{"collection":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp15_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp15_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nth_unity_prsp_prsp15_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/prsp15.htm","summary":"*Prosperity* (1936) by Charles Fillmore is a New Thought spiritual self-help work structured as a series of lesson study guides, each consisting of discussion questions for group or individual reflection. Fillmore was a co-founder of the Unity Church movement, and this book sits squarely in the New Thought tradition, which holds that mind and spiritual consciousness directly shape material reality. The central argument is that material wealth and financial abundance are not worldly concerns separate from spirituality, but natural expressions of alignment with \"Divine Mind\" \u2014 an omnipresent spiritual substance that believers can tap through faith, affirmation, visualization, and right thinking. Fillmore reinterprets Christian scripture (parables of loaves and fishes, the talents, the camel and needle's eye) as metaphysical teachings about consciousness and prosperity rather than literal or moral stories. A distinctive claim running throughout is that poverty is not virtuous but is instead a failure of spiritual consciousness, and that economic depression \u2014 both personal and national \u2014 is caused by fear-based, scarcity-minded thinking rather than material conditions. The book is notable for its attempt to synthesize early 20th-century scientific concepts (ether theory, light-based matter formation) with metaphysical Christianity to argue that abundance is the true and universal will of God for humanity.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Prosperity: Question Helps","tradition":"Sacred Texts: New Thought","translated_text":null,"word_count":3289}