Frederick Bailes
(1889-1970)

Science of Mind Teacher

Dr. Frederick Bailes was born into a family of pioneers in New Zealand and was educated to be a medical missionary. Just as he was completing his training he was found to have diabetes, a so-called “incurable” condition, which prevented him from entering his work. Shortly afterward, he came across the writing of Judge Thomas Troward and began to develop a philosophy for living which led to his complete recovery long before the discovery of insulin. Later, as a student at a large London hospital, Dr. Bailes closely observed the mental factors which entered into the recovery of patients and noticed that certain fundamental thought-patters invariable produced bodily reactions. By stimulating his patients causative mental patterns toward healing, Dr. Bailes soon found remarkable results.

Frederick Bailes was among the most popular and important teachers of the Science of Mind. Dr. Bailes served with Science of Mind founder Ernest Holmes as Assistant Dean of the Science of Mind Institute in Los Angeles. He also headed the largest Science of Mind church of its day. In addition, Dr. Bailes was an accomplished metaphysical healer, having healed himself of a so-called incurable disease, using the very technique – “Treatment” – that he explains in these Lessons. “The Science of Mind philosophy,” says Dr. Frederick Bailes, “is not a few psychological tricks; it is a life to be lived.”

Dr. Frederick Bailes gave weekly lectures to capacity audiences in Los Angeles and was well known for his twice-weekly radio broadcasts. He is also the author of Your Mind Can Heal You; Basic Principles of the Science of Mind; The Healing Power of Balanced Emotions; and Collected Essays of Frederick Bailes.

In his book Your Mind Can Heal You he gives a seven step approach to spiritual mind treatment. It starts, he says, "with the fundamental truth that the person for whom we are treating is a perfect idea in the Mind of God, and our whole procedure during a treatment is intended to remove from our own mind any idea or picture of imperfection or sickness." Here are the seven "R's" that Bailes suggests:

Relaxation: We assume a position that assures physical relaxation and a quiet mind.

Recognition: We recognize that we are not speaking into a void. We are surrounded by the Creative Mind of the universe, which receives our thought embodied in our words and sets to work to carry it out into material form.

Relationship: We consciously unify with the Creative Mind, knowing that we ourselves, the person treated for, and this Mind are all one. There can never be any separation between them.

Reasoning: To arrive at this inner certainty, we have to dissolve all doubts. We go through a process of reasoning to arrive at this certainty.

Realization: Once we have arrived at the point where we realize the inner perfection of the one being treated for, we shall know it, because we shall have arrived at a place of quiet, calm assurance.

Release: We are not responsible for the outcome of the treatment. Our only responsibility is to build a clear picture in our mind of the perfection of ourselves and the one being treated for, and to remove all doubts about that perfection. We now release this picture to the Creative Mind.

Rejoice: We give thanks for the success of our treatment, not to influence how Mind works but to confirm our belief that the entire situation is resolved in exactly the right and ideal way.

Founder of the Religious Science Movement

Ernest Holmes founded the International Religious Science movement, wrote "The Science of Mind" and numerous other books on metaphysics, and originated the international periodical Science of Mind magazine, which has been in continuous publication since 1927. Holmes' Science of Mind teaching, recognized today as one of the leading viewpoints in modern metaphysics, is a spiritual philosophy that has brought to people around the world a working cosmology - a sense of their relationship to God and their place in the Universe - and a positive, supportive approach to daily living.

Ernest Holmes was born in 1887 on a small Maine farm, the youngest of nine sons. As a teenager, he attended Bethel preparatory school, but he spent most of his time out-of-doors, asking himself "What is God? Who am I? Why am I here?" He mentally tangled with all the local preachers and doubted the answers he got in church. At the age of 18 he left school and formal education and set out on his lifelong course of independent thinking. He went to Boston, worked in a grocery store, and pursued his studies relentlessly. A year late, he discovered the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Reading Emerson is like drinking water to me," he said later. His metaphysical studies intensified, his quest for truth leading him to literature, art, science, philosophy, and religion, and in particular the Christian Science teachings of Mary Baker Eddy.

After Ernest Holmes became acquainted with the writings of Emerson and Mary Baker Eddy, he soon was exploring the writings of Christian D. Larson, Ralph Waldo Trine, Horatio Dresser and Phineas Quimby. Holmes was particularly impressed with the New Thought writings of Larson and eventually abandoned the Christian Science textbook for Larson's works.

