It is the intention that counts.

 If you perceive injustice anywhere, you need but say:

Rev. Harry Gaze

By his own report, Rev. Harry Gaze began lecturing on Practical Christianity in 1898, and through the years served in many Divine Science pulpits.  These included the Church of the Healing Christ in New York City after W. John Murray and before Emmet Fox, as well as the First Church of Divine Science in Denver in the mid-1940's before Irwin Gregg succeeded him.  Rev. Gaze wrote two well-known biographies of

Seeing Our Mental Pictures Through

Radiant Living emerged from the American-based philosophical movement New Thought. New Thought activist Phoebe Holmes travelled the world lecturing about Radiant Health Clubs. She apparently visited New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/culture/radiant-living/the-origins-of-radiant-living

THE PATHWAY TO SPIRITUAL MASTERY By Phoebe Marie Holmes

Your Purpose is to Be You.

It is like a postage-stamp then; it only has value if it sticks. Am I right about this: that what I really AM that I attract? Might this not be the meaning of Jesus' statement in Matthew 13:20 when he said "For whomsoever hath to him shall be given and he shall have more abundance; but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that which he hath?" When one really HAS a husband in feeling and mentally pictures him one really does HAVE that husband; and he is sure to appear in form as a human being: Is this not having more abundance? How slowly I grow. First I wanted my husband to have understanding; now I see that he IS understanding.

Study carefully St. Matthew, chapter 13, verse 12.

Jesus uttered those golden words to teach mankind that like does attract like, invariably and infallibly. That passage states the law of attraction* at its best, including an unshakable faith, visualizing by means of which one HAS spiritually, or in the mind, even that which is sought, and which serves as a magnet of infinite power to draw to one the glad fulfillment in form, or physical reality, provided only one also WORKS confidently and happily to carry out the ideas the Father gives one, through intuition, as steps in the path to the shining goal. Now let us directly quote the passage, then strip it bare of all the "mystery" so many claim it contains for them. Unfortunately, to many that verse remains a riddle for life unless they are sufficiently interested to seek until they find the key to its solution. The passage reads: "For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not from him shall be taken away even that he hath." The big question is: "For whosoever hath" what? Does it mean the one who has wealth of money, or property, or other earthly possessions? No, although the one who has the thing that is meant is certain to acquire financial independence and retain it. It means simply that "whosoever hath" the consciousness of the Father within, who has that exalted awareness as an abiding conviction, who has implicit faith in it, and who actively carries on in the work that one does, whatever it may be, the ideas of Life, Love, Beauty and Harmony the Father gives that one in an unending stream, to that one will be given all he may ever require, and to spare. But the person who "hath not" the high consciousness is subject to all the sorrows, lacks and other in-harmonies circumstances and conditions can bring to bear upon him, even to the point of losing all he has gained through habitual employment of secondary causation. . . for since he has not the awareness he is, or shall be, "under the rule of an iron destiny," to quote Troward, and dwells in anxiety and fear, knowing not that "the eternal God is our refuge and a very present help in trouble." HOW TO LIVE LIFE AND LOVE IT by Genevieve Behrend
*Notice how she did NOT capitalize law of attraction.

MARK THEM WELL! USE THEM! They are TRUTH! THEY WORK!

What is the very first step on the high road to success?

A way to get closer to God.

The very best way to completely sublimate your human self, your sense self with all of its limitations, into the INFINITE is to establish within yourself a PERSONAL INTIMACY WITH GOD!

BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL IT NOT

Light is good in whatever lamp it is burning.

A rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

A star has the same radiance if it shine from the East or West. Abdul Baha

"Sukces don't konsist in never makin' mistakes,
but in never makin' the same one twice." Josh Billings

Dreams of unreality.

Studying and researching New Thought and all the authors has been rewarding. There are some 200 - 300 books on the internet people can read. More added yearly. But they are still only a guide.

You must turn within at some point.

Dedicated To the sick everywhere.

From:

Notes from the Dresser Class - 1887

NOTES ON CLASS LECTURES OF JULIUS DRESSER and ANNETTE DRESSER

Taken by:

Mrs. Harriett Hemmenway

Boston, Mass. January, 1887

In treating another the patient should seem to you all mental - or nothing but thoughts & their sickness the result of their bad thoughts - if you can turn them to see their true self & have the right thought the error will vanish.

TROWARDisms

·          “ ‘I AM’ is the word of power. If you think your thought is powerful, your thought is powerful.”

