The Science of Mind, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1926]
| PEACE BE UNTO THEE, STRANGER | vi |
| FOREWORD | vii |
| YOURSELF | 26 |
| Part I: THE EVOLUTION OF MAN'S THOUGHT | |
| Instinctive Man | 27 |
| Nature Waits on Man's Self-recognition | 27 |
| The First Great Discovery | 28 |
| The Inner Sense Awakens | 29 |
| The Great Question "Why" | 29 |
| The Greatest Discovery of All Time--MIND | 30 |
| The Brain Does Not Think | 30 |
| We Do Not See the Thinker | 31 |
| The Body Unconscious Without the Thinker | 31 |
| The Conscious and the Unconscious Thought | 32 |
| A New Basis of Thought | 33 |
| The Law of Mind | 33 |
| Unconscious Mind at Work | 34 |
| Another Great Discovery--Thought Reached Others | 34 |
| The Discovery of Race-Thought | 35 |
| A Universal Medium Which All Must Come to Believe In | 35 |
| Another Question Comes Up--Why Are People Poor? | 36 |
| Man Begins to Realize That His Conditions Are Controlled by Thought | 36 |
| Realizes That He Must Think Correctly | 37 |
| p. x | |
| Part II: THE LESSONS | |
| LESSON ONE: INTRODUCTION | 38 |
| Science | 38 |
| How Laws Are Discovered | 38 |
| Proof of Mind | 39 |
| Where Our Thoughts Go | 39 |
| Suggestion Becomes Memory | 40 |
| Mental Medium Through All | 40 |
| Reading Thought | 41 |
| Mental Law | 42 |
| The Word of God as Law | 42 |
| Threefold Nature of God | 42 |
| Trinity of Being | 43 |
| Conscious Mind in God and Man | 43 |
| Unity | 44 |
| Worship of God | 44 |
| Many Gods | 45 |
| Belief in Duality--Its Results | 45 |
| Duality in Theology | 45 |
| Duality in Philosophy | 46 |
| Duality and Science | 47 |
| An Awakening | 47 |
| Philosophy Leads Man's Thought | 47 |
| A Deep Inquiry | 48 |
| The Great Difficulty | 48 |
| The Voice of God in Creation | 48 |
| The Word of God | 49 |
| Spirit Knows Itself | 49 |
| Law, Servant of the Word | 49 |
| Forms of Spirit or Creation | 50 |
| Meaning of Creation | 51 |
| The Word Alone Is Conscious | 51 |
| The Thought of God | 51 |
| Eternal Creation | 52 |
| The Universe Is Alive | 52 |
| Conclusion | 53 |
| p. xi | |
| LESSON ONE: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. I | 55 |
| LESSON ONE: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN UNIVERSAL CHART | 54 |
| Upper Section | 54 |
| Middle Section | 64 |
| Lowest Section | 67 |
| LESSON ONE: THE NATURE OF BEING | 70 |
| Spirit | 70 |
| Soul | 70 |
| Two Ways of Reasoning | 71 |
| Body | 72 |
| The Changeless | 72 |
| Cause and Effect | 73 |
| Unity and Multiplicity | 73 |
| Immortality | 74 |
| Forms | 74 |
| Allness of Truth | 75 |
| Volition | 75 |
| Only One Mind | 77 |
| Individuality | 78 |
| LESSON ONE: RECAPITULATION | 79 |
| LESSON TWO: INTRODUCTION | 82 |
| The World Has Learned All It Can Through Suffering | 82 |
| What Individuality Really Means | 82 |
| The Meaning of Freedom | 83 |
| Sin and Punishment. Righteousness and Reward | 83 |
| The Incarnation of Spirit | 84 |
| Different Viewpoints | 85 |
| The Lesson of Nature's Laws | 86 |
| The Relation of Man to the Universe of Spirit | 86 |
| Man's Experience | 87 |
| Nature Waits on Man | 87 |
| Mental and Spiritual Laws | 88 |
| God and Man | 88 |
| Man Reënacts the Nature of God | 88 |
| p. xii | |
