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The New Thought movement also Higher Thought is the spiritual movement which coalesced in a United States in the early 19th century. New Thought was preceded by "ancient thought", accumulated wisdom as alive as philosophy from a breed of origins, such(a) as Ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese, Taoist, Vedic, Hindu, as well as Buddhist cultures and their related opinion systems, primarily regarding the interaction between thought, belief, consciousness in the human mind, and the effects of these within and beyond the human mind. Though no direct nature of transmission is traceable, many adherents to New Thought in the 19th and 20th centuries claimed to be direct descendants from those systems.

Although there take been numerous leaders and various offshoots of the New Thought philosophy, the origins of New Thought draw often been traced back to Phineas Quimby, or even as far back as Franz Mesmer. Many of these groups are incorporated into the International New Thought Alliance. The contemporary New Thought movement is a broadly allied multiple of religious denominations, authors, philosophers, and individuals who share a set of beliefs concerning metaphysics, positive thinking, the law of attraction, healing, life force, creative visualization, and personal power.

New Thought holds that Infinite Intelligence, or monolithic nor doctrinaire, in general, modern-day adherents of New Thought share some core beliefs:

William James used the term "New Thought" as synonymous with the "Mind cure movement", in which he intended many sects with diverse origins, such(a) as idealism and Hinduism.

History

The New Thought movement was based on the teachings of Phineas Quimby 1802–1866, an American mesmerist and healer. Quimby had developed a abstraction system that indicated the tenet that illness originated in the mind as a consequence of erroneous beliefs and that a mind open to God's wisdom could overcome any illness. His basic premise was:

The trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the group for the mind to dwell in [...] Therefore, whether your mind had been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have include it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth, I come in contact with your enemy, and restore you to health and happiness. This I do partly mentally, and partly by talking till I right the wrong impression and setting the Truth, and the Truth is the cure.

During the unhurried 19th century, the metaphysical healing practices of Quimby mingled with the "Mental Science" of ] Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, has sometimes been cited as having used Quimby as inspiration for theology. Eddy was a patient of Quimby's and dual-lane his view that disease is rooted in a mental cause. Because of its theism, Christian Science differs from the teachings of Quimby.

In the late 19th century, New Thought was propelled by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, especially the Unity Church and Church of Divine Science develop in 1889 and 1888, respectively, followed by Religious Science established in 1927. Many of its early teachers and students were women; notable among the founders of the movement were Emma Curtis Hopkins, call as the "teacher of teachers", Myrtle Fillmore, Malinda Cramer, and Nona L. Brooks; with many of its churches and community centers led by women, from the 1880s to today.

New Thought is also largely a movement of the printed word.

Prentice Mulford, through writing Your Forces and How to use Them, a series of essays published during 1886–1892, was pivotal in the developing of New Thought thinking, including the Law of Attraction.

In 1906, William Walker Atkinson 1862–1932 wrote and published Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World. Atkinson was the editor of New Thought magazine and the author of more than 100 books on an assortment of religious, spiritual, and occult topics. The coming after or as a written of. year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus, published Bruce MacLelland's book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he summarized the "Law of Attraction" as a New Thought principle, stating "You are what you think, non what you think you are."

These magazines were used toa large audience then, as others are now. Nautilus magazine, for example, had 45,000 subscribers and a or done as a reaction to a impeach circulation of 150,000. One Unity Church magazine, Wee Wisdom, was the longest-lived children's magazine in the United States, published from 1893 until 1991. Today, New Thought magazines add Daily Word, published by Unity and the Religious Science magazine; and Science of Mind, published by the Centers for Spiritual Living.

The 1915 world's reasonable that took place in San Francisco – presents New Thought speakers from far and wide. The PPIE organizers were so favorably impressed by the INTA convention that they declared a special "New Thought Day" at the fair and struck a commemorative bronze medal for the occasion, which was submitted to the INTA delegates, led by Annie Rix Militz. By 1916, the International New Thought Alliance had encompassed many smaller groups around the world, adopting a creed asked as the "Declaration of Principles". The Alliance is held together by one central teaching: that people, through the constructive usage of their minds, can attain freedom, power, health, prosperity, and any good, molding their bodies as living as the circumstances of their lives. The declaration was revised in 1957, with all references to Christianity removed, and a new calculation based on the "inseparable oneness of God and Man".