 
June, 2004
Creating
From the Inside Out
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 unmanifest.
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 priniciple. 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 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?
Use the Law
Never get away from the fact that you are surrounded by such
a power; it is the principle of demonstration. It knows every thought.
As we send forth our thought into it, it does unto us. The person who
is ignorant of this law must by that ignorance be bound by his thought,
by his human beliefs. One who understands will begin to break these ties
that bind him; one by one he will destroy every negative thought until
at last he is able to think what he wants to think; and so he frees himself
by the use of the same power that at one time bound him. We must destroy
all thought that we would not see manifest and hold to that which we
would see, until we receive the affirmative answer.
Never struggle; Mind makes things out of Itself,
there is no effort made. Don’t think that there is so much to
be overcome. Have only a calm sense of perfect peace as you realize
that God is all, and that you are using the perfect law and that nothing
can hinder it from working for you. Many people are learning to do
this, and no one has yet failed to demonstrate who has been steadfast,
using the law in a consistent and persistent trust.
All that we have to do is to provide the right mental and spiritual
attitude of mind and then believe that we already have, and the reward
will be with us. We shall see it.
The time will come when we will not have to demonstrate at all because
we will be always living so near to the law that it will do all for us
without much conscious thought on our part.
So when you say, “I am poor, sick or weak; I am not one with the
Creative Mind,” you are using that creative power to keep yourself
away from the Infinite; and just as soon as you declare that you are
one with God, there is a rushing out to meet you, as the Father rushed
out to meet the prodigal son. “The Spirit seeketh,” but as
long as your mind thinks in the terms of conditions, you cannot overcome.
The difficulty comes from our inability to see our own Divine nature
and its relation to the Universe. Until we awake to the fact that we
are one in nature with God, we will not find the way of life; until we
realize that our own word has the power of life we will not see the way
of life; and this brings us to the consideration of the use of the Word
in our lives. • —Ernest Holmes
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