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Creative Mind and Success: Part II: The Single Stream of ...

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This is an excerpt from a 1919 New Thought self-help book by Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, written in the tradition of mental causation — the belief that thought directly shapes material reality. Holmes argues that a consistent, emotionally charged stream of mental focus directed into a universal "Creative Mind" will inevitably manifest as changed outer circumstances, with Holmes claiming a dedicated practitioner can transform their life conditions within a year. The work's practical instruction centers on daily visualization: clearly picture the desired outcome, affirm it as already accomplished, and invest the affirmation with feeling, since Holmes insists feeling rather than words is the actual generative force. A distinctive claim is that solitary, unified thought is more powerful than collective thinking that lacks harmony — even one person's coherent mental stream outperforms many conflicting ones. Holmes also emphasizes a posture of detachment from outward appearances, arguing that reality is made in Mind first and that worry or attention to contrary conditions undermines the process. Readers drawn to early 20th-century metaphysical self-help, the Law of Attraction lineage, or the intellectual roots of movements like Science of Mind will find this a concise, earnest statement of those principles.

Creative Mind and Success: Part II: The Single Stream of ...

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