{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms48_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms48_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_cms_cms48_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/cms48.htm","summary":"This is an excerpt from a 1919 New Thought self-help book by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes, a founder of the Religious Science movement, sitting squarely in the early 20th-century American metaphysical tradition. The passage argues that loneliness and social isolation are solved not by directly pursuing relationships but by mentally uniting with a universal \"Principle of Life\" or \"One Mind\" that underlies all people \u2014 a distinctly inside-out approach to friendship. Holmes instructs readers to perform specific mental declarations and visualizations: affirming oneness with all life, imagining themselves surrounded by friends, and projecting love outward like a light, trusting these inner states will automatically attract companions. A notable claim is that love is \"the greatest power in the Universe\" and the literal cause of all existence, lending a quasi-cosmological weight to what is essentially social advice. The piece is also distinctive in its confident, prescriptive tone \u2014 presenting these techniques as reliable law rather than spiritual aspiration, with promised results (\"it will not be long before you will meet wonderful friends\"). Readers interested in the history of New Thought, the roots of modern manifestation culture, or early self-help literature will find it a clean, representative specimen of the genre.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Creative Mind and Success: Part II: Drawing Your Own To You","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":538}