Body
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?
—I CORINTHIANS 6:19
"Emerson said that "God builds His temple in the heart," and Seneca said that "God is to be consecrated in the breast of each." St. Augustine said that "the pure mind is a holy temple for God." To realize that God is in us, with us, and for us, is the first step toward understanding that we are the temple of the Holy Ghost. Bishop Wilberforce tells us that "the conscious mind . . . is the temple of the Christ Mind." We must so control the conscious mind that the Christ Mind may function through it. We must permit the Spirit to control the intellect.
Today I realize that my body is the temple of God, that there is the divine pattern of perfection at the center of my being. I will not think of my physical body as being separated from this spiritual Presence. The Presence is the Cause, the body is the effect, and the two are one. Therefore, I, too, will exclaim: 'In my flesh shall I see God.'"
The Universe has been called the Great Trinity, or Triune Unity of Spirit, Soul, and Body—the Body being the result, the effect, the objectification of Spirit.
—THE SCIENCE OF MIND, P. 98
Excerpt From
365 Science of Mind
Ernest Holmes
