Science of Mind - The Book

I'm currently attempting to read that enormous book Science of Mind in its entirety. Necessary, really, because of its enormous influence on New Thought and self-help in general. In fact, I would go as far as to suggest that it was one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, despite being almost completely unknown by the literati!
Written by Ernest Holmes, and used as the textbook of for the religion that was once called Religious Science, but is currently undergoing a name change, Science of Mind is an enormous book in every sense, and to be frank, it's not easygoing. Though filled with brilliant - indeed radical - ideas about the new vision of self that was being presented to society by the reformers of New Thought, like most "spiritual classics" it is endlessly repetitive, inclined to drift off topic, and could have done with some heavy editing. But before you start leaving me abusive comments, please know that I think this of almost every spiritual "great" ever written - the Bible included. It's just the nature of the beast. By the time they come to be compiled the information and the authors are already considered beyond correction, and no-one alive dares say "I think you could probably cut the whole of chapter 8..." And the practice still continues.
Of course, Science of Mind was probably never intended to be read in big chunks from cover to cover. It is a religious text, and its context is really the short chunk quoted in devotional literature, meditated on, or read out in church.
Holmes is, of course, the inspiration behind many of the big names of modern self-help (Louise Hay, Marianne Williamson) and he was a fascinating man. One of the final students of Emma Curtis Hopkins, Holmes established a religious empire that included the monthly devotional magazine - also called Science of Mind - that is still in print now.
Originally published in 1926, the book still stands as a radical re-working of traditional thought, and naturally bears the hallmark of Hopkins, Holmes' extraordinary teacher and muse.
In such a massive work (672 closely printed pages) it is hard to identify a single theme, and I am still very much beginning the work of reading and analysing it. So far I can say that the message is that there is a single Truth, and a set of Universal Laws, that embody Good. Whether we follow these laws is up to us, but to do so is natural, if not necessarily easy. But we must trust that this Invisible Force is interested only in our good, and as much as we fall into its patterns, our lives will follow this path of complete Good.
Did I do well in explaining?
Anyway, over the next week or so as I read it I will tease out some of its ideas and provide some quotes. Together we will conquer this massive book that I have been avoiding for over a year.