NEW THOUGHT MOVEMENT by Great Authors: As a Man Thinketh / Power of Will / the Science of Getting Rich / Your Mind and How to Use It / the Master Key System

This unique book "NEW THOUGHT MOVEMENT by Great Authors" contains:

- Six major works by American pioneers of this Movement.

- Biographical notes.

- Illustrations extracted from the book "Brains and how to get them" (1913), by Larson, Christian D. (Christian Daa).


James Allen: AS A MAN THINKETH , 1902.

Frank Channing Haddock, M.S., Ph.D: POWER OF WILL, 1907.

Wallace D. Wattles: THE SCIENCE OF GETTING RICH, 1910.

William Walker Atkinson: YOUR MIND AND HOW TO USE IT: A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 1911.

Charles Francis Haanel: THE MASTER KEY SYSTEM, 1916.



The New Thought Movement (also Higher Thought) is a spiritual movement which coalesced in the United States in the early 19th century. New Thought was preceded by "ancient thought", accumulated wisdom and philosophy from a variety of origins, such as Ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese, Taoist, Vedic, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures and their related belief systems, primarily regarding the interaction between thought, belief, consciousness in the human mind, and the effects of these within and beyond the human mind.



James Allen (1864 -1912) was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass-produced since its publication in 1903. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors.


Frank Channing Haddock (1853 -1915) was an influential New Thought and self-help author. Haddock retired from the ministry to become a writer. As a New Thought author and lecturer, he became well known for his teachings on will power, cultivation of the will, ethics, financial and business success, philosophy, and spirituality. Like his contemporaries William Walker Atkinson and Charles F. Haanel, he exemplified the more secular and less overtly religious side of the New Thought movement.


Wallace Delois Wattles (1860-1911) was an American 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 explains how to become wealthy.


William Walker Atkinson (1862 - 1932) was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.
He wrote an estimated 100 books, all in the last 30 years of his life. He was mentioned in past editions of Who''s Who in America, in Religious Leaders of America, and in several similar publications. His works have remained in print more or less continuously since 1900.

He was one of the most prominent contributors to the literature of the New Thought movement,. Most of Atkinson''s works are manuals of practice rather than pure expositions of philosophy. Many of his books are concerned with the training of the mind, and one of the most typical of these is "Your Mind and How to Use It: A Manual of Practical Psychology", first published in 1911.


The Master Key System is a personal development book by Charles F. Haanel (1866-1949) that was originally published as a 24-week correspondence course in 1912, and then in book form in 1916.The ideas it describes and explains come mostly from New Thought philosophy. It was one of the main sources of inspiration for Rhonda Byrne''s film and book The Secret (2006).

The book describes many New Thought beliefs such as the law of attraction, creative visualization and man''s unity with God, and teaches the importance of truth, harmonious thinking and the ability to concentrate.