An invitation message from Dr. Ernest Holmes

 

Dear friend,

 

You are about to start on the most interesting quest the human mind has ever made, the discovery of the Life Principle, the way It works, and your relationship to It. You are about to make the greatest discovery of your life, which is how to use the Creative Power of your thought for definite purposes; purposes which will benefit you, your family, and your friends.

 

The lessons which follow are not a revelation to some particular individual nor to any one group of persons. Rather they are an outcome or a putting together of the best that the ages have discovered. We all believe that there is a Power greater than we are. We all hope that we may be able to use this Power.

 

Throughout the ages certain individuals have discovered some secret relationship between themselves and the Universe which other people have not known about, and because of this they have either consciously or unconsciously used a power that to the ordinary individual seems miraculous because of its effects. Others have stood in awe before them, feeling that God has delivered some message to them which is withheld from others.

 

This age of superstition, of fear and ignorance is passing out of existence, and intelligent people are beginning to say, "My relationship to God, to the Universe, and to the Power which is greater than I am must be as immediate to me as to any other person who ever lived. There is a secret, the great secret of Life Itself, and I expect to discover it. And when I do I know that it will be immediate and personal to me; something that I can live by and use; something that I can benefit by and demonstrate; something that will take the uncertainties out of life."

 

You are about to engage in a study of the Science of Mind, which deals with a Principle and a Power in the Universe as immediate as your own breath. Of necessity such a study is something to which you must give your complete attention, something that you must enthusiastically enter into. All the while it will be something that brings a daily satisfaction, a sense of well-being, and the gratification of knowing that you are in league with the Power that creates and sustains everything.