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Esoteric Tower
Creative Mind (Self Development Audiobook)
Creative Mind by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes
now it and do it stranger on earth thy home is in heaven pilgrim thou art the guest of god the greater consciousness man is surrounded by a great universal thought power which returns to him always just as he thinks so plastic so receptive is this mind that it takes the slightest impression and molds it into conditions there are two things in man which his thought affects his body and his environment at all times he is given absolute control over these two things and from the effect of his thought upon them he cannot hope to escape at first being ignorant of this fact he binds himself by a misuse of the laws of his being but as he begins to see that he himself is responsible for all that comes to him on the path of life he begins to control his thought which in its turn acts on the universal substance to create for him a new world the great soul is learning more and more to dare to fling out into mind a divine idea of himself and to see himself perfect and whole if he has a divine thought he will get a divine thing if he has a human thought he will get a human thing he will receive whatever his innermost thought embodies and so we find in the bible twice repeated these words to the pure thou wilt show thyself pure and to the forward thou wilt show thyself forward it is done unto all as they believe we often wonder why it is that we are not making better demonstrations we look about and observe that some are getting wonderful results they are speaking the word and people are being healed we see others struggling along with the word and nothing seems to happen and when we inquire into the reason for all this we find it to be very plain indeed all is mind and we are mental we are in mind and can only get from it what we first think into it we must not only think but we must know we have to provide within ourselves a mental and spiritual likeness for the thing desired the reason why so few succeed then must be because they have not mentally really believed to the exclusion of all that would deny the thing which they believe in and the reason why others do succeed must also be because they have absolutely believed and allowed real power to flow through and out into expression they must have a real concept of life hold an object in front of a mirror and it will image in the mirror the exact size of the object hold a thought in mind and it will image and matter the exact likeness of the thought let us take this image which we hold before a mirror and change it ever so slightly and there will be a corresponding change in the reflection it is just the same in the mental world whatever is imagined is brought forth from mind into manifestation we must not deny that which we affirm we must reason only from that cause which is spiritual and mental and weed out all thought that would deny its power in our lives there seems to be something in the race thought that says man is poor man is limited that there is a lack of opportunity that times are hard the prices are high that nobody wants what i have to offer no person succeeds who speaks these ideas when we express ourselves in this way we are using a destructive power all such thoughts must go and we must all realize that we are an active center in the only power there is we must get the perfect vision the perfect conception we must enlarge our thought until it realizes all good and then we must swing right out and use this almighty power for definite purposes we should daily feel a deeper union with life a greater sense of that indwelling god the god of the everywhere within us when we speak into this mind we have sown the seed of thought in the absolute and may rest in peace we do not have to make haste because it is done unto all as they believe in that day that they shall call upon me i will answer people will often ask what is the best method for demonstration there is but one answer to that question the word is the only possible method of demonstrating anything the word really felt and embodied in our thought then the word becomes flesh and dwells among us and we behold and experience it we will ask for no other way when we understand this the person who does not understand these laws will be likely to say that this is presumptuous that it is even sacrilegious but this comes only from a lack of understanding of the fact that all is governed by law and that all law is impersonal and universal we have just as much right to use spiritual law as to use the so-called physical laws strictly speaking there's no such thing as a physical law as all things are spiritual and all law is a law of the activity of the spirit the greatest use of these laws will always come to that soul who is the most deeply spiritual as such a soul comes the nearest to using law as god uses it so to the really great soul there must come a very close relationship with the invisible god this relationship cannot be expressed in words but only in inner feeling which transcends the power of words to express god must become the great reality not simply as the principle of life but more as the great mind which knows and which at all times understands and responds to say that god does not understand our desires would be to rob the divine mind of all consciousness and place god lower in the scale of being than we ourselves are on the other hand we must be careful not to believe that god thinks evil and understands that which is not perfect as then we would have an imperfect being for the first cause we should more and more learn to think of things in the absolute that is to think of things as not limited by conditions realize at all times that the spirit makes things out of itself and needs no beginning except its own self-recognition then we must cognize our relation to this great power as one of absolute correspondence what we think into it it takes up and does for us as we think it should not be an effort so to think we should do so with ease without strain the law must return to us we have no responsibility except to provide the proper channel it can return only in the exact way that we think if we think struggle is the reality we shall gain our demonstration but struggle will have to be the result there is a law of reflection between mind and the one who thinks and it is not only what a man thinks but also how he thinks that shall be done unto him if you believe absolutely that you can do a certain thing the way will always be open for you to do it if also you believe that time will have to elapse then you are making a law and time will have to elapse if on the other hand you believe that mind knows just how and never makes mistakes but lets it be done unto you then it will be done confusion brings more confusion peace begets more peace we cannot imagine the great spirit hurrying or worrying fretting or trying to make anything happen the only reason we worry and fret is because we have thought there was some other power which could bring confusion such is not the case there is but one and we are always using that one but using it according to our belief this is our divine birthright nothing hinders it but ourselves remember that since all is mind you cannot demonstrate beyond your ability to comprehend mentally that is beyond your ability to know about a certain thing for instance suppose you wish to heal someone who is sick your ability to do this will depend entirely upon your ability to see perfection mentally coupled also with the realization that your word destroys everything unlike itself if you try to see perfection for a few minutes only it will never heal your thought goes on at all times and in the moments when you least realize it conditions are being molded for you it is not enough to declare consciously for the truth the truth must be believed or no good results will be forthcoming the perfect universe 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 the law of mental correspondence 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 people 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 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's 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 shore 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's 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 anyone 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 plots 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 inequity 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 has been 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 