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The Science of Mind, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1926], at sacred-texts.com
| PEACE BE UNTO THEE, STRANGER | |
| FOREWORD | |
| YOURSELF | |
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Part I: THE EVOLUTION OF MAN'S THOUGHT |
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| Instinctive Man | |
| Nature Waits on Man's Self-recognition | |
| The First Great Discovery | |
| The Inner Sense Awakens | |
| The Great Question "Why" | |
| The Greatest Discovery of All Time--MIND | |
| The Brain Does Not Think | |
| We Do Not See the Thinker | |
| The Body Unconscious Without the Thinker | |
| The Conscious and the Unconscious Thought | |
| A New Basis of Thought | |
| The Law of Mind | |
| Unconscious Mind at Work | |
| Another Great Discovery--Thought Reached Others | |
| The Discovery of Race-Thought | |
| A Universal Medium Which All Must Come to Believe In | |
| Another Question Comes Up--Why Are People Poor? | |
| Man Begins to Realize That His Conditions Are Controlled by Thought | |
| Realizes That He Must Think Correctly | |
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Part II: THE LESSONS |
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| LESSON ONE: INTRODUCTION | |
| Science | |
| How Laws Are Discovered | |
| Proof of Mind | |
| Where Our Thoughts Go | |
| Suggestion Becomes Memory | |
| Mental Medium Through All | |
| Reading Thought | |
| Mental Law | |
| The Word of God as Law | |
| Threefold Nature of God | |
| Trinity of Being | |
| Conscious Mind in God and Man | |
| Unity | |
| Worship of God | |
| Many Gods | |
| Belief in Duality--Its Results | |
| Duality in Theology | |
| Duality in Philosophy | |
| Duality and Science | |
| An Awakening | |
| Philosophy Leads Man's Thought | |
| A Deep Inquiry | |
| The Great Difficulty | |
| The Voice of God in Creation | |
| The Word of God | |
| Spirit Knows Itself | |
| Law, Servant of the Word | |
| Forms of Spirit or Creation | |
| Meaning of Creation | |
| The Word Alone Is Conscious | |
| The Thought of God | |
| Eternal Creation | |
| The Universe Is Alive | |
| Conclusion | |
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| Upper Section | |
| Middle Section | |
| Lowest Section | |
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| Spirit | |
| Soul | |
| Two Ways of Reasoning | |
| Body | |
| The Changeless | |
| Cause and Effect | |
| Unity and Multiplicity | |
| Immortality | |
| Forms | |
| Allness of Truth | |
| Volition | |
| Only One Mind | |
| Individuality | |
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| The World Has Learned All It Can Through Suffering | |
| What Individuality Really Means | |
| The Meaning of Freedom | |
| Sin and Punishment. Righteousness and Reward | |
| The Incarnation of Spirit | |
| Different Viewpoints | |
| The Lesson of Nature's Laws | |
| The Relation of Man to the Universe of Spirit | |
| Man's Experience | |
| Nature Waits on Man | |
| Mental and Spiritual Laws | |
| God and Man | |
| Man Reënacts the Nature of God | |
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| The Two Ways to Reason | |
| Nothing Happens by Chance | |
| Many Are Waking Up to the Facts | |
| The Time Has Come to Know the Truth | |
| A Wonderful Experiment | |
| What Psychology Teaches About Man's Nature | |
| The Self-knowing Mind | |
| Man's Unity with the Whole | |
| Man a Center of God-Consciousness | |
| Unity with Law | |
| The Subjective Obeys the Objective | |
| The Body | |
| Last Stages of Matter | |
| The Unity of All Body | |
| The Formless and the Formed | |
| Individuality Means Self-Choice | |
| The Greatest Discovery Ever Made | |
| A Complete Unity | |
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| Upper Section | |
| Middle Section | |
| Lowest Section | |
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| Spirit | |
| Soul | |
| Body | |
| Limitless Medium | |
| Christ and Antichrist | |
| Man Is Identified in Mind | |
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| Treatment | |
| The Aim of Evolution | |
| Methods of Treatment | |
| Subjective Law | |
| Thought and the Creative Medium | |
| Each Is the Logical Result of His Own Thinking | |
| A Law of Belief | |
| We Are Dealing with Law | |
| The Cycle of Necessity and Karmic Law | |
| The Law of Action and Reaction | |
| We Argue in Mind | |
| Wrong Use of Mind | |