In 1914, at the age of 25, Ernest moved to Venice, California. Pursuing his studies, he discovered the writings of Thomas Troward, which fed the flame ignited by his earlier studies of metaphysics. Almost casually, he began speaking on Troward's writings to small but ever-growing groups. Without ceremony, his lifetime ministry had begun. Later, as his audiences grew, he was ordained as a minister of the Divine Science Church.

Ernest published his first book, "Creative Mind," in 1919, followed shortly after by another volume entitled "Creative Mind and Success." He continued his studies, and lectured to growing crowds in California and Eastern cities. Meanwhile, he was writing "The Science of Mind," which was to become the "textbook" of the Religious Science philosophy. First Published in 1922, it was originally copyrighted by his wife in 1926, revised in 1938, and is now in its 45th printing, and has been translated into French, German, and Japanese. At the time the book was published, his many enthusiastic students urged him to set up an incorporated organization. He refused at first, but eventually agreed, and the Institute of Religious Science and the School of Philosophy was incorporated in 1927.

On October 23, 1927, in Los Angeles, he was married to widowed Hazel Durkee Foster. They were to be inseparable companions for thirty years. In 1953, the Institute became the Church of Religious Science. In 1967, it acquired its present-day title, United Church of Religious Science, with member churches throughout the world. On May 21, 1957, he lost his chosen life-companion.

Ernest Holmes made his transition to the next experience on April 7, 1960, in Los Angeles. He left no children. But he left all humankind an enduring legacy: the way of life he called Religious Science.

On that way of life, he said this in 1958:

"We have launched a Movement which, in the next 100 years, will be the great new religious impulsion of modern times, far exceeding, in its capacity to envelop the world, anything that has happened since Mohammedanism started.

"We have to have the same faith in what we teach and practice that the scientist has, or the gardener has, and when that great simplicity shall have plumbed and penetrated this density of ours, this human stolidness and stupidity, this debauchery of the intellect and the soul, something new and wonderful will happen. It is the only thing that will keep the world from destroying itself...."

(Abstracted from the booklet Path of Discovery, prepared by Scott Awbrey, Los Angeles United Church of Religious Science, 1987.)

Self-Improvement Pioneer

Dale Carnegie (November 24, 1888 - November 1, 1955) was a pioneer in self-improvement, salesmanship, and corporate training programs, and became famous for courses he developed that emphasized public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of How to Win Friends and Influence People, first published in 1936, which has sold over 15 million copies through many editions and remains popular today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln titled Lincoln the Unknown and several other books.

Carnegie was an early proponent of what is now called responsibility assumption. One of the core ideas in his books is that it is possible to change other people's behavior by changing one's reaction to them.

Born in 1888 in Maryville, Missouri, Carnegie was a poor farmer's boy, apparently not seeing a train until he was twelve years old. In his teens, though still having to get up at 4 a.m. every day to milk his parents' cows, he managed to get educated at the State Teacher's College in Warrensburg (Mo.).

His first job after college was selling correspondence courses to ranchers, then he moved on to selling bacon, soap, and lard for Armour & Company. He was successful to the point of making his sales territory, southern Omaha, the national leader for the firm. Later, he taught public speaking to businessmen.
His most famous book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, has been translated into many languages. His books became popular because of his illustrative stories and simple, well-phrased rules. Two of his most famous maxims are, "Believe that you will succeed, and you will," and "Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people."

Mind-Body Healing Guru & Best Selling Self-help Author

"A renowned physician and author, Deepak Chopra is undoubtedly one of the most lucid and inspired philosophers of our time." –Mikhail Gorbachev

Deepak Chopra became a spiritual leader for millions of people in America and around the world. His teachings include such bits of wisdom as, "If you have happy thoughts, then you make happy molecules."

Chopra is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the ancient Indian science of Ayurveda. He is largely responsible for the re-introduction of Ayurveda into the alternative health system. Ayurveda is a holistic system comprising many different healing aspects.

Whilst some of the Ayurvedic system is used for treating illness, Ayurveda tries to work towards preventing illness through awareness of your body's needs. Often by understanding your body's individual needs, you can achieve better health naturally, especially through changes to diet.

Born in New Delhi, India in 1947, Chopra established the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine in 1991. In 1995, he opened the Chopra Center for Well Being in La Jolla, California where he serves as educational director.

