MIND POWER and How To Use It

Philip O'Bryen Hoare

b. 1871, d. 6 October 1950 Philip O'Bryen HOARE b 1871 Sholing, Hampshire In 1881 Census

Philip O'Bryen Hoare was born in 1871.1 He was the son of Reverend James O'Bryen Richard Dott Hoare [See, particularly, his profile ‘Mr. James O’Bryen Dott Richard Hoare, M. A. (Cambridge)’ in The Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Vol. 3., Christchurch: Cyclopedia Co., 1903, p.205; Bert Roth to Rev. G. W. Brassington, 19 November 1965, /2/2/8, Working papers on Rev. John Trevor (1855-1930), founder of the Labour Church- MSS.143, ] and Frances Eleanor Henderson. He married Florence Evans in 1896. He died on 6 October 1950. He lived at 27 Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The only child of Philip O'Bryen Hoare and Florence Evans was Donovan O'Bryen Hoare, b. 1899, d. 1917

Mr. Philip O'Bryen Hoare started the New Thought work in New Zealand in 1905. Later, Mr. Hoare lectured in New South Wales and Queensland, and settled in Adelaide, South Australia, where he established The First School of New Thought and Mental Science. Later still, Mr. Hoare lectured in Johannesburg, South Africa, and reestablished his school of New Thought in Melbourne, Australia.  A History of the New Thought Movement By Horatio W. Dresser - Page 118

http://www.historic.org.nz/TheRegister/RegisterSearch/RegisterResults.aspx?RID=4540

The light in the window by Philip O'Bryen Hoare . The Christopher Publishing House..Published 1927

Philip married Florence Evans in Queenstown in 1896 and a year later, their son, Donovan O’Bryen Hoare was born. The family moved to Christchurch in 1898, arriving on the Passenger Express ship whose list was reported in the Star, 30th Sept. 1898. Philip became an accountant and a “prominent spiritualist and card player”. According to Florence, he took to frequently staying out late at night “arriving home about the same time as the milk”. It wasn’t long before they parted company.
He provided Florence with £100 pounds a year in support. However his payment ceased in December, 1908 and Philip’s whereabouts were unknown to her.
Florence was forced to obtain work in order to support herself and Donovan, their ten year old son. It was not until November, 1916 that she successfully sued for divorce on the grounds of abandonment.
In 1917, their son, Donovan was eighteen and had been chosen to join thirty young New Zealand men on a three year officer training course with the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited (U.S.S.). The cadets sailed on the converted troopship, the S.S. Aparima, and after unloading troops, were making their way down the coast of Dorset in South England, when their ship was torpedoed by a German submarine. Over half its crew – fifty six men including seventeen young cadets, were killed in the blast or drowned by their lifeboats being sucked down by the ship’s drag.

“Aft, there – the stern’s blown off, sir!”

“Oh Lord – the poor boys.” - was a comment made hearing of the loss. The cadets’ sleeping quarters were located in the stern of the vessel where the torpedo struck.

“Up went the bows and down went the stern amidst a roar of rushing water.”

The loss of life was tragic, and the cadets families suffered more hardship in the process of compensation. They young men were neither officers nor seaman so had received no pay although their risk was the same as their fellow seamen. Some of the families lodged claims to the government. Florence wrote,

“.. I was looking forward to the expiry of his three years’ cadetship when my son and only child would make such progress in life as to enable him to make some money spent on his education and later on help to keep me from poverty in old age.”

Advert placed by Philip Hoare
in
'Stead's' Magazine,
 August 21st, 1920

Prior to Philip’s disappearance, he had established “The School of New Thought” in 1905 in New Zealand. It appears he moved to Sydney, Australia and set up as a specialist in mental and speech disorders, claiming he had an M.B.I.M.Sc from the British Institute of Mental Science, London. He lectured in New South Wales and Queensland, and established his second school, “The First School of New Thought and Mental Science” in Adelaide. He later settled in Brisbane, living at 27 Gregory Terrace.

Whilst Philip’s career went from strength to strength as a self proclaimed “world-famous specialist” who travelled the southern hemisphere giving lectures and speeches and writing books on poetry, public speaking and parapsychology, Florence spent a less illustrious life. She lived in convents in Christchurch and Hamilton before moving to Auckland and working as a housekeeper, before her death in 1939.

Saturday 15 April 1939
The Courier-Mail
Brisbane, Qld.

I don’t intentionally look for content like this. And, as in yesterday’s blog all I do is google a name , sometimes from Dresser’s “History of New Thought”, and follow the leads generated.

Whether or not these were legitimate or not is never my concern. I’m looking for people that realized God and in the process blog what I find,

The idea did occur to me as to how future generations will view the people, events and books from our generation.