Part I. Understanding And Misunderstanding : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], UNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDING. THERE are many persons who are constantly unhappy because they seem always to be misunderstood. They find it hard to use the law of attraction in an affirmative way, and they keep on drawing...
Part Ii. Mental Likeness : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], MENTAL LIKENESS. WE can draw from the Infinite only as much as we first think into it. It is at this point that so many fail, thinking that all they need to do is to affirm what they want and it will follow. While it is true th...
Part I. Don't Be A Leaner : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 45 DON'T BE A LEANER. NEVER lean on other people. You have strength of your own that is great enough to do all that is necessary. The Almighty has implanted genius within the soul of everyone and what we need to do is to unearth...
Part I. What Life Is : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], WHAT LIFE IS. IN the first place, what do we mean by life? We mean that which we see, feel, hear, touch or taste, and the reason for it. We must have come into contact with all we know of life. We have already found what life is or we...
Part I. How To Attain Strength : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 15 HOW TO ATTAIN STRENGTH. LET us see that we use the right attitude of mind in all that we do, filling ourselves with such courage and power of strength that all thought of weakness flees before us. If any thought of weakness...
Part Ii. Following Up A Thought : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], FOLLOWING UP A THOUGHT. WHEN we feel that we do have the right leading; when that something inside us tells us that we are led; then, no matter what it appears like, we must follow it up. Something beyond our intelligence is doing...
Part I. How To Attract Friends : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 20 HOW TO ATTRACT FRIENDS. THE man who has learned to love all people, no matter who they may be, will find plenty of people who will return that love to him. This is not mere sentiment, and it is more than a religious attitude...
Part Ii. Understanding And Guidance : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], UNDERSTANDING AND GUIDANCE. THE inner man is always in immediate connection with the Infinite of understanding. We are immersed in a living intelligence; we are surrounded by a Power that knows, for "In Him we live and move and have...
Part Ii. Presence Of Activity : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], PRESENCE OF ACTIVITY. SUPPOSE that your place of business does not seem to manifest any activity; that is, suppose that customers do not come. To the person in the business world the presence of customers generally means activity...
Part I. Why Belief Is Necessary : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], WHY BELIEF IS NECESSARY. ALWAYS when we pray we must believe. Our idea of prayer is not so much asking God for things as it is believing that we already have the things that we need. As we have said before, this "already-believing" is...
Part I. Unusual Experience : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 60 UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE. IN demonstrating the truth of supply we do not have to experience any peculiar emotion or psychic experience. We do not have to feel any thrills or anything of that sort. While it is true that some of these...
Part Ii. Direct Practice For Prosperity : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 78 DIRECT PRACTICE FOR PROSPERITY. SUPPOSE that you are doing a mail order business and sending out cards to the whole country. Take the cards into your hands, or simply think of them and declare into the only Mind that they will...
Part I. Mental Equivalents : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 50 MENTAL EQUIVALENTS. ONE of the most necessary things to remember is that we cannot demonstrate life beyond our mental ability to embody. We give birth to an idea only from within ourselves. What we are, we put into our thinking...
Part I. Transcending Previous Conditions : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], TRANSCENDING PREVIOUS CONDITIONS. WHAT if at times we attract something that we do not want? What about all the things that we have already attracted into our lives? Must we still suffer until the last farthing be paid? Are we bound...
Part I. What We Will Attract : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 17 WHAT WE WILL ATTRACT. WE will always attract to us, in our lives and conditions, according to our thought. Things are but outer manifestations of inner mental concepts. Thought is not only power; it is also the form of all...
Part Ii. Keeping The Thing In Mind : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], KEEPING THE THING IN MIND. NEVER let go of the mental image until it becomes manifested. Daily bring up the clear picture of what is wanted and impress it on the mind as an accomplished fact. This impressing on our own minds...
Part I. Demonstrating Success In Business : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], DEMONSTRATING SUCCESS IN BUSINESS. ALL demonstrations take place within ourselves. Creation is eternally flowing through all things. The law is always working from that inner pattern. We do not struggle with conditions, we use...
