Ernest Holmes

Ernest Shurtleff Holmes (* 1887, † 1960 in the U.S.) founded the New Thought movement of the apportioned American Free Church Science of Mind. He is the author of several books and has received 28 honorary doctorates from around the world.

In these communities, he taught that man was through the exercise of prayer and contemplation in a position to determine its external relations themselves, rather than be ruled by the terms and conditions. Ernest Holmes studied philosophy and knew many philosophical and religious directions, so his teachings combine content from many faiths. Among his most famous pupils was, among others, the bestselling author Louise Hay.

Life

Holmes was born on January 22, 1887 in Lincoln, Maine in poverty. At the age of 15, he left Maine and went to Boston, Massachusetts at age 21, he participated in a two-year course in a public speech at the School of Expression, where he Eddy's Science and Health met Mary Baker.

1912 Holmes visited his brother Fenwicke in Venice, California. There she studied the writings of Thomas Troward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Walker Atkinson, and Christian D. Larson.

Publications (selection)

  • The perfection of doctrine; Bauer, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1975
  • The key to true life; Publisher CSA, Bad Homburg, 1983
  • The key to your true nature; Publisher CSA, 1984
  • This helps me today; Publisher CSA, Friedrichsdorf, 1990
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