| The Two Ways to Reason | 89 |
| Nothing Happens by Chance | 89 |
| Many Are Waking Up to the Facts | 90 |
| The Time Has Come to Know the Truth | 90 |
| A Wonderful Experiment | 90 |
| What Psychology Teaches About Man's Nature | 91 |
| The Self-knowing Mind | 91 |
| Man's Unity with the Whole | 92 |
| Man a Center of God-Consciousness | 92 |
| Unity with Law | 92 |
| The Subjective Obeys the Objective | 93 |
| The Body | 94 |
| Last Stages of Matter | 94 |
| The Unity of All Body | 95 |
| The Formless and the Formed | 95 |
| Individuality Means Self-Choice | 96 |
| The Greatest Discovery Ever Made | 96 |
| A Complete Unity | 96 |
| LESSON TWO: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. II-A | 99 |
| LESSON TWO: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. II-B | 101 |
| LESSON TWO: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN INDIVIDUAL CHART NO. II-B | 97 |
| Upper Section | 97 |
| Middle Section | 98 |
| Lowest Section | 100 |
| LESSON TWO: THE NATURE OF MAN | 103 |
| Spirit | 104 |
| Soul | 105 |
| Body | 105 |
| Limitless Medium | 106 |
| Christ and Antichrist | 108 |
| Man Is Identified in Mind | 109 |
| p. xiii | |
| Treatment | 110 |
| The Aim of Evolution | 110 |
| Methods of Treatment | 112 |
| Subjective Law | 115 |
| Thought and the Creative Medium | 116 |
| Each Is the Logical Result of His Own Thinking | 116 |
| A Law of Belief | 117 |
| We Are Dealing with Law | 117 |
| The Cycle of Necessity and Karmic Law | 118 |
| The Law of Action and Reaction | 118 |
| We Argue in Mind | 119 |
| Wrong Use of Mind | 119 |
| Subjective But Not Unconscious | 120 |
| How Habits Are Formed | 120 |
| Law Is Mind in Action | 120 |
| We Are Bound by Our Own Freedom | 121 |
| Oneness with All Law | 121 |
| Demonstration | 122 |
| Karmic Law | 123 |
| Thought Force | 123 |
| Choosing Thought | 124 |
| Inducing Thought | 125 |
| Place No Limit on Principle | 126 |
| LESSON TWO: RECAPITULATION | 128 |
| LESSON THREE: INTRODUCTION | 130 |
| Healing | 130 |
| What We Understand About Healing | 132 |
| Thoughts Are Things | 132 |
| LESSON THREE: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO III | 135 |
| LESSON THREE: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN CHART NO. III | 134 |
| LESSON THREE: MENTAL HEALING | 137 |
| Individuality | 137 |
| Man Reënacts God | 138 |
| p. xiv | |
| Not Limited by Principle | 139 |
| Mental Treatment Is Real | 140 |
| Man Comes Through Subjectivity | 141 |
| Born Perfect | 141 |
| Race-Suggestion | 142 |
| Disease Is Impersonal | 142 |
| How to Heal | 143 |
| Mind Is the Actor | 143 |
| Disease Is Not Always Due to Conscious Thought | 144 |
| We Deal with Ideas | 145 |
| Have No Doubts | 145 |
| Thinking in Treatment | 146 |
| Do Not Try to Go Beyond Your Understanding | 146 |
| What a Practitioner Must Know | 147 |
| Healing Is Clear Thinking | 147 |
| Only One Law | 148 |
| No Sensation in Treatments | 149 |
| How to Remove Doubt | 149 |
| The Truth Demonstrates Itself | 150 |
| Disease Is Mental | 150 |
| The Medium of Healing | 150 |
| Depend on Principle | 151 |
| Definite Work in Healing | 152 |
| Repeating Treatments | 152 |
| Remove the Complex | 152 |
| Healing Pain | 153 |
| Headache | 153 |