Part I. Man's Right Of Choice : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], MAN'S RIGHT OF CHOICE. MAN is created an individual and as such he has the power of choice. Many people seem to think that man should not choose, that since he has asked the Spirit to lead him, he need no longer act, or choose. This...
Part I. Ideas Of The Infinite : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 43 IDEAS OF THE INFINITE. SUPPOSE that we wish to draw from the Universal Mind some definite idea, some guidance, some information, some leading. How are we going to do this? First we must become convinced that we can do it. Where...
Part I. Using The Imagination : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], USING THE IMAGINATION. JUST imagine yourself surrounded by mind, so plastic, so receptive, that it receives the slightest impression of your thought. Whatever you think it takes up and executes for you. Every thought is received...
Part Ii. Race Consciousness : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 79 RACE CONSCIOUSNESS. ONE of the things which greatly hinders us from demonstrating a greater degree of prosperity we may call race thought or race consciousness. This is the result of all that the race has thought or believed. We...
Part I. Visualizing : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 61 VISUALIZING. SOME people visualize everything that they think of and many think that it is impossible to make a demonstration unless they possess the power to visualize. This is not the case. While a certain amount of vision is...
Part I. Causes And Conditions : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 47 CAUSES AND CONDITIONS. WHEN we realize that life is not fundamentally physical, but mental and spiritual, it will not be hard for us to see that by a certain mental and spiritual process we can demonstrate what we want. We are...
Part I. Unconscious Creation : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], UNCONSCIOUS CREATION. THE author once attended a patient who was suffering from a large growth. She was operated on and about fifty pounds of water were removed. In a few days the growth had returned. Where did it come from? Not...
Part I. Creating Atmosphere : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 25 CREATING ATMOSPHERE. TO the student who has realized that all is mind and that everything is governed by law, there comes another thought: it is that he can create, or have created for him, from his own thinking. He can create...
Part Ii. Enlarging Our Thought : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], ENLARGING OUR THOUGHT. WE can never stand still in our thought. Either we will be growing or else we will be going back. As we can attract to ourselves only what we first have a mental likeness of, it follows that if we wish...
Part Ii. Always Be Gathering : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], ALWAYS BE GATHERING. THERE is no reason why a person should ever stop. This does not mean that we should be miserly, trying to accumulate more and more to hold, but that our thought should so enlarge that it can not help gathering...
Part Ii. Destroy All Thoughts That We Do : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], DESTROY ALL THOUGHTS THAT WE DO NOT WISH TO EXPERIENCE. WE must resolutely set our faces to the rising consciousness of the Son of Truth; seeing only the One Power we must destroy the adversary and leave the field to God or Good. All...
Untitled : Although similar in title, theme and structure to his book Creative Mind, this is a completely different book. Creative Mind has more of a focus on "Mental Healing." This book is principally about what is today called in New Age circles "Prosperity Consciousness". Holmes discusses how to focus...
Part I. Where So Many Fail : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], WHERE SO MANY FAIL. THE ordinary individual, sitting down to give a treatment to his business, unconsciously does just the thing that he should have avoided; and then he wonders why he did not get the desired results. Most people...
Part Ii. The Final Word : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], THE FINAL WORD. IN the last analysis, man is just what he thinks himself to be; he is big in capacity if he thinks big thoughts; he is small if he thinks small thoughts. He will attract to himself what he thinks most about. He c...
Part Ii. Treatments : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 63 PART II. TREATMENTS. THE way to give a treatment is first of all to absolutely believe that you can; believe that your word goes forth into a real creative power, which at once takes it up, and begins to operate upon it; feel...
Part Ii. Developing Intuition : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 80 DEVELOPING INTUITION. IF a person always lived near to mind he would never make any great mistakes. Some seem to have the faculty of always knowing just what is best to do; they always succeed because they avoid making errors...
Part I. One Law And Many Manifestations : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 53 ONE LAW AND MANY MANIFESTATIONS. PEOPLE often ask if the Law will not bring harm as well as good. This question would never be asked if people understood what Universal Law really means. Of course it will bring us what we think...
