Religious Science

Religious Science is a New Thought movement founded by Ernest Holmes. It teaches that people can use spiritual principles through the mind’s relationship to a universal divine presence.

Spiritual Mind Treatment: A form of affirmative prayer that aligns thought with a desired condition by affirming spiritual truths. This is Religious Science’s distinctive method for applying its teaching that thought acts through universal Spirit.
Ernest Holmes: An American spiritual teacher who founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind. Holmes formulated the movement’s teachings and established its first organization.
Metaphysical idealism: The philosophical view that mind or experience is fundamental to reality. Religious Science gives spiritual mind a foundational role in its account of existence.
Science of Mind churches: Congregations associated with Religious Science that offer services, classes, and spiritual counseling. These communities put Religious Science teachings and practices into congregational life.
Prayer: A religious or spiritual practice of addressing, attending to, or communing with the sacred. Religious Science’s treatment differs from petitionary prayer by affirming a spiritual truth as already operative.
Law of Mind: A New Thought principle holding that thought impresses itself upon a universal creative mind and takes form. It explains how Religious Science understands thought to participate in spiritual creation.
The Science of Mind: Ernest Holmes’s 1926 book presenting the principles and practices that became the basis of Religious Science. This work sets out the teachings from which Religious Science takes its name and doctrine.
Monism: The philosophical view that reality is ultimately constituted by one fundamental substance or principle. The movement’s language of one universal Spirit reflects a monistic view of reality.
Spiritual healing: The use of spiritual practices or beliefs with the aim of improving health or well-being. Religious Science applies spiritual mind treatment to healing and personal well-being.
Theism: Belief in the existence of one or more gods who are distinct from the world. Religious Science emphasizes an immanent universal presence rather than only a separate personal deity.

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