{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nth/cms/cms06.htm","summary":"This is an early 20th-century New Thought self-help tract by Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, written in the tradition of mind-over-matter metaphysical philosophy popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its central argument is that thought is the sole cause of external conditions \u2014 success, failure, poverty, abundance \u2014 because all reality is governed by an impersonal mental law that manifests back to each person exactly what they think. Holmes contends that circumstances are never causes but always effects, and that individuals are therefore entirely responsible for their material outcomes through the quality and content of their habitual thinking, whether conscious or not. A distinctive claim is the equation of this mental law with the Eastern concept of Karma, reframed as a neutral, universal mechanism that binds those ignorant of it and liberates those who understand it. Holmes also draws on Christian authority, citing Jesus's healings and miracles as demonstrations of deliberate mastery over this same law rather than as supernatural interventions. The work is essentially a primer on the premise that belief precedes reality, aimed at convincing skeptical readers that their poverty or failure is a correctable product of unconscious negative thought patterns.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Creative Mind and Success: Part I: Our Conditions Governe...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":661}