Deepak Chopra attended the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and embarked on a career in Western Medicine. After graduating in 1968, he interned at a New Jersey hospital, trained for several more years at the Lahey Clinic and the University of Virginia Hospital and became board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology. He taught at Tufts and Boston University Schools of Medicine, became the chief of staff at the New England Memorial Hospital and established a large private practice. However, during this time, despite his apparent success, he noticed a growing lack of fulfillment (exacerbated by his unhealthy lifestyle which boasted smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and heavy drinking to calm his nerves) and the nagging question,"Am I doing all that I can for my patients?" These doubts led him to Ayurveda, the ancient science of healing from India. Dr. Chopra immediately realized that here was a system of health care that actually treated the whole person: a system whose guiding principle is that the mind exerts the deepest influence on the body.

He began to envision a medical system based upon the premise that health is a lively state of balance and integration of body, mind and spirit. He is widely credited with melding modern theories of quantum physics with the timeless wisdom of ancient cultures. In 1992, he served on the National Institute of Health's Ad Hoc Panel on Alternative Medicine.

Chopra would aknowledge Hindu texts such as the Bhagavad-Gita as sacred. To many of his enthusiasts, Chopra's writings themselves have a sacred quality. Chopra is known worldwide for his published works. The author of 25 books and more than 100 audio, video and CD-ROM titles, he has been published on every continent, and in dozens of languages. His newest book, How to Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries, is on bookshelves. Ten million copies of his books have been sold in English alone, and his best-sellers include Perfect Health; Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, The Return of Merlin, and The Path to Love. In focusing on specific health issues, Chopra has published numerous books including Boundless Energy: The Complete Mind / Body Program for Overcoming Chronic Fatigue; Journey Into Healing: Awakening the Wisdom Within You; Perfect Weight: The Complete Mind / Body Program For Achieving and Maintaining Your Ideal Weight; Restful Sleep: The Complete Mind / Body Program For Overcoming Insomnia; Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind / Body Medicine and Creating Health. His popular audio books and CD-ROMS include Magical Mind, Magical Body; The Higher Self; Journey to the Boundless; and The Wisdom Within.

Through the Chopra Center For Well Being, Dr. Chopra is revolutionizing common wisdom about the crucial connection between body, mind, spirit, and healing. He continues to chart new pathways to unleash the potential for optimum health in us all. His mission of "bridging the technological miracles of the west with the wisdom of the east" remains his thrust as he and his colleagues conduct public seminars and workshops and provide training for health care professionals around the world.

Wayne W. Dyer
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Leading motivational speaker
and author of many books

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, affectionately called the "father of motivation" by his fans, is one of the most widely known and respected people in the field of self-empowerment. He has published more than 20 self-help books and audio lectures, many of which have become best sellers.

He became a well known author with his best-selling book, Your Erroneous Zones, and has gone on to write many other self-help classics, including; Staying on the Path, Your Sacred Self, Everyday Wisdom, and You'll See it When You Believe It, influencing many thousands with his messages on motivation, spirituality, happiness and how to create abundance and live a generally richer life. Dr Dyer's articles have also appeared in hundreds of magazines and newspapers worldwide.

Dyer had a somewhat troubled upbringing, his early years having been spent living in foster homes and orphanages where he had to learn to be self reliant. These early-life experiences were no doubt influential in the choices that he made later in life. He served in the Navy for 4 years and upon leaving at age 22 he began studying at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, after which he began his own career as an educator. He taught students from high school level through to medical students. Dyer went on to receive his doctorate in counseling psychotherapy from the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.

Along with his library of published self-help classics, Dyer also produces his own audio books, taped lectures and video seminars. He is widely known for his inspirational public speaking abilities and has shared the stage with other self help experts like Deepak Chopra. Dr Wayne Dyer has appeared on radio and television stations internationally, including "The Today Show", "The Tonight Show", and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" programs, and has been interviewed in dozens of popular magazines

Despite his childhood experiences, Dr. Dyer has overcome many obstacles to make his dreams come true. Today he spends much of his time showing others how to do the same. When he's not traveling the globe delivering his uplifting message, he is writing from his home in Maui, Hawaii., where he lives with his wife and their 8 children.

Promoter of Positive
Mental Attitude (PMA)

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William Clement Stone (May 4, 1902 – September 3, 2002) was a prominent businessman, philanthropist and self-help book author. Stone is remembered for contributing $2 million to President Richard Nixon's election campaigns in 1968 and 1972—these were cited in Congressional debates after Watergate to institute campaign spending limits.