·         “My motto is, ‘Being, and not possessing, is the great joy of living.’”

You Press The Button and We Do The Rest.

The steps to success:

We must know exactly who we are, what we are and why we are!

The secret of living life and loving this: First, your feeling towards the livingness of life in you, as well as in all life everywhere, should be to recognize life as Intelligent and to know that when this Intelligence is working through you it does not change its essential nature. 

Thought is the cause; conditions are the effects!

“If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”~ Mark 9:23 

And so begins “How To Live Life and Love It” by Genevieve Behrend. 

1. Study carefully St. Matthew, chapter 13, verse 12. Jesus uttered those golden words to teach mankind that like does attract like, invariably and infallibly. That passage states the law of attraction at its best, including an unshakable faith, visualizing by means of which one HAS spiritually, or in the mind, even that which is sought, and which serves as a magnet of infinite power to draw to one the glad fulfillment in form, or physical reality, provided only one also WORKS confidently and happily to carry out the ideas the Father gives one, through intuition, as steps in the path to the shining goal. Now let us directly quote the passage, then strip it bare of all the "mystery" so many claim it contains for them. 

2. The only way anyone can fully understand Life's law of attraction is through seeing what it does under certain given conditions. 

3. Always desire and fulfillment are bound together as cause and effect through the universal law of attraction! 

4. Thought is the energy by which the law of attraction is brought into operation. 

She only used the phrase “law of attraction” those four times. 

In reading your Bible always substitute the word "Subconscious Mind" for the word "Lord." 

Try this with such passages as Isaiah 40:31, Mark 29:30, Luke 18:29-30 and a host of others. 

Look about you; look at the results achieved by those who have learned to LOVE, to USE and to TRUST the MIND. Strength, power, beauty, television, wire photography, microscope, telescope, spectroscope, all of these, yes ALL of ALL THINGS, are RESULTS from the Great Creative Energy whose progress, harmony; telephone, wireless, airplanes, chief attributes are these: 

1. It is ever-present, everywhere; 

2. It is always amenable to suggestion; 

3. It is forever responsive; 

. It is eternally creative. 

This God-energy, remember, manifests in the mind of man, in fact IS the mind of man. 

The three Bible-references given above, and many others, teach us that if one puts the development of the divine spark within first, over all else, the divine in return will make that one first with it! 

Truly then the best Life has to give is the possession of that one! 

The law of life is: 

To change an effect the cause must be changed first. 

Cause leads; effects follow! 

Thought is the cause; conditions are the effects! 

“How To Live Life and Love It” by Genevieve Behrend. 

Many read the Truth; few assimilate it! 

Many hear the Truth; few heed it! 

Many know the Truth; few do it!

The "Empire Builder".

James Jerome Hill (1838 – 1916), was a Canadian-American railroad executive. He was the chief executive officer of a family of lines headed by the Great Northern Railway[1], which served a substantial area of the Upper Midwest, the northern Great Plains, and Pacific Northwest. Because of the size of this region and the economic dominance exerted by the Hill lines, Hill became known during his lifetime as The Empire Builder.

"Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work."

Stiffening Your Mental Backbone.

Henry Addington Bayley Bruce (1874–1959) was an American journalist and author, born in Toronto, Canada, and educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto. He was for a time on the Toronto Week, then came to the United States, was employed by the American Press Association between 1897 and 1903, and afterward contributed to many periodicals, notably The Outlook. In 1916 he resigned as staff contributor to The Outlook. In 1915 he became psychological adviser to the Associated Newspapers. Addington Bruce also wrote books. His most successful work was in American history and in popularizing modern psychology and psychical research. 
He published:

From the limited to the unlimited.

Thomas Troward regarded death very much as he would regard traveling from one country to another. He remarked to Behrend several times, that he was interested in the life beyond and was ready to go. His only concern seemed to be the sorrow that it would cause his wife and family. Troward would have said, “I am simply passing from the limited to the unlimited.” He died on May 16th, 1916, in his sixty-ninth year.


An hour before Quimby breathed his last (January 16, 1866), he said : “I am more than ever convinced of the truth of my theory. I am perfectly willing for the change myself, but I know you all will feel badly, and think I am dead; but I know that I shall be right here with you, just as I always have been. I do not dread the change any more than if I were going on a trip to Philadelphia.”

“If a thing is true at all, there is a way in which it is true throughout the universe.”

