WHAT INTUITION TELLS US
Ernest Holmes

Many people still believe, sincerely but foolishly, that God divides His power with the devil. Theology tells us there is a devil. Intuition does not.

People believe in a devil because they think it answers a lot of questions. It does not; it just makes the riddle more difficult to solve....We have to understand that the devil is the personification of the sum-total of humankind’s fears.

When we come to self-realization—the God Mind is within me, the secret of Life, the Power to live is within every one of us—we realize that, just as the use of the Mind that made us unhappy will make us happy, the use of the Principle that made us sick will heal us, so there is no devil, no adversary. There is only one Power which is flowing freely through us, dissolving everything unlike itself, healing us.

We are not sinners; we are not lost souls; we are not destitute; we are not on the road to hell. We are Divine Beings, already in the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of God is at hand. It is here, in us, but we must awake out of the apathetic sleep of our own delusions into the glorious recognition that we are in that which we aspire toward. All that the Father has is ours, now.

Excerpted from A Holmes Reader on Change by Ernest Holmes, edited by Rev. Carol Sheffield and Kenneth T. Lind, RScP, published by Science of Mind Publishing.

Sophy Burnham and “The Secret of Intuition”

In the August issue of Science of Mind magazine, Sophy Burnham, award-winning author, novelist, and playwright, explores the mystery of hunches, inspiration, premonitions, and psychic phenomena, including who has it and how you get more of these designations of Divinity.

Click here to listen to Sophy speak about the gift of intuition.

More from Mitch Horowitz

Mitch Horowitz is the editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin and the author of Occult America, awarded the 2010 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence.

In Occult America, Horowitz takes a scholarly but engaging look at American history from the perspective of the mystical thinkers who helped to shape our national identity. In his chapter “The Science of Right Thinking,” Horowitz examines the birth of the New Thought Movement and the contribution of Wallace D. Wattles. Here is an excerpt from Occult America:

As Wattles saw it, man was a prisoner to outer circumstance only to the degree that he was a prisoner of inner circumstance. Free the mind, he concluded, and outer circumstance will follow. If the mind—this magical, ethereal “thinking stuff” that molded the surrounding world—could be properly harnessed, there was no limit to what a man could achieve. 

Go to scienceofmind.com to read “Wallace D. Wattles and The Science of Right Thinking.” Adapted From Occult America by Mitch Horowitz (Bantam 2009/2010).

You can click on the link below and hear Horowitz discuss his award-winning book Occult America and his fascinating insights into religion as a unique American experience, the impact of American spirituality on liberalism and feminism, and investigate the fascinating connection between quantum physics and the religious, mystical imagination.

bigthink.com/mitchhorowitz