Remember, always, it is your state of consciousness that attracts your life.

 

FUNDAMENTALS

By NEVILLE

100th INTA Congress

The 100th Annual International New Thought Alliance World Congress is here!

http://www.intaannualworldcongress.com/

http://www.newthoughtalliance.org/annual-congress.html

The concerns of INTA are:

I.N.T.A. STANDING COMMITTEES (1944)

Good reference material

God the Good is All-in-all.

"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

"Receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God."

There is probably no statement that Divine Scientists, as a body, love to make more frequently than the declaration that "all is good." This statement is broad, generous, and all inclusive --- one that stands the close inspection of divine perception and the true analysis of divine reasoning. However, not all attempts to analyze the nature of the declaration are based in unity; neither are they uniformly free from the traditional belief of duality. [... more ...] The Unity Of Good By Mrs. M. E. Cramer First International New Thought Metaphysical Congress 1899

A New Hope Through a New Way.

A famous English scientist has recently said that we may look any day for a discovery in some obscure laboratory, by an unknown scientist, that will bisect human history. I am here to proclaim to the world that the discovery has been made. This congress exists because of that fact. But it is no material substance that we have discovered - not a new material law. Humanity has waited in vain for a material discovery that will bisect human history in a vital way. Such a thing might possibly change the surface of society, but it will not make the great transition from an unhappy to a happy world.

“Moving Out of Your Comfort Zone by Taking a Leap of Faith”

@ Saving the History of New Thought Churches

 “On the Churches page is part of the history of one of the earliest temples founded by New Thought author, Christian Dee Larson. This demonstrates that “leap of faith” that was taken by so many of our early founders in the days when New Thought was young, and by many discredited. It would be wonderful to see young ministers and teachers of today, following their example and pioneering where there is no New Thought Group in existence.”

Can a murderer be forgiven - even if they murdered someone?

In 1938, Dr. Emma Smiley was named president of the Victoria Truth Centre and later that year she was ordained as a minister. She was appointed permanent leader of the church in 1940 and for more than 40 years until her passing in 1983, Dr. Smiley became recognized as one of North America’s leading New Thought ministers.

"Eternally the Voice of the Infinite is rapping at the door of our consciousness offering us - what? New Thoughts for old, new dreams, new desires, new understanding, new knowing." Dr. Emma Smiley 

"The History of New Thought" By Dr. EMMET FOX

The purely spiritual message of Jesus Christ began to be clouded over as the years passed and those who had known him personally disappeared. Early in the 4th century Christianity was made an established and subsidized church by Constantine, and after that the Spiritual Idea rapidly faded out. As the centuries passed, the Spiritual Idea would emerge from time to time here or there among small groups of people (of which the 17th century Quakers are probably the most notable) but it was not until modern New Thought appeared a hundred years ago in New England that the Spiritual Idea became fairly wide-spread in the world. This is really the Second Coming of the Christ prophesied by Jesus himself.

Like all significant movements it came into the race mind through several different channels at about the same time. No one person can be said to have "originated" it. Emerson may be regarded as the prophet of the movement. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby did practical healing in Portland, Maine, and taught several students who afterwards went out and spread the teaching in different ways. The New England Transcendentalist Movement was really part of the same current of thought, and included in addition to Emerson himself, Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Thoreau, Theodore Parker and others.

He bestowed "Love and Light" on all who met him.

I accept my resurrection as a daily experience of Practicing the Presence of God.
My Christ Consciousness is my resurrection. I am brought forth in His image and I let His Spirit have full expression through me according to His Will.
His Spirit is equal to every experience or test that may come to me; therefore, I consciously trust Him and rest from all struggle or fear, knowing that "He leadeth me beside the still waters; He restoreth my soul."
One-pointed in Divine Mind I live the truth and it demonstrates itself. His law is perfect within me. Obedience to that law is a "must" if I would rise to my spiritual kingdom and have dominion. This is my part of the resurrection.
--Irwin Edwin Gregg

A Practical American Spirtuality and Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes.

Alan Anderson passed away in  Nov 2012. See notice in http://www.neweverymoment.com/newsletter.html
Alan and his wife Deb Whitehouse authored "New Thought: A Practical American Spirtuality" and "Practising the Presence of God for Practical Purposes". Besides their blog they were active proponents of the INTA.