is that 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 awaken 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 part two practice introductory 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 not as the squire when the king's at hand withdraw the stars when dawn's the sun's brave light he must know that not height nor death 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 the 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 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 said aside by the false thought of the world every time that we state a truth we must know that that 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 the same power used in two ways there is only one power but we use it in two ways either to destroy or to save the blessing and the curse are one and the same thing the power of mind used either affirmatively or negatively the word used in fear and doubt or in faith and assurance you do not have to understand material philosophy or be learned in the books of the human race all these things may be good in their place but to one who understands the greater laws of life they are as simple babblings an infant crying in the night an infant crying for the light and with no language but a cry we no longer cry we know we no longer ask if there be a god or if we dare to speak to him lest we die we do not analyze dissect affirm or deny we know we trust our own word because first we know in whom we have believed the sooner the one who is striving to attain will realize that truth must become revealed through his own soul and not that of another the sooner he will attain we must then become immune from the race suggestion of an hypnotic power that sets itself up as an authority there is no other authority than your own soul as there is no law but that your soul has set leave authorities to smaller minds and to those who need a leader because of their own self-confessed weakness and be free dare not to stand amidst the eternal way and proclaim your own atonement with all the power that there is was or ever will be practically the whole human race is hypnotized thinking whatever it is told to think we get our concepts from our physical environment we say see sin sickness death and misery happiness and calamity and this concept we are giving to the creative impersonal mind and so we are making a law for ourselves that will produce what we believe in do we really know what law means it means that which will exact the utmost farthing from our own thought like produces like attracts like creates like if we could see our thought and take a picture of it and of our conditions we would see no difference between the two for they are really but the inside and the outside of the same thing we cannot make affirmations for 15 minutes a day and spend the rest of our time denying the thing which we have affirmed and affirming the thing which we have denied and obtain the results which we seek we send out the word and it sets the power in motion then we think the opposite thing which neutralizes the first word and zero is the result we cannot demonstrate one iota beyond our mental ability to conceive and steadfastly to embody infinite as creative power is receptive and quick as it is it can only become to us what we first think into it god can do for us only what he can do through us dare to say behold i am he great men have come and gone and behold the greater now stands here where i stand and i am that one the world will laugh and perhaps scorn the christian world will hold up its hands in holy horror lest you blaspheme the unchristian world will smile knowingly neither the one nor the other will understand but the understanding of either counts for nothing you are now free and your freedom will yet save the world from itself the great soul finds within himself the divine companionship which he needs he finds within himself the peace which bathes all understanding and the power to do all things all power he speas his word is law and it is done unto him of all the power there is his word knows itself to be the law of life unto all for whom it is spoken and who receive it healing the sick we shall be called upon to heal all manner of disease to comfort the sorrowing and to bring peace to the distressed first we must heal ourselves when we are healing others we are also healing ourselves a healer's work takes place within himself this idea of sending out thought and holding thought is all a mistake things come into being not only by taking thought but by knowing that the word is infinite this word is in your own mouth and there alone can it be spoken here your responsibility begins and here it ends in your own mouth you must feel no responsibility for the recovery of your patient for it brings confusion and disturbance to be always wondering if it is working it must work if you have the sure faith and your patient is receptive you are dealing with the same power that said let there be light and there was light if your patient is suffering from a belief that he is dying of some dread disease you must know that when you speak the word it will destroy this false belief and set him free there must be no doubt about the power in the word which you speak it should be said in perfect calm in peace and with absolute faith that it will work this word then establishes the law of life unto the patient it casts out all fear it destroys all false sense of material life and realizes that all is an expression of a perfect god and soul leaves nothing that can sin be sick suffer or die when you are as sure of this as that you breathe when you truly know within yourself your patient will be healed provided he also believes if he does not believe it is not your fault and you will have done for him all that can be done denials some people teach the use of denials this must be settled by each individual for himself here and at all times we must settle every question from within and not from without no living soul can say how another should or should not work be aware of the danger of a self-appointed authority this danger is as apt to come into new thought as it was in the old no one is your authority on anything let us look into the philosophy of denials we find that many people teach and practice them and we do not wish in any way to criticize them their reasoning is this all disease is an image of thought held in mind until it appears in the body it is true that without the ability to think man could not be sick if he thinks a sick thought it will make him sick when he changes his thought and thinks health he is healed it is taught that since sickness is negative thought it must be counteracted by a positive thought and that the best way is to deny the sick and affirm the positive thought for instance there is no matter and nothing can be the matter this man has no material stomach he is spiritual and not material his lungs are not made of matter they are spiritual ideas i deny that man can be sick or suffer or die all this may be accurate man is a spiritual idea and so must be perfect in his real nature but there is a question if this is the better way when we look into the creative way of the spirit we find it impossible for denial to enter as the spirit recognizes no opposite to its own nature it knows that i am and beside me there is no other the spirit does not deny anything it simply affirms itself to be that which it desires to be seen and recognizing no opposite to itself it finds no need of denial indeed this thought need not enter the mind if we are working with the spirit we need not deny but state the affirmative attitude of mind realizing that we are dealing with the only power that exists there is a subtle danger in using denials we may deny to such an extent as to erect a barrier or build a mountain to overcome once realize that god makes things out of himself simply by speaking and you will never again use denials in treating all that needs changing is the false thought and by affirming that your word destroys everything but itself you will embody all that a denial could in those systems that teach denials we find that the more enlightened ones are gradually using the affirmative method and as this is the growth of experience there can be no doubt that it is the better method of one thing we may be sure the spirit never denies it simply knows that i am the use of affirmations the affirmation is the great weapon of the healer it is in alignment with the way of the original creative spirit and is the true use of the word of all power we need only to say that our word is the law unto the case and calmly state what we want to be done and then say