July 5 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

MEDITATIONS

By Ernest Holmes

A Treatment to Heal Confusion or Discord

“I know there is a Spirit in me which unfolds Itself to me; and I know that this Spirit – or Infinite Wisdom and Divine Love and Perfect Law – enlightens my consciousness and awakens within me, within the personal, the knowledge of Its meaning, the realization of Its Presence, and the power of Its Law.  I am conscious that this Universal IT is an ever-present Being to me and to every man, because where the Universe personifies, It becomes personal.  Therefore, there is within me an immediate Presence, the Infinite of the finite self, all-knowing, all-wise, and forever perfect.  It is this Real Me that I seek to vision in my thought, that I seek to embody in my consciousness.  It is that ME that cannot be sick, knows no lack, has no limitation, never suffered want, and cannot experience fear.

The Spirit of Infinite Peace is my spirit now.  The Presence of That which is perfect is within me, in every function, in every organ, every attribute and every atom.  In each cell, there vibrates the perfect Divine Wholeness.

And this comprehension, this application to myself, this knowingness, reveals me to myself and heals the apparent confusion and discomfort, because WHERE THAT PERFECT CIRCULATION IS KNOWN, IT IS ESTABLISHED!  Where that perfect efficiency is known, it is demonstrated THE TRUTH KNOWN IS IMMEDIATELY MANIFEST, and I am now conscious of my own wholeness, my own depth of being, the spiritual me, the Divine Self.

And now I know that my Divine Self is not separated from the self that appears; that the Universal Self is made manifest because the Word is made flesh and dwells in the midst of my physical me.  The Word becomes activity and surrounds me with a harmonious activity – with happy action and perfect reaction.  The Word becomes Light and guides me into all good.  The Word becomes beauty and surrounds me with beauty.  The word, which is Substance, becomes supply and brings to me everything I need, because “The Word was with God and the Word was God,” and the Word is God.

This consciousness of Wholeness, this recognition of the Self, obliterates every belief of confusion and discord from my life.”

May 8 - The Science of Mind in a Year

MEDITATIONS for Self-Help

Ernest Holmes

Happiness and Completion

I am happy and complete, today and forever.

Within me is that which is Perfect and Complete.

It is The Spirit of all Life, Truth and Action.

I am happy in the certain knowledge of this Inner Light.

I cannot be sad nor sorry, but must radiate Joy and Life,

For Life is within me now.

I am happy and complete.

Here and Now

Perfection is already accomplished.

I am that Perfect Life here and now.

Today I express the Limitless Life of the All Good.

Today I manifest my Completion in every part of me.

Today I am saved.

Here and now I am healed.

April 13 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

No Confusion ~ Ernest Holmes

"History has recorded many instances of healing through faith.  This is an undisputed fact.  Yet we cannot believe in a Divine Power that responds more quickly to one than to another.  We are compelled to see that prayer is not an end of itself; it is a means to an end.  Like the practice of the Science of Mind, it is a way.  The principle governing faith is, that when the one praying becomes convinced, his prayer will automatically be answered.  Jesus announced the law of mind, saying:  "It is done unto you as you believe."  The Universe exists by Its own self-pronouncement, by Its own affirmation.  It only know "I AM."  It knows nothing else.  Therefore, wherever prayer, in faith, touches Reality, prays aright - prays according to whatever the Truth is - then prayer must be answered.

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Persons familiar with Biblical history hardly need a lesson about faith, for the eleventh chapter of Hebrews is full of instances proving its sustaining power.  Paul enumerates at length the experiences of Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Samuel and the prophets, and many more, "who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword; out of weakness were made strong, waxed mighty in power, turned to flight armies of aliens, women received their dead raised to life again."

Our ancestors believed these records and embodied this living faith in their consciousness, thereby leaving us a great legacy of faith.  Whatever they did, they were able to do because they grasped an instinctive faith and marched boldly on with it.

Since faith is a quality unconfined to age or station, it may be ours today as much as it has been any man's at any time.  We are not going through a harder time today, a longer or darker night, than has ever been experienced before.  It only seems darker because we have lost faith - the beacon light. 

