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Declaration of Principles
When someone asks you, "What do you believe?", it sometimes seems
easier to answer this question by listing all the things one does
not believe. A reporter once asked our founder Dr. Ernest Holmes to
put in his own words, briefly, what Religious Science teaches. His
answer has become known as the Declaration of Principles. Religious
Science or the Science of Mind® is all about awakening to our own
inherent magnificence. The principles that follow have nothing to do
with what we're against, for in truth, we're not against anything,
but for something wonderful.
- We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one,
indestructible, absolute and self-existent Cause.
- This One manifests Itself in and through all creation, but is
not absorbed by Its creation.
- The manifest universe is the body of God; it is the logical and
necessary outcome of the infinite self-knowingness of God.
- We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in us and
that all of us are incarnations of the One Spirit.
- We believe in the eternality, the immortality and the
continuity of the individual soul, forever expanding.
- We believe the kingdom of heaven is within us and that we
experience this kingdom to the degree that we become conscious of
it.
- 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.
- We believe in the unity of all life, and that the highest
God and the innermost God is One God.
- We believe that God is personal to all who feel this
Indwelling Presence.
- We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through our
intuitive and spiritual nature, and that any person may become a
revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the Indwelling
God.
- We believe that the Universal Spirit, which is God,
operates through Universal Mind, the Law of God.
- We are surrounded by this Creative Mind which receives the
direct impress of our thought and acts upon it.
- We believe in the healing of the sick through the Power
of this Mind.
- We believe in the control of conditions through the Power
of this Mind.
- We believe in the eternal goodness, the eternal loving
kindness and the eternal givingness of life to all.
- We believe in our own soul, our own spirit, and our own
destiny.
- We understand that the life of humankind is God.
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