July
2003
The one who desires to heal must stop seeing, reading
about, discussing, or listening to conversation about sickness.
There is no other way under the sun except as we let go of that
which we do not desire, and take that which we wish to have.
There is too much of this deceiving ourselves into thinking that
we can do two ways at once. We may deceive ourselves and possibly
other people, but the law remains the same, a law of mental correspondences,
and nothing else. We cannot go beyond our ability to realize
the truth; water rises only to its own level. In our patients
as well as in ourselves and our environment we will reflect what
we are, not at our best in the few moments of silence, but in
the long run of ordinary life and thought.
To acquire the larger consciousness is no
easy task. All that we have believed in which contradicts the
perfect whole must
be dropped from our thought, and we must come to realize that
we are now living in a perfect universe, peopled with perfect
spiritual beings, each of which (coupled with the Great Divinity)
is complete within himself. We must see that we are one in the
great one, and then we will not separate or divide, but unite
and add to, until in time we will find that we are living in
an entirely different world from that in which we had once thought
we were living. Of course this will meet with much opposition
from those unenlightened souls whom we must contact in the world.
But what of that? Remember, the great man is the one who can
keep in the crowd the calm, even thought, the deep, divine reliance
on principle. And more, this is the only way to help or to save
the world. In time all people will come to the same understanding.
You are lifting up the standard of life, and those who are ready
will follow. You have no responsibility to save the world except
by exemplifying the truth. The world must save itself.
All are alike; there is no difference between
one person and another. Come to see all as a divine idea; stop
all negative
thought; think only about what you want, and never about what
you do not want, as that would cause a false creation. Too much
cannot be said about the fact that all are dealing with only
one power, making and unmaking for man through the creative power
of his own thought. If there is something in your life that you
do not want there, stop fighting it—forget it!
About Struggle—Karma
There is too much struggle coming into the metaphysical thought.
Often we hear some seeker after truth say, “I have a
big fight ahead.” O foolish and untaught, how can you
hope to enter in! The kingdom comes not from without, but from
within, always. Stop all struggle and wait upon the sure principle
that creates whatever it wills because there is nothing to
oppose it. As long as we think that opposition exists we are
blocking the way for the clearer vision. Those that take up
the sword must perish by it; not because God is a jealous God,
but because that is the way the law must work.
Cause and effect must obtain everywhere.
Do not even fuss about your Karma; too often we hear people
say, “This is my Karma.” This
may be true enough, but how many people know what they mean when
they use the word Karma? Do you realize that your Karma is nothing
but your false thinking, and that the only way to escape it is
to think the truth, and that brings in the higher law? When the
greater comes in, the lesser leaves because there is no longer
anything to give life to it. The past is gone when we learn to
forgive and to forget.
This erases from mind all that is held
against us, and even our sins “are remembered no more against us forever.” Fate
is in our own hands, and when we will rise to that pure atmosphere
where we see things in their completeness, and know that an All-Wise
Power is behind it all, we will see that the Infinite Mind could
wish for us only that which expresses itself in limitless terms.
The whole trouble has been that we reason as men and not as Gods. “I
say ye are Gods and every one of you Sons of the Most High.”
The great law of life is thinking and becoming;
and when we think from the lofty heights of the Spirit we will
become great, and
not until then. Do not try to convince any one of the truth;
that will bring confusion. Truth is, just as much as God is;
and the whole world is coming gradually into the realization
of it. Keep the truth within your own soul; lift your own self
above the confusion of life, and then people will believe.
So all our thought is to be created in the realization of the
One
becoming the many, without struggle, without fear; stripped
of all that denies the truth.
How limited we are, how little our thought!
How the human race rises in the morning, plods off to the day’s work, plods
home at night, sore and tired, eats and sleeps, works and dies.
As has been said of man, “Man works hard to get money to
buy food to get strength to work hard to get money to buy food
to get strength to work hard to get money, etc.” This was
never intended; it is the curse imposed on the man who believed
in two powers, one of good and one of evil. To us there has come
a greater vision, and to those who believe and act as though
it were true it is proving itself.
We must turn from all human thought and experience.
We are not downtrodden, depraved and miserable sinners, born
in sin and
conceived in iniquity and shame, some to go to heaven and some
to hell and all to the eternal glory of God. This is a lie;
it always was and always will be. But as long as we believe in
a
lie it seems to be present with us.
Man is born of the Spirit of God Almighty,
is pure, holy, perfect, complete and undefiled; it is at one
with his eternal principle
of being. Many people are finding this out and as a monument
to its truth millions are daily proving it for themselves.
Somewhere down the path of human experience
we will all awake to the realization that we ourselves are heaven
or hell.
We live in Spirit awaiting the touch of thought that believes.
All people look, a few see.
Practice
The one who wishes to practice metaphysics must first, last,
and all the time realize that he himself is a center of the
divine activity; he must know that whatever God is in the Universal,
he is in the world in which he lives. He must know that all
things are made out of Spirit, which is First Cause; nothing
comes before Spirit. Operating upon itself out of itself, it
makes what it will out of its own perfect desire. He must think
of the Spirit as the Father of his own life, eternally bound
to him, eternally binding him to it.
He must know that the Spirit not only
can manifest through him, but that it wishes to do so; “The Father seeks such to
worship Him.” The practitioner who understands the truth
knows that as long as God exists, he will exist; that he could
no more become non-existent than God could. Walking, talking,
moving in God, he must not only see the Divine Being as the great
unknown Cause, but he must go a step further and see God as the
great self-knowing, understanding power of Infinite Intelligence,
thinking through his own thought and willing into his own life
all power and all good. More than this, God must become within
his own soul the greater self, the inner life, the inner light
that is to light his path with sure step to the attainment of
the greater ideals. God is to become the great friend of his
life, understanding him, and helping him at all times to understand
all things.
No more books, no more teachers, no more preachers, creeds or
candlesticks will he ever need. The old methods must vanish into
their native nothingness, as the great realization that God is
all in his life dawns upon his awakened thought.
“Naught is the squire, when the king’s
at hand;
Withdraw the stars, when dawns the sun’s brave light.”
He must know that not height, nor depth, nor any other thing,
can come between the soul and its perfect Creator. Too long have
we listened to people; now our own soul shall speak in a language
that is unmistakable; now shall we ourselves become masters of
all life and interpreters of all mysteries. Now my Father and
I are one.
As the word of God goes forth and sets in motion all law, so
must we realize because we are one with the word that our own
thought has the power of expression. The one who wishes to heal
must come to see all evil as impersonal, fastening it to no one,
but realizing that it is simply false thought; the healer knows
that the word which he is to speak will destroy this false impression;
and by erasing it, it will vanish.
There should be absolutely no sense of responsibility
beyond speaking the word in positive faith, knowing. All struggle
belongs
to the Old Order; in the New, peace takes the place of confusion,
faith answers the cry of doubt and fear, and the Word is supreme.
We must know that our word is law, and cannot
be set aside by the false thought of the world. Every time that
we state a truth,
we must know that the truth destroys all that is unlike itself
and frees the thought of the one whom we wish to help and to
heal.
This word must become the new Law which frees.
People are sick because they think sickness and will be healed
only when they
turn from this kind of thought and begin to think in terms
of health.
Writing in the early years of the twentieth century, Ernest
Holmes followed the conventions of the day in using masculine
terms to refer to people of both genders. This article is an
excerpt from his first book, Creative
Mind, which is now available
in a new, paperback edition from Science of Mind Publishing.
Available Online.
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