| What Right Thought Does | 154 |
| How Habits Are Healed | 154 |
| The Seed of Thought | 155 |
| What Can Be Healed | 156 |
| Why People Get Tired | 156 |
| The Idea Must Take Form | 157 |
| Resolve Things into Thoughts | 158 |
| Healing Insanity | 158 |
| What a Practitioner Does | 158 |
| Back of the Appearance Is the Reality | 159 |
| p. xv | |
| Seeing Perfection | 159 |
| Healing Lung Trouble | 160 |
| We Do Not Send Out Thoughts | 161 |
| Vision | 162 |
| Healing Constipation | 163 |
| Disease Not an Entity | 163 |
| Throat Trouble | 164 |
| Congestion | 164 |
| Paralysis | 164 |
| Growths | 164 |
| Treating Children | 165 |
| Power of the Word | 165 |
| No Age | 166 |
| Memory | 166 |
| Guidance in Treating | 166 |
| How to Heal | 166 |
| Remove Doubt | 167 |
| No Fear | 168 |
| Psycho-analysis | 169 |
| Deal Only with Thoughts | 170 |
| Nervousness | 170 |
| Stammering | 170 |
| Argument in Treatment | 170 |
| LESSON THREE: RECAPITULATION | 172 |
| LESSON FOUR: INTRODUCTION | 175 |
| The Law Is Infinite | 175 |
| The Possibilities of the Law | 176 |
| Spirit and Mental Law | 176 |
| Demonstration, or Bringing Things to Pass | 177 |
| Our Part | 178 |
| Treatment | 178 |
| Medium Between Man and His Manifestation | 179 |
| LESSON FOUR: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. IV | 181 |
| p. xvi | |
| LESSON FOUR: THE CONTROL OF CONDITIONS | 180 |
| Law of Reflection | 182 |
| Attracting Friends | 183 |
| The Principle of Prosperity | 183 |
| We Deal with Absoluteness | 184 |
| Prayer Is Its Own Answer | 184 |
| If You Know | 185 |
| No Personal Responsibility | 186 |
| Helping an Inventor | 186 |
| Look Only at What You Want | 186 |
| Definite Plan | 187 |
| Attraction | 188 |
| How to Demonstrate a Home | 189 |
| Resist Not | 189 |
| Healing a Misunderstanding | 190 |
| Fate | 190 |
| Attraction of Personality | 191 |
| See Life Expressed | 191 |
| Look to the Ultimate | 192 |
| No Mistakes | 193 |
| Causes and Conditions | 194 |
| Perfect Action | 195 |
| Mental Equivalents | 196 |
| Treating for Activity | 197 |
| Receiving Information | 197 |
| No Failures | 198 |
| Opportunity | 198 |
| No Mistakes | 199 |
| Demonstration by Proof | 200 |
| Handling a Schoolroom | 200 |
| The Law of Correspondence | 200 |
| LESSON FOUR: RECAPITULATION | 203 |
| LESSON FIVE: INTRODUCTION | 206 |
| True Mysticism and the Psychic Sense | 207 |
| What the Mystics Have Taught | 208 |
| No Ultimate Evil | 209 |
| p. xvii | |
| Ultimate Salvation of All | 209 |
| Freedom from Burden | 209 |
| Unity of All | 210 |
| Realization of Individuality | 210 |
| Normalcy | 210 |
| The Great Light | 211 |
| What the Mystics Have Taught About the Individual | 212 |
| Instinct and Intuition | 212 |
| Illumination and Cosmic Consciousness | 213 |
| The Highest Practice | 214 |
| The Power of Jesus | 214 |
| Turning Within | 215 |
| LESSON FIVE: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. V | 217 |
| LESSON FIVE: THE PERFECT WHOLE | 216 |
| Individuality | 218 |
| Further Evolution | 218 |
| The Truth Is Known | 219 |
| The Answer Is in Man | 220 |
| God--Infinite Personality | 221 |
| Unity | 222 |
| Hold to the Good | 223 |
| The Infinite is Personal to All | 224 |
