Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes
Ernest Shurtleff Holmeswas an American New Thought writer, teacher, and leader. He was the founder of a Spiritual movement known as Religious Science, a part of the greater New Thought movement, whose spiritual philosophy is known as "The Science of Mind." He was the author of The Science of Mind and numerous other metaphysical books, and the founder of Science of Mind magazine, in continuous publication since 1927. His books remain in print, and the principles he taught as "Science...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
CountryUnited States of America
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
Electricity was a reality in the universe when Moses led the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. This is true of all natural laws; they have always existed but only when understood may they be used.
Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
Love is the sole impulse for creation; and the man who does not have it as the greatest incentive in his life has never developed the real creative instinct. No one can swing out into the Universal without love, for the whole universe is based upon it.
But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.
The mind of man is continuously unfolding into a greater recognition of its real plan in the creative order of the Universe.
We must have a spiritual rebirth. We must be born out of the belief in externalities into the belief of inner realities, out of the belief that we are separated from God, into the belief that we are part of a Unitary Wholeness.
You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.
A constant realization of the presence of Spirit will provide a sense of Divine Companionship that no other attitude could produce.
Reading Emerson is like drinking water to me.
There is but one ultimate Power. This Power is to each one what he is to it.
No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.