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 God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.
• We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in everyone 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 Heaven is within us and that we experience it 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 who lives in close contact with the indwelling God may become a revealer of Truth.
• We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through 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 it the control of conditions 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.

What We Believe, by Ernest Holmes, was published in the first issue of
Science of Mind Magazine, October 1927. This edited version uses gender inclusive language.

What is Science of Mind?

Science of Mind is a spiritual philosophy that is a correlation of laws of science, opinions of philosophy and revelations of religion, applied to human needs and the aspirations of man. It was developed by Dr. Ernest Holmes (1887 - 1960). Uncomplicated by dogma, hidden doctrine, superstition, or outdated concepts, it probes deeply and directly into the very Source of Life, emerging with a pure and useful knowledge of principals which are universal.
This Source of Life has been called by many names-- God, Being, Spirit, First Cause, Love-- and Holmes used all of these designations interchangeably; one of his own phrases, however, particularly demonstrates the unusual accessibility of the Science of Mind, as he refers to that Source of life simply as "The Thing Itself." Here (and how refreshing in such writing) is a philosopher who uses simple and direct language, expressing himself specifically to be understood, rather than explaining these supremely meaningful ideas in a way that only someone with specialized academic training will find intelligible.

This simplicity and clarity is one reason why Holmes' classic metaphysical textbook The Science of Mind, is in its forty-fifth printing; why there are hundreds of churches, fellowships, and study groups based on his teachings; and why, in 1997, Science of Mind Magazine celebrated its seventieth year of continuous monthly publication.
What does the Science of Mind teach? Its entire message might be summarized as being the study of The Thing Itself, The Way It Works, What It Does and How To Use It. Despite the transcendent significance of words such as these (which are the titles of the first four chapters in The Science of Mind), there is clearly no irrelevant theology included among them, for even as Holmes stated that the whole functioning of the universe is founded in One Law of Mind, he was explicit in affirming that it is never necessary to give any theological meaning to that Law or what it does. Thus, the Science of Mind, while addressing ultimate questions about the nature of God and of humanity, is a philosophy for all people everywhere and is studied as avidly by those who profess no specific religion as it is by others who are actively involved in the churches of many denominations.
Health, abundance, security, love, peace and happiness are regarded as being the natural state of every person, and therefore within the immediate grasp of all who apply the principals which Science of Mind explains.