Sacred Texts: New Thought

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 11

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This is a metaphysical-religious essay from the New Thought tradition by Charles Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity Church movement, presenting a theology of Mind as the ultimate ground of all existence. Fillmore argues that "Mind" (equated with God) is the single universal reservoir from which all reality flows, and that human thinking is the mechanism by which divine ideas are translated into manifest form — making conscious alignment with God's Mind the most important activity a person can undertake. A central and distinctive claim is that academic or scientific education is irrelevant to understanding Mind; in fact, Fillmore contends that intuitive knowers — including women, the uneducated, and spiritual healers — often grasp Mind more directly than intellectuals, because the intellect operates from sense-perception rather than Spirit. He draws a pointed contrast with materialist science, crediting physicists with discovering the energy and substance of the universe while accusing them of missing "divine wisdom," which Fillmore claims is just as universally present as energy and can be accessed by anyone willing to study Mind directly. The text makes the strong metaphysical assertion that God does not perceive the physical world except through the human thinking faculty, positioning humanity as a necessary co-creator in the unfolding of divine ideas into concrete form. Readers interested in early 20th-century American metaphysical religion, the New Thought movement's relationship to science, or the theological roots of "mind over matter" philosophy will find this a characteristic and foundational specimen.

Atom-Smashing Power of Mind: Chapter 11

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