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Creative Mind and Success: Contents

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*Creative Mind and Success* (1919) is an early New Thought self-help manual by Ernest Holmes, who would later found the Religious Science movement. Its central argument is that human consciousness is a localized expression of a universal divine Mind, and that thought is the literal causal force behind all material circumstances — health, wealth, relationships, and success. Holmes instructs readers that by deliberately forming mental "moulds" through affirmation, visualization, and belief, they activate an impersonal spiritual law that must produce corresponding outer conditions, much as a physical law operates without exception. The book moves from theology to technique: Part I lays the metaphysical framework (man as co-creator with God, karma as reversible thought-pattern, money as a "spiritual idea"), while Part II offers guided mental treatments for prosperity, intuition, and business success. A distinctive claim is that failure results not from external circumstances but from unconscious negative thinking and a "sense of separation" from infinite supply, making limitation purely a symptom of undeveloped consciousness. Readers drawn to the lineage of New Thought writers like Thomas Troward or later figures like Napoleon Hill will recognize Holmes's synthesis, though his explicitly theological framing — grounding practical success techniques in pantheistic metaphysics — gives the work a more devotional character than most business self-help.

Creative Mind and Success: Contents

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