The document discusses the 'New Thought' movement, which emerged in the early 19th century as a spiritual and metaphysical philosophy affirming the unity of God and humanity, emphasizing positive thinking and mental healing. Key figures such as Phineas P. Quimby, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Mary Baker Eddy contributed to its development, with New Thought being a reaction against the prevailing Calvinistic beliefs of the time. The movement evolved into various organizations and schools, promoting the idea that mental states influence reality and emphasizing the importance of love and healing in everyday life.

1. NEW THOUGHTPresented byDr Ian Ellis-JonesWellness Instructor and PractitionerMinister and Meditation Master

4. The “movement of the mind”The late 19th century “movement of the mind” saw an increased interest in alternative beliefs such as …Unitarianism and UniversalismTheosophy Christian ScienceNew Thought.

5. The “movement of the mind”The movement was particularly embraced by women, who were presented with new thoughts in …

6. religion

7. sexuality

8. philosophy.The “movement of the mind”The organisations offered opportunities for women to preach… and even lead congregations.

9. What is ‘New Thought’? A system of thought which affirms the unity of God with man, the perfection of all life, and the immortality and eternity of the individual soul forever expanding.- Dr Ernest Holmes.

10. New Thought“New Thought is an idealism, as are all esoteric philosophies and religions - all religions that do not separate man from God. It is also progressive, because it recognizes by its fundamental principles and teachings that all healthful and normal ideals must change, expand and develop, as the individual gains more light and truth, as he expands and grows.”- Abel Leighton Allen.

11. New Thought “The Father within you, so lovingly and familiarly revealed by Jesus, is not a distance, far away in a place called ‘heaven.’ His abode is in the spiritual realms that underlie all creative forces. As Jesus realized and taught, ‘the kingdom of God is within you.’ Spirit is the seat of power; its abode is on the invisible side of man's nature.”- Charles Fillmore.

12. New Thought“…the religion of healthy-mindedness”- William James,The Varietiesof Religious Experience.

13. New Thought The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.- William James.

14. New ThoughtNew Thought made its appearance in New England USA about 1800-1825 in the form of a revival of Neoplatonism

15. New ThoughtNeoplatonisma religious philosophya form of idealistic monismall reality is mentalthe physical world is produced by the mindwe experience the physical world through the medium of ideas … and not directly

16. New ThoughtNeoplatonism … the Universe is the Infinite Utterance of one of an infinite number of Infinite Thoughts, which cannot but emanate from an Infinite and Thinking Source.

17. New ThoughtNeoplatonismthe primeval Source of Being is the Oneand the Infinite, as opposed to the many and the finitethe source of all lifeabsolute causality and the only real existence

18. New ThoughtNeoplatonismthe high origin of the human soulits departure from its first estate the way by which the soul may again return to the Eternal and Supreme … the Infinite One

19. New ThoughtNumerous people … despite their individual differences … were:in rebellion against the then curentCalvinism which had for so long ruled New England religious thought, andin reaction against the religious skepticism of the previous century (The “American Enlightenment”)

20. New ThoughtOne branch bore fruitwhich is now known as Unitarianism (in the USA, Unitarian Universalism).The Unitarians had split from the Congregationalist Churches of New England.

21. New ThoughtThe other branch brought into revival Neoplatonism … which later evolved into what was then known as the Transcendental Movement within Unitarianism …

22. New ThoughtTranscendalism brought a renewed interest in:

23. Mysticism

24. Idealism

25. Metaphysics

26. the idea of … the Immanent God

27. New ThoughtNew Thought took form in about 1830 under the name of … Transcendentalismoriginally named and founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson and certain other awakened New Englanders …The name New Thought was taken in the 1890s …generally replacing such names as Mind Cure and Mental Science.

28. New ThoughtThus, theNew Thought movementis linked to the Transcendalistswithin the Unitarian movement

29. New ThoughtNew Thoughtis essentially a non-creedal mind-healingspiritual and metaphysical philosophyand movement… as well as a way of life …

30. New Thought… promotingfullness of all aspects of livingand affirming that:God is supreme, universal and everlasting.Divinity dwells within each person.We are all spiritual beings.The highest spiritual principle is loving one another unconditionally … and teaching and healing one another.Our mental states are carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living.

31. New Thought“If we really wish to have a health that will never leave us we have to train the imagination. In training the mind, it is good to imagine, for instance, that our bodies are full of light, that they are a perfect blaze of light. Let us imagine that we take a light and carry it right down through the inner parts of our bodies and let it shine. We may call that light “Love,” “Wisdom,” or “Life.” If there is anything wrong in any part of our bodies, we let the light shine there, we can put a word anywhere we like in our bodies; and feel the consciousness of it. Imagination is capable of this.” - James P Mills,From Existence to Life: The Science of Self-Consciousness.