Part I. Man's Place In Creation : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], MAN'S PLACE IN CREATION. BUT where does man come in? He "is". Therefore it follows that he, too, is made out of God, since God, or Spirit, is all. Being made out of God, he must partake of His nature, for we are "made in His image."...
Part I. The Power Of Words : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 27 THE POWER OF WORDS. MAN'S word, spoken forth into creative mind, is endowed with power of expression. "By our words we are justified and by our words we are condemned." Our word has the exact amount of power that we put into it...
Part I. Old Age And Opportunity : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], OLD AGE AND OPPORTUNITY. ONE of the besetting errors of people is a belief that they are too old to do things. This comes from a lack of understanding what life really is. Life is consciousness and not years. The man or woman who is...
Part I. Our Conditions Governed : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], OUR CONDITIONS GOVERNED BY OUR THINKING. IT is easy for the average person to see how it is that mind can control, and to a certain extent govern, the functions of the body. Some can go even further than this and see that the body is...
Part I. The Beginning Of Understanding : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], THE BEGINNING OF UNDERSTANDING. MAN is beginning to realize that he has life within himself as the great gift of God to him. If he really has life, if it is the same nature as the life of God, if he is an individual and has the right...
Part Ii. The Single Stream Of Thought : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], THE SINGLE STREAM OF THOUGHT. ATE are all in Mind and what we think into it is taken up and done unto us.. This means that as we think it will be done. We cannot think one way one day and change our thought the next and hope to get...
Part I. First Steps : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], FIRST STEPS. THE first thing to realize is that since any thought manifests it necessarily follows that all thought does the same, else how should we know that the particular thought we were thinking would be the one that would...
Title Page : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. iii CREATIVE MIND "AND" SUCCESS ERNEST SHURTLEFF HOLMES "Author Of CREATIVE MIND" NEW YORK ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. [1919] Scanned , September 2006. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public doma...
Part Ii. How To Know Just What To Do : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], HOW TO KNOW JUST WHAT TO DO. OFTEN we find ourselves confronted by the problem of how to begin. We are not sure what we want to do; we see no way to begin anything; see nothing to begin on; when we find ourselves in this positi...
Part I. An Inquiry Into The Truth : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 1 CREATIVE MIND AND SUCCESS PART I. AN INQUIRY INTO THE TRUTH. AN inquiry into Truth is an inquiry into the cause of things as the human race sees and experiences them. The starting point of our thought must always begin with our...
Part Ii. Drawing Your Own To You : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 83 DRAWING YOUR OWN TO YOU. SUPPOSE that you wish to draw friends and companions to you; that you wish to enlarge your circle of friendships. This, too, can all be worked out by law, for everything can be worked out by the same law...
Part I. More About The Power Of Attraction : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], MORE ABOUT THE POWER OF ATTRACTION. ALWAYS remember that Spirit makes things out of itself; it manifests in the visible world by becoming the thing that it wills to become. In the world of the individual the same process takes place...
Part I. Action : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 40 ACTION. THE Universe is teeming with activity. There is motion everywhere. Nothing ever stands still. All activity comes from mind. If we want to be in line with things we must move. This doesn't mean that we must str...
Part I. Money A Spiritual Idea : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 38 MONEY A SPIRITUAL IDEA. MANY people seem to think that money must be evil, although I have never as yet seen any who did not want a lot of this evil in their lives. If all is an expression of life, then "money" is an expressi...
Part I. The Control Of Thought : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], THE CONTROL OF THOUGHT. THE man who can control his thought can have and do what he wishes to have and to do; everything is his for the asking. He must remember that whatever he gets is his to use but not his to hold. Creation is...
Part I. Where Demonstration Takes Place : * Creative Mind and Success, by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes [1919], p. 62 WHERE DEMONSTRATION TAKES PLACE. DOES demonstration take place in the patient, the practitioner or in the mind of God? Let us see; We are in the mind of God and so it must take place there. But the patient is also in the mind...