and do nothing that contradicts it and wait for the fulfillment of that word there is a power that operates on what we say and it is done unto us and we need have no fear about the results if i am treating mary jones i need only say i am helping her and go to work within myself to realize that she is now a perfect being made in the image of god i must know that i am destroying all imperfection when i know within myself that i am speaking the truth and realize that she is perfect the healing is done as far as i am concerned if she receives she is healed i am not responsible for her receptivity know that there is a power that corresponds to your own mental attitude and you will see that the way you are believing is what makes things happen the way they do always believe in what you are doing never see the negative side of life never talk about it or listen to talk of other people and never think about or see imperfection and you will have no trouble in making demonstrations the highest attitude of mind the highest attitude of mind from which all else springs is one of perfect calm and absolute trust in the spirit the one who can with perfect confidence look into the future and with perfect ease of mind rest in the present and who never looks backward but who has learned to be still in his own soul and wait upon the spirit he is the one who will the most completely demonstrate the supremacy of spiritual thought over so-called material resistance be still and know that i am god non-resistance resist not evil and it will flee from you here is a statement of one of the great laws of our being when we resist we make a mental image of the thing we are fighting and that tends to have it created for us when we learn to look only at what we want and never at what we do not want we will no longer resist anything so for it to be so now you need not try to change the world let it alone all people are doing the best they can no one needs to be saved but yourself and the sooner you realize this the sooner you will attain get over that holier-than-thou attitude it is an illusion that many people suffer from especially in the religious world the world is all right it's not going to hell it is on the way to heaven it is getting good so fast that in the process many things are being overturned and confusion appears to be on the surface a great change is taking place and on the surface the results are as yet a little mixed but underneath the power is at work destroying all unlike itself in time all will come to see this what a load of responsibility we assume that we were never meant to carry remember that in the divine plan no mistakes are made and that if god could have done it in a better way he would have done it differently no souls are lost for all live and move and have their being in him and god is not a god of the dead but of the living for in his sight all are alive too long have we believed the negative simply because we have allowed ourselves to become hypnotized by a few strong-minded people and by those who have imposed upon the race a massive false philosophy be alive there is no place in the new order for dead ones the true metaphysician is alive to all that is useful filling his place in the events of the human race he takes part in all its labor and in all its fun pessimism must be relegated to the scrap heap there is no place among the living for the dead let the dead bury their dead follow thou me do not hesitate to enter into the game of life but do so with a zest and enthusiasm that overflows with life fill yourself with the radiance of a life running over with power and usefulness then shall the world see your light people in the new thought above all others should enter into the business world into educational vocations into politics into every walk of life and there proved before a waiting world tired of itself that a man's a man with this difference not a son of man but a son of god be happy how can we hope to make a world see the right way unless we overflow with joy the world has now too many sad faces we see them everywhere that resigned look that seems to say one rebuff more or less makes no difference i'm already so sad that nothing matters i can bear it this was all right when we thought everything was all wrong but now we know that all's well with the world we must get over this depression which robs us of the power of attraction of the good things of life and enter in the man who is always glad will surround himself with people who are happy and life will be a continual enjoyment this robs no one it does not make a race of irresponsible people it makes a world of joy a world that is good to live in no one wants to associate with the dead people are looking for a more abundant expression of life not for depression and fault finding find fault with no one and more than this find no fault with yourself get over the thought of condemning people and things people and things are all right let them alone and enjoy life your very atmosphere will cheer and uplift the people who contact you and a new life will enter into them overflow as it is given to me to perceive i most certainly believe when a man's glad plum through god's pleased with him sames you live in the present life is for us today there will be no change for tomorrow unless we do the changing today today we are setting in motion the power of tomorrow today is god's day and we must extract from it what of life we are to live tomorrow in the divine course of events will care for itself the soul that learns to live in the great gladness of today will never worry of life but will find that he is living in an eternal here and now now all good is his now all life truth and love are his now he has entered in and the good things of life are his today lord for tomorrow and its needs i do not pray make me do thy will just for today let your soul sing today and the song that comes tomorrow will be all the sweeter it will ring out over the vestas of time with an unmistakable clearness here is a soul who knows himself and has found life within himself who has met god today no more waiting no more longing no more weary roads to travel he has arrived the goal is won and peace has come at last today see good in all things learn to see god in all manifestation in all people through all events the ordinary person sees only the lump of matter not so with the awakened soul he sees in all things the divine mind at work molding out into expression what it feels itself to be of life of color of form and beauty there are some disillusioned ones who claim that what we see is all false and that the so-called material universe is an unreality what a mistake what we see is the body of god full free complete whole a primrose by the river's brim a yellow primrose was to him and it was nothing more he never saw the idea behind it was seen only as matter matter matter yet what he could have seen was god's thought of himself coming out into wonderful beauty and color and form the infinite one manifesting in an infinite variety of forms what do you see when you look upon the human form crowning glory of god's perfect creation matter matter matter flesh blood and bones indeed these may be passing into expression but what of the idea what of the reality of the body this body of ours is as real as god is real it would not be if it were an illusion the very touch of the flesh should send a thrill through the whole body bringing up its vibration to a higher pitch to a finer form the body is not one mass of pollution it is the temple of the living god and should be so thought of too long have we condemned it and now we must free it by reversing the process of all things on earth the human body is the most beautiful the most wonderful and the most god-like if you do not love your brother whom you have seen how can you love god whom you have not seen human magnetism is not hypnotism it is the divinity of man in expression and when we learn to convert human passion into divine love to transmute the lower into the higher we shall have with us a power of attraction against which nothing can stand he who hath ears to hear let him hear when we behold a beautiful sunset we should see the wonderful thought of god the radiance of his presence in the strength of the hills we should see the strength of the spirit and seen all things as spiritual ideas we should learn to love them because god has made them and given them to us to use the soul who in ecstasy can rush up to a tree and embrace it realizes more of god than all the bigoted priests who have ever lived the one who can sniff the ocean breeze with delight feels the presence of the divine being