Walter C(lemow) Lanyon (1887 - 1967) was the author of more than 40 books on New Thought spirituality. His message of self-reliance and the seeking of "Christ consciousness" within is consistent with New Thought writings. All his books are about Christian maturity for the Body of Christ (the Church).
Little is known about Lanyon's personal life except that he was an Englishman of Cornish stock born in the United States in 1887. He was educated in the USA, France, and England, and served as interpreter and foreign correspondent. For decades he traveled all over the world, investigating and studying the various presentations of Christian-based mystical teachings. He traveled and lectured all over the world. His lectures were based, he said, "solely on the revelation of Jesus Christ."
His
parents were Abel H. & Rebecca Allen.
Abel H. Allen ( 1803 - 1873 ) was among the
early pioneers of Hardin County. He was born in the
year 1803, in Hardy County, W. Va., and when
seven years of age came with his widowed mother and family to Ohio and settled
in Coshocton County, where a portion of his boyhood was spent. He afterward moved to Pickaway County: thence to Franklin County, remaining there
until 1832. He was married in 1831 to Rebecca Mackey, and, the following
year, came to Hardin County, residing for a few months on the Wheeler farm. six
miles east of Kenton. In the spring of
1852, he removed east to the adjoining farm, where he died on the 24th of
December, 1873. He had a family of six children, three boys and three girls,
who still reside in the county. His widow resides with her son, A. L. Allen.
In addition to his books, Lanyon was credited with having written two light operas as well as several secular stories, plays and articles, all of which are now lost. This is also true of paintings he is said to have exhibited in Europe and the USA.
Lanyon died in California on July 4, 1967 at the age of 79.
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From “The Father Within”
When you are speeding through the air at hundreds of miles an hour, the radio is able to catch and broadcast a concert without difficulty; yet this feat is past comprehension as far as the average person is concerned. So too is it difficult for man to understand the presence of God in and through all things. The radical reliance (faith) necessary to establish this state of inner consciousness comes only when man leaves all books, teachers, organizations, etc., and goes within, recognizing God and praising. Once he has found God within, he can find Him without, and in every circumstance of life. Nothing happens without His express will, for He rules over all and "by Him all things hold together." Can you begin to comprehend that?
Beloved, the most important message in the world may be broadcast and fall unheeded upon the diaphragm of the unadjusted machine; and though you can find no place which is not filled with God's inspired radiating presence, without recognition of inner union with Him you "receive" nothing!
If you find it in the nature of your radio to pick up a foreign station, all you have to do is to adjust to that station and what follows is natural, not miraculous. When you stop taking the name of the Lord in vain by attributing all sorts of limitations and evils to yourself, you will begin to know the unafraid condition of mind which functions from the reality of the indwelling divinity of Jesus Christ. This is to "walk by faith."
Once you become aware of the One who indwells you, at that moment you receive "whatever" you "ask for" in His name, whatever He has inwardly authorized you to ask as if He were the One asking. And it is no miracle or demonstration, but a natural movement of the unseen into the place of manifestation. But if what you are endeavoring to bring out is not natural, and is still shrouded with the sleight-of-hand consciousness which is trying to work wonders or "signs," nothing will happen.
"Awake, you who sleep, and Christ shall give you light!" Recognize that you are one with the Father -- the transcendent God -- through Christ, and live your life from a fixed consciousness of that union.
by Walter Lanyon
PROSPERITY
After we have come this far, we are still reluctant to turn the matter of hard cold cash over to a mental process. There is something too uncertain, something which constantly reminds us that we must "work it out by the sweat of our brow." But the fact is that we must resolve the whole thing into the mental realm if we are to gain the financial freedom that we are seeking.
Going back a little in history we find that what we today call dollars and cents were not known, and that men traded work for something to eat, and the Indians traded skins for manufactured goods. The state of Pennsylvania was purchased for a few skins which were not redeemable for much in actual dollars and cents.
Today we think a thing is worth so many dollars and cents, not stopping to realize that it is the mental valuation which we place on the dollars that makes the value of the thing we are buying. If you do not readily grasp this just look at the present situation in the European money market. The mark for instance is identical in size and shape, or. color of ink and quality of paper, as it ever was, and yet today people in Germany know that the mark is only worth a fraction of its former, value. The mark has not changed, it is the peoples idea of values, and so it is with our dollar. During the world war it was a common thing to hear it said that a dollar would not buy much more than a quarter's worth in normal times, and yet, there was and is no scarcity of money; on the other hand there is an ever increasing inflow of it from every mint. Is it not then strange that when the standard remains unchanged that we should suddenly find it changing in value and at one time becoming scarce and at another time plentiful? Does it not resolve itself into the mental attitude back of it? The standard remains the same and it is just what we, the people, determine it is worth that makes its value. Then dollars and cents in reality simply stand for a mental value. Now then if this be true, we know that our mental capacity is not limited, we are not shut off from thinking as much as we want, and it is thru this simple little rule that we shall demonstrate prosperity. When we begin to realize that value is mental, then we also realize that we have access to the real substance of things hoped for, thru thinking, and we stop seeking the effect and look for the cause, which is mind. We begin to know that "As a man thinketh so is he" is a very trite and true saying in regard to his financial affairs, as well as everything else.
It would be well then for us to adopt a prosperous way of thinking right now. Never again allow yourself, for a single moment, to think poverty never again acknowledge a limited condition or state of affairs, but realize that since the whole thing is mental that you have the power to bring into manifestation anything that you need or desire.
I do not mean to say that you can sit down and think a million dollars into your lap without an effort. In the first place you cannot easily gain the million dollar consciousness, so it is better to begin by placing yourself in a state of consciousness which you can more readily imagine yourself in. Once you have set about correcting the poverty thought you will find that new and unthought of avenues of supply will open to you.
A person who spends five minutes a day in meditation on abundance and then goes about his work thinking, "I cannot afford this or that because I am poor," or "I do not see my supply," etc., etc., cannot expect to demonstrate that state of finance which he should have, because his negative thoughts offset the positive to such a degree that he repulses the very thing he would attract.
Once you have decided to take the stand of thinking prosperity and refusing to see poverty or limitation in anything, you will find that the battle is half won.
Jack Ensign Addington (- 1998) – New Thought Minister, Author ,Lawyer and Lecturer – left a successful legal practice to become a minister. During his twenty years in the ministry, he founded two large city churches. He was the co-founder, with his wife, Cornelia Addington, of the Abundant Living Foundation, which brought his teachings to thousands of students in the United States and Canada through radio broadcasts and the publication of the Abundant Living magazine. After retiring to Kalispell Montana, Jack Addington died in 1998.
[1] Talbot Mundy (born William Lancaster Gribbon) (1879 –1940) was an English writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt.
