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Discover a
Richer Life
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Ernest Holmes
Compiled and Edited by
WILLIS KINNEAR
JEREMY P. TARCHER/PENGUIN
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Holmes, Ernest, 1887-1960.
Discover a richer life/Ernest Holmes. —1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-58542-812-0
1. Conduct of life. 2. Success. 3. Faith. I. Title.
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Contents
Foreword ix
Part One
Foundations for Effective Living
1. PHILOSOPHY: Something to Think About 3
2. RELIGION: Something to Believe 8
3. SCIENCE: Something to Use 12
4. SCIENCE OF MIND: Something to Live By 18
Part Two
Practical Prayer
5. THE SCIENCE OF PRAYER: It Is Definite and Concise 25
6. THE ESSENCE OF PRAYER: An Expanded Awareness 36
7. USING THE LAW OF MIND: A Response to Every Thought 41
8. THE WAY PRAYER WORKS: As You Believe It Works 47
Part Three
Discover Your Place in Life
9. START TO LIVE A NEW LIFE: It Is Available Now 55
10. THE UNIVERSE IS FOR YOU: Start to Use It 62
11. STARS, ATOMS, AND MEN: Recognize Your Importance 70
12. UNLIMITED LIVING: Free Your Thinking 76
Part Four
The Power of Faith
13- FAITH, THE WAY TO LIFE: Convictions Have Power 87
14. AN EXPERIMENT WITH FAITH:
Develop Your Possibilities 94
15. DYNAMIC FAITH IS EFFECTIVE!:
It Creates Your Experience 100
16. THE USE OF SPIRITUAL IDEAS: Faith Becomes Fact 107
Part Five
How to Live Successfully
17• THE WAY TO SUCCEED: There Are Definite Rules 115
18. HOW TO BUILD SECURITY: It’s an Inside Job 121
19. THOUGHT AND PHYSICAL HEALTH:
Your Body Reflects Your Ideas 127
20. YOU ARE IMMORTAL, NOW?: There Is Only One Life 138
Foreword
E rnest Holmes was one of the great spiritual leaders of
our day. He always wrote and spoke with a simplicity
and directness that conveyed the essence and meaning of the
philosophy of Science of Mind, which he formulated and by
means of which countless thousands have been able to ex¬
perience a better way of life.
At the time he passed on in 1960, he left a great wealth
of unpublished material, most of which will eventually ap¬
pear as articles in Science of Mind magazine.
For over thirty years he had regular monthly features in
the magazine, and this material has never been available in
any other way. This volume is the first of a series that will
X Foreword
assemble these magazine articles, bringing them together in
a related manner and in a permanent form.
It is felt that each additional -volume of Dr. Holmes’s
works will be an important contribution to his basic writ¬
ings on Science of Mind.
Willis Kinnear
Discover a
Richer Life
Part One
Foundations for
Effective Living
For too long we have been dividing ourselves as well as the
universe in which we live into small unrelated segments. We
have been so busy doing this that we have overlooked the fact
that everything is part of one stupendous whole. We have sep¬
arated the spirit from the mind, and the mind from the body.
We have isolated living things from that which causes them to
live. The stars and the atoms we consider apart from the pur¬
posive Creativity which creates and sustains them.
There comes a time when it is necessary to try and put
things back together again. We need to start to correlate and
integrate the knowledge we have into a unified practical system
of thought for our greater benefit in everyday living.
The ideas and wisdom expressed in the following chapters
will enable you to more fully express the wonderful and com¬
plete person you are.
Something to Think About
hilosophy means the love of wisdom. The study of phi-
J_ losophy is an inquiry into the knowledge of general
principles, a search after truth. Since there are many kinds
of wisdom and many truths, it follows that there are many
philosophies. From its broadest viewpoint the average mans
philosophy is his opinion about life. The philosophy of a
religious man is his opinion of the relationship between God
and man. The philosophy of a businessman constitutes his
speculative thought about economics. Philosophical knowl¬
edge is an attempt to establish for us a rational explanation
of things as they are.