W. Clement Stone was born in and grew up on Chicago’s South Side. From an early age, he demonstrated the entrepreneurship, tenacity and optimism that were hallmarks of his life. To help support his family, Mr. Stone began selling newspapers on the street at the age of six. When older youth drove him away from the busiest corners, he moved his sales to restaurants where he eventually won over owners and customers.

At age 19, Stone started working with his mother selling accident policies. He evidently had enormous energy and drive. At age 19, he averaged selling 48 policies per day. Later in his life, he reached a nine-day average of 72 policies per day, and sold 122 policies in one day. He did this using a cold canvass system at office buildings, meaning he had no pre-arranged appointments. Most of us can't conceive of talking to that many people in one day. He might have made some sales of multiple policies for some families, but he must have seen an awful lot of customers in a day to make those sales.

One of the decisions that Stone made to increase his production was to limit the time he would spend on his sales effort. If a customer wouldn't make the commitment in the designated time, he would move on to the next call.

When Stone reached the 72 policy per day level, he started concentrating on building his own sales force. When the Great Depression hit, he devoted more of his attention to creating a sales training program to improve the effectiveness of his sales team, including spending some initial time with new salespersons in the field. He also developed custom insurance policies that would be easy to sell and renew.

Through these experiences, Mr. Stone developed his lifelong philosophy of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA), which he viewed as the cornerstone of his success. He believed in the power of optimism and that even in adversity lay seeds of success.

He was highly successful and eventually started the Combined Insurance Company of America with a modest initial investment of $100. Combined Insurance grew into a multimillion dollar enterprise that became Aon Corporation in the 1980s.
W. Clement Stone married his high school sweetheart, Jessie Verna Tarson, in 1923 and they had three children. The Stones were committed, lifelong philanthropists who supported countless civic and community groups as well as political and humanitarian causes.

In its early years, the Stone Foundation promoted PMA and distributed grants focused on four key areas: mental health, education, children/youth and religion. It also created and coordinated operating programs such as self-improvement projects in prisons and consulting services in management and positive mental attitude training for nonprofit organizations.

Since the late 1990s, the Foundation has concentrated its grantmaking in three areas: early childhood development, youth development and education (with an emphasis on teacher quality and principal leadership). Today, the Foundation has an asset base of over $80 million and distributes almost $2 million in grants each year primarily in Chicago, Boston, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.

W. Clement Stone died in September 2002 at the age of 100. Their son, Norman Stone, President of the Foundation, and many of their grandchildren and several other family members, who serve as Trustees, Corporate Officers and Committee Members, sustain the Stones’ family tradition of philanthropy and their steadfast conviction that every individual can make a significant contribution to improving the quality of life for others.

Throughout his life Mr. Stone donated an estimated $275 million to various charitable organizations. His political contributions were also enormous; twice Mr. Stone, a member of the John Evans Club and an Alumni Merit Award recipient, was the largest single contributor to Richard Nixon’s presidential campaigns.

W. Clement Stone shared his belief in the power of optimism in three books that continue to be read today: Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (co-authored with Napoleon Hill), The Success System That Never Fails, and The Other Side of the Mind (co-authored with Norma Lee Browning).

Mr. Stone's inspirational self-help books, which have reached a world-wide audience, reinforce the conviction that anyone can become successful “no matter how poor his start in life.”

W. Clement Stone was survived by his wife Jessie who passed away in 2004; a son, Norman; 12 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

Prosperity writer extrordinaire

DR. JOSEPH MURPHY wrote, taught, counseled, and lectured to thousands all over the world for nearly fifty years. Born in 1898, he was educated in Ireland and England. Years of research studying the world’s major religions convinced him that some great Power lay behind them all: The Power is within you!

Dr. Murphy was Minister-Director of the Church of Divine Science in Los Angeles for 28 years, where his lectures were attended by 1300 to 1500 people every Sunday. His daily radio program during all that time was immensely popular. He moved to Laguna Hills, California in 1976, where he continued to speak every Sunday until he made his transition in 1981.

Murphy refused requests for profiles and biographies, saying that his life was to be found in his books. He wrote over 30, including The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind, Secrets of the I-Ching, The Miracle of Mind Dynamics, Your Infinite Power to Be Rich and The Cosmic Power Within You. There is a new edition of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, revised and expanded by Ian McMahan.