Always get the vision before you begin to work.

Dr. Robert H. Bitzer ( 1896 - 1994) Founder and Spiritual Director of the Hollywood Church of Religious Science, wrote several books and gave hundreds of classes during his career. The Hollywood Church of Religious Science was the Hallmark Church in the Religious Science movement.

As Gaze wrote in ”My personal Recollections of Thomas Troward [1958]”: “Dr. Robert Bitzer, internationally known President of the International New Thought Alliance, also conducts a church in Hollywood, in the western section. Dr. Bitzer’s church has built a handsome building for the preaching and teaching activities, for the children, and for the social work of the church. Like all Religious Science organizations, this one also features the books of Thomas Troward, and when Dr. Bitzer gives a Troward class it is deservedly popular.”

From "Collected Essays " page 19: "No matter what you are attempting to do, always get the vision before you begin to work. See the completed demonstration. If you are buying a house, think of it as completely furnished and completely paid for. Even though you may take out a mortgage on it, treat that it is completely paid for. For the first property our church bought, we worked that way. Instead of waiting twenty years to pay off the mortgage, we did it in eight years."

From "Collected Essays" page 20: "As for money. I have never worked for money. I depend upon divine Principle. I have never experienced lack, because I know the source of my supply. I never depend upon the channel but only on the source. I am open to all avenues through which my good comes. I thank everyone who is an instrument and show my appreciation, because no one has to be a part of my demonstration. However, the source blesses and prospers everyone that it uses. Understanding this law, we are never imposed upon, nor can we impose upon someone else. Bless everyone through whom your good comes. I have always been governed by this law - long before I ever heard of metaphysics."

'There's no mystery about long life in the flesh – only ignorance.'

Harry (Thomas Henry) Gaze (1878 – 1959) was born in Thurlow, Suffolk, UK. He began his lecturing career in San Francisco in 1898, and was ordained by the Divine Science College in Denver in 1945. He married in 1932, and had two sons, one in 1935 and the other in 1940. His wife died in 1940. He had a son and a daughter from a previous marriage, and remarried in 1951.
Dr Gaze had written a book called How to Live Forever, which states, 'There's no mystery about long life in the flesh – only ignorance.' Well, Dr Gaze lectured frequently on his favourite subject – that is, living forever. In 1959 he agreed to give two lectures on physical immortality at Robert H Bitzer's Hollywood Church of Religious Science. He didn’t show up for the second lecture. The attendees were all waiting and wondering where their esteemed lecturer was. Unfortunately, there had been a motor vehicle accident, and Dr Gaze, who had been a passenger en route to the church, would die in the aftermath of that accident. He never gave that second lecture.

Gaze pointed out the lure of "Law of Attraction" to some New Thought proponents. It was a catch-22 situation for many. They were charged with commercialism if you make money and criticism when they fail and got into debt. Never the less, the use of Truth in the business world may bring great results and success when used in the love of being in service. Troward's view of this was "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you." "The Kingdom of Heaven is within vou." - first find God in yourself and you will find Him everywhere else," It is a case of "you press the button- and we do the rest." And, also, the masses love the practical side at the expense of the religious overtones. (Note: I’m still trying to determine when “law of attraction” became “Law of Attraction”.)
How to Live Forever, the Science and Practice (1904)
Life, Youth and Success, Constructive Psychology from A to Z, An Alphabet of Affirmation (1918)
Emmet Fox, the man and his work [1952]
An Thomas Troward Intimate Memoir of the Teacher and the Man[1958]
My Personal Recollections of Thomas Troward: One of the New World Thinkers and Teachers[1958]



How to Live Forever with Golden Rules for Successful Living 1904. In this handbook for living healthfully, youthfully and joyfully, Harry Gaze, minister, teacher and friend of Emmet Fox shows you how to harness all the power of your intelligence and energy to achieve complete rejuvenation. The book is systematically planned in order for you to obtain the maximum desired results. The chapters are composed of three parts: first, a general explanatory text; second, a set of Golden Rules for systematic application of text; third, a set of one months Daily Affirmations.
As a member of The World New Thought Federation Gaze was active in the conventions of 1910, 1912 and 1913. And later the INTA.

The Mother of the Metaphysical Movement in England.

