Sacred Texts: New Thought

Creative Mind and Success: Part I: Unconscious Creation

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This is an early 20th-century New Thought self-help tract by Ernest Holmes, the founder of Religious Science, working squarely within the metaphysical/mind-over-matter tradition popular in America around 1919. Its central argument is that thought — conscious or unconscious — is the primary cause of all physical conditions, using a medical anecdote about a woman whose tumor repeatedly regrew after surgery as evidence that matter can be created from invisible mental/spiritual energy. Holmes claims Jesus was not uniquely divine but simply a person who fully understood and consciously applied these universal mental laws, and that all humans are equally "manifestations of God" capable of the same. The text positions the New Thought movement (including its various competing sects) as the organized effort to use these creative mental laws deliberately rather than blindly, arguing that doctrinal differences between groups are petty distractions from a shared underlying principle. Distinctively, Holmes synthesizes Christian scripture, proto-scientific reasoning, and pluralistic spirituality into a single framework, insisting creation is always "spiritual through mental law, then physical in manifestation." Readers drawn to the intersection of metaphysical Christianity, proto-Law-of-Attraction philosophy, or the intellectual history of American New Thought will find this a characteristic early statement of Holmes's mature system.

Creative Mind and Success: Part I: Unconscious Creation

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