Sacred Texts: New Thought

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 4

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This is a religious essay in the New Thought tradition by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church movement, presenting a metaphysical interpretation of Christian teaching. Its central argument is that "superconsciousness" — a state of direct union with divine mind — is the evolutionary destiny of all humanity, and that Jesus demonstrated the method for achieving it through persistent affirmation of one's identity as a son of God and disciplined use of thought and spoken word. Fillmore reads Jesus's miracles not as supernatural exceptions but as the scientifically reproducible results of Mind acting on an omnipresent spiritual field, available to anyone who undergoes the same inner development. A distinctively bold claim is that the body itself can be physically regenerated and even resurrected in this lifetime through directed thought, drawing an explicit parallel between modern physics — electrons, atomic energy, the cosmic ether — and spiritual power latent in human cells. The essay argues that medicine and material means are inherently inferior to thought-based healing because they operate only from the outside, while the true "springs" of bodily life are controlled by consciousness. Fillmore presents Jesus not as a unique exception but as a forerunner whose full achievement is expected of every person who commits to the same path of inner purification and affirmation.

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 4

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