{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms38_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms38_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms38_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/cms38.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from a 1919 New Thought self-help book by Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, written in the tradition of mental causation \u2014 the belief that thought directly shapes material reality. Holmes argues that a consistent, emotionally charged stream of mental focus directed into a universal \"Creative Mind\" will inevitably manifest as changed outer circumstances, with Holmes claiming a dedicated practitioner can transform their life conditions within a year. The work's practical instruction centers on daily visualization: clearly picture the desired outcome, affirm it as already accomplished, and invest the affirmation with feeling, since Holmes insists feeling rather than words is the actual generative force. A distinctive claim is that solitary, unified thought is more powerful than collective thinking that lacks harmony \u2014 even one person's coherent mental stream outperforms many conflicting ones. Holmes also emphasizes a posture of detachment from outward appearances, arguing that reality is made in Mind first and that worry or attention to contrary conditions undermines the process. Readers drawn to early 20th-century metaphysical self-help, the Law of Attraction lineage, or the intellectual roots of movements like Science of Mind will find this a concise, earnest statement of those principles.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Creative Mind and Success: Part II: The Single Stream of ...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":645}