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Words from Our
Founder... I believe in the continuation of the personal life beyond the grave, in the continuity of the individual stream of consciousness with a full recollection of itself and the ability to know and to make itself known. I wish to feel, when the experience of physical death shall occur, that that which I really am will continue to live beyond the grave...The spiral of life is upward. Evolution carries us forward, not backward...I want to live and keep on living and to know that I am I; and unless immortality means this, death means the cutting off of all conscious life, contact or recognition, and it could then be truly said of the that it dies with the grave...It is human to grieve over the loss of dear ones. We love them and cannot help missing them, but a true realization of the immortality and continuity of the individual soul, will rob our grief of hopelessness. We shall realize that they are in God's keeping and they are safe. We shall know that loving friends have met them, and that their life still flows on with the currents of eternity. - Dr. Ernest Holmes in The Science of Mind Hopefully these words will be of help to those dealing with their own family member's / friends' transition or that of Terry Schiavo or Pope John Paul II .
GETTING AND GIVING The Spirit is ever giving, but we must take.
Science of Mind pg. 445 One of the laws of radiation says that the absorbing power of a substance is equal to its emitting power, which means that the ones that absorb the most must be the ones which emit the most. Or to state the proposition in another way, we can take in only what we give out. Jesus said, Give, and it shall be given unto you. Now here is a law in nature verified by science, and we believe that every law in physical nature is reproduced in the Laws of Mind. This would have to be so if the Universe is one system rather than two, and if Unity is to be maintained throughout the whole. There is a reason for these things, and the reason is that everything moves in a circle. Everything bends back upon itself. As a man sows so shall he reap, and so must he reap until he sows differently. Whitman said that the gift is most to the giver and comes back most to him, and we all know that since the universe is in balance nothing can leave any point without an equal something returning to it. Each one of us is a point in the Infinite Mind, a center in the Consciousness of God or the Living Spirit. We do not live because we understand Life or even put Life into our own living; we live because Life lives in us. We could make no greater mistake than to think that we created either Life or Law, but it would be an equal error to suppose that we escape Life or Law. We are subject to it but not in any predetermined sense, for no matter what happened yesterday we can change its sequence today. If we have given out but little and received only an equal amount, we can begin to give out more, and just as surely as we do this, more will return to us. The giving and receiving are at the center of our own being; the going out from us is but one end of the coming back to us, and the coming back to us is merely the other end of the going out from us. The whole thing is so simple that its very simplicity eludes us, and we look for a more profound reason for the universe being in balance, and why being in balance it automatically proclaims the law of justice. If the going out and the coming back are equal, then in a certain sense, like the energy and mass of Einstein, they are equal, identical, and interchangeable. To refuse to give is to refuse to live to the fullest extent. To refuse to give love is to refuse receive love. That which we refuse to give out not only closes the door on the giving but on the receiving as well. All this sounds like quite a tough proposition until we come to realize that if it were any other way we would not be free, but would be bound by external circumstances. Freedom can exist only on the proposition that it is first of all individual. If we know that we ourselves are centers of distribution and centers of accumulation and that the two are equally identical and interchangeable, and if we know that nothing interferes with this but ourselves, we are free to act as we would be acted upon. This is why Jesus said,...all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. - Dr. Ernest Holmes in Living the Science of Mind |
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