SUNDAY GATHERINGS
Dr. Holmes

What We Believe : A Declaration of Principles

By Dr. Ernest S. Holmes, 1927

Awakening Ways Spiritual Community

is an independent member of the Global New Thought community and is founded on two guiding principles: "God is the only authority" and "Love always shows the way." Its core beliefs comes from The Religious Science teaching, the Science of Mind, founded in 1927 by Dr. Ernest S. Holmes. New Thought, although worldwide, is an uniquely American spirituality developed in the mid 1800's. Its principles are founded on the Golden Thread of Truth found in the teachings of the Master Teacher Jesus, the Buddha, The Vedas, the Tao and other great spiritual teachings.

Our beliefs, as stated by Dr. Holmes, are:

  1. We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one, indestructible, absolute, and self-existent Cause. 

  1. This One manifests itself in and through all creation but is not absorbed by its creation. 

  1. The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God. 

  1. We believe in the incarnation of Spirit in every person and that all people are incarnations of this One Spirit.

  1. We believe in the eternality, the immortality, and the continuity of the individual soul, forever and ever expanding. 

  1. We believe that Heaven is within us and that we experience it to the degree that we become conscious of it. 

  1. 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. 

  1. We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest God and the innermost God is one God.

  1. We believe that God is personal to all who feel this Indwelling Presence. 

  1. We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual nature of the individual, and that any person may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God. 

  1. We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God, operates through a 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. 

  1. We believe in the healing of the sick through the power of this Mind. 

  1. We believe in the control of conditions through the power of this Mind. 

  1. We believe in the eternal Goodness, the eternal Loving-kindness, and the eternal Givingness of Life to all. 

  2. We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own destiny; for we understand that the life of all is God.