Limitless Medium ~ Ernest Holmes
"When we realize that in dealing with our own individuality, we are dealing with Self-Conscious Mind, and when we realize that in dealing with subjective mind, we are dealing with a Universal Subjectivity, we shall come to understand that we have a Creative Intelligence at our disposal, compared with which the united intelligence of the human race is as nothing. The Universal Subjective Mind, being entirely receptive to our thought, is compelled by Its very nature, to accept that thought and act upon it no matter what the thought may be.
Since we are dealing with an Infinite Power, which knows only Its own ability to do, and since It can objectify any idea impressed upon It, there can be no limit to what It can or would do for us, other than the limit of our inward embodiment. Limitation is not in Principle nor in Law, but only in the individual use we make of Principle. Our individual use of It can only equal our individual capacity to understand It, to embody It. We cannot demonstrate beyond our ability to provide a mental equivalent of our desire.
Subjectivity is entirely receptive and neutral as we have learned, and It can take our thoughts only the way we think them - It has no alternative. If I say, "I am unhappy," and continue to say it, the subconscious mind says, "Yes, you are unhappy," and keeps me unhappy as long as I say it, for thoughts are things, and an active thought will provide an active condition for good or evil.
Suppose one has thought poverty year after year, he has thereby personified a law which continues to perpetuate this condition. If the thought is not erased the condition will remain. A law has been set in motion which says "I am poor," and sees to it that this is so. This is at first an auto-suggestion, then it becomes an unconscious memory, working day and night. This is what decides how the Law of Attraction works for us, because the laws of attraction and repulsion are entirely subjective. Our use of them may be conscious to start with, but it becomes subconscious as soon as used.
Suppose I do not say I am poor, but that I came into the world with an unconscious thought of poverty. So long as this thought remains, I am likely to remain poor. I may not understand the Law, but it will be working all the time. We come into this world with a subjective tendency toward conditions, but we must not forget that we are also dealing with a subjective tendency toward ultimate good, because in spite of all conditions, the race believes more in good than in evil; otherwise it would not continue to exist. This is the eternal hope and sense of our life.
The encouraging message in all of this is, no matter what may be in the subjective state of our thought, the conscious state can change it; this is what treatment does. How can this be done? Through the most direct method imaginable: by consciously knowing that there is no inherited tendency toward limitation, no race suggestion operating through subjectivity, nothing in, around or through us that believes in or accepts limitation in any way, shape, manner or form. We do not stop here, this is only half the treatment. The conscious state must now provide a higher contemplation, a spiritual realization, which says: "I partake of the nature and bounty of the All Good and I am now surrounded by everything which makes life worth while." The Universal Medium at once changes Its thought (because Its thought is deductive only) and says: "Yes, I am all these things in you," and immediately begins the work of bringing such conditions to pass. Whatever is held in consciousness until it becomes a apart of the subjective side of thought, tends to take place in the world of affairs. The reason that we do not demonstrate more easily is that the subjective state of our thought is too often neutralized by the objective state, though often this is an unconscious process of thought.
Whatever our subconscious mind holds long enough, is bound to be produced in our external affairs. Our subconscious Mind is the Medium in which we all live and move an have our being on the subjective side of life - our atmosphere in Universal Subjectivity - the Medium through which all intercommunication takes place on every plane.
It follows from what we have said, that any suggestion held in Creative Mind would produce its logical result, no matter what such suggestion might be. If it were a suggestion of good, it would construct, for this is a neutral field.
Christ and Antichrist
The Spirit of Christ means that mentality which recognizes the Law and uses It for constructive purposes only. The spirit of antichrist means the spirit of the individual who understanding the Law, uses It destructively. The meaning of the Flood or Deluge (which is recorded in every sacred scripture we have ever heard of or read) is that a race of people once lived upon the earth who came to understand the psychic or subjective Law as being the servant of the Spirit. They understood themselves to be Spirit, but they did not understand the harmonious Unity of Spirit. They had arrived at an intellectual concept of the Law - a very clearly defined mental concept - but that knowledge was not used for constructive purposes. They used the Law destructively, and what happened? The confusion which took place in the psychic world (or the psychic atmosphere of this planet) caused its physical correspondence in the form of a Deluge or the Flood.
There have been many controversies about the use and misuse of the Power of Mind. Some claim that we cannot misuse this Power, since there is but One Mind and It cannot act against Itself. MIND CANNOT ACT AGAINST ITSELF; AND ANY PERSON WHO KNOWS THIS, and KNOWS THERE IS NO HUMAN MIND TO DESTROY, IS IMMUNE FROM MALPRACTICE.
We need have no fear of the misuse of this Law, if we protect ourselves by the realization that there is but One Ultimate Reality, for "against such there is no law." We recognize Subconscious Mind as the Great Servant of our thought, the Medium through which all treatment operates; and this Universal Subjective Mind we contact within ourselves and nowhere else! Being omnipresent, It is in us; our use of It we call our subjective mind, but of Itself It is Universal."
