Intuition in The Science of Mind

Holmes declares that intuition is in fact the presence of God within us. If we listen to our intuition, we are in fact listening to God, and following the path of all the spiritual greats that went before us. "Intuition is God in man" he says (p. 342), and he allys it with mystical consciousness.
This consciousness, because it comes from God, is always true and eternal, and cannot harm us or lead us astray. Because it is God, it can also never be contradictory; once we experience contradiction we are in the reralm of the psychic, which Holmes derides as facile, dangerous and even cowardly. The psychic stands at the door calling, he says, while the mystic walks right inside the heart of God.
Our spiritual duty, then, is to listen to our intuitive impulses, to believe them, act on them and declare them. Once we are living intutively, we are living in full acceptance of the Divine.

The Science of Mind on Spirituality

"Spirituality is not a thing; It is the atmosphere of God's presence, goodness, truth and beauty."

The Science of Mind, p. 308

Success in The Science of Mind

The system of The Science of Mind exists to convince people that success is a natural part of the Universal Law. We were created to be successful, to evolve into better people and to experience more and more good. We access this promised success merely by tapping into the Universal Mind, the pattern of which, the Divine direction, is upward. If we recognise our oneness with Divine Mind then we fall into line with the only Creative force of the Universe, and so we are destined to experience constant success.
This compliant path is never easy, however. For some reason our fallible natures will insist on entertaining thoughts of failure, and as long as there is even the smallest belief in failure true success will continue to elude us. Those who are successful simply expect succeess. They have complete faith on the goodness of the Universe, and so success is theirs.
We lesser mortals are hesitant to ask for what we want because we continue to feel unworthy, We fail to visualise the forms of success, and we are not specific in our desires for a wonderful life.
Holmes' constant refrain - perhas the central point of his philosophy - is that we are entirely shaped by our thoughts. Every thought we entertain - either positive or negative - is manifested for us. This is the Law of the Universe. We need simply to master this process of thought. We need to think ourselves successful.
The Science of Mind reminds us that it is easy to be influenced by worldy thoughts and trends - but that way lies failure. If we want to be created anew, we must align our thoughts each and every moment with the thoughts of happiness and cheerfulness that are created naturally in Divine Mind. Then we fall in line with the successful path that God has intended for us all along.

The Science of Mind on Universal Subjectivity

Only remember we are surrounded by a Universal Subjectivity, a Subjective, Creative Consciousness, which is receptive, neutral, impersonal, always receiving the impress of our thought and which has no alternative other than to operate directly upon it, thus creating teh things which we think.

The Science of Mind, p. 278

The Spirit in The Science of Mind

In Holmes' universe, the spirit is the energy of God that inhabits us, the energy of the Creative force that inhabits our material bodies. If we can become more and more aware of this Spirit, and follow its dictates more closely, then our lives can become more successful.
Reading these pages I am reminded, not for the first time, of the great Catholic mystics such as Teresa of Avila and Brother Lawrence, both of who made similar statements, though based in a more conventional theological understanding.
In The Science of Mind, the Spirit represents true Divinity, the very essence of God, and so must remain inexplicable and unknowable. It remains separate from the Universal Laws, which were created by God to be learned, and so to be known by us, and comprehensible to us. The Spirit remains, however, a very different thing conceptually. The Spirit's realm is that of the mystical, the intuitive. Only faith can be applied to Spirit - attempts to understand it using science and rationality are pointless.
More than the conventional use of Biblical language and the constant references to Jesus and God, it is this constant concern with the spirit that marks The Science of Mind out as a religious text, rather than purely a text of instruction. Indeed, the book is overtly, and almost entirely, mystical in its outlook, and the use of the term "Science" in its title is misleading at best. The Science of Mind has very little indeed to do with Science as we might understand that word.

The Science of Mind on Freedom

All nature conspires to produce and manifest the freedom of the individual , that it may unloose its own energy.

P. 268

The Stomach in The Science of Mind

The whole of Chapter 15 in The Science of Mind ("Physical Perfection, Concluded") is devoted to specific complaints and illnesses and how they might be cured through the power of thought. As in the rest of the book, these instructions are addressed to the Religious Science "Practitioner", though one imagines any general reader might also be able to put these instructions to work.
The basic treatement seems to be complete denial of the illness, which is exactly what Christian Science dictates. Any ailment is merely a false beliefe, and it is the duty of the practicioner to heal the patient of her false thoughts, thereby restoring her body to the absolute physical perfection that God intended, and that we are all worthy of.
On p. 256 Holmes tells us that the stomach in particular is inclined to be affected by mental causes, though many of these stomach upsets can be alleviated through the simple expedient of saying grace before meals (and I will have to try that out).
This chapter includes specific instructions and affirmations for any number of ailments, including headache and obesity. Interestingly, this kind of thing was revived (and with great success) by Louise Hay, herself a Religious Science practitioner, and more recently in Australia by people like Annette Noontil and Inna Segal. Which goes to show that you can't keep a good idea down.