Until you can arrive at this recognition and conviction and until you come to an inner assurance that there is this He within you, this I, because of Whom you need not fear, you can go no further and your tomorrows will be no different from your yesterdays. Do not try to go beyond this revelation regardless of how many months or years it may take for you to reach the absolute conviction: Where I am, God is. I need never fear, I need never be afraid. This Presence is with me This I is within me. JOEL S. GOLDSMITH

The Creative Mind

Ernest Holmes

PART ONE

ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS

IN THE BEGINNING 1

Spirit is the first cause in the creative series.
Manifestation, the action of Spirit upon itself.

A PRINCIPLE THAT CAN BE PROVEN 4

"It is done unto you even as you believe."

THE WORD GOING FORTH 5

The word establishes itself as law.

WHY AND WHAT IS MAN? 7

Man is the outcome of the desire of the Spirit to make something which expresses the same life that It feels.

THE LAW OF OUR LIVES 8

We are centers of creative thought activity in the Universal Mind. Unlimited life is latent in man.

MAN'S PART 10

Through harmony with Universal Mind man's word becomes the law of his life. Man not a creator but his thought is creative.

BONDAGE AND FREEDOM 13

Ignorance is the only bondage.
Freedom is the law of belief.

THE WORD 14

As God's word is in the Universe so man's word is in his own life.

THE MAN WHO HAS ARRIVED 17

The one who can control his thinking is he to whom time and place makes no difference.

THE POWER WE HAVE WITHIN US 17

We have as much creative power as we allow to flow through us.

INDIVIDUAL IDEAS 18

Have power to manifest as long as held.

THE REASON FOR THE UNIVERSE 19

MIND IN ACTION 19

All Law is mind in action, both Cosmic and in the  individual.

Life externalizes at the level of our thought.

ACTION AND REACTION 20

Law of cause and effect always operative.

ARRIVING AT A HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS 21

Have faith and willingness to believe in the law of life to do for us.

OUTER SUGGESTIONS 22

Are under our own control. We must learn to govern life by inner realization. Working in union with the power of good.

THE USE OF THE GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS 24

The inner realization that good is always with us results in health, happiness and prosperity.

THE GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS 26

The realization of completion brings us into the enlarged consciousness.

THE PERFECT UNIVERSE 30

We must come to realize that we are living in a perfect universe peopled with perfect ideas; it appears to us as we harmonize with it.

ABOUT STRUGGLE KARMA 32

The great law of life is thinking and becoming. Karma is the result of false thinking. The only escape is to know what the truth is and think it.

PART TWO--PRACTICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY 35

THE SAME POWER USED IN TWO WAYS 37

HEALING THE SICK 39

DENIALS 40

THE USE OF AFFIRMATIONS 42

THE HIGHEST ATTITUDE OF MIND 43

NON-RESISTANCE 43

BE ALIVE 44

BE HAPPY 45

LIVE IN THE PRESENT 46

SEE THE GOOD IN ALL THINGS 47

BE EXPECTANT 49

EXPANDING THOUGHT 49

POWER OF TREATMENT 50

REPEATING A TREATMENT 50

IMPERSONAL HEALING 51

PROSPERITY 54

WHAT IS THE SPIRITUAL MIND? 54

THE CHURCH OF GOD 57

THE PATH OF PROSPERITY 58

THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT 60

THE LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS 63

PRACTICE FOR PROSPERITY 65

CONCLUSION 67

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 71

DEFINITIONS 77

It Was Told of a Certain Potter

Walter C. Lanyon

“Further, in the line of common reasoning, we know that prayer in its generally accepted sense means  desire. This being the case, we begin to see that our very desires or prayers, in so far as they are good, proceed from God, and are not as we formerly supposed
self-originated requests or petitions, but rather the urge of God (good) endeavoring to find expression in us, good endeavoring to be made manifest in the flesh.

“Perhaps, for example, you are praying for health. You are desiring it, but as God is the only creator and good, in reality your desire for health is but the will of God trying to express itself through you. ‘God is willing to do exceeding abundantly, more than we ask
 or think.’ God is ‘willing’ it. And as your desire for health is prompted by His willingness to be expressed in perfect strength, you reverse the proposition and find that, in reality, the health and strength of God, good, are seeking to find expression in you , not you seeking to bring them into your thought.

“If you are praying for supply, is it not in reality God’s fullness seeking further expression in you?  Is it not the ‘still small voice’ calling for a greater expressionof substance, God ? God is all substance; then the desire for supply is a greater desire for God, or God endeavoring to manifest Himself more fully. And suddenly you turn from your prayers of beseeching to the attitude of ‘Speak, for thy Servant heareth’, and ‘Not my will but thine be done.’ You begin endeavoring to find out what His wishes are.

“Then our part in prayer, after we have acclaimed God as all and ever-present good, is to relax, to let go and step aside; literally and figuratively to say ‘Glorify thy Son that thy son may also glorify thee;’ that is, make thyself manifest in me, fulfill thy desires. Fling open wide the portals of your mind and bid Him enter who waits without; make thyself wholly acceptable  to Him, to use for His good pleasure, and your desires and prayers will find their rightful expression.

In Tune with the Infinite

Ralph Waldo Trine

THE optimist is right. The pessimist is right. The one differs from the other as the light from the dark. Yet both are right. Each is right from their own particular point of view, and this point of view is the determining factor in the life of each. It determines as to whether it is a life of power or of impotence, of peace or of pain, of success or of failure.

The optimist has the power of seeing things intheir entirety and in their right relations. The pessimist looks from a limited and a one-sided point of view. The one has their understanding illuminated by wisdom, the understanding of the other is darkened by ignorance. Each is building their world from within, and the result of the building are determined by the point of view of each The optimist, by their  superior wisdom and insight, is making their own heaven, and in the degree that they make their own heaven are helping to make one for all the world beside. The pessimist, by virtue of their limitations, are making their own hell, and in the degree that they make their own hell are they helping to make one for all mankind.

You and I have the predominating characteristics of an optimist or the predominating characteristics of a pessimist. We then are making, hour by hour, our own heaven or our own hell; and in the degree that we are making the one or the other for ourselves arewe helping make it for all the world beside.