{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp01_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp01_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp01_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/prsp/prsp01.htm","summary":"*Prosperity* (1936) is a New Thought spiritual tract by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity movement, arguing that material abundance is a divine birthright accessible through mental and spiritual alignment with God. Fillmore's central claim is that a universal \"seed substance\" \u2014 simultaneously spiritual and physical \u2014 underlies all creation, and that human prosperity depends on the mind's capacity to consciously direct this substance through faith. He draws an unusual synthesis between metaphysics and early twentieth-century physics, citing Oliver Lodge and Arthur Eddington to argue that the ether of modern science is identical to the Christian \"kingdom of heaven\" \u2014 a limitless reservoir of energy that the disciplined mind can tap. Jesus, in Fillmore's reading, was not a savior promising afterlife rewards but a practical teacher demonstrating how human consciousness can command cosmic forces here and now. The distinctively optimistic and transactional theology throughout holds that poverty is not fate or virtue but a failure of mental technique \u2014 a correctable misalignment between individual mind and divine supermind. Readers drawn to prosperity theology, New Thought history, or early attempts to reconcile religion with science will find this a foundational and representative text of that tradition.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Prosperity: Foreword","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":847}