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Periodical: International Metaphysical League Annual Proceedings

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International Metaphysical League, Proceedings of the Annual Convention.
1899—1900 Annual
Boston, MA. Language: English.
Publisher: International Metaphysical League.
1/1, 1899-1900.

This was the proceedings of the International Metaphysical League, the predecessor of the International New Thought Alliance. The Metaphysical League was started in 1895 in Boston and began these annual conventions in 1899. In 1903 the League organized the first International New Thought Convention in Chicago, which in turn, in 1914, became the International New Thought Alliance. Contributions by C.B. Patterson, Ursula N. Gestefield, Henry Wood, Sarah J. Farmer, Mrs. C. Josephine Barton, Solon Lauer, A.P. Barton, Mrs. M.E. Cramer, R. Heber Newton, Horatio W. Dresser, Annie Rix Militz, Walph Waldo Ralph Waldo Trine, Helen Van Anderson, Swami Abhedananda, Paul Tyner, B.O. Flower, et al.

Other Sources:NYPL; Cleveland Public Library; University of California, Berkeley.
Issues:International Metaphysical League Proceedings V1 1899
International Metaphysical League Proceedings V2 1900
Claude-Generated Themes:   This is the publication of the International Metaphysical League, the federation founded in 1899 that first gathered the scattered New Thought and mental-science societies of the United States into a single movement and became the forerunner of the International New Thought Alliance. Its pages carry congress addresses in the movement's characteristic key — affirmation, demonstration, the organized spiritual life, and the promise of health, success and prosperity through right thinking — descending directly from the mental-science and Christian Science healing currents of the previous two decades. The addresses also argue for the doctrine's antiquity and its scriptural warrant: one holds that great souls caught the same vision thousands of years before the birth of Jesus, and another examines the gospel report that Jesus knew the disciples' murmuring though no word had been spoken. This is an organizing document rather than a healing manual, and it belongs at the institutional centre of American New Thought.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Mind Cure and Mental Science | New Thought