| The Christ | 224 |
| Realization | 225 |
| Meditation | 226 |
| LESSON SIX: THE LAW OF PSYCHIC PHENOMENA--INTRODUCTION | 229 |
| Psychic Phenomena and Immortality | 229 |
| No Apologies | 230 |
| LESSON SIX: METAPHYSICAL CHART NO. VI | 232 |
| LESSON SIX: METAPHYSICAL MEANING OF WORDS USED IN CHART NO. VI | 231 |
| p. xviii | |
| LESSON SIX: PSYCHIC PHENOMENA | 233 |
| The Subjective Mind | 233 |
| Seat of Memory | 233 |
| Suggestion and Subjectivity | 234 |
| Subjective Communication | 234 |
| Subjective Mind and Inspiration | 235 |
| Mental Atmospheres | 236 |
| How to Create Personal Charm | 237 |
| The Atmosphere of Places | 237 |
| The Race-Mind 239 | |
| The Mind of History | 239 |
| Telepathy | 240 |
| Tuning in on Thought | 245 |
| Mental Pictures | 245 |
| Conditions Necessary for the Best Results | 242 |
| Deep Telepathic Messages | 243 |
| Reading the History of the Individual | 243 |
| Personal Readings | 244 |
| Streams of Consciousness | 244 |
| No Obstructions to Thought 245 | |
| Entering the Stream of Thought | 245 |
| The Vibration of a Book | 246 |
| Why Saints Have Seen Jesus | 246 |
| Many Mental Pictures | 246 |
| The Human Aura | 247 |
| Halo | 247 |
| Unpleasant Atmospheres | 247 |
| Habit | 247 |
| Mania | 248 |
| Obsession | 249 |
| Personal Influence and Obsession | 249 |
| Obsession of Discarnate Spirits | 249 |
| General Theory of Obsession and Mental Influence | 250 |
| Insanity | 250 |
| The Psychic Power Must Be Controlled | 250 |
| Normal State | 255 |
| The Aim of Evolution | 255 |
| The State of Trance | 252 |
| p. xix | |
| Normal Psychic Capacities | 252 |
| Abnormal Psychic Powers | 252 |
| Clairvoyance | 252 |
| Psychometry | 253 |
| Clairaudience | 253 |
| Independent Voices | 253 |
| Apparitions | 254 |
| Ghosts and Phantasms of the Dead | 254 |
| Ghosts Sometimes Can Speak | 255 |
| Projecting the Mentality | 255 |
| Crystal Gazing | 255 |
| Black Magic | 256 |
| The Modern Curse | 256 |
| Automatic Writing | 257 |
| Independent Writing | 257 |
| Hudson's Theory | 257 |
| Smelling Where There Is Nothing to Smell | 258 |
| Grasping Objects Without the Hand | 258 |
| Telekinetic Energy | 258 |
| Table Tipping | 259 |
| Rappings | 259 |
| Theory of Ectoplasm | 259 |
| Levitation | 259 |
| Interesting Thoughts | 260 |
| What Is the Cause? | 260 |
| Cause for Thought | 260 |
| Time Will Prove All Things | 260 |
| The Spirit of Prophecy | 265 |
| A Lesson in Subjectivity | 265 |
| Explanation | 262 |
| Summary | 263 |
| LESSON SIX: PSYCHIC PHENOMENA AND IMMORTALITY | 266 |
| The Meaning of Immortality | 266 |
| Where Did Man Come from and Why? | 266 |
| p. xx | |
| Man Awakes with a Body | 267 |
| What Is the Body | 267 |
| Matter | 268 |
| The Ether of Science | 268 |
| The Resurrection Body | 269 |
| Conclusive Facts | 269 |
| In What Mental State Do We Go Out? | 269 |
| What Causes Psychic Manifestations? | 270 |
| Telepathy Does Not Explain Everything | 271 |
| Spirit Communication | 271 |
| Communication Must Be Mental | 272 |
| We Do Not Control Spirits | 273 |
| The Psychic Power Should Not Be Forced | 273 |
| LESSON SIX: RECAPITULATION | 276 |
| Immortality | 279 |
| Part III: SPECIAL ARTICLES | |
| ABSOLUTENESS AND RELATIVITY | 281 |