| Subjective But Not Unconscious | |
| How Habits Are Formed | |
| Law Is Mind in Action | |
| We Are Bound by Our Own Freedom | |
| Oneness with All Law | |
| Demonstration | |
| Karmic Law | |
| Thought Force | |
| Choosing Thought | |
| Inducing Thought | |
| Place No Limit on Principle | |
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| Healing | |
| What We Understand About Healing | |
| Thoughts Are Things | |
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| Individuality | |
| Man Reënacts God | |
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| Not Limited by Principle | |
| Mental Treatment Is Real | |
| Man Comes Through Subjectivity | |
| Born Perfect | |
| Race-Suggestion | |
| Disease Is Impersonal | |
| How to Heal | |
| Mind Is the Actor | |
| Disease Is Not Always Due to Conscious Thought | |
| We Deal with Ideas | |
| Have No Doubts | |
| Thinking in Treatment | |
| Do Not Try to Go Beyond Your Understanding | |
| What a Practitioner Must Know | |
| Healing Is Clear Thinking | |
| Only One Law | |
| No Sensation in Treatments | |
| How to Remove Doubt | |
| The Truth Demonstrates Itself | |
| Disease Is Mental | |
| The Medium of Healing | |
| Depend on Principle | |
| Definite Work in Healing | |
| Repeating Treatments | |
| Remove the Complex | |
| Healing Pain | |
| Headache | |
| What Right Thought Does | |
| How Habits Are Healed | |
| The Seed of Thought | |
| What Can Be Healed | |
| Why People Get Tired | |
| The Idea Must Take Form | |
| Resolve Things into Thoughts | |
| Healing Insanity | |
| What a Practitioner Does | |
| Back of the Appearance Is the Reality | |
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| Seeing Perfection | |
| Healing Lung Trouble | |
| We Do Not Send Out Thoughts | |
| Vision | |
| Healing Constipation | |
| Disease Not an Entity | |
| Throat Trouble | |
| Congestion | |
| Paralysis | |
| Growths | |
| Treating Children | |
| Power of the Word | |
| No Age | |
| Memory | |
| Guidance in Treating | |
| How to Heal | |
| Remove Doubt | |
| No Fear | |
| Psycho-analysis | |
| Deal Only with Thoughts | |
| Nervousness | |
| Stammering | |
| Argument in Treatment | |
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| The Law Is Infinite | |
| The Possibilities of the Law | |
| Spirit and Mental Law | |
| Demonstration, or Bringing Things to Pass | |
| Our Part | |
| Treatment | |
| Medium Between Man and His Manifestation | |
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| Law of Reflection | |
| Attracting Friends | |
| The Principle of Prosperity | |
| We Deal with Absoluteness | |
| Prayer Is Its Own Answer | |
| If You Know | |
| No Personal Responsibility | |
| Helping an Inventor | |
| Look Only at What You Want | |
| Definite Plan | |
| Attraction | |
| How to Demonstrate a Home | |
| Resist Not | |
| Healing a Misunderstanding | |
| Fate | |
| Attraction of Personality | |
| See Life Expressed | |
| Look to the Ultimate | |
| No Mistakes | |
| Causes and Conditions | |
| Perfect Action | |
| Mental Equivalents | |
| Treating for Activity | |
| Receiving Information | |
| No Failures | |
| Opportunity | |
| No Mistakes | |
| Demonstration by Proof | |
| Handling a Schoolroom | |
| The Law of Correspondence | |
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| True Mysticism and the Psychic Sense | |
| What the Mystics Have Taught | |
| No Ultimate Evil | |
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| Ultimate Salvation of All | |
| Freedom from Burden | |
| Unity of All | |
| Realization of Individuality | |
| Normalcy | |
| The Great Light | |
| What the Mystics Have Taught About the Individual | |
| Instinct and Intuition | |
| Illumination and Cosmic Consciousness | |
| The Highest Practice | |
| The Power of Jesus | |
| Turning Within | |
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| Individuality | |
| Further Evolution | |
| The Truth Is Known | |
| The Answer Is in Man | |
| God--Infinite Personality | |
| Unity | |
| Hold to the Good | |
| The Infinite is Personal to All | |
| The Christ | |
| Realization | |
| Meditation | |
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| Psychic Phenomena and Immortality | |
| No Apologies | |
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| The Subjective Mind | |
| Seat of Memory | |
| Suggestion and Subjectivity | |
| Subjective Communication | |
| Subjective Mind and Inspiration | |
| Mental Atmospheres | |
