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Ernest Holmes

1887 – 1960 · United States · New Thought, Philosophy

Founded Religious Science and wrote The Science of Mind, its systematic textbook.

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Continuity of ideas

Who shaped Ernest Holmes, and who they shaped

Inherited from3

  • Emma Curtis Hopkins

    1849 – 1925 · New Thought, Education

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

  • Thomas Troward

    1847 – 1916 · New Thought, Philosophy

    Troward's Edinburgh Lectures supply the metaphysical structure of Science of Mind.

  • William James

    1842 – 1910 · Philosophy, Psychology

    Varieties of Religious Experience is the empirical warrant Holmes cites for mind-cure.

Passed the work to2

  • Joseph Murphy

    1898 – 1981 · New Thought, Psychology

    Murphy taught in Religious Science before writing The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

  • Michael Beckwith

    1956 · New Thought, Theology

    Agape is founded within Holmes's Religious Science tradition.

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