more keenly than does the one who kneels in despair before an awful god of justice learn then how to appreciate nature and nature's god spend much time in the out of doors look up at the stars let them be your companions tread the pathless ways of the trees and the giant forests and see god in everything that you look upon the god of the everywhere end of part two part three of the creative mind by ernest shertloff holmes this librivox recording is in the public domain be expectant expect the best to happen don't sit around waiting for trouble have absolutely nothing to do with it it is no part of the divine plan it is an illusion of the material sense one who has learned to trust will not be surprised even when he finds things coming from the most unexpected sources all things are man's to use and then let go of what more can we ask we want nothing that we have to keep things are to use not to hold expect that everything is to come your way be content and cheerful if you wish to attract from out the store of the infinite open up your whole consciousness to the greater possibilities of life line up with the big things when you speak the word expect it to happen know that it must be as you say this will not be fooling yourself it will simply be using the law as it is meant to be used expanding our thought all things come to us through the use of our thought if we have a small concept of life we will always be doing small things first in the creative series is the word but the word carries us no further than our consciousness back of it unless we are constantly expanding our thought we are not growing growth is the law of life and it is necessary we cannot stand still if you want to do a new thing get a new thought and then you will have the power of attraction which has the possibility of drawing to you the circumstances which will make for the fulfillment of your desires get over the old idea of limitation overcome all precedence and set yourself in the new order of things if you want to build a railroad you will never do it unless you get over the idea that the most you can hope for in life is to sell peanuts let the people sell peanuts for a living who think in the terms of peanuts get out of the rut god has created you for a glorious future dare to fling out into mind the greater assurances about yourself the power of a treatment a treatment has as much power as we put into the word which we speak when we are giving it this does not mean screwing up our mind or using our willpower or using force from the material standpoint it means simply knowing that what we say will be done unto us of a power which can do anything that is given it to do we must know that our word breaks down every material law and sets the patient free to express god we must know that the word would endure even though all else should fail heaven and earth will pass away but my word will accomplish in calm confidence and perfect faith speak and wait upon the perfect law get that mental attitude that never wavers be sure and it will be done repeating the treatment one treatment would heal anything if it were not for the fact that people are constantly receiving false suggestions from the outer life as it stands now we should treat until we get results always expecting that it will happen at once every treatment should be complete and at the close we should always realize that it is done the word spoken once from the mind that knows is immediately taken up by the mind in which we live and this mind begins to create around the word which is the seed the thing of thought we must speak that word with authority there can be no wondering if it's going to work when we plant a seed in the ground and water and care for it we never doubt but a plant will spring into being so it is with the word it is acted upon by some power which we do not see but that power is present there is no doubt since all who go about it get results as thomas edison says of electricity it is use it so we say of mind it is use it always remember that your every thought is the way you are treating since it is the way that you are thinking impersonal healing the very presence of one that understands the truth will have a great power of healing the reason for this is that we are all in mind and we have with us at all times our thought and since all manifestation is the result of mind in action and we are thinking beings and are always causing mind to act the very presence of our thought will have some power to act upon whatever we are thinking about we are dealing with the power which in itself is limitless we limit it and so it cannot become to us the bigger thing of itself the power is the same that made the worlds and it cannot realize any sense of limitation they could not enter in because of their unbelief and because they limited the holy one of israel stop limiting things things are as big as we make them no more no less there is room at the top get on top of everything and dare to dominate the earth all things are given us to use make use of them everything is limitless and we must see the truth that the fault is not in the law but in ourselves when we fail not with god but with man dare dare dare think of the bigness of things in the universe think of the number of grains of sand the perfusion of all life and never again limit anything all is yours to use jesus would never have become the christ unless he had had the courage to say behold i am he you will never attain until in some degree you are able to say the same thing of yourself we must learn to reach out and take what is meant for us the greater life the all good people say yes but how do you do it simply know that god makes things out of himself by speaking the word and that in your own life you can do the same all people can think and all people can speak at least mentally this is all that you need to begin on the word is at the center of all creation and is first cause the starting point of all that you see the word is in your own mouth and all that you have to do is to speak it the trouble is that we are speaking the word and in the next breath we are denying its power by seeing something that contradicts it if the word is the way that god creates it is the right way if it works for god shall it not work for us as yet our word is more or less imperfect but more and more it will become perfect and so the outer condition will be brought up to the inner word all words have as much power as we put into them when we speak the word is already in our own mouths that word is all that you will ever need to bring happiness health and success to you do you wish to live in a perfect world peopled with friends who love you surrounded by all that is beautiful and pleasing do you wish to have the good things of life there is but one way and that way is as sure as the sun shines forget all else and think only upon what you want control all thought that denies the real and as the mist disappears before the sun so shall all adversity melt before the shining radiance of your own exalted thought the prodigal son remained a prodigal only so long as he chose to do so when the thought came to him to return he was greeted by the father with outstretched hands so shall we find that when we turn to that world which is perfect there will be something that will turn with us and we shall behold the new heaven and the new earth not in some far-off place somewhere beyond the clouds but here and now shall we become free we must do away with all that hinders the true growth all little thoughts that hinder us from becoming human strife comes from the thought that there is not enough to go around forget it we cannot use even what we see and what we do not see is infinite you will rob no one by becoming prosperous and the laws that underlie this state of being are simple and easy to understand and not hard to attain for the one who is willing to let go of the negative state of being prosperity here are a few simple rules for prosperity that are as sure of working as that water is sure to be wet first remember that nothing happens by chance all law and all is order you create your own laws every time you think there is something call it what you will but there is a power around you that knows and that understands all things this power works like the soil it receives the seed of your thought and at once begins to operate upon it it will receive whatever you give to it and will create for you and throw back at you whatever you think into it this means that the practitioner should be very careful how he is thinking at all times not alone in the moments of the deeper silence are we treating our