| How to Create Personal Charm | |
| The Atmosphere of Places | |
| The Race-Mind 239 |
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| The Mind of History | |
| Telepathy | |
| Tuning in on Thought | |
| Mental Pictures | |
| Conditions Necessary for the Best Results | |
| Deep Telepathic Messages | |
| Reading the History of the Individual | |
| Personal Readings | |
| Streams of Consciousness | |
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| Entering the Stream of Thought | |
| The Vibration of a Book | |
| Why Saints Have Seen Jesus | |
| Many Mental Pictures | |
| The Human Aura | |
| Halo | |
| Unpleasant Atmospheres | |
| Habit | |
| Mania | |
| Obsession | |
| Personal Influence and Obsession | |
| Obsession of Discarnate Spirits | |
| General Theory of Obsession and Mental Influence | |
| Insanity | |
| The Psychic Power Must Be Controlled | |
| Normal State | |
| The Aim of Evolution | |
| The State of Trance | |
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| Normal Psychic Capacities | |
| Abnormal Psychic Powers | |
| Clairvoyance | |
| Psychometry | |
| Clairaudience | |
| Independent Voices | |
| Apparitions | |
| Ghosts and Phantasms of the Dead | |
| Ghosts Sometimes Can Speak | |
| Projecting the Mentality | |
| Crystal Gazing | |
| Black Magic | |
| The Modern Curse | |
| Automatic Writing | |
| Independent Writing | |
| Hudson's Theory | |
| Smelling Where There Is Nothing to Smell | |
| Grasping Objects Without the Hand | |
| Telekinetic Energy | |
| Table Tipping | |
| Rappings | |
| Theory of Ectoplasm | |
| Levitation | |
| Interesting Thoughts | |
| What Is the Cause? | |
| Cause for Thought | |
| Time Will Prove All Things | |
| The Spirit of Prophecy | |
| A Lesson in Subjectivity | |
| Explanation | |
| Summary | |
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| The Meaning of Immortality | |
| Where Did Man Come from and Why? | |
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| Man Awakes with a Body | |
| What Is the Body | |
| Matter | |
| The Ether of Science | |
| The Resurrection Body | |
| Conclusive Facts | |
| In What Mental State Do We Go Out? | |
| What Causes Psychic Manifestations? | |
| Telepathy Does Not Explain Everything | |
| Spirit Communication | |
| Communication Must Be Mental | |
| We Do Not Control Spirits | |
| The Psychic Power Should Not Be Forced | |
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| Immortality | |
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Part III: SPECIAL ARTICLES |
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| ABSOLUTENESS AND RELATIVITY | |
| THE PROBLEM OF EVIL | |
| THE MEANING OF THE FALL | |
| THE GARDEN OF EDEN | |
| SALVATION AND GRACE | |
| THE PERFECT UNIVERSE | |
| IMAGINATION AND WILL | |
| HOW TO VISUALIZE | |
| THE SEQUENCE OF THE CREATIVE ORDER | |
| MAN'S CREATIVE POWER MARVELOUS | |
| CONCENTRATION | |
| THE MIRROR OF THE SUBJECTIVE | |
| PERSONALITY | |
| Factors Necessary for a Dynamic Personality | |
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| REPRESSION AND SUBLIMATION | |
| The Spirit of Sex | |
| Desire | |
| The Spirit Is Expressed | |
| Man Reënacts the Divine Nature | |
| Congested Emotions | |
| Irritation, Agitation and Fear | |
| If We Were Expressed | |
| Emotion and Intellect | |
| The Conflict of Desire | |
| The Emotion of Sex | |
| The True Meaning of Love | |
| Sex Not Necessary to the Expression of Love | |
| When Sex Becomes Destructive | |
| Male and Female | |
| The Solution | |
| Psycho-analysis | |
| Self-analysis | |
| Metaphysics | |
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| Man's Whole Trouble | |
| Careful Preparation | |
| The Vicarious Atonement | |
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| The World Has Learned All That It Should Through Suffering | |
| Our Part in the Atonement | |
| THE PERSONALITY OF GOD | |
| JESUS AS A SAVIOUR | |
| SELF-EXISTENT LIFE | |
| THE SUPREME AFFIRMATION | |
| CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST | |
| EVOLUTION | |
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Part IV: DAILY MEDITATIONS FOR SELF-HELP AND HEALING |
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| Come, and Let Me Heal You | |
| He Is Mighty Within Me to Heal | |
| I Do Not Inherit Disease | |
| No Congestion | |
| No False Growth | |
| No Weariness | |
| Perfect Hearing | |
| Perfect Vision | |
| The All-seeing Eye | |
