Sacred Texts: New Thought

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 3

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*Atom-Smashing Power of Mind* (1949) is a New Thought religious treatise by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church, written in the tradition of Christian metaphysics. The work argues that the human mind, when aligned with Divine Mind through prayer and spiritual realization, possesses literal power over matter, the body, and even natural phenomena — a capacity Fillmore treats not as mystical but as a demonstrable science awaiting empirical confirmation. Using Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus as its central example, the text contends that zeal — an innate spiritual force — must be tempered by wisdom and directed inward through prayer rather than exhausted in intellectual or doctrinal activity. Fillmore draws on reincarnation, a "superconscious mind," and eugenics-adjacent language to argue that a spiritually superior "new race" is presently forming among the devout of every nation, destined to rule the world alongside Christ. The work is notable for its confident conflation of Christian scripture, New Thought psychology, Emersonian idealism, and early 20th-century scientism — citing brain-voltage machines and geologists in the same breath as Paul and Plato. Readers drawn to the history of American metaphysical religion, mind-cure movements, or the Unity tradition will find it a characteristic and earnest primary source.

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 3

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