patients but perhaps more than this we are treating them in an impersonal way at all times when we take a patient into our thought for a treatment there will be a constant stream of consciousness flowing out to him during all the time that he is in our care we should be very careful of our thoughts as we realize the deep truths of mental action and reaction what is the spiritual mind what is true spirituality many people have asked this and as many have answered it i do not pretend to know more about this all-important topic than others but to the thinking person who has come to realize that all is love yet at the same time all is governed by law there must be a different answer given than the one we ordinarily hear the average religious person thinks that spirituality must manifest in some unnatural way such as giving up all personal pleasure and becoming resigned to whatever happens that we must give up most of what life holds here that in some far-off future perhaps we may attain this is not the case with the man jesus we have more accounts of his being at feasts and weddings and similar gatherings than at other places his first miracle was performed at a wedding feast and we must remember that here he even turned water into wine for the pleasure of the guests of the house perhaps we have made a mistake about what true spirituality means other people think we must live some kind of an excluded life in order to obtain perhaps this may be true of the weak ones but what of the world what of the busy street is it not to be saved also jesus spent much time with the common people as well as with the rich and it is certain that he also spent much time alone with the spirit what is the spirit anyway we all answer why of course it is god where is the spirit it is present at all times and in all places true spirituality must simply mean coming to realize the presence of this spirit it must be coming to rely upon it more than anything else the one then who is the most spiritual is simply the one who realized the most that's all no matter where he is he must rely he must trust he must believe we do not have to give up anything but negative thought and act we do not want to do anything that contradicts the forward march of the unfoldment of the spirit so all that we think and do must be in line with that which is right but who shall say what is and what is not right remember this forever only your own soul can say what is right and what is wrong to thine own self be true and it shall follow as the night the day thou canst not then be false to any man look to no one for guidance this is the blind leading the blind the almighty has put the truth into your own soul look there and there alone for it many people seem to think that for a man to look spiritual he must have no color in his face have some kind of far away truth he must be peculiar either in looks or in the way he dresses to one who knows the truth both praise and blame sound alike but from the human standpoint at least a person cannot help being amused at the way in which the world judges true spirituality my idea of true spirituality is that a man should live a perfectly normal life entering into and enjoying all in life that is clean and good he should place himself absolutely under divine guidance other than this he will seem just like other people neither better nor worse get over all kinds of unnatural thought and remember that all is good neither criticize nor condemn people or things you are spiritual insofar as you trust in the spirit at all times in all places under all conditions in order to do this you do not have to seclude yourself from the world to do so is an open confession of your own weakness and lack there are moments when it is best to be alone with the power from these moments we gather strength to keep that strength to ourselves is pure selfishness walk talk live with the human race hand in hand with all people and unified with all events live and love and learn be natural and normal if you seek to enter some other way it must be done over again for no one lives or dies unto himself but unto all people the church of god the church of god is not built with hands it is eternal in the heavens it is not lighted with candles its dome is heaven and it is lighted by the stars of god's illumined thought and each member in his separate star shall draw the thing as he sees it for the god of things as they are hear all people recognize the god within their own souls and ask for and see no other god when you can look upon all creation as the perfect work of a perfect god you will become a member of this church i doubt very much if the church universal admits members from the church individual when you can see in the saint and the center one and the same person when you can realize that the one who kneels before the altar and the one who lies drunk in the street is the same one when you can love the one as much as you do the other no doubt you will be able to qualify as it is now we have too many preachers who do not understand that have no purpose too many prayers too many creeds too many teachers that have no message too many churches too many learned people and too few thinkers the kingdom of heaven cometh not by observation it is the still small voice within the soul that speaks the expanded thought will never wish to join or be joined to nothing human can contain it it feels the limitation of form and ceremony and longs for the freedom of the spirit the great outdoors the great god of everywhere alone in the desert the forest or by the restless ocean looking up at the stars man breathes forth these words with only my maker and me the path to prosperity the healing of conditions is no different from other healing all healing is the constructive use of a mental law which the world is gradually beginning to understand something of again we must reiterate the principle of all life we are surrounded by a thinking medium from which all things come we think into it it does the rest since we are thinking beings and cannot stop thinking and since creative mind receives our thought and cannot stop creating it must always be making something for us what it will make depends absolutely and only upon what we are thinking and what we will attract will depend entirely upon our holding thought to the complete exclusion of all that would contradict it it is not enough that we should sit down and say i am one with infinite life this must mean more than mere words it must be felt it must become an embodiment of a positive mental attitude it is not claiming something to be true which is going to happen it is not sending out an aspiration or a desire or a supplication or a prayer it must be the embodiment of that which knows that now it is this is more than holding a thought our ability to attract will depend upon the largeness of our thought as we feel that it flows out into a great universal creative power we are dealing with the form in thought and not with the form in matter we have learned that when we get the true form in thought and permeate it with the spirit of belief we will see the thought made flesh without any further effort on our part thought can attract us only to that which we first mentally embody we cannot attract to ourselves that which we are not we can attract in the outer only that which we have first completely mentally embodied within that which has become a part of our mental makeup a part of our inner understanding a man going into business will attract to himself that which he thinks about the most if he is a barber he will attract people who want to be shaved or have their hair cut if he sells shoes he will attract people who want to buy shoes so it is with everything we will not only do this but we will also attract as much of anything as we mentally embody this is apt to be overlooked in the study of metaphysics it is not enough to say that we attract what we think we become what we think and what we become we will attract do not become merely sentimental about this your life is governed by more than a sentiment it is governed by law something that cannot be broken something that picks up every mental attitude and does something with it this fundamental proposition of the law should then work out into our conditions always remember that it does just as we think it does not argue it simply does the thing as we think it now how are we thinking never ask a patient how he is feeling ask how are you thinking today this is the only thing that matters how are we thinking about life and our conditions are we receiving the race suggestion are we saying that there is not enough to go around if we are saying