A New Christ

by Wallace D. Wattles

A New Christ, first published in 1910, is an expanded version of a lecture that Professor Wattles gave in 1905 titled, Jesus, The Man and His Work. A New Christ, is a must read for anyone following the intellectual route from Rhonda Byrne's ""The Secret"" to Wallace Wattles' ""The Science of Getting Rich.""

Genres: Nonfiction

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 31, 2007

About the author

Wallace Delois Wattles was an American author. A New Thought writer, he remains personally somewhat obscure, but his writing has been widely quoted and remains in print in the New Thought and self-help movements. Wattles' best known work is a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explained how to become wealthy.

He studied the writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Ralph Waldo Emerson and recommended the study of their books to his readers who wished to understand what he characterized as "the monistic theory of the cosmos".

Through his personal study and experimentation Wattles claimed to have discovered the truth of New Thought principles and put them into practice in his own life. He wrote books outlining these principles and practices, giving them titles that described their content, such as Health Through New Thought and Fasting and The Science of Being Great. His daughter Florence recalled that "he lived every page" of his books.

A practical author, Wattles encouraged his readers to test his theories on themselves rather than take his word as an authority, and he claimed to have tested his methods on himself and others before publishing them.

Wattles practiced the technique of creative visualization. In his daughter Florence's words, he "formed a mental picture" or visual image, and then "worked toward the realization of this vision".

Rhonda Byrne told a Newsweek interviewer that her inspiration for creating the 2006 hit film The Secret and the subsequent book by the same name, was her exposure to Wattles's The Science of Getting Rich. Byrne's daughter, Hayley, had given her mother a copy of the Wattles book to help her recover from her breakdown.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Al contrario delle credenze con cui siamo stati cresciuti, che ci danno un’immagine distorta di Gesù, ovvero quella di un povero girovago che ha fatto una brutta fine, questo libro (e per fortuna non è il solo) mostra il vero significato dei Vangeli, rompendo quelle false credenze su Gesù e sui suoi insegnamenti che ci stanno tenendo prigionieri da due millenni. Ad esempio: Gesù era ricco ed era di classe sociale elevata, e predicava l’abbondanza, che comincia dentro di noi; l’affidamento, ovvero l’importanza di seguire il flusso della vita sapendo che tutto ciò che succede è il meglio per noi, anche quando non sembra (il che non vuol dire vivere passivamente, ma piuttosto prendersi la responsabilità della propria vita e avere fede che tutto ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno ci è già stato accordato); la libertà e la felicità. Un piccolo libro, ma davvero illuminante, in grado di farci vedere il mondo come lo conosciamo da una prospettiva diversa e più positiva.

[Simone Bernard · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful work.

[A.S. Ember · Rating 1 out of 5]

Starts off alright (just bookifying his earlier “Jesus: The Man and His Work” lecture on how Jesus was a radical Communist, amen) but slowly devolves into what comes across as the first foray of a casual philosopher into a new personal religion (seen in polished but not necessarily better form in the author’s later, better known works). Forgettable. Read “Jesus: The Man and his Work” instead.

[Fermin Quant · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting views

[Q. Rigal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este libro es excelente, además que te dice la verdad de Cristo, su época y las condiciones reales que lo rodearon durante su existencia física. 100% recomendado.