Palm Springs Spiritual Enrichment Center
(A United Church of Religious Science)
What we believe...
by Ernest Holmes, 1927
We believe in God, the Living Spirit Almighty; one indestructible, absolute, and self-existent cause.
This One manifests itself in and through all creation. The manifest Universe is the body of God; it is the natural and necessary
outcome of the infinite self-knowledge of God.
We believe in the incarnation of the Spirit in humanity and
that all people are incarnations of the One Spirit. We believe in the eternality, the immortality and the continuity of the
individual soul, forever and ever expanding.
We believe that the Kingdom of heaven is within each person and
that we experience this Kingdom in the degree that we become conscious of it. We believe the ultimate goal of life is to be
the 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 belive that God is personal
to all who feel this indwelling Presence. We believe in the direct revelation of Truth through the intuitive and spiritual
nature of humanity and that any one 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 a Universal Mind, which is the Law of God; and that we are surrounded
by this Creative Mind, which receives the direct impress of our thought and acts upon it.
We belive in the
healing of the sick through this 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; for we understand that the life of each one is GOD.