The Higher Thought Centre[1], formally established in Kensington in 1900 with Alice M. Callow as its Secretary, has been almost entirely forgotten. It published a journal, Expression, numerous short pamphlets, and a quarterly record of its work “in London and the provinces.” It hosted ongoing lectures on meditation and healing, as well as occasional lecture series by such well-known progressive thinkers as Edward Carpenter[2] and Mrs. Havelock Ellis[3], and served as a centre for visiting Ba’hai and Sufi religious leaders. Like so many of the metaphysical movements of the time, its adherents embraced women’s rights, forming, in 1910, a Women’s Silent League of Freedom to practice silent meditation “to bring about the desired results.” It opened Higher Thought Centres in Canada and Australia, and in 1914 it joined the International New Thought Alliance (although it continued to struggle to differentiate itself from American New Thought).

‘That New Thought of YOURS’

The International New Thought Alliance (INTA) is a global organization dedicated to the spiritual enlightenment and transformation of the individual and the world since 1914. Its purpose is to promote cooperation, provide a basis for common effort of the various units of the New Thought world, promote those activities that cannot of their very nature be accomplished by each group or individual alone, disseminate and publish the good news of New Thought, and build a spiritual fellowship that will secure the respect of all human beings.

For fifty years he had engaged in healing, counseling, and speaking.

Harley Bradley Jeffery(1872 - 1954) was born in Syracuse,New York, to George Adams Jeffery and Ellen Clapp Jeffery. His father worked in the printing trade, starting as compositor for the Syracuse Herald; his mother was a member of the Missionary Socie y of the Christian Church. Harley was followed by two brothers: Haswell Clark Jeffery, born in 1873, and James Clapp Jeffery, in 1876. The three boys were baptized into the Christian Church, which they attended regularly. H.B. Jeffery graduate from high school in Syracuse and then went to work wilth a leading architectural office in the city. Later he went into partnership with an architect and still later went into the construction business for himself. He specialized in building private homes and housing projects.

About 1903 Mr. Jeffery met Dr. Charles Brodie Patterson, a member of the Royal Society of Arts, Letters, and Sciences of Great Britain, who was doing healing work in New York City and giving a series of lectures on what then was the new subject of "metaphvsics." Dr. Patterson was so impressed by Mr. Jeffery that he asked him to join him in the work. As Dr. Patterson's lectures became more and more time consuming, the ministry fell more and more to Mr. Jeffery; and when Dr. Patterson returned to England Mr. Jeffery took over his healing ministry in New York and opened a second office in Philadelphia. Mr.Jeffery did specialized work in philosophy at Harvard University and Columbia; he also studied metaphysics with Dr. James Porter Mills of London. About 1905 he met Mrs. Emma Curtis Hopkins, the "teacher of teachers." He worked with her in producing her classic "High Mysticism"; and about 1910 and 1911 he gave a series of lectures in England and Europe on "High Mysticism." In England Mr. Jeffery became acquainted with Sir Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister, and with Judge Troward: for a time he helped Judge Troward in his spiritual work. When Mr. Jeffery returned to the United States, he resumed his healing practice, and he was more and more in demand as a lecturer throughout the country. He died in Santa Monica, California, where he was giving a series of talks. For fifty years he had engaged in healing, counseling, and speaking.

The Principles ofHealing (1939)
MysticalTeachings (1954)
The Spirit of Prayer (1938)
What Seek Ye? (1940)
Coordination of Spirit, Soul and Body (1948)

The Lord's Prayer by HB Jeffrey (1940)

The Christ Truth League was founded in 1938 by Alden Truesdell (d. 1985) and his wife, Nell Truesdell (d. 1971), as an independent ministry and fellowship of students seeking what they believed to be the right application of the law of life as taught and lived by Jesus Christ. The Truesdells were closely aligned with the teachings of Harley Bradley Jeffery. The League was a member of the INTA.

Fairyland.

