Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 2

This is a metaphysical religious essay from the New Thought Christian tradition, written by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church movement. Fillmore's central argument is that every human being possesses a latent "radiant body" — a luminous, electrically charged spiritual substance that interpenetrates the physical body — and that disciplined prayer, mental affirmation, and bodily purity (particularly abstinence from alcohol and rich foods) progressively develop and unlock it. He draws on Biblical figures like Daniel and Jesus to argue that their extraordinary gifts were not supernatural exceptions but the earned results of spiritual self-cultivation available to anyone. Most distinctively, Fillmore claims that Jesus did not die and decay but rather used intense spiritual devotion to transform every cell of his body into "atomic light and power," and that Jesus still exists today in a glorified electrical body in a kingdom that interpenetrates the physical earth. Fillmore anchors these claims autobiographically, describing fifty years of personal experience in which he cultivated this radiant body through affirmations, beginning with a "thrill" between his eyes and eventually producing a continuous current through his nervous system. The work blends scriptural exegesis with proto-scientific language (atoms, electricity, energy) and firsthand mystical testimony to argue that inner spiritual development — not external religion or the afterlife — is the proper aim of human existence.

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 2

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