New Thought Primer, Origin, History and Principles of the Movement; A Lesson in Soul Culture...

by Henry Harrison Brown

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... Origin, History and Principles of New Thought. HEREDITY. Under the law of Heredity science traces evolution from parent to child and thus finds tendencies, faculties and conditions, that appear in parent, are transmitted to offspring. There is no human condition that is not the child of a preceding one. Variations occur and under the Law of Variation, Nature unfolds. This law of evolution, of continuity, of method, and purpose is a constant one. Ideas also have their heredity. All movements in human thought obey these laws of Heredity and Variation. I purpose to trace in outline the Heredity of the New Thought movement. I will give information sufficient to enable the curious reader to easily fill in additional details. Desiring to deal justly with each form of the movement, I will correct any reported injustice in subsequent editions. PAST EVOLUTION. Human progress is the gradual unfold ment of that which is eternally in man. Life in man is germinal; time is the unfolder. Each condition is but a slight change upon some earlier one. Effects are the result of some cause which is but the effect of some anterior cause, which is also the effect of a still more remote cause, so that when one seeks a beginning of any movement he is compelled to answer: "The beginning is in Ultimate Cause." Therefore to trace the beginnings of New Thought we should have to trace the beginnings of history. From earliest historic periods we can trace many of the ideas of this movement. Thought is a wave that flows like those of the ocean from shore to shore. Every age and people is a manifestation of this movement. A wave once started in ocean never stops till it reaches the limit of the ocean, so a thought once started will never stop, for there is no limit to...

18 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 2008

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1840-1918