On August 11, 1900 Doctor Edgar Lucien Larkin(1847 - 1925) found himself accepting the position of director of the Lowe Observatory. Larkin came to the Lowe Observatory on Echo Mountain from the Knox College Observatory in Galesburg Illinois. The California "fairyland" as he called it was to be his home for the next 25 years.. He was replacing the nearly blind Dr. Swift who was eighty years old. Dr. Swift was well known for his discoveries of comets and nebulae and he brought great attention to the observatory.
Dr. Larkin's approach was a bit different but in holding with Professor Lowe's ultimate dream of a scientific institute on the mountain. Dr. Larkin pushed the idea of the observatory being an informative, educational, and entertaining attraction to the many visitors from the world below.
After the fires on Echo Mountain the observatory was one of the last attractions at the top of the incline. Saturday, Sunday, and holiday evenings were set aside by the Dr. for free astronomical lectures and a chance for patrons to look through the great telescope. On other evenings the observatory was available to schools and private parties through special arrangements of the Traffic department of Pacific Electric.
When Larkin was director of the observatory the Pacific Electric Railroad (Owned by Henry Huntington, the Pacific Electric Railway Company, was incorporated on November 10, 1901) was in full control of the activities on the mountain. In fact Dr. Larkin was employed by Pacific Electric making him the worlds only astronomer employed by a traction railroad.
Dr. Larkin was a man of many interests. He was interested in the occult and two sunken continents, Atlantis and Mu, in the Pacific. Dr. Larkin was very down on astrology as many visitors soon found out upon inquiring about the subject.
The Dr. wrote a book around 1914 titled "Within the Mind Maze" described by him as a book of creative thought. It sold for $1.25 back then.
He grew up in near Ottawa, Illinois. Larkin was born in a log cabin along Indian Creek on April 5, 1847 to a father of ordinary means and a mother of high morality and nobility of mind. His parents were poor and Larkin himself said they could well be the topic for a writer of modern socialism with a title such as Submerged 9/10’s or Unequaled Distribution of Wealth. Try as they may Edgar’s parents sent him to the fields to plow corn and learn the ways of farming, but the weeds seemed to have escaped him altogether. Then he was put in sole charge of the cows, which Edgar took to and became great friends to them.
His grandfather built a frame house with pine boards brought to Ottawa on the new canal. When Edgar was eleven his father died and he and his mother went to live in the newly painted white frame house. Teachers were scarce commodities and books were the same. A retired German physician came into the area and had a library. Edgar read all the books the German had in English but the greatest of volumes were in German and like hieroglyphics to the young man.
In 1858 a school opened in the region and the task of teaching this future writer began. It was also in this same year that the greatest of events took place, which forever changed the course of life for Edgar Larkin. On October 5, 1958 Edgar lay asleep in bed when his grandmother awoke him and urged him to come outside and see the wonderful site. It was around 10:00 PM and the wonder site that awaited him was the Comet Donati. It appeared to be springing from their black forest and extended to the zenith. His eyes and those of many others had not before seen such a display.
The next day young Larkin at the age of 11 decided to study astronomy. With a dollar that would eliminate his Christmas present from grandmother that year, he bought his first book, Burrits Geography of the Heavens and Atlas. A nearby surveyor had a 4 inch lens which when placed in a piece of wood and an eyepiece added, became his first telescope to study with. By the time he was fourteen however his eyesight became so bad that he had to leave school and never returned.
Edgar Lucien Larkin penned his last book in 1916, it was called the Matchless Alter of the Soul and in 1925 he died. He was a member of the INTA.

The Great Nebula in Andromeda (Radiant Energy[1903])

The matchless altar of the soul, symbolized as a shining cube of diamond, one cubit in dimensions, and set within the Holy of holies in all grand esoteric temples of antiquity(1916)
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7238505M/The_matchless_altar_of_the_soul