| THE PROBLEM OF EVIL | 282 |
| THE MEANING OF THE FALL | 283 |
| THE GARDEN OF EDEN | 284 |
| SALVATION AND GRACE | 284 |
| THE PERFECT UNIVERSE | 285 |
| IMAGINATION AND WILL | 286 |
| HOW TO VISUALIZE | 287 |
| THE SEQUENCE OF THE CREATIVE ORDER | 289 |
| MAN'S CREATIVE POWER MARVELOUS | 289 |
| CONCENTRATION | 289 |
| THE MIRROR OF THE SUBJECTIVE | 291 |
| PERSONALITY | 293 |
| Factors Necessary for a Dynamic Personality | 293 |
| p. xxi | |
| REPRESSION AND SUBLIMATION | 299 |
| The Spirit of Sex | 299 |
| Desire | 299 |
| The Spirit Is Expressed | 299 |
| Man Reënacts the Divine Nature | 300 |
| Congested Emotions | 301 |
| Irritation, Agitation and Fear | 301 |
| If We Were Expressed | 301 |
| Emotion and Intellect | 302 |
| The Conflict of Desire | 302 |
| The Emotion of Sex | 303 |
| The True Meaning of Love | 303 |
| Sex Not Necessary to the Expression of Love | 303 |
| When Sex Becomes Destructive | 304 |
| Male and Female | 304 |
| The Solution | 305 |
| Psycho-analysis | 306 |
| Self-analysis | 307 |
| Metaphysics | 307 |
| THE ATONEMENT | 307 |
| Man's Whole Trouble | 309 |
| Careful Preparation | 309 |
| The Vicarious Atonement | 310 |
| The Givingness of Spirit | 31I |
| The World Has Learned All That It Should Through Suffering | 311 |
| Our Part in the Atonement | 312 |
| THE PERSONALITY OF GOD | 312 |
| JESUS AS A SAVIOUR | 313 |
| SELF-EXISTENT LIFE | 313 |
| THE SUPREME AFFIRMATION | 314 |
| CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST | 315 |
| EVOLUTION | 315 |
| p. xxii | |
| Part IV: DAILY MEDITATIONS FOR SELF-HELP AND HEALING | |
| BODILY PERFECTION | 318 |
| Come, and Let Me Heal You | 318 |
| He Is Mighty Within Me to Heal | 319 |
| I Do Not Inherit Disease | 319 |
| No Congestion | 320 |
| No False Growth | 320 |
| No Weariness | 320 |
| Perfect Hearing | 321 |
| Perfect Vision | 321 |
| The All-seeing Eye | 322 |
| The Healing of the Flesh | 322 |
| There Is No Pain | 322 |
| COMPLETENESS | 323 |
| Happiness and Completion | 323 |
| Here and Now | 323 |
| Majestic Calm | 323 |
| No Loss | 324 |
| Oh, for a Tongue to Express | 324 |
| O Soul of Mine, Look Out and See | 324 |
| Seeing the Perfect | 325 |
| The Circle Is Complete | 325 |
| The Things That Are | 326 |
| DIVINE COMPANIONSHIP | 326 |
| A Song of Hope | 326 |
| Be Still and Know | 327 |
| Cast Aside All Doubt | 327 |
| Divine Companionship | 327 |
| His Eye Is on the Sparrow | 328 |
| Hope Cannot Die | 328 |
| I Am Not Alone | 328 |
| I Went into a Mountain | 329 |
| The Joy of the Soul | 329 |
| p. xxiii | |
| FREEDOM | 330 |
| Freedom | 330 |
| Freedom from Sin | 330 |
| Free from Sensitiveness | 331 |
| I Keep the Promise | 331 |
| Love Gleams Through the Mist | 331 |
| No Bondage | 332 |
| No Condemnation | 332 |
| No False Habit | 333 |
| No Hypnotism Nor False Suggestion | 333 |
| No Mistakes | 333 |
| There Are No Responsibilities | 334 |
| The Time. Has Come | 334 |
| Within Thy Law Is Freedom | 335 |
| HARMONY OF LIFE | 335 |
| Beauty | 335 |
| Friendship of the Spirit and of Man | 335 |
| He Wills Me to Be | 336 |
| I Serve | 336 |
| I Shall Not Doubt Nor Fear | 336 |
| I Was Told to Live | 337 |
| Law | 337 |
| Love | 337 |
| Love Dissolves All Fear | 337 |
