{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_atom_atom18_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_atom_atom18_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_atom_atom18_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/atom18.htm","summary":"This is a New Thought metaphysical essay by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church movement, written in the tradition of 19th-century American idealist spirituality (Emerson is quoted approvingly). Fillmore's central argument is that all visible reality originates from an invisible spiritual source, and that at the core of every human being is a divine \"seed\" \u2014 the Word or Christ Spirit \u2014 which is the only genuine generative power in existence; the acorn, the body, and every material thing are merely channels through which this inner force expresses itself, not causes in themselves. The distinctive claim is that human thought operates by the same law as biological seeds: ideas planted in the mind germinate invisibly and inevitably produce corresponding outer conditions \u2014 illness, discord, or harmony \u2014 often long after the original thought is forgotten, meaning the mind is a garden whose gardener bears full responsibility for what grows there. Fillmore argues that failure to recognize and cultivate this inner divine seed produces physical deformity, premature death, and a descending spiral of self-comparison with mere material creations. The work is aimed at readers seeking a quasi-scientific spiritual framework \u2014 it dismisses miraculous or arbitrary creation in favor of a universal, lawful method of growth from center to circumference \u2014 and presents conscious alignment with the \"Christ word\" as both the mechanism of health and the gateway to infinite supply.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 16","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":1664}