June 29 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

MEDITATIONS

Ernest Holmes

A Treatment for Alcoholism or Other Drug Addiction

There is but one Universal Life, God or Spirit.  This Universal Life is a principle of perfect harmony and right action.  It is an omnipresent and self-knowing principle, whole and complete within Itself.  It is forever calm and peaceful.  It is, therefore, a principle of complete satisfaction which knows no unsatisfied desire.  The only appetite or desire of Infinite Mind is for the complete manifestation of Its own constructive contemplation. 

My life is a part of this Universal Life; Its peace, calm and satisfaction are manifesting in and through me now in absolute perfection.  My spirit, being one with Universal Spirit, has nothing to desire or long for - save the natural expression of peace, poise and complete satisfaction.  That subjective race-thought, which speaks to me as limitation or a desire for abnormal stimulation, has no answering or recognizing voice within me.  I turn from all such inharmonious thoughts toward the reality of my oneness with Universal Life (the Father) realizing here in the formless Realm of Reality, the complete satisfaction of knowingness, the senses of calm well-being, wisdom and understanding.  Here within the Realm of Reality (the Kingdom of God) I sense the truth of my complete mastery over all things.   My body is that concept of Universal Mind which is composed of the Creator's perfect ideas (God's body).  Within the form, which is commonly termed the human body, is nothing which can speak to me, demanding anything whatsoever.  I dwell within the Realm of the Universal and declare that the calm and complete satisfaction of the Self-Knowing God is expressing in and through me, unhindered and unopposed.

I go forth with a complete sense of mastery in the realm of form (my earth experience) unafraid, happy and joyous in my expression of all that is desirable and constructive; knowing that all destructive desires and inharmonious thoughts disappear and dissolve into the nothingness from which they came, having no power to perpetuate themselves, since they are neither person, place nor thing.

I Do Know the Truth and I Am Free

May 26 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

Treating Children ~ Ernest Holmes

"In the case of an infant - who is subjective to the conscious thought of the people around it - it may be necessary to teach the parents how to think about the child, else one might heal the infant and have the parents' thought make it sick again.  Explain to them the result of entertaining fears for the health of their children.  Remember that the thought of the parents influences the child.

We will suppose the mother is constantly saying:  "The poor thing; the poor, little sick thing."  From the human standpoint, this is natural, but it does not help the child, no matter how loving the thought may be.  This is called unconscious, or innocent, malpractice.  It is malpractice because it is the wrong use of thought; innocent because it is not intended to harm; unconscious because the mother does not know the result of such mental action.  In such a case, it is the business of the practitioner to realize that there is no mental influence operating through the child except a belief in perfection.

At first, children are happy, free, spontaneous.  That is why we like them, they live instinctively.  As they grow older and their emotions become more complex, and they hear people talk about death, trouble, divorce, love and marriage and everything else, good, bad and indifferent, they begin to react to these emotions subjectively.  Everything that opposes harmony and spontaneous unity, will prove disastrous to the child's health, sooner or later.  After a certain age, children have to be re-educated, just as do adults, that their subjective mind may not reproduce false impressions."

February 8 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

BODY ~ Ernest Holmes

Definition

The Universe has been called the Great Trinity, or Triune Unity of Spirit, Soul and Body - the Body being the result, the effect, the objectification of Spirit.  Soul is the immaterial, plastic and receptive Medium.  It is primordial or Cosmic Stuff, unmanifest form.  Body is the result of Spirit working through Soul or Law.  THE ENTIRE MANIFESTATION OF SPIRIT, BOTH VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, IS THE BODY OF GOD. There is One Body of the Universe.  Within this One Body is included all lesser bodies.

Body means the entire manifestation of Spirit on all planes.  "In my father's house are many mansions," said Jesus.  We do not, of course, see all these mansions.  Science has revealed to us that many exist which we do not see and revelation has shown that the Universe is Infinite..."For we know in part, and we prophesy in part."

The word "body" as used in the Science of Mind means all objective manifestations of the invisible Principle of Life.  The body is distinguished from the idea, in that the body is seen while the idea is invisible.  The physical universe is the Body of God - the invisible Principle of all life.  Our physical being is the body of the unseen man.  Behind the objective form of the rose is the idea that projects the rose.

Body is always an effect, never a cause.  Body expresses intelligence, its apparent intelligence being lent by the consciousness which permeates it.  We would not say that consciousness is in the body, but rather that body is in consciousness!  If one is unconscious he has neither pain nor fear.  Pain and fear are in consciousness, but consciousness so completely envelopes the body that it appears to be intelligent.

Perhaps the human body is an exact counterpart of an invisible body which is non-material as we now understand matter and physical form.  The physical body is evolved for the purpose of allowing consciousness to function on this plane.  The body is necessary to this plane, since only through a physical body can we properly function here.  When the body is no longer a fit instrument the soul deserts it and continues to function on another plane.

To say that the body is unreal is a mistake.  It is real but is an effect, not an entity.  It may yet be proven that the mind completely controls the body, and that the body is but a reflection of the mind.  In no way would this contradict the reality of the body nor the experience of pain and sickness, but it might help in an understanding of these experiences.  While we may affirm that the body is not a thing of itself, we cannot say there is no body.  The simplest way to think of body is to realize that it is the objective manifestation of a subjective mind and consciousness; and if we are to be well and happy, not only the body but the mind also must be peaceful and harmonious.

Psychology has shown that physical (or subjective) disturbances produce physical reactions in the body.  If the body is to be permanently well, the soul or subjective life must be in poise, the mind peaceful and happy.  It may be considered as a general rule that when the soul is poised in true spiritual realization the body will be normal and healthy.  This is the purpose of mental healing, whether it be approached from the psychological or metaphysical angle.  Psychology and metaphysics are but two ends of the same thing.  So we treat the body as a legitimate effect, controlled by the soul life.