| The Healing of the Flesh | |
| There Is No Pain | |
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| Happiness and Completion | |
| Here and Now | |
| Majestic Calm | |
| No Loss | |
| Oh, for a Tongue to Express | |
| O Soul of Mine, Look Out and See | |
| Seeing the Perfect | |
| The Circle Is Complete | |
| The Things That Are | |
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| A Song of Hope | |
| Be Still and Know | |
| Cast Aside All Doubt | |
| Divine Companionship | |
| His Eye Is on the Sparrow | |
| Hope Cannot Die | |
| I Am Not Alone | |
| I Went into a Mountain | |
| The Joy of the Soul | |
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| Freedom | |
| Freedom from Sin | |
| Free from Sensitiveness | |
| I Keep the Promise | |
| Love Gleams Through the Mist | |
| No Bondage | |
| No Condemnation | |
| No False Habit | |
| No Hypnotism Nor False Suggestion | |
| No Mistakes | |
| There Are No Responsibilities | |
| The Time. Has Come | |
| Within Thy Law Is Freedom | |
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| Beauty | |
| Friendship of the Spirit and of Man | |
| He Wills Me to Be | |
| I Serve | |
| I Shall Not Doubt Nor Fear | |
| I Was Told to Live | |
| Law | |
| Love | |
| Love Dissolves All Fear | |
| My Affairs | |
| My Business | |
| My Profession | |
| No Delays | |
| No Misrepresentations | |
| No Obstructions | |
| No Over-action Nor Inaction | |
| One with Perfect Action | |
| Peace, Poise and Power | |
| Stillness and Receptivity | |
| Thanksgiving and Praise | |
| The Divine Promises Are Kept | |
| The Inner Light | |
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| The Night Is Filled with Peace | |
| The Seal of Approval | |
| The Secret Way | |
| The Shining Path | |
| The Things I Need Come to Me | |
| The Way Is Made Clear Before Me | |
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| As Love Enters, Fear Departs | |
| He Will Keep Thee | |
| Infinite Life Within | |
| My Feet Shall Not Falter | |
| No Harm Shall Befall Thee | |
| Power to Live | |
| The Circle of Love | |
| The Circle of Protection | |
| The Power Within Blesses All | |
| The Quick Answer | |
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| A Song of Joy | |
| Born of Eternal Day | |
| I Arise and Go Forth | |
| Inspiration | |
| The Dawn Has Come | |
| I Am Complete in Thee | |
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| A Marvelous Sense | |
| Complete Confidence | |
| Drawing the Good | |
| I Fear No Evil | |
| I Have Known, Always | |
| I Meet My Good | |
| My Atmosphere | |
| My Good Is Complete | |
| My Own Shall Come to Me | |
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| My Own Shall Find Me | |
| My Soul Reflects Thy Life | |
| Out of the Depths of Life | |
| Sorrow Flees from Me | |
| Substance and Supply | |
| The Ever and the All | |
| The House of Love | |
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| Arise, My Spirit | |
| Birthless and Deathless | |
| Command My Soul | |
| Despair Gives Way to Joy | |
| Free Spirit Within Me | |
| Fulness of Light | |
| He Who Inhabits Eternity | |
| I Listen | |
| Joy Has Come to Live with Me | |
| Knowledge and Wisdom | |
| My Thought Is in Thee 360 |
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| O Love Divine | |
| Peace Steals Through the Soul | |
| Stand Forth and Speak | |
| Subtle Essence of Spirit Within Me | |
| The Christ Within | |
| The Everlasting Arms | |
| The Mantle of Love | |
| The Voice of Truth | |
| The Witness of Truth | |
| Through the Long Night Watches | |
| Thy Strength Is Sufficient | |
| Waiting on Thee | |
| Whose Right It Is to Come | |
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| I Control My Mental Household and Conquer All Fear and Doubt | |
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| My Word Comes Back to Me | |
| My Word Shall Bear Fruit | |
| Nothing Can Hinder | |
| O Man, Speak Forth Thy Word | |
| The Power of the Word | |
| The Word of Power | |
| The Unassailable Truth and the Irresistible Word | |
| I Behold in Thee His Image | |
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| I See No Evil | |
| I Shall Never Die | |
| Love to the World | |
| My Life Is One with God | |
| No Misunderstandings | |
| The Divine Plan for Me | |
| The Personality of God | |
| The Radiation of Life | |
| Unity | |
| Within Thee Is Fulness of Life | |
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