Sacred Texts: New Thought

Creative Mind and Success: Part I: Money A Spiritual Idea

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This is a short metaphysical self-help essay from 1919 by Ernest Shurtleff Holmes, a founding figure of the New Thought movement and later Religious Science. Its central argument is that money is not material or evil but a spiritual expression of life, and that wealth flows from cultivating what Holmes calls a "money consciousness" — a mental state of felt abundance rather than lack. Holmes instructs readers to daily affirm that supply is already theirs, refuse to speak of poverty, and visualize money coming from every direction, on the premise that "consciousness is cause" and outward circumstances merely reflect inner mental states. The essay makes the notably strong claim that no person who truly understands "all is Mind" can be kept from money, treating financial lack as essentially a failure of thought discipline rather than circumstance. Practical techniques include giving thanks for supply as if already received, affirming equality whenever you observe someone wealthier, and mentally claiming large concepts as personally applicable ("that means me"). Written for a general audience deciding whether to adopt New Thought practices, the piece sits squarely in the early twentieth-century American tradition of mind-power prosperity literature that would later influence works like *Think and Grow Rich*.

Creative Mind and Success: Part I: Money A Spiritual Idea

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