TODAY’S READING:
81.1-83.5

The beginning of today’s reading was a great reminder of how far we’ve come in the evolution of Spiritual thought and understanding since this edition of the Science of Mind. The very first part of the proposition here that Holmes makes is that God is distinct from matter. He is saying there is a difference between God and Form. This idea would be later retracted by Holmes (in 1953) when he offered this in his seminar lectures, “the relative IS the Absolute, at the level of the relative…We are not talking about God and something. There is not God and something else, but only God in all things.”

So I no longer teach Spirit and Form. Spirit is Form. Form is Spirit. It’s all the same thing.

Now what I find interesting is that he started this chapter of the Science of Mind by saying that God and matter are distinct from each other, then spends much of the next two pages contradicting that very notion.

It seems to me that he was working toward clarification in his own mind in 1938, that clarification would be more specifically articulated fifteen years later.

So what I get is this… we all go through process. And process can be awesome. I also don’t think any of us should take any of this for granted. We need to keep asking the questions! Without questions I believe we would end up in stagnation.

What do you think?