Divine Nature Is in Every Man
Ernest Holmes

This is The Thing Itself. There is that within us which partakes of the nature of the Divine Being, and since it partakes of the nature of the Divine Being, we are divine. It reacts to us according to our belief in It; and it is an immutable Law, subject to the use of the least among us; no respecter of persons, It cannot be bound. Our Soul will never change or violate its own nature; all the denying of it will never change it; all the affirming of it will never make it any more than it is. But since it is what it is, and works in the way that it works, it appears to each through his belief. It is done unto each one of us as we believe.

We will say, then, that in spirit, man is One with God. But what of the great Law of the Universe? If we are really One with the Whole, we must be One with the Law of the Whole, as well as One with the Spirit of the Whole.

If we try to find something difficult to grasp, then we shall never grasp it, because we shall always think of It as being incomprehensible. The mind which we discover within us is the Mind that governs everything. This is The Thing Itself, and we should recognize its simplicity.

Excerpted from The Science of Mind, by Ernest Holmes, published by Tarcher/Putnam Publishing.

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