A Dictionary of New Thought Terms

as used by Ernest Holmes

K

Karmic Law Mental cause and effect.

keeping the eye single Holding thought steadfastly to truth.

Kingdom, the That place of complete peace, strength, and harmony that is found within, deep in the innermost Self of each. (See also "It is the Father's"; "Except a man"; "Except ye be.")

"kingdom (a) divided against itself cannot stand" Evil does not combat good, merely because there are no ultimate dualities. The ultimate Principle of Life is one and undivided, else we should have chaos and not cosmos.

Kingdom of God Refers to the invisible essence of Reality, governing everything in accord with Divine and harmonious laws of Love, Wisdom, Truth, Beauty, and perfect manifestation. From the human viewpoint, the Kingdom of Heaven means a consciousness of harmony.

"Kingdom of God cometh not with observation" The Kingdom of God is an interior perception and not an external viewpoint. It is not external but inner. The Kingdom of God is within you.

"Kingdom of God is like leaven" Truth introduced into consciousness has the power to raise our whole mental outlook to a higher level. It leavens the lump of subjective error.

"Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed" As the very small mustard seed grows into a large plant, so our inward thoughts and desires, when in conformity with Truth, take form and become multiplied through the creative process of Mind.

Kingdom of Heaven likened to a child Refers to the consciousness of simplicity, trust, and confidence with which one should accept that the kingdom of good is at hand.

knock --- "Behold I stand at the door and knock" The Eternal Reality is ever present around us. Truth always is, but can operate through us only as we recognize it. Good is ever available. The Christ Principle awaits our recognition.

knowing God We know God only in so far as the Divine Attributes become personalized in our own experience. Therefore, to know virtue is to be virtue; to know truth is to become truth; to know peace is to embody peace; to know love is to personalize it.

knowing God through ideas We must judge the unknown by the known.

knowing the Truth Rearranging our thinking in order to affirm the Allness of Good, its ever-availability, and its omni-action in our affairs. To sense the Divine Creative Wisdom governing and the Divine Creative Law executing the Will of Wisdom, Truth, and Beauty in human affairs.

knowing the Truth and believing that which is not so We may believe that two and two make five, but we cannot know that two and two make five; we can only really know that two and two make four; hence, we may believe in an illusion, but we can never know that which is not so. We can only know the Truth.

knowing the Truth is the Saviour Salvation from pain, fear, etc., is arrived at through understanding the supremacy of Spirit.

knowing the Truth is treatment Mentally claiming the Allness of God; denying anything which contradicts this Allness; sensing the Spiritual Reality.

knowledge of God Systematic understanding of the nature of Reality.

knowledge, the only source of All knowledge must come through one, or another, of a combination of: science, which is a demonstrable knowledge of natural laws and causes; philosophy, which is an expression of opinion and may or may not be correct; and intuition, sometimes called revelation, which is a direct perception of truth without processes of conscious reasoning.