{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_atom_atom07_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_atom_atom07_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_atom_atom07_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/unity/atom/atom07.htm","summary":"This is a chapter of metaphysical theology from Charles Fillmore's 1949 New Thought work, written in the tradition of Unity Christianity, which reinterprets scripture through the lens of mind-power philosophy. Its central argument is that the biblical \"Day of Judgment\" is not a post-death cosmic event but an ongoing inner process available to anyone right now: the \"Son of Man\" is not Jesus returning in the sky but each person's own divine self (the \"I AM\"), and \"angels\" are not celestial beings but the divine ideas that arise in consciousness. The work teaches a mental discipline of sorting thoughts into \"sheep\" (unlimited, good, divine) and \"goats\" (thoughts of disease, lack, and limitation), affirming the former and denying power to the latter. A distinctive claim is that every good thought builds a permanent, beneficial structure in the mind that unconsciously sustains you in moments of hardship \u2014 a kind of cognitive compound interest. Fillmore extends this to the physical body, arguing that purified consciousness arranges the body's \"centers of light\" like prisms in a diamond, potentially making it radiant. The overall thrust is that salvation, judgment, and divine power are psychological realities to be claimed immediately through affirmation, not rewards deferred to an afterlife.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 5","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":1251}