Core Concepts
Over the years, Science of Mind has developed many concepts, but 10 Core Concepts are often taught at a basic level that express the basic nature of its philosophy:
Core Concept 1: There is One Cosmic Reality Principle and Presence in the Universe - God. All Creation originates in this One Source. God is. God is all there is. Each human being is a creation of God, made of the God-substance, a unique, individualized incarnation of Spirit. This Incarnated Spirit is the Essence of every human being.
Core Concept 2: God is triune, or threefold, in nature, having three aspects or modes of Being within the One: Spirit, Soul, and Body. This is God as macrocosm. Each human being is a projection of God in microcosm, and, thus, is endowed with the triune nature of God, and expresses that nature in all three aspects or modes or his/her being - spirit, soul, and body.
Core Concept 3: Spirit is the great Causative Power of the Universe. The Word, or thought, of God eternally initiates the Divine Creative Process. In this process, Law is continuously set in motion to create, from the Unformed Substance, innumerable forms which follow the thought-patterns of Spirit. Since the human spirit is One with Universal Spirit, and the human subjective merges with the Universal Subjective, all human thought is creative and re-enacts in microcosm the Divine Creative Process.
Core Concept 4: In the Infinite Nature of God, all conceivable Good is eternally available, ready to flow into human experience. Through some Cosmic Process, this flow of Good is activated and/or increased by human belief, faith, and acceptance. The expression of this essential belief, faith, and acceptance is prayer. The human re-enactment of the Cosmic Creative Process is naturally happening, with or without our awareness. In this process, prayer, or spiritual mind treatment, is one effective way to increase our belief in and acceptance of the Universal Good, the Cosmic Well-Being inherent within us.
Core Concept 5: This is a Universe of Wholeness, Allness, Oneness. Spirit is a transcendent, perfect Whole that, in Its Infinite Inclusivity, harmoniously embraces all seeming opposites. Each human being is endowed with free will and can thus choose to experience freedom or bondage, abundance or lack, joy or misery, all of which lie within the Infinite Inclusivity of God.
Core Concept 6: This is a Universe of infinite abundance, spiritual, mental, and physical. This Bounty of Spirit, this allness of Good, is limitless and can never be exhausted or depleted. The infinite bounty of Spirit is the birthright of every human. We are children of God, created as a finite expression of God. Thus, we are heir to all the Good there is simply because of WHO WE ARE.
Core Concept 7: The is a reciprocal Universe. For every visible form, there is an invisible counterpart. Everything in nature tends to equalize itself, to keep its balance true. Human life demonstrates the reciprocal nature of the Universe in the laws of attraction, giving and receiving, mental equivalents, doing and being done by, and other such principles.
Core Concept 8: The Universe exists in the Eternal Now, each moment complete and perfect within itself. In this Universal Harmony, justice without judgment is always automatic, an infallible Universal Principle. There can be no place for Divine anger, unforgiveness, or punishment. Human forgiveness is the process that frees us to live in the Eternal Now. It is essential that we wholly forgive ourselves and all others before real spiritual growth can flourish.
Core Concept 9: Immortality is a Universal principle, not a "belief" or a bargain made with the Universe for good behavior. God knows only Life, its eternal continuity, evolution, and expansion. "Death" is a human concept, not a Divine idea. The Essence of every human is the incarnation of God at the center of his/her being. This Essence is eternal and changeless, the Divine Spark that can no more die than God can die.
Core Concept 10: The mystic concept of the Cosmic Christ is not that of a person, but of a Principle, a Universal Presence . . .the Universal Image of God present in all creation . . .the "pattern that connects." Each human partakes of the Christ nature to the degree that the Cosmic Christ is recognized and revealed through him or her. To that degree, he or she becomes the Christ.