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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
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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 expression
of 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 in
their 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 are
we helping make it for all the world beside.
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