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RICHER LIVING by Ernest Holmes & Raymond Charles Barker Order in Adobe PDF eBook or printed form for $11.95 (+ printing charge) or click here to order in printed form from Amazon.com for $16.95 Book
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This book contains 365 tested and proven meditations, one for each day of the year, which have helped thousands in their search for a richer life. As you use them daily, either silently or audibly, you will discover inner abilities, true inspiration, greater health, prosperity and peace of mind. FOREWORD
The Science of Mind, as
presented throughout these meditations, is
an outgrowth of spiritual faith and the knowledge of psychological
facts. The
spiritual faith which people have had throughout the ages has been
perhaps the
most outstanding fact in all human experience. Before science was
conceived,
the Presence of God was felt. Before ever mental actions or reactions
were
analyzed, history was full of instances of men and women who had
experienced
God, whose consciousness had risen above the everyday facts of ordinary
life
and reached some new plane of activity. The science of psychology is
comparatively new, but the mental experience
of the invisible universe is as old as is the history of man. The
Science of
Mind is also new in that for the first time in the history of the human
race
definite attempts are being made to put together all findings which
would
contribute to the establishment of man's relationship to the
universe and to
the application of his spiritual understanding to the everyday
problems of
human life. This science necessarily starts
out with the proposition that we
are living in a spiritual universe, whose sole government is one of
harmony,
and that the use of right ideas is the enforcement of its law. We, as
individuals, do not originate either truth or that which is not true,
but
rather, each one of us awakes to find himself in a universe of law and
order,
of absolute intelligence and of perfect manifestation. The Science of Mind is built
upon the theory that there is One Infinite
Mind which, of necessity, includes all that is intelligent, whether
that intelligence
is in man, animal or the invisible Presence which we call God. In it we
learn
to have a spiritual sense of things. This spiritual sense of
things is what
is, meant by the Consciousness of Christ. To be able to discern the
spiritual
idea back of its physical symbol is to use the mind which Jesus had. The Science of Mind is an
intensely practical thing because it
teaches us how to use Mind for definite purposes, such as helping those
who are
sick, impoverished or unhappy, and each one of us should learn to
become a practitioner
of this art, a demonstrator of its Principle, a conscious user of
its Power.
One of the first things we learn is that Power already exists but the
existence
of Power is of no particular value to us until we use
It. We must not only be conscious of Power,
but we must be actively conscious of It. The ever increasing thousands
of persons who are daily proving
this principle in some degree may add to our conviction that we are
dealing
with the most intense reality the human mind has ever conceived. The
practice
of this science is the application of a definite technique, the law of
right
thought, of true spiritual understanding. The Science of Mind reveals
that every man is a potential Christ.
Every man has inherent God-power within him. And how could this
God-power be
used other than through his thought. Since it would be impossible for a
man to
act as an intelligent being unless he could first think, the very idea
of man
supposes a center of consciousness, a center of thought activity. The
Science
of Mind reveals that this center of God activity within us is in each
one a
complete and unique manifestation of the Parent Mind; that the
Power of God
does actually exist in man. The universe, rightly
interpreted, is a spiritual system governed
by the Law of Cause and Effect, which is fundamentally mental. For if
there is
any universe external to some conceiving consciousness, then that
universe man
has not yet discovered and it is unthinkable that he ever will. It is,
therefore, a basic proposition in our philosophy that we live in a
mental or
spiritual universe and that things may be resolved into thoughts.
This is the
very foundation upon which all scientific practice must be
established and
when one is able to establish this premise, in his own thought, he at
once
finds himself equipped with an instrument through which he may change
his
environment. The following pages contain
tested and proven meditations which
have helped thousands in their search for a richer life. As you use
them daily,
either silently or audibly, you will discover inner abilities, true
inspiration, greater health, prosperity and peace of mind. THE AUTHORS Order
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