The Quimby Manuscripts were published by Horatio W. Dresser in 1921.

Troward died in 1916, his knowledge of Quimby would have been limited.

The Secret?

Once upon a time there was DVD that came out. I didn’t buy into because the introduction reeked of the power of suggestion. In my studies of ancient history I’d never encountered anyone dying to cover up the law of attraction. The book was interesting due to the black and white pictures in the back. Who were these people?

The book "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles (1860–1911), published by Towne in 1910, espouses the principle that truly believing in the object of your desire and focusing onto it will lead to that object or goal being realized on the material plane. He mentions in the book if you don’t like it you can return it. He came from a poor farm beginning and established himself as a writer. His publisher was Elizabeth Towne.

Wattles died in Ruskin, Tennessee on Feb 6, 1911, of complications arising from hookworm. He starved to death, in a manner of speaking.

You Can Catch Things From People Who Don't Belong To Your Church: The Death of Wallace D. Wattles (1860-1911)

Charles F(rancis) Haanel (1866– 1949) wrote the book “The Master Key System”. If he actually ran a course based on these principles for $1500 per person then that would have been the approximate cost of a first class ticket on the Titanic. He was associated with Elizabeth Towne's New Thought magazine The Nautilus. 

 

Notes on Charles F. Haanel: Part One -- The Canonical Version

Notes on Charles F. Haanel: Part Two -- Mister Blue Sky

Prentice Mulford (1834–1891) was a noted literary humorist and California author who wrote “Thoughts Are Things”. He abandoned life and went into the woods, only to discover that in the wilds everything has a mate and he didn’t. He wrote of life.

Some Pages of Brown Paper: The Death of Prentice Mulford, May 1891

Robert Collier (1885 – 1950) wrote “The Secret of the Ages” and “Riches Within Your Reach”. He wanted to write books based on practical psychology.Collier was cured from food poisoning or tainted food through Christian Science, he became interested in health products and felt that 98% of our illnesses came from chemically treated, denatured foods. From this illness came the desire to investigate how the Mind could so quickly and surely cure a trouble that doctors had been working on for months--that there must be powers in the Mind he had never even suspected; and if it had dominion over his physical self, why could it not cure business problems too? Why could it not correct any financial lack? Why could it not bring him anything of good that he might wish?


She may be the original self-help guru, but Genevieve Behrend was born in 1881 in Dresden Ontario..#2
She billed herself as the only personal student of Judge Thomas Troward[1], although Troward considered Archdeacon Wilberforce a student. Troward had the ability to explain rather complex metaphysical ideas in a way that even a child could understand.
From 1912 onward she taught a practical daily application of the metaphysics. She established ‘The School of the Builder’ in New York in 1925 and for the next 35 years she toured, lectured, had a correspondence course and was popular on the radio.
LibriVox recording of Your Invisible Power, by Genevieve Behrend. Read by Algy Pug. here
She says to meditate every morning at 5 AM. Horatio W. Dresser said the same thing.

Collier with his connection to Christian Science we trace to MEB who started Christian Science and from her we go back to Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of whom she was a patient.

On the other hand, Behrend is connected to Troward, who was a member of the “Higher Thought Centre” in England which was the equivalent of the Mental Science or New Thought movement in America and Phineas Parkhurst Quimby is generally recognized as the father of the movement.

Quimby taught Health and Happiness. You have an ego and a spiritual side. Dis-ease he called an error due to ignorance of the Truth about what you really are. He died before he could teach this to the world. His “new thought” has become tainted with occultism, tarots, spiritualism, reincarnation and other elements.

The “secret” was “the father within that does all the work”
or the “Christ dwelling within”.

Essentially Elizabeth Towne published anything. William Atkinson is a prime example. He wrote books classified as “New Thought” but also wrote books on the occult using an alias. People do have to make a living.

My journey has led me to the founders of Unity, Church of Truth, Home of Truth, Divine Science and Religious Science and others.
And it continues.

[1] Troward, intellectualized God and the Universe based on his understanding of the Bible and metaphysics he picked up on while in India. For that matter William James and Horatio W. Dresser both, too, intellectualized God rather the exponential experience of God. People like Nona Brooks, H. Emilie Cady and Malinda E Cramer wrote of the experience of God or how to experience God. As did many others of the “New Thought”

2

See

How To Be and Have What You Want.

Or

Rev. Harry Gaze