Murphy was influenced by Ernest Holmes and Emmet Fox, both well known writers on New Thought principles, but his academic background was in Eastern religion. He spent many years in India, and was an Andhra Research Fellow at the University of India.

Dr Murphy spent a good part of his life studying Eastern religions, and was a scholar of the I-Ching, the Chinese book of divination whose origins are lost in history. Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D., was a world-renowned authority on mysticism and mind dynamics. He remains a beacon of enlightenment and inspiration for legions of loyal followers.

“You were born to be rich. You grow rich by the use of your God-given faculties, by tuning in with the Infinite, and as your mind becomes productive and full of good ideas, your labor will become more productive and will bring you all kinds of material riches."

“There is no virtue whatsoever in poverty, which in actual fact is a mental disease, and it should be abolished from the face of the earth. You are here to find your true place in life, and to give of your talents to the world. You are here to expand and unfold in a wonderful way, according to a God-given potential, and to bring forth spiritual, mental, and material riches, which will bless humanity in countless ways. Learn how to surround yourself always with beauty, and luxury, and realize your inalienable right to live, liberty, freedom and peace of mind.

“It is your Divine right to dramatize, reveal, portray and express the power, elegance, and riches of the Infinite One.”

"I have seen miracles happen to men and women in all walks of life all over the world." -- Dr. Joseph Murphy.

Dr. Murphy teaches the simple, scientifically proven techniques and the astonishing facts about how your subconscious powers can perform miracles of healing. How lung cancer has been cured and optic nerves made whole again. How you can use the newly discovered Law of Attraction to increase your money-getting powers. How your subconscious mind can win you friends, peace of mind, and even help you to attract the ideal mate. How your dreams can help you solve problems and make difficult decisions -- or warn you of potential disaster. Prosperity, happiness and perfect health are yours when you use The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind.

Murphy saw the subconscious mind as a darkroom within which we develop the images that are to be lived out in real life. While the conscious mind sees an event, takes a picture of it and remembers it, the subconscious mind works backwards, ‘seeing’ something before it happens (why intuition is infallible).

The subconscious responds to habit and habitual thinking. Being totally neutral in a moral sense, it is happy to adopt any habit as ‘normal’ - good or bad. We blithely let negative thoughts drop into the subconscious every minute of our lives, then are surprised when they find expression in day to day experiences and relationships. While there are some things that will happen to us that we had no role in creating, these are in fact rare. Mostly, the bad that happens is in us already, waiting for the light of day.

Understanding your subconscious mind as a photographic mechanism removes the emotion and struggle from changing your life, because if it is simply a matter of replacing existing mental images with new ones, you begin to see the ease with which you may change.

‘The law of your mind is the law of belief itself,’ Murphy says. What we believe makes us who we are. William James observed that whatever people expect to be true, will be so, irrespective of whether the object of their belief exists in fact. In the West we have made ‘the truth’ our highest value; this motivation, while important, is weak next to the actual power of belief in shaping our lives. Whatever you give your subconscious – false or true, good or evil – it will register as fact. Be careful not to joke about misfortune, as the subconscious has no sense of humour.

‘If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth’ (Mark 9:23). In all the old rituals of ancient times, with their weird mixtures and incantations, it was the power of suggestion and acceptance in the subconscious mind that healed. Even today, doctors report the power of placebos to produce miraculous recoveries if accompanied by doubt-free instructions that ‘this will do the trick’. Miracles of healing, Murphy says, are simply the body’s obeying of the subconscious mind’s knowledge of ‘perfect health’ when the questioning nature of the normal conscious mind is silenced.

The following books by Joseph Murphy are available to purchase in eBook form for immediate download. They may then be read on your computer and printed out. The eBooks are in Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf) format.

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (The full, original, unabridged version of this multi-million selling classic)

The Power of Your Subconscious Mind AudioBook (Complete, unabridged audiobook version )

Love is Freedom

Believe in Yourself

The Magic of Faith

How to Attract Money

Wheels of Truth

Getting Results From Prayer

The Miracles of Your Mind

Riches Are Your Right

Step This Way For Healing

Great Truths That Set Us Free

How To Use Your Healing Power

Peace Within Yourself: St. John Speaks

The Real Meaning of Reincarnation and Rebirth

THIS IS IT: The Art of Metaphysical Demonstration

The following rare audio lecture by Joseph Murphy is also available:

Three Steps to Success

Founder of Christian Science

Mary Baker Eddy, the Founder of the Christian Science movement, is widely recognized outside her Church as one of the most remarkable religious figures of modern times.

