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The writers featured on this site range from those influential in the early development of what was originally known as Mental Science and later became known as New Thought such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Warren Felt Evans, and the Dressers, to gifted teachers and healers such as Emma Curtis Hopkins, Henry Drummond, Ursula Gestefeld, Annie Rix Militz, Prentice Mulford, Henry Wood, William Atkinson, H. Emilie Cady, Horatio Dresser, Thomas Troward, F.L. Rawson, Walter Lanyon, and Christian D. Larson; to founders of religious denominations such as Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science), Charles Fillmore (Unity), Malinda Cramer and Nona Brooks (Divine Science), Ernest Holmes (Science of Mind), and Masaharu Taniguchi (Seicho-No-Ie); to prolific, best-selling authors such as Ralph Waldo Trine, Orison Swett Marden, James Allen, Emmet Fox, Florence Scovel Shinn, Joseph Murphy, Joel Goldsmith, Neville Goddard, Uell S. Andersen and Jack Addington; to writers of contemporary best-sellers in the self-help, self-improvement and motivation fields such as Catherine Ponder, Robert Collier, Napoleon Hill, Eric Butterworth, Agnes Sanford, Norman Vincent Peale, Vernon Howard, Louise L. Hay, Shakti Gawain, Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Stuart Wilde, Marianne Williamson, John Randolph Price, Alan Cohen, and Gary Zukav.
There are now a great many New Thought books available to read free on-line, and more are being added all the time, and with so much material readily available, for newcomers it becomes a question of "Where do I begin?" We think it may therefore be useful to recommend a few titles that we consider will be both informative and easy to understand for the newcomer.
Here is a brief introduction tracing the historical evolution of the prosperity consciousness and some of the main principles of New Thought teachings in general: Tracing the Principle of All-Sufficiency
The following four on-line books go into great depth in showing how the New Thought Movement has developed over the past 150 years, and give an excellent grounding in its teachings:
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For those newcomers that come from traditional Christian backgrounds, we heartily recommend the writings of Henry Drummond, Ralph Waldo Trine, Henry Thomas Hamblin, Walter Lanyon, and Rececca Beard. Drummond's The Greatest Thing in the World is a Christian classic centering around the real mission and message of Jesus of Nazareth. Mr. Trine's books will also appeal to Christians, and his The Man Who Knew focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus also. Hamblin's writings are representitive of New Thought Christianity at its best, as are Walter Lanyon's, while Dr. Rebecca Beard's Everyman's Search focuses very much on the healing tradition of New Thought from a more orthodox Christian perspective.
Some New Thought writers have been influenced to a greater or lesser extent by Eastern thought, and embrace the theory of reincarnation, such as Prentice Mulford, Charles Fillmore, William Walker Atkinson, Thomas Troward, and Emmet Fox; whilst Ralph Waldo Trine, Ernest Holmes, Henry Thomas Hamblin, and many others reject the idea of reincarnation on Earth but instead believe that life continues in a more spiritual way on the other side of the grave. Whether one agrees with Mr. Mulford's views on reincarnation or not, his Thoughts Are Things still remains one of the most practical and useful guides to the New Thought philosophy ever written.
For those who have no particular religious convictions to speak of, but are interested in self- improvement, and wish to understand New Thought from a practical, psychological standpoint, we would recommend that you begin by reading James Allen's classic little book, As A Man Thinketh, and also Ralph Waldo Trine's Character-Building Thought Power. These two small books serve as excellent introductions and show that by adopting New Thought principles and learning to think more constructively, one can literally make of their life what they will. For the scientifically minded that want to know whether New Thought has a firm basis in science, there is no better book than Thomas Troward's Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science. Those that do not profess to believe in God can replace the word God with Mother Nature, or the Force of Nature, or whatever other term is acceptable when reading these books.
There have been those writers that have put great emphasis in their books on the achievement of material success and wealth such as Wallace Wattles, Orison Swett Marden, Napoleon Hill, Robert Collier, and Catherine Ponder, among others. Wattles' The Science of Getting Rich is one of the very first and best in a long line of books that focus primarily on the aquisition of money and material wealth using New Thought principles. Because of this trend many have come to regard New Thought solely as a "get rich through positive-thinking," system. This however is far from the case, and whilst one may be able to use one's will and mental powers to "magnetize" the forces of Nature, so to speak, for the sole purpose of gaining material riches, this is not New Thought and in the long run this will only lead one down the road of discontentment and unhappiness, as the more inspired New Thought writers such as Drummond, Trine and Hamblin are quick to point out. Whilst worldly success and achievement can be good and noble objectives in life as far as they go, they should never be one's prime objectives, for it is only when one realizes the Truth and meaning of the teaching of the Great One from Galilee, "Let him who would be great among you serve," that one enters into the true spirit of the New Thought teaching. It is through love of God (good) and service to one's fellowman that one ultimately discovers the real message of New Thought.
"To teach man to come into a conscious realization of the divinity within, and the unity of man and God, so that out of the sublimity of his soul he can say with the Gentle Master, "The Father and I are one," is the supreme purpose and meaning of New Thought."
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The Spirit of The New Thought Part 7 CAN DISEASE BE ENTIRELY DESTROYED? BY EMMA G. WARE [Miss Ware was a patient and follower of P. P. Quimby.] To answer this question it is necessary to understand what is the origin of disease. Medical authority asserts that it is of matter, and that the germs of various diseases have been found and analyzed. Popular belief acknowledges its existence independent of man, and certain localities are believed to be infected by it, thereby rendering human life in danger from the poison emanating from it. If the materialistic theory is true, the medical authority is correct, and the popular belief that disease is a creation as much as man is well founded. But the truth we are studying denies this in principle and in fact. Health is like liberty, directly from God, and it can be kept and enjoyed. Man can learn to live in health as truly as he can learn to govern his morals. With a full understanding of the truth man need not be sick and diseased any more than he need be vicious. The universal belief in disease is founded on the universal belief that matter has life, power, and can direct itself. If this is true, it accounts for disease, but it does not destroy it, and so long as this belief in matter lasts just so long will disease be in the world. Therefore, to destroy it we must take away its foundations.
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