Rio Grande Center For Spiritual Living, Albuquerque, NM
The excerpt from Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes really solidified
for me that Science of Mind is talking Truth. We all have the
choice and the talent to make anything happen in our lives.
We can make ourselves miserable or happy, it is totally up to us.
Enjoy these paragraphs.
We Are Allowed to Choose
Man has the ability to choose what he will do with his life,
and is unified with a Law which automatically produces his
choice. While he does not have the ability to destroy the idea
of himself, he does have the ability to deface it, to make it
appear discordant, but he cannot destroy the Divine Image.
Man is an individual and does with himself what he wills.
The Scriptures say: “God hath made man upright; but they
have sought out many inventions.” Individuality cannot be
automatically produced; it must be spontaneous. It would
not be individuality without the ability to think as it chose.
We live in a Universe of Love as well as a Universe of
Law. One is the complement of the other—the Universe of
Love pulsating with feeling, with emotion, and the Universe
of Law, the Executor of all feeling and all emotion. In this
lesson on healing, then, let us remember that back of the
man which we see is the Divine Image. There is a Perfect
Concept of Man, held in the Mind of the Universe as an
already accomplished fact, but man is subject to the law of his
own choice.
Man Re-enacts God
Man is conscious mind or spirit; this stands for his objective
faculty. The objective mind of man is his recognition of
life in a conscious state—it is the only attribute of man that
is volitional, or self-choosing. Consequently, it is the spiritual
man. The conscious mind of man is the contemplator.
Let us bear in mind what we have already learned: that
the Universe is the result of the contemplation of the Divine
Mind, or the Holy Spirit, which is God. God creates by
contemplating His own I-AM-NESS, and this contemplation,
through Law, becomes the objectification of the Self-
Realization of the Infinite Mind.
The Divine Nature is re-enacted in man; he is conscious
mind and spirit, and, as he contemplates, he reflects his
thought into the Universal Subjectivity where it is received
and acted upon.
As Mind, or Soul, accepts these images of thought, It
operates upon unformed substance and causes it to take
definite form as body, which is unconscious form. It
becomes definite form, but the form itself is unconscious,
because it is made of immaterial substance.
Body, of itself, without Mind, has neither consciousness nor volition.
Devoid of mentality, the body neither thinks, sees, hears, feels,
touches nor tastes. Take the mentality away from a body
and it becomes a corpse. Having no conscious intelligence, it
at once begins to disintegrate and to resolve into the
Universal Substance, or unformed matter, from which it came.
Although man is inherently a perfect idea, his individuality
covers this idea with the forms of thought which he images.
Man comes into this life subjective to the race consciousness
and to his own environment, he unfolds his own personality
and begins to create new subjective thought. He thinks and
observes, draws certain conclusions and deductions, and
incorporates them within his mentality, until at last they also
become a part of the relative cause of his objective existence.
Healing, then, is accomplished by uncovering, neutralizing and
erasing false images of thought, and letting the perfect idea reflect
itself through subjective mind into the body.
When one realizes that everything is Mind and that nothing
moves but Mind, and that the only instrument of Mind is
(which is contemplation in some form or other) he
see that nothing can permanently heal unless it be
accompanied by right thinking.