Radiant energy and its analysis; its relation to modern astrophysics(1903)
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7248642M/Radiant_energy_and_its_analysis
Within the mind maze; or, Mentonomy, the law of the mind. (1911)
In the mid-19th Century paleontologists coined the term "Lemuria" to describe a hypothetical continent, bridging the Indian Ocean, which would have explained the migration of lemurs from Madagascar to India. Lemuria was a continent which submerged and was no longer to be seen. By the late 19th Century occult theories had developed, mostly through the theosophists, that the people of this lost continent of Lemuria were highly advanced beings. The location of the folklore 'Lemuria' changed over time to include much of the Pacific Ocean. In the 1880s a Siskiyou County, California, resident named Frederick Spencer Oliver[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/07/i-am.html] wrote A Dweller on Two Plants, or, the Dividing of the Way which described a secret city inside of Mount Shasta, and in passing mentioned Lemuria. In 1925 a writer by the name of Selvius wrote "Descendants of Lemuria: A Description of an Ancient Cult in America" which was published in the Mystic Triangle, Aug., 1925 (the singlemost inportant document in the establishment of the modern Mt. Shasta-Lemurian myth) and which was entirely about the mystic Lemurian village at Mount Shasta. Selvius claimed that Lakrin had seen the Lemurian village through a telescope, "Even no less a careful investigator and scientist than Prof. Edgar Lucin Larkin, for many years director of Mount Lowe Observatory, said in newspaper and magazine articles that he had seen, on many occasions, the great temple of this mystic village, while gazing through a long-distance telescope.".
Frederick Spencer Oliver[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/07/i-am.html] was a Yrekan (the county seat of Siskiyou County, California, United States) teen who claimed that his hand began to uncontrollably write a manuscript dictated to him by Phylos the Tibetan, a Lemurian spirit.
Oliver's novel of spiritual fiction is

"The single most important source of Mount Shasta's esoteric legends. The book contains the first published references linking Mt. Shasta to: 1) a mystical brotherhood; 2) a tunnel entrance to a secret city inside Mount Shasta; 3) Lemuria; 4) the concept of "I AM"[http://pvrguymale.blogspot.ca/2011/07/i-am.html]; 5) "channeling" of ethreal spirits; 6)a panther surprise"

The author claimed to have written most of the novel within sight of Mount Shasta, and autobiographical telling of the story from Phylos the Thibetan's point of view.
In 1908, Adelia H. Taffinder[1] wrote an article, "A Fragment of the Ancient Continent of Lemuria," for the Atlantic Monthly with its Theosophical teachings and extension of the Lemurian Myth to California.
The Lemuria-Mount Shasta legend has developed into one of Mount Shasta's most prominent legends.
Wishar Spenle Cerve's 1931 Lemuria: The Lost Continent of the Pacific was "responsible for the legend's widespread popularity”. Is "Wishar Spenle Cerve" really a letter-for-letter pseudonym for "Harve Spencer Lewis(1883–1939)", first Imperator of the Rosicrucian Order of North and South America.
The idea of a lost continent (and the subsequent existence of Lemurians on Mount Shasta), quickly became widely known, though perhaps not so widely believed.
Today the belief that Lemurians inhabit the mountain is still very popular, and anyone visiting the local bookstores will likely be surprised by the glut of texts on the subject.

[1] Tavinder wrote in American Theosophist Magazine, 1914, about “World Teachers of the Aryan Race”.

Actually one new ager channels about Lemurians at Mount Shasta.

I’ve already given up any plans of ever taking one of those boat cruises with an author. What happens if, shortly after departing, you find out they’re not all they seem to be?

Promise Yourself.

Christian Daa Larson, Christian D. Larson, C.D. Larson (1874 – 1962) , beloved author of his now famous Optimist Creed[1], was born February 1, 1874. His parents were newly arrived Norwegian immigrants who settled in the prairie wilderness of North Winnebago County, Iowa.
In 1894, urged by his parents, Christian entered a Lutheran seminary. But on a train trip to the seminary in Minneapolis an event occurred that would change the course of Christians life. A book by a Unitarian minister was left on the seat next to him, and after reading it several times it became the catalyst for his break with orthodox theology. Larson completed the first year at the Lutheran seminary but knew he would enroll in a liberal theological school the following year. He attended Iowa State College and a Unitarian theological school in Meadville, Pennsylvania In his early twenties he became interested in the Mental Science teachings of Helen Wilmans, Henry Wood, Charles Brodie Patterson and others. These logical teachings suited his analytical mind and provided a point to him where theology and science could meet and combine to provide a practical and systematic philosophy of life.
He was an outstanding and highly influential early New Thought teacher and leader. A prolific writer of New Thought books, he believed that people have tremendous latent powers which can be put to use for success with the proper attitude. Christian first located in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1898. In January 1901 he organized the New Thought Temple[2] at his residence, 947 West 17th St. In September of the same year he began publishing Eternal Progress, which was for several years one of the leading New Thought periodicals with a circulation of over a quarter million. It was while he was acting as editor for Eternal Progress that his prolific writing career of over forty published books began. Among the best known are: Poise And Power(1907), The Great Within(1908), Mastery Of Fate(1910), The Ideal Made Real(1912), Thinking For Results(1912), The Hidden Secret(1912), Mastery Of Self, Your Forces And How To Use Them(1912), How To Stay Well(1912) and The Pathway of Roses(1912) which sold over over a million copies and was translated into eight languages.
[1] The Optimist Creed was authored in 1912 by Christian D. Larson, appearing in his book Your Forces and. How to Use Them. It was adopted as the Optimist Internationals Creed in 1922.

Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

He was a one time honorary president of the International New Thought Alliance(INTA), along with such stalwarts as W.W. Atkinson, Horatio Dresser, Charles Brodie Patterson, and Annie Rix Militz, he was one who exercised considerable influence over Religious Science founder, Ernest Holmes. As early as 1928, C. D. Larson began to appear in Science of Mind Magazine and to be a part of the major teaching courses, becoming a member of the permanent staff.
It was the same Christian D. Larson whose book, The Ideal Made Real, nineteen years earlier introduced Ernest Holmes, founder of the Institute of Religious Science in Los Angeles, to the New Philosophy inspiring him to go forward in learning and practicing the art of mental treatment, i.e. expanding beyond physical healing to the Control of Conditions. Ernest Holmes and his brother, Fenwicke, took a correspondence course with Larson. According to Fenwicke, Ernest had been studying the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, but was so impressed with Christian Larson's New Thought writings that he abandoned the Christian Science textbook in favor of Larsons work “The Ideal Made Real”. In the biography of his brother, Ernest Holmes: His Life And Times, Fenwicke Holmes elaborates on the influence of Larson and Ralph Waldo Trine on that of his brother.
Christian D. Larson passed away at the age of 87 in 1962.
[2]The New-Thought movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, owes its origin to Christian D. Larson(Christian Dee Larson), (a great influence on Ernest Holmes), who in January, 1901, organized the New Thought Temple, at his residence, 947 West Seventeenth St. In September of that year Mr. Larson began to publish Eternal Progress, for several years one of the leading New Thought periodicals. In November, 1902, Sunday morning services were inaugurated. At this service fifteen minutes' silence was a leading feature, A little church building seating three hundred people was secured in 1904. Mr. Larson resigned in 1907, and was succeeded by Paul Tyner, in November, 1908. Harry Gaze was the next leader, and then Miss Leila Simon[1], in 1912.

The History of The Cincinnati Temple
Excerpted from A History of the New Thought Movement, 1919
Horatio W. Dresser
1919
Chapter 11
OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

On January 27, 1963, the Unity Center of Practical Christianity located on Madison Road in Oakley and the New Thought Temple merged into the New Thought Unity Center.
During the late 1890’s, two groups of “pioneers in thought” who were interested in the new science of mental healing then sweeping the country, met together in thought, feeling, and effort. These groups were called “The Company” and “The Perfectionists.” They were members and friends of what is now called the New Thought Unity Center. In 1898, one of these groups found a teacher, Christian D(aa) Larson, who invited them to hold their meetings in his residence on West Seventh Street. In addition, some interested families opened their homes in the suburbs of Cincinnati and in Covington and Newport, Kentucky. The following year the group entered into a more definite organization and rented a space in the Odd Fellows Temple. It is this group that founded and built our present facility. From the documents of that time, we find the first purpose statement from the incorporation papers of the New Thought Temple:

The purpose of the New Thought Temple is

“to provide a universal church without fixed creed, dogma, or ritual, where all people may worship God, and where they may study the Principles and Fundamentals of New Thought in all of its phases, as a Philosophy, a religion, a science and the practice of sane, sensible and spiritual living.”

The first financial report of the fledgling Temple stated that it believed the “success, prosperity, and a splendid outlook for the coming year to the new financial methods put into practice….All contributions are voluntary, neither solicited nor urged. When money is needed for the many activities, an intelligent application of God’s law of supply is the means by which money has been forthcoming. Through the law of love, harmony and intelligent cooperation with God’s law of universal substance, the New Thought Temple has demonstrated adequate supply for all its needs, with good surplus."
Christian Larson was a teacher/lecturer of progressive ideas, who had come to Cincinnati in October of 1898. He traveled a circuit throughout Cincinnati and its suburbs, including Covington, Newport, and Dayton, Ohio. In a letter to the New Thought Temple in 1925 as they researched their own history for the dedication ceremonies in 1926, he explains,

“ …We aimed in all these lectures to cover the widest field possible, giving special emphasis to the high idealism, which at the time, was the inspiring note of the New Thought Movement. We gave special attention to healing; and that work at times was very extensive."

