Although many are familiar with the technique of affirmative prayer that Ernest Holmes termed a spiritual mind treatment, few ponder the significance of the fact that Holmes never taught a five-step approach to treatment, as it is commonly taught in Science of Mind classes. That was a later addition to the curriculum by one of his colleagues, Dr. Orin Moen. Even so, a step by step procedure that delineates three steps, and then continues with a description of what we have come to call the fourth step, can be found in Holmes' writings on page 318 of the Science of Mind text. Also, on the twenty-third page of The Basic Ideas of Science of Mind, Holmes describes a spiritual mind treatment as: “…simple procedures practiced daily in a persistent,
