CAUSES rather than effects, DEMONSTRATIONS rather than theories, THE PRACTICAL rather than the abstract.

Perry Joseph Green of Portland, Oregon was a philosopher and preacher of the New Thought Movement in the early 1900s.

The College of Divine Metaphysics was organized in 1918 as the realization of a dream held by Dr Joseph Perry Green, one of the early pioneers in the Metaphysical movement in America. In order to raise money to establish the College, Dr Green traveled from city to city, giving lectures and holding classes. Many of our alumni gained their first knowledge of Metaphysics in those early gatherings.

The purpose of the College of Divine Metaphysics is to assist its students in the development of their higher consciousness. In our lessons we do not attempt to teach the truth of spiritual law, but we do attempt to help people to attain a place where, degree by degree, they are able to understand the spiritual or metaphysical law for themselves in their own way, commensurate with their plane of soul understanding.
Our school is concerned with causes rather than effects, demonstrations rather than theories, the practical rather than the abstract. The laws and principles taught by the College of Divine Metaphysics avoid theory, speculation and abstractions; we confine our teaching to the operation of natural laws. Our teaching is a plain, simple statement of the mighty law that underlies and correlates all life. It teaches how to compel effects by controlling causes. Our school offers the "open sesame" by which one may enter all the doors of success by controlling the causes of success. http://www.divinemetaphysics.org/Metaphysics.html

Prior to 1907, W. K. Jones was a leading pioneer in making the New Thought known in Portland, Oregon. In 1907, Benj. Fay Mills held a series of meetings and classes on Emerson, Whitman, and the Bhagavad Gita. From these classes there followed a society known as the Fellowship Society of Portland, Oregon, with the late Clara Bewick Colby as president. There was also a council of five appointed, Dr. J. J. Story, Perry Joseph Green, Mrs. O. N. Denny, Dr. Mary Thompson, and T. O. Hague, with Florence A. Sullenberg, secretary. Tuesday evenings were set apart for the study of Emerson's Essays, and out of these groups came the present Emerson Study Circle, which meets at the Metaphysical Library. Other centres developed from the Fellowship Society and adopted the name New Thought.
A History of the New Thought Movement
by Horatio W. Dresser
First published 1919