Saturday, September 21, 2013

DIVINE ONEship, SONship.

‘The truth, once announced, has the power not only to renew but to extend itself. New Thought is universal in its ideals and therefore should be universal in its appeal. Under the guidance of the spirit, it should grow in good works until itembraces many lands and eventually the whole world.’ - James A Edgerton on New Thought Day, 23 August 1915.

‘If there is only one Law, one Power, one Good, Omnipresent, Omniscient and Omnipotent all-loving Father, then we shall step into the new day, and so a New Era Is Born.’Grace M Aguilar.

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.


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.

‘The name New Thought has been adopted by an ever-increasing body of advanced minds throughout the world as being the most appropriate name for that progressive, ever-advancing spiritual evolution going on among all classes of religious and ethical thinkers to-day, and while it is not a sect or even an organisation in the strict sense of those terms, it is a mighty and growing movement among the most thoughtful, both inside and outside the churches.’Program Note, New Thought Conference,Adelaide, South Australia, August 1915.

New Thought is a basic attempt to reinterpret the conventional dogmas of historic religion.’– Martin A Larson[1] , New Thought Religion [2].
 [1]. Martin A. Larson ( 1897 – 1994) was an American populist freethinker and a writer specializing in theological history and the Essenes.

[2]. New Thought: A Modern Religious Approach (1985). ISBN 0-8022-2464-4. A historical overview of the New Thought movement, giving it origins in the European Enlightenment of the 18th century. New Thought broadly describes the set of religions that claim to be based on the Bible and Jesus Christ but which, in Larson's view, reject many basic Christian doctrines : Phineas Quimby, Warren Felt Evans, and Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science. Modern New Thought institutions: the Church of Divine Science, Unity, the Churches of Religious Science, and the International New Thought Alliance.

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