Charles Fillmore placed a large glass bottle at the exit for customers to place a love offering for the meal they had just enjoyed in restaurant he instituted in Unity Village It always made a great profit. When Charles passed on the restaurant was put under the charge of a manager who then put out a menu with prices. They ceased making such a profit!!!. A love offering always is the best way to go rather than make a set charge: Give without thought of receiving and the return will be pressed down and overflowing.
Malinda Cramer offered her primary class (eight lessons) for $5, her theological class (twelve lessons for $10 and her normal class, including diploma for $25. ECH charged $50.It was one morning in 1885, while in prayer that Malinda Cramer had simply asked, "Is there any way out of these conditions? Is there any power in the vast universe that can heal me?" The answer came intuitively. The illumined realization of the power of the Infinite Spirit freed her from the belief that her condition controlled her. She studied with the "teacher of teachers," Emma Curtis Hopkins as did many others. As she let go of old habits of belief, she became healed.
In 1887, Mrs. Hopkins, went to San Francisco at the request of interested people and taught a class of 250 people, including Mrs. Sadie Gorie, Miss Harriet Hale Rix, and Annie Rix (Prior to marrying Paul Militz[1]).
Annie Rix Militz first step was to join Mrs. Sadie Gorie, another member of Hopkin’s San Francisco class in establishing a “metaphysical bureau” (a combination metaphysical bookstore and healing and teaching center). The bureau expanded quickly. It soon included a kindergarten, a school, a “Christian Science Bazaar” (labor exchange) and a “charitable branch” that distributed goods to the poor.”Mrs. Militz, who became the leading teacher in California, moved in 1896 to Los Angeles and established the Home of Truth there. Mrs., Militz was also the leader in the establishment of the other Homes of Truth in California. The Master Mind, the monthly periodical representing this branch of the movement, was begun in 1911. Annie Rix Militz relied entirely on freewill offerings for her healing, teaching, and preaching services.
[1]T. J. Shelton, editor of Scientific Christian and Mr. Paul Militz, who with Mr. Shelton, were the first to teach Mrs. Elizabeth Towne, editor of Nautilus.
Nautilus had an average monthly circulation of 85000 in the 1920s. From: Satter, Beryl. “Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity and the New Thought Movement 1875-1920” by Beryl Satter. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Page 249
Towne published Wallace Wattles who also wrote for Nautilus.
“He wrote almost constantly. Then it was that he formed his mental picture. He saw himself as a successful writer, a personality of power, an advancing man, and he began to work toward the realization of this vision . . . . He lived every page of "How to be a Genius." In the last three years he made lots of money, and had good health, except for his extreme frailty.”
The book "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles, 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
In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) had used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, stating that "like attracts like.” William Walter Atkinson also wrote occult books under various aliases so to state Towne was dedicated to strictly New Thought is questionable. She published what sold.The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's prosperity theology book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he summarized the principle, stating:
"You are what you think, not what you think you are."
The phrase "Law of Attraction" appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge in 1915, and Annie Besant in 1919.
Napoleon Hill released The Law of Success in 16 Lessons (1928) which directly references the Law of Attraction, by name, repeatedly. Napoleon Hill released The Law of Success in 16 Lessons (1928) which directly references the Law of Attraction, by name, repeatedly.
The "principle of "non-resistance" was a popular concept taught in conjunction with the Law of Attraction.
“Law of Attraction” continues to sell books. It had nothing to do with the teachings of Quimby, MEB, Hopkins or any of their students. But by writing “law of attraction in capitals does not make it an absolute law. That’s an ego thing, not from Spirit.
The Nautilus was a magazine of the New Thought Movement, founded in 1898 by Elizabeth Towne. In May 1900, Towne moved the magazine to Holyoke, Massachusetts, which became its permanent home until its discontinuation in August 1953, when Towne retired from publishing at the age of 88. Towne also published, under the "Elizabeth Towne" imprint, books consisting of material which had run in serialized form in the magazine, generally supplying introductions to the compiled works.
Authors who were published in the magazine include:
- William Walker Atkinson
- Kate Atkinson Boehme
- Jonathan Balcombe
- Florence Tabor Critchlow
- Paul Ellsworth
- Orison Swett Marden
- Edwin Markham
- Thomas J. Shelton
- I am sermons 1900
- The Law of Vibrations 1900
- Elizabeth Towne
- William Towne
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