| My Affairs | 338 |
| My Business | 338 |
| My Profession | 339 |
| No Delays | 339 |
| No Misrepresentations | 339 |
| No Obstructions | 340 |
| No Over-action Nor Inaction | 340 |
| One with Perfect Action | 340 |
| Peace, Poise and Power | 345 |
| Stillness and Receptivity | 341 |
| Thanksgiving and Praise | 341 |
| The Divine Promises Are Kept | 342 |
| The Inner Light | 342 |
| p. xxiv | |
| The Night Is Filled with Peace | 342 |
| The Seal of Approval | 343 |
| The Secret Way | 343 |
| The Shining Path | 343 |
| The Things I Need Come to Me | 344 |
| The Way Is Made Clear Before Me | 344 |
| IMMANENT POWER | 344 |
| As Love Enters, Fear Departs | 344 |
| He Will Keep Thee | 345 |
| Infinite Life Within | 345 |
| My Feet Shall Not Falter | 345 |
| No Harm Shall Befall Thee | 346 |
| Power to Live | 346 |
| The Circle of Love | 346 |
| The Circle of Protection | 347 |
| The Power Within Blesses All | 347 |
| The Quick Answer | 347 |
| INSPIRATION | 348 |
| A Song of Joy | 348 |
| Born of Eternal Day | 348 |
| I Arise and Go Forth | 349 |
| Inspiration | 349 |
| The Dawn Has Come | 349 |
| I Am Complete in Thee | 350 |
| PRESENCE OF THE ALL GOOD | 351 |
| A Marvelous Sense | 351 |
| Complete Confidence | 351 |
| Drawing the Good | 352 |
| I Fear No Evil | 352 |
| I Have Known, Always | 352 |
| I Meet My Good | 353 |
| My Atmosphere | 353 |
| My Good Is Complete | 353 |
| My Own Shall Come to Me | 354 |
| p. xxv | |
| My Own Shall Find Me | 354 |
| My Soul Reflects Thy Life | 354 |
| Out of the Depths of Life | 355 |
| Sorrow Flees from Me | 355 |
| Substance and Supply | 355 |
| The Ever and the All | 356 |
| The House of Love | 356 |
| SPIRIT OF GOD WITHIN | 357 |
| Arise, My Spirit | 357 |
| Birthless and Deathless | 357 |
| Command My Soul | 357 |
| Despair Gives Way to Joy | 358 |
| Free Spirit Within Me | 358 |
| Fulness of Light | 358 |
| He Who Inhabits Eternity | 359 |
| I Listen | 359 |
| Joy Has Come to Live with Me | 359 |
| Knowledge and Wisdom | 360 |
| My Thought Is in Thee 360 | |
| O Love Divine | 360 |
| Peace Steals Through the Soul | 361 |
| Stand Forth and Speak | 361 |
| Subtle Essence of Spirit Within Me | 361 |
| The Christ Within | 362 |
| The Everlasting Arms | 362 |
| The Mantle of Love | 362 |
| The Voice of Truth | 363 |
| The Witness of Truth | 363 |
| Through the Long Night Watches | 363 |
| Thy Strength Is Sufficient | 364 |
| Waiting on Thee | 364 |
| Whose Right It Is to Come | 365 |
| THE POWER OF THE WORD | 365 |
| I Control My Mental Household and Conquer All Fear and Doubt | 365 |
| p. xxvi | |
| My Word Comes Back to Me | 366 |
| My Word Shall Bear Fruit | 366 |
| Nothing Can Hinder | 366 |
| O Man, Speak Forth Thy Word | 367 |
| The Power of the Word | 367 |
| The Word of Power | 368 |
| The Unassailable Truth and the Irresistible Word | 368 |
| I Behold in Thee His Image | 369 |
| UNITY | 369 |
| I See No Evil | 369 |
| I Shall Never Die | 369 |
| Love to the World | 370 |
| My Life Is One with God | 370 |
| No Misunderstandings | 371 |
| The Divine Plan for Me | 371 |
| The Personality of God | 371 |
| The Radiation of Life | 372 |
| Unity | 372 |
| Within Thee Is Fulness of Life | 373 |
| GLOSSARY | 374 |
| THE CALL | 387 |
| INDEX | 389 |