March 23 ~ The Science of Mind in a Year

What Is the Body? ~ Ernest Holmes

"When man first awakened to self-consciousness, he had a body with a definite form, showing that Instinctive Life - which is God - had already clothed Itself with the form of flesh. Body or form is the necessary outcome of self-knowingness.  In order to know, there must be something to be known.  Some kind of a body (or expression) always was and always will be, if consciousness is to remain true to its own nature.

Body is a concrete manifestation, existing in time and space, for the purpose of furnishing a vehicle through which Life may express Itself.  The physical Universe is the Body of God; it is a manifestation in form of the Mind of God.  It is that Creation which - while It may have beginnings and ends - of Itself neither begins nor ends.  The manifestation of Spirit is necessary, if Spirit is to come into Self-Realization - hence, Body.

We say that body is composed of matter, but what is matter?  Science tells us that matter is an aggregation of small particles arranged in some kind of form.  We are also told that matter is in a continuous state of flow.  Strange as it may seem, we do not have the same physical bodies that we had a few months ago, they have completely changed.  New particles have taken the place of the old, and the only reason that they have taken the same form is that something within has provided the same mold.  Our bodies are like a river, forever flowing.  The Indwelling Spirit alone maintains the identity."

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."