There will be quite a few posts on the material covered in The Science Of Mind book by Earnest Holmes since there are some really interesting concepts that I would like to bring up in this blog and see what you think.
I should tell you that Ernest Holmes was not a religious individual, so when he uses the word God, it is interchangeable with the ‘Spirit’, ‘Light’, ‘Love’, ‘Universe’, ‘Energy’, ‘Source Energy’, ‘Universal Intelligence’, or any other word that you may use to describe this Source of everything.
Here is an excerpt straight from the book (pg. 28):
“Since some people have been healed through prayer, while others have not, the answer is NOT that God has responded to some but not to others, but that some have responded to God more than others. Their prayer (they thought) has responded by corresponding. The answer to prayer is in the prayer. But what is a prayer? A prayer is a movement of thought, within the mind of the one praying, along a definite line of meditation; that is, for a specific purpose.”
This builds on two previous posts, the one on how most people do not know how to correctly ask for what they want (they do not know how to pray properly), and the other on how the Universe does not play favourites. If you internalize the idea that the Universe does not like your neighbour any more than you, you will understand that you are the sole reason for why you do not have the results that you are looking for. By the same token, you are also the sole reason for already manifesting the desired results in your life.
We already talked about how the Universe does not understand words; that it understands feelings. And since feelings are often the results of our thoughts, it is vital to think correctly. This is one of the fundamental concepts, an idea that is expressed in many books, like Think And Grow Rich. So, since a prayer is simply a movement of thought, if you pray for avoidance of a certain outcome or situation, you increase your chances of manifesting it. Likewise, if you offer your thoughts to what you want, you will manifest that.
In this Science of Mind class we will learn how to do Affirmative Prayers or Mind Treatments. My understanding is that we will learn how to pray (read ‘think’) properly. I will make sure to share once we get there.
Until Monday,
V
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Tags: Neo-Spirituality, Religion, Science Of Mind, Universe