These mystical words are from
The Science of Mind: "To
practice the Presence of G-d is to awaken within us the Christ
Consciousness. Christ is G-d in the soul of mankind. The
resurrection is the death of the belief that we are separated
from G-d. For death is to the illusion alone and not to
Reality. G-d did not die. What happened was that mankind awoke
to Life. The awakening must be on the part of mankind since G-d
already is Life.
To practice the Presence of the Divine in others is to practice
mental healing for it is a recognition of this Divine Presence
which heals. All the words used in the process of healing are
for the purpose of building up the realization that
“I Am is in the midst of thee.”
We
have, at least not the majority of us, have learned from our
first days on this planet that we are part of the Divine.
Our intelligence, power of choice and mind is a unique
individualization of the Intelligence, Power and Spirit we call
G-d for lack of a better word. To realize that G-d is
omnipresent; that is, everywhere present and present in
everything is to understand Life to the highest degree.
Most of us have had moments when we have had this realization
but only a few have held this realization in mind every day, all
day. The Master Mind Jesus was one of the few, as was the
Buddha, Krishna and Paramahansa Yogananda. Others have
held this realization to the degree that it created within them
the ability to heal themselves and others consistently; Thomas
Troward, Mary Baker Eddy, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Dr. Joseph
Murphy, Joel Goldsmith, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, Ernest
Holmes and W. Frederic Keeler to name a few. Each knew in
consciousness that "I Am is in the midst of thee" meant the
Divine was within them and they could make use of this Power and
Intelligence to heal. We all have this ability to have this
awareness of the Divine within to the degree that through the
power of our mind we can heal ourselves and heal others,
although our ability to do so may not be as consistent has those
previously referred to.
“... in the beginning G-d made mankind perfect, but mankind
has sought out many inventions.” It very boldly declares that
death and resurrection are inventions of the human mind and not
a decree of the Almighty. Referring to Adam and to Christ, the
Bible says, “The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second
man is the Lord from heaven.” And when the disciples of Jesus
asked him, “What is G-d’s relationship to the dead?” he replied,
“G-d is not a G-d of the dead but of the living, for in G-d's
sight all are alive.” In other words, the Bible clearly states
that we are living in a spiritual Universe, governed by mental
laws; that there is an action of Consciousness, as Law, upon
Substance, forever producing form, and forever withdrawing from
any particular form, thus producing another; that the form
changes but the Formless never." ... from the mystical
Ernest Holmes' Science of Mind.
In these few words Ernest Holmes is telling us an eternal and
immutable Truth; Life can never die, that death and resurrection
are of the human mind but in the Omnipresence of G-d Life, our
life and all life, is eternal; both here and in the hereafter.
Ernest Holmes further tells us ... "the Cosmic Order is the
Divine Mind; the Universe in which we live is a Spiritual
System; we are spiritual beings but we do not know it, we do not
understand it. In our ignorance we misuse our divinity without
changing or destroying it. We can never change Reality, cannot
destroy It nor break Its laws; but we place ourselves in such a
position to It that It appears limited and unhappy and even
appears to die. “By mankind came death, by mankind came also the
resurrection of the dead.” What is this but stating that mankind
figured out how to die and how to be born again? G-d had nothing
to do with it, because G-d “is not a G-d of the dead but of the
living: for all live unto G-d.” We are, therefore, members
of the Universe, and
being
members of that which unites everything, we are some part of
each other! “I
Am the vine and we are the branches...” Jesus’ words were
symbols of the Universe in which we live."
The
Master Mind Jesus couldn't have said it better. We are all
connected to G-d and in turn connected to each other.
There is only One Life, that Life is G-d and that Life is ours
eternally. Resurrect then takes place in our mind.
We resurrect our health through the power of our mind. We
create success through the power of our mind. Through the
power of our mind we choose to be happy or to be miserable.
The spirit within us is the Christ within us; that part of G-d
Intelligence, Power and Spirit that is ours to use to sustain
and maintain the life of our choosing.
Keep the Faith!
Henry Lee Bates
(Reverend Dr.)
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