She was born in New England on a farm in Bow, New Hampshire. Her childhood and much of her adult life, before 1862, was spent in ill health. Although raised with Puritan values, daily Bible reading, and even the talk of God's healing power, she spent many years looking for healing in the many remedial methods available in her time.

She became a patient of the New England healer Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, whose "medicine-free" healing techniques undoubtedly influenced her greatly. When she first visited Dr. Quimby in 1862 she was a virtual invalid, and with the good doctor's help her health quickly improved. The change was instantaneous. Her pain and weakness disappeared. A sense of comfort and well-being stepped into their place. Within a week she says that without help she climbed the one hundred eighty-two steps to the dome of the City Hall. And in this whole experience she furnished a clear illustration of the words Jesus spoke to the woman healed after twelve years' illness, "Thy faith hath made thee whole."
While under his care, off and on for several years, she became deeply interested in his theory of disease and its cure. She heard many of his essays read, and wrote many herself which she submitted to him for inspection and correction. She began to give some public lectures on his healing system in Warren, Maine, advertising her subject as, "P. P. Quimby's spiritual science healing disease as opposed to deism or Rochester-Rapping Spiritualism." After Quimby's death in 1866, Mrs. Eddy continued to teach the new ideas and methods, as one of his followers until the period of her more public work.

A few weeks after Quimby's death, Mrs. Eddy fell over on a sidewalk and struck her back on the ice, and was taken up for dead. She came to consciousness amid a storm of vapors from cologne, chloroform, ether, camphor, etc., to find herself the helpless cripple she was before she saw Dr. Quimby. Feeling that she had not long to live, she asked for her Bible, and whilst reading an account of one of Jesus' healings, she felt God's presence very strongly and shortly afterwards rose from her sick bed.

"The physician attending said I had taken the last step I ever should, but in two days I got out of bed alone and will walk; but yet I confess I am frightened . . . I think that I could help another in my condition if they had not placed their intelligence in matter. This I have not done, and yet I am slowly failing." writes Mrs. Eddy in a letter to Mr. Julius Dresser, a fellow patient that was healed by Quimby. In the same letter she asked Mr. Dresser whether he could help her overcome the present physical difficulties caused by her accident, as she believed that he could and was best fitted to take up where Quimby left off. Mr. Dresser did not respond to this appeal, and Mrs. Eddy had to depend on her own interpretation of Quimby's method. She recovered her health, however, and marked this period as the time that she came to fully understand the "Science of Christianity," which she named Christian Science—A term that had been used by Dr. Quimby on at least one occasion.

She wrote the following poem as a tribute to Dr. Quimby, which accompanied her letter to Mr. Dresser and was published in a Lynn newspaper shortly afterwards :

LINES ON THE DEATH OF DR. P.P. QUIMBY, WHO HEALED WITH THE TRUTH

THAT CHRIST TAUGHT, IN CONTRADISTINCTION TO ALL ISMS.

Did sackcloth clothe the sun, and day grow night, All matter mourn the hour with dewy eyes,

When Truth, receding from our mortal sight, Had paid to error her last sacrifice?

Can we forget the power that gave us life? Shall we forget the wisdom of its way?

Then ask me not, amid this mortal strife, -- This keenest pang of animated clay, --

To mourn him less: to mourn him more were just, If to his memory 'twere a tribute given

For every solemn, sacred, earnest trust, Delivered to us he rose to heaven.

Heaven but the happiness of that calm soul, Growing in stature in the thrown of God:

Rest should reward him who hath made us whole, Seeking, through tremblers,

where his footsteps trod. ...........................MARY M. PATTERSON (LYNN, FEB 22, 1866)

During the years following this she was a lonely figure, going from place to place talking about a new system of healing without the benefit of medicine, reading from a manuscript she was working on, teaching an occasional pupil, and finally conducting classes in the principles underlying the healings.