this it is our belief and there is something that will see that it becomes a part of our expression most people through ignorance of the higher laws of their being are suffering from the thoughts imposed upon them from a negative and doubtful world we who are claiming the use of the greater law must emancipate ourselves from all sense of limitation we are not to be governed by the outer confusion but by the inner realization we are to judge life not from the way that things in the past have been done but from the way that the spirit does things the way of the spirit again let us say that the spirit creates by becoming the thing that it thinks there is no other possible way in which it could work since it is all and there is no other the thought of opposing forces never enters into its mental working when we are judging from the outer we are not working in line with the power that we should be using we must come to see that there is only one power and that we are touching it at all points for there is not a power of poverty and a power of prosperity there is the one becoming the many it makes and it unmakes that a higher form may appear to express through it all that is not in line with its forward movement will soon pass away for it recognizes no opposite as far as we are concerned what we are and what we are to become depends only upon what we are thinking for this is the way that we are using creative power the sooner we get away from the thought that we have to create the sooner we will be able to work in line with the spirit always man uses he never creates anything the united intelligence of the human race could not make a single rosebud it does not know enough but our slightest thought adrift in mind causes the same power that makes all things to create for us the great error of the race is and always has been that men have thought to give a physical reason for things when that reason has not answered the problem of life they have sought out some other reason just as physical the fact that they are all wrong is shown that in every generation has found a different reason when truth is found it will also be found that it never changes to suit the whim of the human fancy this is proven by the fact that whatever of the real truth the race has discovered has never been changed the truth that was revealed to the prophets of old has never changed it is the same today as it was thousands of years ago whoever touches truth no matter in what generation will always get the same answer the great truth that was revealed from moses to the time of jesus is the same truth that is still revealed to all who will accept it it is simply this we are now living in a spiritual universe governed by mental laws of cause and effect moses saw it mostly from the standpoint of the law of cause and effect an eye for an eye what does this mean it means as jesus said as a man souls so shall he reap moses saw the law jesus saw not only the law i am not come to destroy but to fulfill but he saw behind the law the reason for it and revealed behind all law the great lawgiver a god of love working out the great inner concepts of his own being in harmony and in beauty filled with peace causing the sun to shine alike upon the just and the unjust jesus did not try to overcome the use of law he understood all law and he well knew that all law was at his command he did not break the law he fulfilled it so we must find that all is at our command through these same laws the man who understands law and complies with it will have no difficulty in demonstrating that it is as true for him as it ever was for anyone else what then are the law's underlying prosperity the first is this and we must not try to escape it thou shalt have no other gods before me this me is spirit we are then to trust only in the activity of spirit for what we need but the world will say human things come through human agencies this may be true but we must realize that the power we are dealing with also has within its own mind all people and all things we do not have to treat people what we have to do is to embody principle principle may use people but that is no part of our responsibility ultimately all is spirit and spirit which is the beginning is also the end of all manifestation i am the alpha and the omega our life then is to be governed by spirit we need look no further it will do for us all that we will ever ask provided we believe why then has it not done so the answer is that it has already been done so but we have not received it the spirit may offer but we must accept the gift before it can be made behold i stand at the door and knock we must understand that this receiving is a mental process it is one of mentally taking the way then that we are using our mind through our thought is the way that we are treating ourselves for prosperity so simple and yet we have not understood it if a man says i have not he will not receive if he says i have he will receive to those who have shall be given and to those who have not shall be taken away even that which they have this is a veiled statement of the law of cause and effect when you send out into mind the thought that you have not it accepts the idea and takes away from you that which you have reverse the process and say i have and it will at once set to work to create for you even more than you now possess you will readily see then that you are not dealing with two powers but with one and that it operates through your own thought doing unto all even as they believe the level of consciousness since all is mined and it is done unto us as we mentally think all life is simply a law of thought activity of consciousness in our life the power flows through us if we provide a big receptivity it will do a big thing if on the other hand we only believe in a small way the activity must be a small one the spirit can do for us only what it can do through us unless we are able to provide the consciousness it cannot make the gift few people have a great consciousness and this explains why so few excel the power behind all things of itself is without limit it is all power in us it has to become what we make it we carry within our own soul the key to all expression but few enter in the door is not seen with the physical eye and as yet but few have gained the ability to see the majority merely look realizing then that while the power is limitless it must become operative through our own thought we shall see that what we need is not some greater power but that what we really need is a greater consciousness a deeper realization of life a grander concept of being we must unify ourselves with the great whole the man who dares to fling his thought out into universal intelligence with the positive assurance of one who knows and dares to claim all there is will find that it will be done god will honor his request on the other hand the one who fears to speak lest god will smite will find himself smitten of the law not because god is angry but because it is done as he believes we have a right to have and should expect to have in this world all that will make for the comfort and for the luxuries of life what matter how much we have if we rob no other soul to get it shall not the power that so lavishly spreads itself out into nature give to us its highest expression all that we can ask we dishonor god when we claim less than all until we can expand our thought so that we shall be able to say also i am we need not expect to get great results the soul knows that its own divinity is the great soul before it all else must bend to it all else must gravitate enlarge your thought process away with the little personal thoughts of things and dare to think in universal terms about all things the universe is running over with good it is for you but you must believe and then take it do you dare to believe that your own word is invincible when you speak it how do you feel is it limitless is it all power is all power given to you in heaven and on earth are you the one with the only power that there is until you can say yes to all these questions and not simply believe them but know them you cannot hope to attain it is useless in making demonstrations to beg for things as well beg that water should be wet or the fire should be hot things are we must take them your word has only the power that you put into it no more and no less we are all held accountable for every word that we speak because all is the action and the reaction of mind man is his own heaven and his own hell we start a new enterprise and wonder what the chances of success are have we realized that the outer is simply the inner manifested when we go to a