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LAW OF OUR LIVES
The Impersonal Face of God
by Dr. Ernest Holmes
Dr. Ernest
Holmes, Founder of Religious Science and
author of The Science of Mind.
Spirit
creates through law. The law is always mind in action. Mind
cannot act unless intelligence sets it in motion.
In the great universal mind, man is a center of intelligence,
and every time he thinks he sets mind into action. What is the
activity of this mind in relation to man’s thought? It has to
be one of mental correspondence; that is, mind has to reflect
whatever thought is cast into it. Wonderful as Universal Mind
is, it has no choice but to create whatever thought is given it;
if it could contradict that thought, it would not be a unit,
since this would be recognizing something outside itself. This
is a point in Truth which should not be overlooked. The One Mind
knows only its own ability to make whatever is given It; It sees
no other power and never analyzes or dissects; It simply knows,
and the reason why people do not understand this is that they
have not realized what mind is. The ordinary individual thinks
of mind only from the limitation of his own environment. The
concept he has of mind is the concept of his own thinking, which
is very limited.
We are surrounded by an All-Seeing, All-Knowing Mind, which is
One and runs through all. The belief in the dual mind has
destroyed practically all philosophies and religions of the
ages, and will continue to do so until the world comes to see
that there is but One. Whatever name is given it there is but
One. It is this One that creates for us, whatever we believe.
Our thought operative through this One produces all our affairs.
We are all centers in this Mind, centers of creative thought
activity. There is nothing which appears in the manifest
Universe other than an objectified thought, whether it be a bump
on your head, a growth on your foot, or a planet. It could not
be there were it not made out of Mind, for mind is all there is
to make anything out of. Whatever is made is made out of it.
Nothing exists or can exist without a source from which it
springs.
We are not dealing with a negative as well as a positive
Power—not two powers but one; a power that sees neither good
nor evil as we see it. It knows only that it is all, and since
it is all, it creates whatever is given it. From our limited
standpoint we often think of good and evil; not realizing that,
as yet, we do not know the one from the other. What we call good
today, we may call evil tomorrow, and what we think to be evil
today, we may tomorrow proclaim as the greatest good we have
known. Not so with the Great Universal Power of Mind; It sees
only Itself and Its infinite ability to create.
To the thinking person this will mean much; he will see that he
is no longer living in a limited universe, a world of powers,
but that he is immersed in an Infinite Creative Medium which,
because of Its Nature, has to create for him whatever he
believes. Jesus understood this, and in a few simple words, laid
down the law of life: “It is done unto all people as they
believe.” This is a great thing to keep in mind. It is done
unto us; we do not have to do it, for it is done unto us of a
power that knows itself to be all there is. Could we even
believe that some material mountain would be moved, the power is
there to do it. Without this belief there is no real impulse for
the Creative Mind, and we do not get an affirmative answer. We
must realize more clearly that this Great Power has to operate
through us.
Creative Mind cannot force itself upon us, because we have the
power of self-choice. It recognizes us when we recognize it.
When we think that we are limited or have not been heard, it
must take that thought and bring it into manifestation for us.
When we look about us and see nature so beautiful, so lavish,
and so limitless, when we realize that something, some power, is
behind all, and sees to it that plenty obtains everywhere, so
that in all things manifest there is more than could be used;
and when on the other hand we see man so limited, sick, sad and
needy, we are disposed to ask this question: “Is God good
after all? Does He really care for the people of His creation?
Why am I sick? Why am I poor?” Little do we realize that the
answer is in our own mouths, in the creative power of our own
thought. The average person when told the Truth will still seek
some other way.
God has already done for us—in a mechanical way—all that He
can do; and having been given the ability, we will have to do
for ourselves the rest. Yet the Great Power is always near,
ready at any time to help, but we must use it according to its
own nature in harmony with its laws. Man should learn that he
himself is the center of this Divine activity. Realizing this,
he must seek more and more to utilize his own Divine nature, and
by so doing he will come more fully under the protection of the
great laws that govern all life, manifest and un-manifest.
Whatever man is, he must find that because he is made out of
God, he must be of the same nature. This Infinite One cannot
know anything outside of itself, anything that would be a
contradiction of its Divine nature; man’s ignorance of his
real nature binds him with his own freedom, until he comes to
see things as they really are, and not as they appear to be.
In the Infinity of mind, which is the principle of all
metaphysics and of all life, there is nothing but mind, and that
which mind does. That is all there is in the Universe. That is
all there ever was or ever will be. This mind is acted upon by
our thought, and so our thought becomes the law of our lives. It
is just as much a law in our individual lives as God’s thought
is in the larger life of the Universe.
For the sake of clearness, think of yourself as in this Mind,
think of yourself as a center in it. That is your principle. You
think, and Mind produces the thing. One of the big points to
remember is that we do not have to create; all that we have to
do is to think. Mind, the only Mind that there is, creates.
Few people seem to understand the nature of the law and so think
that they have got to do something, even if it is only holding a
thought; thinking or knowing is what does the thing. It will
make it much easier for us when we realize that we do not have
to make anything, just to know; that there is something back of
the knowing which does the work for us.
That person gets the best results who realizes that he can use
this divine principle; he who can get the clearest concept of
his idea, and who can rely on Mind to do for him, keeping
everything out of his thought that would contradict the
supremacy of Spirit or Mind.
By simply holding a thought we could not make anything, but by
knowing in mind, what cannot we do? |
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