Sacred Texts: New Thought

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 1

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This is a chapter of metaphysical-Christian spiritual writing from the New Thought tradition, written by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church. Its central argument is that the atomic energy unveiled by modern science and the miraculous power wielded by Jesus, Elijah, and Elisha are the same force — a spiritual-electronic energy latent in all matter and in every human body. Fillmore contends that faith is not merely a religious sentiment but a measurable form of mental voltage that, when sufficiently concentrated, can literally release electrons and protons within the body's cells to produce healing, physical transformation, and ultimately immortality. The piece draws a direct equivalence between the atomic bomb's destructive release of this force and Jesus multiplying loaves and fishes — both are described as the same physics, one guided by divine law and one by brute mechanics. What distinguishes Fillmore's perspective is his insistence that immortal life is achievable *in this world* through spiritual development, not after death — and his utopian prediction that atomic energy, once spiritually understood, will abolish labor, poverty, and destructive climate, ushering in a literal earthly heaven. Written in the immediate wake of Hiroshima, the text frames the atomic age as a spiritual crisis demanding a "change of mind" in humanity before the technology can become beneficial rather than catastrophic.

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 1

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