new place we shall find there only what we have taken with us if we have taken success we will find success if on the other hand we have taken failure we will find failure this is the law none can avoid it none need try every living soul is a law unto his own life there is no law but my own soul shall set nothing can come upon the path of the soul but that thing that the soul attracts practice for prosperity prosperity is in our own hands to do with as we will but we will never reach it until we learn to control our thought we must see only what we want and never allow the other things to enter if we wish activity we must be active in our thought we must see activity and speak it into everything that we do the spoken word shall bring it to pass we speak the word it is brought to pass of the power that we speak it into we can only speak the word that we understand the activity will correspond to our inner concepts if they are large the results will be large the thing to do is to unify ourselves with all the biggest ideas that we can compass and realizing that our ideas govern our power of attraction we should be constantly enlarging within ourselves we must realize our adornment with all power and know that our word will bring it to pass we speak the word it is brought to pass as consciousness grows it will manifest in enlarged opportunities and in a greater field of action most people think in the terms of universal powers feel that you are surrounded by all the power that there is when you speak and never doubt but that what you will say will spring into being we should speak right out into mind all that we desire and believe that it will be done unto us never take the time to listen to those who doubt we observe that their philosophy has done but little to save the world or themselves here again let the dead bury the dead and see to it that you maintain in your own thought what you want letting go of all else think only what you want to happen and never let yourself get mentally lazy and sluggish taking on the suggestions of poverty and limitation see yourself as being in the position that you desire mentally dwell upon it and then speak with perfect assurance that it is done and then forget it and trust in the law this will answer all needs if you want to do this for someone else all that you will need to do is to think of them and go through the same process of mind action you will be sending out the truth for them and mine being always active will not contradict what you have said remember that you cannot hope to get results unless you keep the one idea and do not mix your thoughts in your mind it is all yours but you must take it the taking is always a mental process it is believing absolutely this is divine principle conclusion principle itself is simplicity yet it is infinite it is infinite mind and manifestation of mind we live in a spiritual universe governed through thought or the word which first becomes law this law creates what we call matter jesus christ discerned the truth about spiritual principles more than any other man who ever lived and he proclaimed the eternal reign of law and understanding absolute complete perfect he found that law to be operative through his own thought and the power of his own word and when you and i shall cease looking outside ourselves to any person and shall realize that whatever truth and whatever power we shall have must flow through us when we begin to interpret our own natures we shall begin to understand god and law and life and not until then we live and move and have our being in what we call an infinite mind an infinite creative mind also infinitely receptive operative omnipotent and all-knowing and we have learned that this mind presses against us on all sides flows through us and becomes operative through our thinking the human race ignorant of the laws of this mind ignorant of the power of its own thought as through its ignorance misused and abused the creative power of its thought and brought upon itself the thing it feared this is true because all thought is law and all law is mined in action and the word which you speak today is the law which shall govern your life tomorrow as the word which you spoke ignorantly or innocently consciously or unconsciously yesterday is absolutely governing your life today as metaphysicians then we are not dealing with a material nor denying a manifest universe but we are claiming that the manifestation is the result of the interactivity of the mind and if we wish for a definite manifestation we must produce a definite inner activity you and i then are not dealing with conditions but with mental and spiritual law we are dealing with the power of thought the power of mind and the more spiritual the thought the higher the manifestation the more our reliance on what we call god the greater the power it is the new education because it strips all the faults from the old belief and reveals the individual it is the new age because as sure as god is it will usher in and express the perfect life the revelation of this truth and our ability to use it and it is your own fault when you know this and do not prove it if knowing the infinite power flowing through you you still remain sick and unhappy miserable and poor my friend it is your own fault do not blame god do not blame man and do not say it's of the devil it's your own fault every time you say i am you are recognizing the eternal infinite presence of omnipotent power within yourself which is god operating through your thought and that is why you bring upon yourself the thing you fear and why you bring to yourself the thing you want the day when 51 of your thinking is health life and power that 51 percent will swallow up erase kill out the rest the day you as an individual through 51 of your thought pass beyond the perception of limitation is the day that you will draw out of the universe everything you desire poverty will desert you and you will be emancipated forever the day that your thought is 51 happiness is the day that misery shall depart and never return is it not then worth your time and your effort and should it not be the greatest purpose in the life of any awakened soul so to depict this principle as to emancipate himself the way can be shown but each individual must himself walk the way we are so bound by suggestion and hypnotized by false belief so entangled by the chaotic thinking of the world thinking which is based upon the principle of a dual mind that we become confused and are not ourselves wake up your word is all-powerful your consciousness is one with omnipotence your thought is infinite your destiny is eternal and your home is everlasting heaven realize the truth i am living in a perfect universe it always was perfect and always will be perfect there never was a mistake made there are no mistakes being made and there never will be i live in the great and eternal universe of perfection from cause to effect from beginning to end and the world is all right and i know it majestic and calm waiting with eternal and divine patience the great principle of life is ready to give to us all that it has and while we listen and wait we will cast from us everything that hinders its complete expression through us we will let go of all struggle and all strife and be at peace with life perfect peace to the soul as we rest in the realization of our unity with all that there is was or ever will be one with the infinite mind all the power of the spirit is working through our thought as we believe and receive now we will ask for and take that thing which we desire it is done it is complete now and forever perfect life perfect healing perfect harmony divine guidance infinite strength and joy forever end of part three part four of creative mind by ernest shertloff holmes this librivox recording is in the public domain questions and answers what is the truth the truth is that which is it is all that is as there cannot be something and nothing so the truth being that which is must at the same time be all that there is where is the truth if the truth is all it must be everywhere being all there is no other substance to divide it with being undivided it is everywhere present all truth which means all power must be present at all points or at any given point at any and all times has the truth changed a substance cannot change unless there is something for it to change into since the truth is all it cannot change for there is no other thing for it to change into whatever is the truth then has never changed is the truth or that which is one or many it must be one since it is all is the truth conscious yes man is conscious he could not