God … Infinite Personality
by Dr. Ernest Holmes
God … Infinite Personality God, or Spirit, is Supreme, Infinite, Limitless Personality. And we should think of the Divine Being as such—as completely responsive to everything that we do. There should come to us a sense of communion, a spontaneous sense of an Irresistible Union. If we had this, we would demonstrate instantaneously!
An evolved soul is always a worshipper of God. He worships God in everything; for God is in everything. God not only is in everything, but He is more than everything He is in! “Ye are the light of the world.” That is God in us. All that we are is God, yet God is more than all we are. The nearer consciousness comes to this Truth, the more Cosmic sweep it has, the more power it has.
The realization that God is personal to all who are receptive to the Divine influx, enables one to communicate with the Spirit, receiving a direct answer from It. This Jesus was able to do. He was able to balance the personal and the impersonal attributes of being, for the Law is only a natural force, while the Spirit is always Self-Knowing. In studying the life and teachings of Jesus, the most unique character of history, we discover a few simple ideas underlying his philosophy, the embodiment of which enabled him to become the Christ.
Fundamental to his concept of life was his belief in a Universal Spirit, which he called God, or the Heavenly Father. This Heavenly Father was an Intelligence, to which he consciously talked and from which, undoubtedly, he received a definite reply. Jesus located God in his own soul. So complete was this realization that he was unable to find a place where the being of Jesus began and the Being of God left off, or where the Being of God began and Jesus ceased to be.
This Jesus discovered and taught: that whatever is true of Man, of the reality of his nature, is the Divine Presence within him. Coupled with this dynamic realization, with this enlightening concept of Deity—of placing God at the center of his own being—was the realization of an absolute Law, obeying his will, when this will was in harmony with the Spirit of Truth. This concept of God and man, and the relationship between them, places the philosophy of Jesus in a different category from that of other teachers. Christ is the image of God, the likeness of the Father, the Son of the Universe, the Man that Spirit conceives. Christ is not limited to any person, nor does He appear in only one age. He is as eternal as God. He is God’s Idea of Himself, His own Self-Knowingness. For Christ to be found in us is to put off the old man, with all his mistakes and doubts, and put on the new man, who is always certain that he is beloved of the Father. The Christ always comes with power and might, awakened by the still, small voice of Truth.
Holmes, Ernest. The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition: The Complete Edition (pp. 362-364). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.