Attend This Lesson Well

Make this your battle cry of internal independence as follows,

What we believe, that we create,

One night a father overheard his son pray:

"Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is."

Later that night, the Father prayed,

"Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."

- Unknown

Mitchell's Fold Stone Circle in Shropshire. Is this where the Sword and Stone legend began?

New Thought is often confused with New Age.

New Age is made up of people who are genuinely seeking for better answers to the problems of life, genuinely seeking the spiritual path. New Thoughters know where the path is, because they are already on it, even if they fall off once in a while. New Thoughters know enough to keep an open mind, but not to “dabble in the occult,” which Charles Fillmore warned against. Without abandoning their Western roots and rationality, they learn from Eastern ideas and practices, especially the ones about centered attention and balance. As Joan Cline-McCary puts it in her book about Divine Science founder Malinda Cramer, Malinda Cramer’s Hidden Harmony [1],

A Practical American Spirtuality and Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes.

Alan Anderson passed away in  Nov 2012. See notice in http://www.neweverymoment.com/newsletter.html
Alan and his wife Deb Whitehouse authored "New Thought: A Practical American Spirtuality" and "Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes". Besides their blog they were active proponents of the INTA.

"I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness."

It was in 1886 that a series of lectures were presented in Kansas City by Dr. Eugene B. Weeks. Dr. Weeks had at one time been a student of Christian Science under Mary Baker Eddy. However when one of her chief pupils Emma Hopkins broke away to found her own movement, The Illinois Metaphysical College, in Chicago, Dr. Weeks went with her. It was as a member of her College that he visited Kansas City.

It took 2 years before Myrtle Fillmore was completely healed. She was considered to be dying of hereditary tuberculosis. With no doctor or drug intervention, using tremendous strength of character and mental discipline, she daily focused on the idea from Weeks - "I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness."

You Press The Button and We Do The Rest.

The steps to success:

True marriage love comes from the minds of people who are in a married state.

One aspect of Swedenborg's writing that I’ve seen are his ideas on marriage. Swedenborg himself remained a bachelor all his life, but that did not hinder him from writing voluminously on the subject. His work on Marriage Love (Conjugial Love in older translations)(1768) was dedicated to this purpose.

YOU must open yourself, your mind, to ME.

Any time I run across something by Alan Anderson or Deborah G. Whitehouse ( Who We Are ) it’s always a treat (And the fact they write, work and play together is, for me, awesome see-> PROCESS NEW THOUGHT ) .This article is no different:

The Myrtle Fillmore Collection

Is available @ http://content.unity.org/MyrtleCollection/theCollection.html

There are notes on Christian Science Lessons from classes attended in Chicago. Also, Personal Files are there too.

Also an interesting picture of her and her sons on horseback on their way to a Healing Revival in Colorado in 1901. The preferred mode of travel at the time.

Healing #2

People differ greatly in their definition of Christian and in their Christology, or definition of who Jesus was. Whether New Thoughters consider themselves Christians or not, New Thought as a philosophical-religious movement derives mainly from Christianity.
The founders of all the New Thought denominations except Seicho-No-Ie[1][2] came from Christian backgrounds, as did P. P. Quimby, without whom there would have been no New Thought. He did not seek to found a movement; he sought to heal people of physical and mental or spiritual ailments. To aid himself in this undertaking, he began to study the Bible on his own in order to refute the toxic beliefs that he realized were making his patients sick. In the course of this study, Quimby discovered much truth that had been lost from conventional Christianity and he grew spiritually. Deb Whitehouse “New Thought Magazine[2006]”

According to the radio the other day 70% of Americans consider themselves Christians but don’t go to church.

New Thought

"New Thought: A Practical American Spirtuality" and "Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes" by Anderson and Whitehouse are a couple of light-hearted gems if you want to understand New Thought. They had an issue with ACIM calling it New Age though. Maybe because it's non-denominational. But ACIM is more congruent with some of the New Thought writings than the New Age writings.