be so unless truth or life or conscious man's self-consciousness proves the self-consciousness of life or truth or spirit like produces like what comes out of life everything that is comes out of life if life is all then it follows that all that is is some form of life how does life make things being all it must make things out of itself it must operate upon itself through itself and out of itself must make all that is made being conscious it must know that it is doing this what would we call this inner movement of life the inner movement of life or consciousness we would call thought or the self-knowing of life or spirit then the universe and all that is a part of it comes from thought yes everything comes from thought do we not see a visible world that seems to change and if we do how is it that it could come from something that never changes yes we do see a changing world but back of it is a changeless substance the thing that changes is the thought or form the substance from which this form comes never changes it is one and undivided and takes form through thought in all things we prove this when we resolve all things into one source all material things so-called can be reduced into formless substance the sole activity of which must be thought or the movement of intelligence upon itself what causes form to change the intelligence behind it is there nothing in the universe then but life thought and form these are all if this is true what is physical law physical law is simply the result of the inner movement of life if things and laws are the result of the inner movement of life then does it not follow that thoughts are things yes all things are simply thought forms how long does thought last as form as long as the thought is held in life or mind does the thought of life mind or good ever change from all that we can know the thought of god seems to change that is planets change take form and again become formless when we realize that all this can take place without ever changing the substance behind it we see no reason why god's thought could not change and ever build up a higher form indeed this is one of the teachings of ancient wisdom that while reality never changes the form that it takes is ever changing what is man's place in the creative order man is a thinking center in mind reproducing in a smaller scale all that there is in the universe does this not make man's thought creative in a certain sense it does what we call creation is not making something out of nothing but it is thought taking form and as man thinks and as thought must take form then it must follow that man's thought must take form in mind and so become creative what is man's thought it is the activity of that something within that can say i am what is the difference between god and man the very fact that man can say i am proves that he is since he is he must be made out of life and must be some part of all that there is this being so man must be a part of god's consciousness the difference would be in degree only he must be as much of life as he recognizes himself to be is all of man's thought creative yes all or none if one thought produces then all must if this is true how is it that man seems to be so limited because he has thought limitation and thoughts are things that will always make the thing thought of in reality the very fact that man's thought can limit him also proves that it could free him from all limitation by simply changing his thought but why is man soulmate that he can think two ways this is a question that can be answered only in one way unless a man can think as he wants to think he would not be a man at all but simply a piece of mechanism man is an individual and that means self-choice backed by a power that will produce the thing chosen in discovering himself man chooses many things uses them and passes to a higher choice ever ascending in the scale of being as fast as he chooses he experiences that thing which he thinks about what is evil evil is the result of a lack of clear scene based upon a belief in two powers and limitation of what we call sin is the result of man's struggle to find himself if this be true why could we not at once begin to change our whole life by first changing our thought we could we would not be changing real substance but we would be changing the form that it takes through our thought all that we can change is the form of thought through which experiences come to us what is the limit of man's creative use of mind man is limited by nothing but his own thinking by his mental ability to conceive what is meant by mental conception all things are produced by thought the thing produced from mind is first formed in thought thought molds mind into form but do we not have to act we cannot think without acting an inactive body is the result of an inactive mind in using our creative powers how far do we have to consider the conditions under which we live we do not have to consider them at all conditions are the result the effect and not the cause we create them as fast as we think how would a person start to change conditions by first changing thought and realizing that we are not dealing with an illusion but with the great reality then by acting as though we already have what we think how long would it take to do this as long as it would take to let go of all negative thought and embody all positive thought this would depend entirely upon the individual and his mental ability to control thought what would hinder us the most ourselves no one gives to us but ourselves and no one takes from us but ourselves can no one else help us only to a limited degree while we may be helped by those who understand the law for a time yet sooner or later we must ourselves take the creative responsibility of our own lives others may think for us for a few moments a day but we think for ourselves all the time but does not god help us yes god helps all but must do it through law all's love yet all's law how should we pray by giving thanks that we already have that thing that we pray for by completely believing and never doubting when ye pray believe that ye have received and you shall receive we must be sure that in no way shall we think act or talk or read about limitation we must all be a law unto ourselves definitions god infinite spirit self-knowing mind life truth intelligence love all cause and all effect that invisible power which makes all things out of itself by an interaction of its own thought upon itself the visible universe the ideas of god in expression the body of god expression of the divine mind all visible life is an expression of an inner concept law mind in action law is not cause it is effect it is intelligence operating all law is universal vibration not intelligence but the result of intelligence it follows cause thought the activity of mind man a thinking center in mind creation thought becoming form the immaculate conception sin lack of understanding righteousness spiritual understanding sickness image of thought held in mind appearing on the body health the realization of perfect life poverty limited thought riches the realization of our unity with life which is limitless consciousness the realization of the fact that we are life consciousness of power and activity truth that which is realization an inner thought process whereby we become conscious of our unity with life complete self-knowing causation god spirit life that which is intelligence that which knows that it is unfoldment the birth of ideas coming forth from mind illusion belief in two powers soul the inner creative life the feminine receptive creative sense not an illusion but the faculties through which we contact life in its expression motion the interactivity of life-producing manifestation effect the result of inner motion the word the activity of thought faith positive mental activity fear negative mental activity attraction the drawing power of thought unity one mind flowing through all and in all objective life in its outer form subjective life in its inner thought or form karma the law of cause and effect the result of past thought and action binding the ignorant and freeing the wise multiplicity the bringing forth from the one of an infinite variety of form color and motion treatment the mental and spiritual activity of thought for a definite end demonstration the result of correct thinking heaven the atmosphere of correct thought hell the atmosphere of false thinking peace mind resting in the realization that it is all poise an inner calm which never fears power the result of the union of peace and poise end of part four end of creative mind by ernest sherlock holmes you