In the fall of 1907, Dr. Larson gave up the leadership to devote all his time to writing. Recalling the beginning of New Thought in Cincinnati, Dr. Larson stated,

"All pioneer work is well supplied with problems, difficulties, dark days, misunderstandings and criticism; we had our share and more. But everyone connected with the movement continued to hold to the high vision, and I am pleased to say that some marvelous results were attained, both in healing and spiritual development."

[1]

Because of the growth her leadership generated, the society moved to the Mansion on Gilbert Avenue. A storeroom in the Provident Bank Building near Peebles Corner served as an office, a library, a reading room, and a classroom. To understand the gift this woman gave those she led, read the following quote from Horatio Dresser’s book History of New Thought (published in 1919): "My first New Thought service brought out an audience of less than twenty-five people. Two years later I spoke constantly to from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred people. From the outset, I considered the work of the New Thought Temple entirely separate from personality. It was not mine, but impelled by the Spirit of God, and it is this conviction and consecration that is the moving Power of the New Thought Temple. My first thought from the beginning of my ministry and today is, “If you believe God’s power, prove it.If you teach health, harmony, and prosperity, furnish the actual proofs.
"My first move was to refuse to recognize the poverty-stricken consciousness of the New Thought Temple actually. I firmly set aside all gratuitous invitations from members who offered their homes for classes, etc., and also refused to house the activities in cheap rooms. As we had no money, this was a radical step. My first classes were held in my own apartment, situated in the best part of Cincinnati. The Sunday services in a hall seating one hundred people. In less than three months we had outgrown this hall, and my apartment classrooms. Before the end of the first year, we had audiences of five hundred and were finally crowded out of a large auditorium and were compelled to rent hundred to accommodate the people who wished to attend the Sunday services."
So for the Temple membership, as membership increased, the idea of a Temple Building began to assume more definite form. The Thursday evening class—an experience and healing meeting—included as part of its program a silence for building the temple, using the following affirmation:
I now build the Temple of the Lord God Almighty in perfect, visible form. It is a Divine Center through which higher Spiritual Forces of Love, Peace, Wisdom, Strength, Power, Faith, Fellowship, Health, Wealth, Companionship and Joy, now come forth into the world.
The idea began to manifest and on March 17, 1916 ground was broken for the new Temple.

To consciously bring forth the evolving human and an awakened world through the practice of universal spiritual principles and unconditional love.

The Association for Global New Thought, or AGNT, is an organization of ministers, lay people, heads of other New Thought organizations, and people of all faiths dedicated to "conscious co-creation". It's New Thought member churches and centers number between 600 and 700, and include Unity churches, Religious Science, Divine Science centers, and nondenominational New Thought spiritual communities. The Association for Global New Thought was formed after, "a leadership struggle in 1996 resulted in a number of influential leaders leaving INTA (International New Thought Alliance) to form the Association for Global New Thought." Rev. Michael Beckwith is a cofounder and president of the organization. Programs of the AGNT include the Season for Nonviolence; the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama; the Awaked World Annual Conference; and New Thought Broadcasting. Website here

Numerology is nothing less than a tool which aids us towards psychological self awareness.

A little remembered music teacher, living in Atlanta City, came to some startling conclusions. In her studies of harmony, Mrs L. Dow Balliett came to realize that the letter name applied to each note had the same vibratory qualities as the note itself. It was this simple observation, she later claimed, which led to her interest in the application of numerical science. The handful of books which she published on the subject essentially defined the modern method of relating names and numbers to acquire insight to the character and personality of the individual. It should be well noted, that no such system existed before the time of Mrs L. Dow Balliet. Any individual, or organization, claiming otherwise is at best misinformed, and at worst deliberately misleading. Around the turn of the century (from 1800 to 1900 A.D.) Mrs. L. Dow Balliett combined Pythagoras' work with Biblical reference.[1]
Her ideas could easily have been quickly forgotten, but for the efforts of one of her students.