If one will have faith in himself, faith in his fellowmen, in the Universe, and in God, that faith will light the place in  which he finds himself, and by the light of this faith, he will be able to see that ALL IS GOOD.  And the light shed by this faith will light the way for others.  We become conscious of darkness only when we are without faith - for faith is ever the light of our day and the light on our way, making that way clearly visible to us, even when to all others it may be beset with obstacles and the ongoing rough."

March 22 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

Where Did Man Come from and Why? ~ Ernest Holmes

"To inquire why Life itself is, is useless, for Life is self-existent, and all of the science, wit and art of man can never fathom that which is self-existent.  "I am that I am."  Since we are, we must have evolved from, or become manifested in, that which is.  Our physiological and psychological reactions, are reactions to something which has an actual existence, intelligence and consciousness.  Our actions and reactions can be analyzed.  The invisible Life Principle incarnated in us cannot be analyzed.  Any attempt to do so is futile.

Facts admit of proof, Life announces Itself.  We know that we are; even a flat denial of our existence would constitute a bold affirmation of its reality.  If we were to push our history back to some beginning, we should still be compelled to make the simple statement that man is.  If man's life is of God, then it comes from a Source that had no beginning, so the question as to WHY he is, must forever remain unanswered.  God could not tell why God is!  To suppose that Life could give an excuse or reason for being would be to suppose an absurdity.  Life IS, and right at this point all inquiry into Truth starts, and from this point alone must this inquiry continue.

We are not so much interested, however, in why we are, as in what we are.  That we are some part of Life, no one can deny and keep faith with reason."

March 12 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

MEDITATIONS Concluded ~ Ernest Holmes

The following meditation is printed just as it was given in class and group work.

The Eternal Cycles of Life in Motion Fulfill My Faith

"This is another way of saying that something happens when a man believes.  Faith is operated upon by some principle which is a government of Law and Order, and which has within Itself the power to execute Itself.   Prayer is not to ask God to be God. There is a Supreme Intelligence in the Universe, we cannot tell It anything; what little we know, we have drawn from It.  There is an Absolute Spirit around us, It does not need our existence.  It has already surrendered Itself to us but we have not yet surrendered ourselves to It.  That is what prayer - or treatment - is for.  We do not pray the Principle of Peace to desist from confusion, but we seek that Peace that it shall enter into our confused souls.  Therefore, prayer or meditation is for the purpose of becoming receptive to the Divine Influx, which already owns everything, knows everything, governs all things, and creates what we need - if we but permit it to - in Its own Nature, which is goodness, truth and beauty.  Each turns to the within in something after this fashion:

'We let go of everything, drop every fear from our minds, drop all confusion from our thought, and enter into the inner secret communion with that great Reality, which is our Universal Self - God - in Whom we live and move and have our being.  We are conscious that this Divine Presence overshadows and indwells. It is both without this physical, mental being and within this physical, mental being.  Therefore, It is the spiritual Reality of the being, the I AM, which is Universal, Eternal, and Perfect.

Now this Spirit is our Spirit.  It is our life from which we now draw full, complete and perfect being.  This Divine Intelligence does govern us intelligently; It does direct us consciously, accurately, unerringly.  We surrender to It every fear, every sense of uncertainty of the future, every thought of any morbidity of the past.  We surrender all confusion and doubt, and we know that this Divine Influx removes every mental obstruction to peace; It removes every sense of condemnation and judgment, and we enter into the fulfillment of Its perfection now.  We believe if there is any part of our physical being which needs healing, It heals it; that that Power within us and around us which creates, can recreate, can make whole now.  We believe if there is any conflict in our mental being, it can be removed, because the Spirit is higher than the mind and more than the body, and we are dealing with that Spirit which, animating the mind with Divine Intelligence, produces an influx of spiritual life in the body, healing, without effort, both mind and body.  We relinquish, we let go, those things which bother us mentally or hurt us physically.  We know that the Divine Presence is the Eternal Healer, because It is the everlasting Giver of life.  And we know the Intelligence which created the Universe and projected it in form and governs it with perfect Law - that Divine Being directs our movements intelligently, coherently, constructively, certainly, bringing to each that life which he calls success and prosperity, happiness, fulfillment of life, action.  And we know that that Divine Being, governing everything out of Its own Nature, works without effort - Birthless and Deathless and Tireless, It moves through us to perfect ends, now.'"

The Eternal Cycles of Life in Motion Fulfill My Faith