365 December 21

365 A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes

I Know That I Understand How to Speak the Word of Truth "It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. —JOHN 6:63 "And where do name and form both cease, and turn to utter nothingness? And the answer is, “In consciousness invisible and infinite, of radiance bright." —BUDDHIST TEXT

“This lesson tells us that the objective world is quickened by the indwelling Spirit. The words of Truth are life unto every form they animate. All words that are spoken in a realization of the Divine Nature are words of Truth and all such words give life. “It is the spirit that quickeneth.” Our lesson also tells us that all objects, that is, the entire objective universe, comes from One Substance. This Substance is differentiated, that is, manifest in many forms. It looks as though the cause were dual because the forms are all different, but our lesson clearly states that we must not fall under this delusion of a dualistic character, but, rather, penetrate the Unity back of all form. In our text from Buddhism, we get the idea that there is a place where both the objective name and form cease to exist as things in themselves. There is an invisible consciousness that radiates all forms. This does not mean a denial of the objective world, but, rather, an affirmation that it is an effect projected from, by, and within a transcendent cause that has complete control over it.

I know that I understand how to speak the word of Truth. I know that the invisible Power of the Spirit is with me. I know that my world is peopled with forms of light, with the Divine Radiance. I know that I am a perfect being, living under perfect conditions with other perfect beings in a perfect God.”

Excerpt From 365 Science of Mind Ernest Holmes