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Emma Curtis Hopkins

1849 – 1925 · United States · New Thought, Education

The 'teacher of teachers' who trained the founders of Unity, Divine Science and Religious Science.

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Continuity of ideas

Who shaped Emma Curtis Hopkins, and who they shaped

Inherited from1

  • Phineas Quimby

    1802 – 1866 · New Thought, Philosophy

    The Quimby cure is the source material Hopkins taught as a curriculum.

Passed the work to4

  • Charles Fillmore

    1854 – 1948 · New Thought, Theology

    The Fillmores studied with Hopkins before founding Unity.

  • Ernest Holmes

    1887 – 1960 · New Thought, Philosophy

    Holmes took Hopkins's advanced instruction shortly before writing Science of Mind.

  • Myrtle Fillmore

    1845 – 1931 · New Thought, Theology

    Hopkins ordained Myrtle Fillmore, whose healing began the Unity movement.

  • Nona Brooks

    1861 – 1945 · New Thought, Theology

    Divine Science's teaching lineage runs directly from Hopkins.

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