We have two general philosophical outlooks on life: one
is idealistic, the other materialistic. Either one may or may
4 Ernest Holmes
not be practical. In the highest use of the term, philosophy
is supposed to be ideal; hence, we have the term “idealistic
philosophy” which in its extreme-form means interpret¬
ing the universe purely in terms of ideas. The materialistic
viewpoint of life interprets it entirely in terms of physical
processes.
Until recent years the study of philosophy was held to be
entirely speculative thought, a sort of Utopian dream. Those
who pursued its study were considered impractical dream¬
ers; marvelous perhaps in their mental deductions, but nev¬
ertheless pursuing a useless cause in a world of pragmatic
values.
The modern philosophical outlook, however, is different.
The quest after truth is now so universal that every man’s
mind is stimulated to inquire into the reason for things, and
to study the relationships existing between the world of
everyday life and action, and those higher values which we
all sense. The study of philosophy is no longer looked upon
as an idle speculation, a useless mental performance, en¬
tirely impractical, but is now viewed as one of the noblest
pursuits to which the mind may give its attention. More
books are being written on philosophy today than in any
other period of history.
There is an earnest and an insistent desire on the part of
ever-increasing numbers of people to discover the reason for
Discover a Richer Life 5
things and the relationships existing between them, particu¬
larly in the realm of idealistic philosophy. There is an effort
to discern the relationship between the Creator and cre¬
ation, the invisible Cause and Its visible effect; between
God, or the universal creative Spirit, and man—man being
the only form of life we know of having the power to con¬
sciously and definitely sense the necessity of there being
such relationships.
There is an apparent tendency in recent years among
many of our scientists to turn to philosophy for a fuller ex¬
planation of their scientific findings. Today we find the
study of philosophy not for those who turn from the practi¬
cal values of life to daydreaming, or the courtship of mental
hallucinations, but necessary to those who, having some
knowledge of scientific principles and facts and some un¬
derstanding of the practical values of life, still believe that
there is a synthesis or a unifying Cause back of all facts.
It is from this viewpoint that we approach the study
of philosophy. Like all other inquirers into truth, we have
certain fundamental assumptions or beliefs which we seek
to reconcile to the facts of human experience. These funda¬
mental assumptions or beliefs are simple and few: There is
an infinite creative Intelligence which creates all things by
imparting of Itself to become that which is created. This
original creative Cause is an indivisible unity—in Its own
6 Ernest Holmes
nature changeless and eternal—and from It proceed laws
which sustain the visible universe.
It is the nature of this original Cause to continuously
express, to eternally do new things; yet in doing these things
It can never contradict Its own nature. The expression of
this infinite Spirit in an ascending creation is what we call
evolution. All things, ourselves included, are some manifes¬
tation of It; hence all things have a direct relationship to It.
Since all things emerge from It and are sustained by It, and
since It is all things, this relationship is direct and imme¬
diate. Our consciousness of this relationship is through an
inner awareness.
This inner awareness on our part is not only our aware¬
ness of It but is also Its awareness of us. Hence our awareness
of It and Its awareness of us are one and the same thing;
man’s consciousness of himself is God’s consciousness of
man. As man’s consciousness expands he becomes more
and more God-conscious.
Since God is infinite, the possibility of man’s expansion
is limitless. Therefore evolution or unfoldment is the eternal
process through which Being passes into becoming. This
does not make man God nor does man create God; but man
at any and every level of consciousness is, at such level, a
manifestation of the original Mind. As a drop of water is in
the ocean, and in its essence is like the ocean, but still never
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is the whole ocean; so man is in God, partakes of the nature
of God, in essence is One with God, but never is God. Man
could never become the whole God for then he would have
exhausted the possibilities of the Infinite, which by defini¬
tion is an impossibility.
The progressive awakening of man to greater ideals and
accomplishments, through art, science, philosophy, and re¬
ligion, is the passing of Spirit through him into expression.
It is the nature of this original Spirit to incarnate Itself in and
as everything, to quicken all form into life, to create, sustain,
promote, and expand; thus does It provide for Itself, within
Itself, avenues for Self-expression and the manifestation of
Its own infinite Self-knowingness.
