“We are on the path of experience, just waking up to the real fact of our true being; as we awake, we find we are surrounded by many false conditions, but there is something within which remembers the real state.” - Dr. Ernest Holmes

If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear the author of the above quote was Gnostic. Dr. Ernest Holmes is the found of the ‘Science of Mind’ philosophy. I find that his ideas are particularly compatible with root Gnostic principles — The Fullness, the Spark of The Divine within, (as the quote above reveals) and the need for praxis to come from the depths of our True, Inner Selves, Our Divine’ness’ — Our True Will. He supports the idea that waking up to the reality of our True Nature gives way to living truly in happiness. An interesting concept.

Dr. Holmes focuses on ‘the mind’ and thought and the power of these in forming healing and “True Happiness” in our lives. Not so very different than the use of magick. Crowley states that magick is:

“…the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.”

How wonderfully appropriate and complimentary this Thelemic thought is to the Science of Mind philosophy.

I’m not surprised that his ideas have survived so long (The Science of Mind was written by Dr. Holmes in 1929) and that the philosophy is experiencing a lot of support these last couple of decades.