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"The mind with which you think, plan, remember, grieve and rejoice is not an isolated phenomenon. Scientists are increasingly intrigued with the theory of a Cosmic Mind connection – and with the power this implies for those who know it and use it." ~ George Bendall
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nfluential Science of Mind minister Dr. George Bendall (1919-1992) was a close associate of Religious Science founder Ernest Holmes and pastor of Founder's Church in Los Angeles where he helped thousands to understand and celebrate the Science of Mind teachings.
A Southern "aristocrat" by birth and an engineering prodigy by nature and training -- he was among the few hundred young men personally exempted from military service by President Franklin Roosevelt.
By 1957, George Bendall had not only joined the Religious Science movement but had been ordained as a minister-at-large. He served a variety of churches in Southern California including Founder's Church until his passing in 1992.
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Dr. Bendall, puts the Science of Mind teaching in its most user-friendly terms, beginning with the Law of Eradication:
"the one certain way to be mentally and emotionally done with your problem-making patterns. After that, it’s really very smooth sailing – despite what 'they' may think."
HOLMES on REINCARNATION
Ernest Holmes showed us by example that universal mind and an individual’s mind are one and the same mind. He showed us why thinking and feeling create wise or unwise results in one’s current life experiences.
“We are on a drunk, that seems as though somebody or something gave us something too strong to drink when we entered this world and we are on a perpetual sleep, but once in a while someone wakes up.‟ ~ Emerson
Dr. Ernest Holmes was often asked if he believed in reincarnation.
“I wish to start with the history of the New Thought Movement because there would be no Religious Science Movement had there not first been a New Thought Movement.
We are one of the New Thought groups of America, which have come up in the last sixty years, that influenced the thought of the world and the country more than any other one single element in it, that is spiritually, religiously, theologically and psychologically. But the New Thought Movement itself, which originated in America, had its roots in a very deep antiquity. We would have to go back because it has drawn its knowledge from all sources.
It draws many of its sources from India. Now, India did not have any one outstanding prophet or revelator as most of the religions had, such as Buddhism, Christianity or Judaism.
India never had a great prophet or great savior, never claimed any. Rather, their teaching is an accumulation of generations, thousands of years, probably of wise people (they didn‟t even call them saints or sages).
In looking over these generations of the teachings of India we find a very great concept of the unity of all life. They believed in one God and only one God; they didn‟t call it God; they called it The Absolute, or Brahma, but it doesn‟t matter what you call it.
They believed in One Presence and One Power and only One in the Universe.
They believed in what later came out as a Theosophical teaching; in the mind that sleeps in the mineral, waves in the grass, wakes to simple consciousness in the animal, to self consciousness in the human and to cosmic consciousness in what they called the Upper Hierarchies, or an Ascending Scale of evolution, ad infinitum.
They believed in the theory of involution and evolution, „the spark that ignites the mundane clod‟, or the Divine Idea which exists in everything, everything, a something that all things are impregnated with. It is called involution or the passing of Spirit into substance into definite form to begin an endless round of evolution or unfoldment, cycle after cycle.
If they believed in reincarnation, as they did, over and over here until they have started and learned what there is here to learn, and then on and on and on. I personally happen to believe in the upper hierarchies.”
The Upper Hierarchies of God or The Absolute, not limited to hierarchies in a finite human’s body with a brain.
Dr. Holmes was oriented to the Unlimited Potential within all Being as a Transcendental Source which he named “Universal Mind”.
In the first reality subject/object language model we name person, place or thing He, She or It.
In a second reality process language model of humanistic psychology we have a self, I, ego or person actualizing potentials.
In third reality inclusion of transpersonal psychology we recognize an awareness of awareness which is “one‟s” Eternal Nature awakening to its Unlimited Source.
We awaken in third reality that we are not human beings having spiritual experiences, but spiritual beings having human experiences in early levels of understanding.
DR. ERNEST HOLMES AND REINCARNATION
by Dr. George Bendall
