Our Founder, Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes founded the international Religious Science movement and
wrote "The Science of Mind" as well as numerous other books on metaphysics. He also
founded the international monthly periodical, Science of Mind magazine, which
has been in continuous monthly publication since 1927. Ernest believed that God
is available to all of us, but that we must give up our limiting ideas and
cultivate an awareness of the Presence within us if we are to experience the
fullness of God.
About our Beliefs The Science of Mind is a spiritual philosophy for today. It is a correlation of laws of science, opinions of philosophy and revelations of religion, applied to human needs and the aspirations of every person. What We Believe We believe in God, the Living
Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause. This
One manifests itself in and through all creation but is not absorbed by its
creation. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and
necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God. We believe in the incarnation
of the Spirit in man and that all people are incarnations of the One Spirit. We
believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual
soul, forever and ever expanding. We believe that the Kingdom
of Heaven is within us and that we experience this Kingdom to the degree that we
become conscious of it. We believe the ultimate goal
of life to be a complete emancipation from all discord of every nature, and that
this goal is sure to be attained by all. We believe in the unity of
all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God. We believe that God is
personal to all who feel this indwelling Presence. We believe in the direct
revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of the
individual, and that any person may become a revealer of Truth who lives in
close contact with the indwelling God. We believe that the Universal
Spirit, which is God, operates through a Universal Mind, which is the Law of
God; and that we are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the direct
impress of our thought and acts upon it. We believe in the healing of
the sick through the power of this Mind. We believe in the eternal
Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness, and the eternal Givingness of Life to
all. We believe in our own soul,
our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is
God.