September 28 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

WHAT the MYSTICS HAVE TAUGHT
Ernest Holmes

Individuality

"The higher the sense of Truth, the greater will be the realization of the uniqueness of individual character and personality.  The real Self is God-given and cannot be denied.  It is the place where God comes to a point of Individualized and Personified Expression.  "I am the light of the world."

Individuality means self-choice, volition, conscious mind, personified Spirit, complete freedom and a Power to back up that freedom.  There could not be a mechanical or an unspontaneous individuality.  Individuality must be created in the image of Perfection and let alone to make this stupendous discovery for itself; it emerges from the Universal.  Psychology teaches the personification of this individuality, which is true as far as it goes, but metaphysics universalizes it by unifying it with the Whole.  There is a Universal nature of Man, inherent within him, which causes the manifestation of his personality.  The Spirit of God.

We have now discovered a unity with the Whole on the three sides of life, or from all three modes of expression.  We are one with the body of the physical world; One with the Creative Law of the Universe in the mental world; and One with the Spirit of God in the conscious world.

Could we ask or hope for more?  Would it be possible for more to be given?  We could not ask for more and no greater freedom could be given.  From now on we shall expand, grow and express only to the degree that we consciously cooperate with the Whole."

July 15 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

THE LAW of ATTRACTION
By Ernest Holmes

Attraction of Personality

"Every business, every place, every person, every thing has a certain mental atmosphere of its own.   This atmosphere decides what is to be drawn to it.  For instance, you never a successful man who went around with an atmosphere of failure.  Successful people think about success.  A successful man is filled with that subtle something which permeates everything that he does with an atmosphere of confidence and strength.  The man who says of himself, "I have no personality with which to attract people," has been laboring under a delusion.  He needs to be disillusioned.  He must be shown that there is but One Person; this Person is manifested through every living soul.  It is THE Personality.  It is Complete.

The ones to whom we are most strongly attracted are not necessarily the ones who are the most beautiful physically, but are the ones from whom we receive that subtle emanation, "that something."  What is that something?  It is that which emanates from within.  It is the inner recognition of Reality.
Now we know, and knowing means using the Law in a constructive way, "I and my Father are one."  This is strength for the weak and life for all who believe.  We can so fill ourselves with the drawing power of attraction that it will become irresistible.  Nothing can hinder the man who knows that he is dealing with the One Power that creates all from Itself, moves all within Itself, and yet holds everything in its place.  One with the Infinite Mind.  One with the personality of God.  We should let this ring through our mind each day, many times each day, until we shall never again say, "I have no personality."  We have all Personality!"