{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms27_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms27_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms27_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/cms27.htm","summary":"*Creative Mind and Success* (1919) is a short New Thought self-help essay by Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science. Its central argument is that external circumstances are determined entirely by internal mental states: a person can only attract or manifest what they have first formed as a clear mental concept, which Holmes calls a \"mental equivalent.\" Using a loose theological frame \u2014 citing Jesus on prayer as an example \u2014 Holmes equates prayer with the act of mentally accepting a desired outcome before it materializes. The essay instructs readers to consciously cultivate specific inner images of success, activity, and abundance through daily affirmation and meditation, while actively rejecting habitual thoughts of fear, poverty, and limitation. A notably distinctive claim is that there is only one power at work in the universe (not two competing forces of good and evil), so no external condition needs to be \"overcome\" \u2014 change flows outward from mind to circumstance, never the reverse. The practical advice is concrete if formulaic: sit quietly, declare oneself a \"center of Divine attraction,\" visualize plenty, and trust a universal \"Law\" to deliver results.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Creative Mind and Success: Part I: Mental Equivalents","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":865}