{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_lit_lit04_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_lit_lit04_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_lit_lit04_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/lit/lit04.htm","summary":"*Lessons in Truth* (1894) is a New Thought spiritual instruction text by H. Emilie Cady, written as a series of lessons in the Unity tradition of Christian metaphysics. Its central argument is that God is the single universal Mind, Spirit, and substance underlying all existence, and that each individual person is an expression of this divine reality \u2014 composed of Spirit, soul, and body \u2014 who has \"fallen\" by over-identifying with the material, sense-based world. Cady contends that most human suffering (sickness, poverty, unhappiness) results directly from wrong thinking, particularly from allowing the \"mortal mind\" \u2014 the intellect fed by the five senses \u2014 to govern one's life rather than the divine Spirit within. A notably distinctive claim is her strong anti-intellectualist stance: she argues that scholarly reasoning and extensive reading are actually obstacles to spiritual truth, which can only be received through direct inner revelation, and she explicitly tells readers to stop reading many books and instead seek the \"still small voice\" of Spirit in solitude. The text is addressed to practical seekers and frames spiritual development as learning a few simple, testable rules \u2014 such as repeatedly dwelling on the thought \"God loves me\" \u2014 that produce measurable changes in health and circumstances.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Lessons in Truth: Lesson 3","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":3150}