At the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, Annie Rix Militz met the Hindu teacher Swami Vivekananda, an event that influenced her to turn away from her formerly Christian view of New Thought to become inclusively interfaith.
From my : Annie Rix Militz: "The Atonement Understood"
From http://www.vivekananda.net/
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The Unity Magazine.
Unity
Freedom, Fellowship and Character in Religion, A Journal of Religion, The Unity Publishing Company, Chicago
Vol 31. 1893
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The
Metaphysical Magazine Vol II . (1896)
o This article first appeared anonymously in the February
1895 issue of the New York Medical Times, a prestigious monthly medical journal
founded and edited by Dr. Egbert Guernsey.[3]
Constantly tell yourself, 'I am not the body, I am not the mind, I am not the thought, I am not even consciousness; I am the Atman.’ When you can throw away all, only true Self will remain."
He
loved to tell the story of a Christian missionary who was sent to preach to the
cannibals. The new arrival proceeded to the chief of the tribe and asked him,
'Well, how did you like my predecessor?' The cannibal replied, smacking his
lips, 'Simply delicious!'
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[2]Around the turn of the century, Horatio
W. Dresser (1866-1954), then one of the most popular writers in New
Thought, challenged the tendency to turn to Eastern religions for inspiration.
He was especially concerned with what he considered the pantheism
(all-is-God-ism, contrasted to panentheism, all-in-God-ism) that he identified
with the Vedanta. After he published "An Interpretation of the Vedanta" in The Arena in
1899, two defenders of that outlook promptly published
criticisms of his understanding of it. For our purposes it doesn't matter
whether the Vedanta or any other position taught what Dresser opposed. What does matter is that Dresser's concerns
are as important today as they were when he expressed them, since New
Thoughters constantly are saying that God is all.
Long before he earned his Ph.D. degree in philosophy at Harvard, Dresser was influenced by reading Emerson,
and expressed some of this influence in his first book, The Power of Silence.
Dresser referred to God's
having put forth "his own being as the world." However, in the second
edition of the book (1904) at the same place the reference is to God's having
"put forth His own life in the world." There are similar
modifications that Dresser introduced as his
thought matured.
Many may find it practically impossible to conceive
of New Thought without the pantheistic belief that God literally is everything.
However, Dresser characterized New Thought (known as THE New Thought at that time) in non-pantheistic terms:
The New Thought is a practical philosophy of the inner life in relation to health, happiness, social welfare, and success. Man as a spiritual being is living an essentially spiritual life, for the sake of the soul. His life proceeds from within outward, and makes for harmony, health, freedom, efficiency, service. He needs to realize the spiritual truth of his being, that he may rise above all ills and all obstacles into fullness of power. Every resource he could ask for is at hand, in the omnipresent [as loving guide, not as the totality of oneself] divine wisdom. Every individual can learn to draw upon divine resources. The special methods of New Thought grow out of this central spiritual principle. Much stress is put upon inner or spiritual concentration and inner control, because each of us needs to become still to learn how to be affirmative, optimistic. Suggestion or affirmation is employed to banish ills and errors and establish spiritual truth in their place. Silent or mental treatment is employed to overcome disease and secure freedom and success. The New Thought then is not a substitute for Christianity, but an inspired return to the original teaching and practice of the gospels. It is not hostile to science but wishes to spiritualize all facts and laws. It encourages each man to begin wherever he is, however conditioned, whatever he may find to occupy his hands; and to learn the great spiritual lessons taught by this present experience.FROM New Thought: Under Construction http://www.neweverymoment.com/articles/article/3114300/120787.htm
[3]GUERNSEY, EGBERT, M. D., (1823 - 1903) He graduated in the medical department of the University of the
City of New York, in 1846. During the last year of his medical studies, wishing
to become familiar with the details of pharmacy, he entered a drug store, where
he became thoroughly conversant with pharmaceutical science. The year after his
graduation, he had the charge of a large drug establishment. In 1847, with two
others, he commenced the Williamsburg (now the Brooklyn) Daily Times, the editorial chair of which he filled for eighteen months.
During his connection with the Times, he prepared a school history of the United States, and also a
primary history; both of which have had a very extensive circulation. Early in
1849, he was appointed City Physician of Williamsburg, now Brooklyn, E. D. His
attention was first directed to homœopathy by the case of a poor woman
suffering from intense retching and vomiting. Every means at his disposal under
the allopathic system having failed to afford relief, and completely baffled in
every attempt to alleviate her sufferings, fearing the woman would die, he
called to his aid physicians of his school of medicine, who acknowledged
themselves unable to afford relief. Determined to save his patient, if she
could be saved, he consulted Dr. George Cox, who had lately become a
homœopathist. A few closes of arsenicum gave her prompt and thorough relief,
every unpleasant symptom disappearing before the potency of the medicine. The
successful treatment of this case induced a close and thoughtful examination of
the system and principles of homœopathy, which resulted in a thorough
conviction of their strict accordance with scientific rules.
The Hudson River Railroad was then being opened through the place, and the cholera broke out with great severity along the line of the road, among the laborers. This was followed by a severe type of dysentery, which spread with wonderful rapidity over all the country. All the physicians of the neighborhood were kept busy day and night; and so pressing was the exigency that, during four months of the continuance of the disease, almost the whole of his sleep was obtained while travelling in his carriage. The value of homœopathy was thoroughly tested at that time. Its superiority was apparent in the fact that, while under allopathic treatment multitudes died, he did not lose a single patient.
His health being firmly established, Dr. Guernsey, in 1851, settled in New York. Soon after his settlement there, he published a valuable work, entitled, "Domestic Practice," and shortly after gave to the public a little treatise which he named, "Gentleman's Handbook of Homœopathy." Both of these works, valuable in the amount and kind of instruction they give, have had a large and deserved popularity. He received at this date the appointment of Physician to The Home of the Friendless, which office he filled with great fidelity, and with acceptance to the directors and the patients, for fourteen years, when he resigned it to younger hands. Dr. Guernsey was for one year President of the County Medical Society; one year Professor of Materia Medica, and three years Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Homœopathic Medical College of New York. This latter position he resigned in 1867.
The
New York Medical Times was a monthly medical journal published by E.P. Coby & Co.
published between 1881–1896 and edited by Dr.
Egbert Guernsey. Another journal of the same name was published between
1851–1856.
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