenues of expression. The time has come in our evolution when we should awaken to the recognition that behind each one stands the Eternal Mind - that each has complete access to It; that each may come to It for inspiration and revelation - and that surrounding all is a Divine Law obeying the dictates of this Eternal Mind."
Ernest Holmes
Evolution (Continued)
"To repeat: The aim of evolution is to produce a man who, at the objective point of his own self-determination, may completely manifest the inner life of the Spirit. Even the Spirit does not seek to control us. It lets us alone to discover ourselves. The most precious thing a man possesses is his own individuality; indeed, this is the only thing he really has, or is. For one instant to allow any outside influence to enter or control this individuality is a crime against his real self.
In the bible we read: "Beloved now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as he is." Even though this process of evolution is still taking place - has not stopped and perhaps never will stop because we shall forever unfold - even in this state of incompletion, "NOW are we the sons of God." As we more completely evolve, we shall see the Christ appear and "when He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is," being transformed from glory to glory, by reason of that Divine Urge within each one of us. Even now the Divine Reality is accomplished in Infinite Mind. Within each one of us is an indestructible, an eternal, God-intended man, a perfect Being...our perfect being.
Always the idea of perfected man must have been in the Divine Mind; involved within the cause is its effect. And in the Mind of the Eternal, man must be perfect. God is perfect Mind and cannot conceive imperfect ideas, hence the idea of man as held in the Mind of God, must be a perfect idea. The perfect man is the only man God knows!
Man, being an individual, may do as he wills with himself- as Browning said, he may desecrate but he can never lose his life. The Spirit ever has a witness within us and the God-intended man already knows that he is One with the Whole; that Nature is comprised of One ultimate Power, using many instruments and having many avenues of expression. The time has come in our evolution when we should awaken to the recognition that behind each one stands the Eternal Mind - that each has complete access to It; that each may come to It for inspiration and revelation - and that surrounding all is a Divine Law obeying the dictates of this Eternal Mind."
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