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| Writer | Ernest Holmes |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Publish Date | 1996 |
| Pages | 796 |
| File Size | 13 MB |
| File Type |
Those who associate themselves with Ernest Holmes’s work are called Religious Scientists, and to them this is their “textbook.” Until the 1980s, many were unaware that there had been an earlier edition than that of 1938, much less that it had contained plenty of eye-opening material that was edited out of the second edition. Here at last, in one volume, are both books.
The Science of Mind PDF – Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind was originally published in November 1926, by Robert M. McBride 8c Company of New York, and copyrighted not by Holmes himself but by his mother, Anna. Robert McBride had an interest in spiritual matters, being the son of the president of the American Bible Union, and his publishing house had brought out Ernest Holmes’ first two books, Creative Mind and Creative Mind and Success, as well as his brother Fenwicke’s The Law of Mind in Action. The Science of Mind PDF
The company also published adventure novelist Sax Rohmer, fantasist James Cabell, and poet laureate Louise Bogan, while McBride himself wrote popular geographies of European countries. The Science of Mind did well enough that McBride reprinted it twice in 1928 and once in 1929. Then it apparently dropped out of print.
This may have been due to the economic climate of the Depression, or perhaps demand was momentarily exhausted, since at that time Holmes’s work was little known anywhere but on the West Coast. In any event, it was nine years until a new printing appeared (Holmes was working on it as early as 1936), by which time it had been thoroughly revised, and was about 2 $ o pages longer.
The Science of Mind PDF – Ernest Holmes
For the 1938 edition, Holmes had a collaborator, and a highly competent one at that, Maude Allison Lathem, who for many years edited the Institute of Religious Science’s monthly Science of Mind magazine. Lathem had just partnered with Alberta Smith on a delightful volume of inspirational articles, / Lift My Lamp (1937), published under the Institute’s own imprint. The Science of Mind PDF
Smith had previously worked with Holmes, too, on Questions and Answers on the Science of Mind. Holmes’ great strengths were as a speaker and teacher— in person, he had enormous charisma. But his thoughts, when written, tended to seem formal, even stiff. So he needed a hand, and down through the years Lathem, Smith, Fenwicke Holmes, and Willis Kinnear pitched in on his projects.
The 1926 textbook version was a series of lessons, the introductions to which were then grouped as the general introduction in the 1938 volume. Diagrams in the middle of the 1926 volume went into the appendix of the 1938 edition. Daily meditations and a glossary appeared in the same location in each.
The Science of Mind PDF – Ernest Holmes
But the main change was seen in the extraction of the whole sixth lesson, on psychic phenomena. Fenwicke explains, in his biography of his brother: “When his revision omitted this, he felt no loss of personal conviction as to the authenticity of psychic phenomena but that it was developing into a separate field of research.” The Science of Mind PDF
Also removed from the earlier edition is the section on “Repression and Sublimation,” which discusses emotion, libido, and the creative urge. Were discussions of sex and spiritualism deemed so indelicate or incendiary as to pose a hindrance to wider readership? This seems unlikely. Holmes never apologized for his thoughts.
As it turns out, the material edited out of the 1926 text wasn’t erased altogether, or even lost in a file cabinet. It can be found intact in the “Extension Study Course on the Science of Mind,” fifty-two lessons, typewritten, first issued to correspondence students in 1939, and containing a lot more interesting material besides, such as papers by an academic on the mysteries of ancient Egypt, Rome, and the Gallic druids.
In effect, it was lifted out of the introductory material and put in the hands of more dedicated students who would read it in an appropriate framing context. (The same thing was later done with practitioner training material, in the form of a “Clinical Course”) But now it is all back where we can easily get our hands on it.
The Science of Mind PDF
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