32. New ThoughtRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)Unitarian ministerTranscendentalistphilosopher, poet, essayistthe “Sage of Concord”the spiritual father of New Thought

33. New Thought“There is one mind common to all individual men … . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.”“God is one and omnipotent. Man is the noblest work of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

34. New Thought“… the thought is always prior to the fact.”“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”“They conquer who believe they can.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson.

35. New ThoughtPhineas P Quimby(1802-1866)… "Park" to his friends Maine clockmaker andinventor Mesmerist and magnetistknown as a metaphysical healer… treated over 12,000 people in the last 8 years of his life… the “Father of New Thought” … His experiences and practices of mental healing were the real beginnings of and foundation for New Thought

36. New ThoughtPhineas P Quimby used the phrase "Christian Science" as early as 1863also referred to his method of healing as the "Science of Christ", "Christ Science", and "The Quimby System"Presbyterian minister William Adams had previously used the term "Christian Science" before Quimby in his book The Elements of Christian Science(1sted, 1850; later ed, 1857).

37. New Thought“My practice is unlike all medical practice. I give no medicine, and make no outward applications. I tell the patient his troubles, and what he thinks is his disease: and my explanation is the cure. If I succeed in correcting his errors, I change the fluids of the system and establish the truth, or health. The truth is the cure. This mode of practice applies to all cases.”- Phineas P Quimby.

38. New Thought“Everyman is a part of God, just so far as he is wisdom.”“Jesus was the man who brought the true light or Christ to light. Christ was His religion, the God in Him. … What truth did Jesus come to bring to the world? One simple fact that man is a progressive being, that his happiness and misery are of his own make … .” - Phineas P Quimby.

39. New ThoughtPhineas P Quimby(1802-1866)“Father of New Thought”

40. New ThoughtThomas Troward(1847-1916)… the other taproot of New Thoughta member of the British Civil Service served as a Divisional Judge in the Punjab for 25 yearslectured on "Mental Science" (to use his term) … wrote many books…"far and away the ablest statement of the philosophy I have met, beautiful in its sustained clearness of thought and style” (William James)

41. New ThoughtThe ideas and teachings of Thomas Trowardwere brought to the USA by:initially, Dr Harry Gazelater, Dr Emmet Fox.

42. New ThoughtPhineas P Quimby transmitted his ideas and methods to a number of his patients, among them:Warren Felt EvansMary Baker Eddy … then Mary Morse PattersonJulius AandAnnetta (Seabury) Dresser

43. New ThoughtWarren Felt Evans (1817-1889)Methodist, later Swedenborgian, minister of religion“the first real philosopher of New Thought” first person to give literary form to New Thoughtpioneer writer of New Thoughtwrote 2 books on “Quimbyism” before Mary Baker Eddy published her Science and Healthwith Key to the Scripturesin 1875… disease has its roots in wrong belief

44. New ThoughtWarren Felt Evans (1817-1889) "Everything exists for us in thought. That of which we do not think has for us no existence." Warren Felt Evans, Esoteric Christianity, 1886.

45. New Thought Mary Baker Eddy (1821-1910) treated by Quimby in 1862author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures(1sted, 1875)founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science), 1879founder of the independent, non-denominational daily newspaper The Christian Science Monitor“Stand porter at the door of thought.”

46. New ThoughtJulius A Dresser (1838-1893)Annetta (Seabury) Dresser (1843-1935)

47. New Thought Julius A Dresser DresserandAnnetta (Seabury) Dressercontinued more directly in the tradition of Quimby himselfthe first to formally organize what was to become known in time as the “New Thought Movement”competed with Mary Baker Eddy

48. New Thought “To realize that our real life is spiritual was to overcome the illusions of sense-experience with its manifold bondages.”- Julius A Dresser.

49. New ThoughtSonHoratio W Dresser(1866-1954) continued his parents’ workthe first “historian of the New Thought Movement”published many books on New Thought as well as editing The Quimby Manuscripts(1921)

50. New ThoughtWarren Felt Evans and Julius A Dressergave systematic form to Quimby’sideas the intellectual founders of New Thought and its allied movements the most influential figures in the actual organizationof the movement which came to be known as New Thought

51. New ThoughtBoth Christian Science and New Thought in all of its various forms have their origins in Quimby’sideas Mary Baker Eddy …developed her own highly individualistic, indeed idiosyncratic, version of Quimby’s ideas and methods would later claim to have been the “discoverer” and “founder” of those ideas and methods

52. New ThoughtMary Baker Eddyclaimed to have “discovered” Christian Science in 1866The matter went to the courts in 1883 …

53. New ThoughtSuit was won by Mary Baker Eddy … but only becauseQuimby’s son George Quimbywould not permit the “Quimby Manuscripts” to be taken to court. The other party to the proceedings (a former student of Eddy’s) was impecunious.

54. New ThoughtThe Quimby Manuscripts published in 1921Horatio W Dresser (ed)Mary Baker Eddygot all of her essential ideas from Quimbyguilty of plagiarism

55. New ThoughtMary Baker Eddy died on 3 December 1910.There's no truth to the persistent rumour that a telephone was installed in her tomb in case she returned to life.The story arose from a phone line that was installed temporarily for watchmen at the site.

56. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHT AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE New Thoughtesotericimpersonalwithout central authority, creed, or general organization … neither monolithic nor doctrinaire … open-endedof free and individualistic spiritSpirit is more real and more powerful than matter

57. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHT AND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Christian Sciencestrong outward organizationauthority centred in one person … originally, at leastabsolute in doctrinal detaildenominational in form and policyMind is allMatter is not real … it is only the “objective supposition of Spirit’s opposite”

58. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHTAND CHRISTIAN SCIENCE New Thoughtfor the most part, a form of objective idealismthere is an objective world … “matter” … but which is mental (i.e. non-materialistic) … the manifested results of divine idealsobjective world is independent of the human knowerit “belongs” to one Absolute Mind (“Mind”), the absolute knowerall individual minds are simply manifestations of Mind

59. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHTAND CHRISTIAN SCIENCEChristian Sciencean extreme or absolute form of subjective idealismnothing exists in creation but the idealno independent objective reality external to subjective perceptions[Divine] Mind and idea are the only realities …all “objects” are mental creations … “matter” is a falsity … only an illusion of the senses … an “illusion of the human belief”

60. New Thought… A very real connection between Mary Baker Eddy and the New Thought Movement …Much of New Thought filtered down through Eddy by means ofone of her former pupils …Emma Curtis Hopkins

61. New Thought Emma Curtis Hopkins(1849-1925)known as the “Teacher of Teachers”inspired by the medieval mystic Joachim of Fiorebroke from Mary Baker Eddy …

62. New ThoughtEmma Curtis Hopkins(1849-1925) …brought together and focused the national New Thought movement in 1886-88 with the base in Chicagothen transmitted her ideas and methods to certain students who would later become the founders of all of the major New Thought denominations, centres and schools, including the following …

63. New ThoughtMalinda E (Brooks) Cramer (1844-1906) and Nona L Brooks(1861-1945)cofounded Divine Science with Fannie Brooks James (1854-1914)Alethea Brooks Small and Kate (Mrs Frank) Bingham - cured by Mabel MacCoy, a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins- then conducted informal classes attended by the Brooks sisters

64. New ThoughtDr Nona L Brooks …cofounder, Colorado College of Divine Science, 1898lectured and held classes in a number of Australian cities, 1930“The whole of Divine Science is the practice of the Presence of God” (Nona L Brooks)

65. New ThoughtDr Nona L Brooks ordained Emmet Fox (1886-1951) as a Divine Science minister …Dr Emmet Fox Minister, Church of the Healing Christ, New York City, 1931-51author of numerous New Thought books including The Sermon on the Mount andPower Through Constructive Thinking“We are all sparks from the Great Fire” (Emmet Fox)

66. New ThoughtCharles (1854-1948) andMyrtle (1845-1931) Fillmorecofounded the Unity School of Christianity (“Unity”)“I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness” (Myrtle Fillmore)

67. New ThoughtErnest Holmes (1887-1960)Divine Science ministerfounded the United Church of Religious Science (“Science of Mind”)author of The Science of Mind“To think is to create.”“There is a power for Good in the Universe greater than you are, and you can use it!”

68. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHT IN AUSTRALIAAgnes Nesbit Benham(1850-1932)South Australian socialist, radical and feministpublished booklet First Steps in Mental Science, 1895“Our souls are individualised portions of Spirit-rays (from the Great Sun of Spirit we call God) projected far into matter”- Morning 17 October 1900

69. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHT IN AUSTRALIADr James P Mills (1847-1926) and MrsAnna W Mills, from Chicago USA (later New York and London), c1896system of thinking called “the Teaching” … wrote many booksfounded Brisbane Christian Metaphysical Associationvisited Adelaide, Aug 1897 – Christian Metaphysical Association formed Joachim M Wendt president … former Unitarian

70. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHT IN AUSTRALIA Anna W Mills- called herself “Healer”- New Thought writer - also dabbled in Christian Science- author of Practical Metaphysics for Healing and Self Culture (1896)

71. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHT IN AUSTRALIAHenry Cardew, SydneyVeni Cooper-Mathieson… pioneer work began in 1903Perth, Sydney, Blue Mountains, later TasmaniaGrace M Aguilar (Paul) … marriedH George PaulBrisbane, Hobart, Adelaide, Sydney, Blue MountainsEmilie A Hulett, MelbourneWilloughby Connor, HobartH T Glover, AdelaideE E S Erle, Lee Marshall, David W McClure, Elva Holcombeand others … Unity

72. New ThoughtNEW THOUGHT IN AUSTRALIAChristian Sciencefirst introduced into Australia by a visitor from the USA to Melbourne, 1891copy of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures presented to a Melbourne commercial libraryfirst regular Christian Science Sunday services, Melbourne, 1898