{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms24_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms24_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms24_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/cms24.htm","summary":"This is a short instructional essay from Ernest Holmes's 1919 New Thought work *Creative Mind and Success*, belonging to the early 20th-century American metaphysical/New Thought tradition. Its central argument is that all human creativity, invention, and knowledge originate from a universal, infinite Mind, and that individuals can consciously access this source through deliberate mental practice. Holmes uses figures like Edison and great musicians as evidence that genius is really receptivity \u2014 tuning into truths that already exist in the cosmos rather than generating anything truly new. The essay's practical core is a step-by-step meditation technique: quiet the mind, form a clear mental image of what you want to know, affirm that the knowledge is being received, give thanks, and repeat daily until an idea emerges. A distinctive claim is that the method is universally available and infallible, provided the practitioner doesn't undercut their affirmations with doubt in unguarded moments. Readers drawn to New Thought, early self-help, or the metaphysical roots of practices like visualization and manifestation will find this a compact, representative example of the genre.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Creative Mind and Success: Part I: Ideas of the Infinite","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":602}