Mrs. Eddy lived in Stoughton, Mass., 1868-1870, where she left a manuscript known as "Extracts from P. P. Quimby's Writings," on which she based her teachings. In 1872, while teaching in Lynn, Mass., Mrs. Eddy claimed this manuscript as her own, and in this and other writings she gradually changed the terminology so that it bore less resemblance to Quimby's. In 1875 she published a book which she called "Science and Health,"* in which was set forth a philosophy of healing of which she claimed to be the discoverer. A part of the Quimby's manuscript, with a facsimile showing emendations in Mrs. Eddy's hand, was published in the New York Times, July 10, 1904, with a "deadly parallel" showing Quimby's teachings and those of Mrs. Eddy in her book "Science and Health." After publishing "Science and Health," she put forward progressive claims as discoverer and founder.

* Dr. Quimby called his system "The Science of Health and Happiness."

In her "Metaphysical College," in Boston, Mrs. Eddy began in 1882 to have trouble with some of her students, who criticized her teaching and disputed her claims. One of these students, Mr. E. J. Arens, learned from Mr. Julius Dresser , in October, 1882, that the methods and ideas claimed as hers by right of "revelation" were derived from Dr. Quimby. Arens gave full credit to Quimby and claimed the right to publish the new ideas without giving credit to Christian Science, but was sued by Mrs. Eddy for plagiarism. The suit was won, Sept. 24, 1883, by Mrs. Eddy, because Arens could not persuade George Quimby, Dr. Quimby's only son, to let him take the Quimby Manuscripts into Court. Mr. Quimby did not loan his father's manuscripts to Mr. Arens because he was not in a position financially to engage in a legal suit. Moreover, he was naturally and rightly asked why he should take part in a suit to establish what was true? Dr. Quimby had taught that truth could take care of itself, when the time came.

Meanwhile, the controversy in the press was begun, Feb., 1883, by "A. O.," in a letter to the editor of the Boston Post, entitled "The Founder of the Mental Method of Treating Disease," in which the facts, acquired from Mr. Dresser, were accurately stated. On Feb. 19, 1883, "E. G.," ostensibly a sometime patient of Dr. Quimby's but in reality a publicist of Mrs. Eddy's, wrote a letter to the Post, representing Quimby as a mere "mesmerist" and trickster. On Feb. 23, Mr. Dresser refuted these statements and put Quimby's work in its true light. On March 7, 1883, Mrs. Eddy wrote to the Post trying to meet Mr. Dresser's reply by introducing irrelevant subjects.

George Quimby, on the subject of plagiarism said: "As far as the book 'Science and Health,' is concerned, Mrs. Eddy had no access to father's manuscripts [save 'Questions and Answers'] when she wrote it, but that she did have a very full knowledge of his ideas and beliefs is also true. The religion which she teaches certainly is hers, for which I cannot be too thankful; for I should be loath to go down to my grave feeling that my father was in any way connected with Christian Science. That she got her inspiration and idea from father is beyond question. In other words, had there been no Dr. Quimby there would have been no Mrs. Eddy. Father claimed to believe, and taught and practiced his belief, that disease was a mental condition and was an invention of man . . . caused by error or beliefs, and capable of being cured mentally without medicine or appliances or applications—these ideas are embodied in Mrs. Eddy's book—she certainly heard father teach years before she wrote her book."

In 1907 Miss Georgine Milmine, after painstaking research, published in McClure's Magazine an accurate life of Mrs. Eddy which later appeared in a book entitled "The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy" by Miss Georgine Milmine. Miss Milmine carefully traced back the history of Quimby's manuscript "Questions and Answers," showing how it had been modified by Mrs. Eddy in her "Science of Man" chapter in "Science and Health." In a letter to George Quimby, Miss Milmine writes, "This manuscript of your father's was used largely to form the 'Recapitulation' chapter in 'Science and Health' in later years; but with each new edition it was revised until the present chapter of that title is a long way off from the original. Nevertheless this is the only chapter in her book from which her students are taught in classes, today. The course in Christian Science consists of a series of talks on this one chapter, which is elucidated and explained to the class. The rest of Christian Science is simply 'frills' added by Mrs. Eddy."

Miss Sybil Wilbur, writer, undertook to prepare an offsetting "Life" without inquiring into the truth of the "facts" put at her disposal. The result was seen in Human Life, Boston, April, 1907, which contained a sensational report of an interview with George Quimby, trying to discredit him, and doubting the authenticity of the Quimby Manuscripts. These statements somewhat modified were published in her 1908 book "The Life of Mary Baker Eddy." Even Miss Wilbur, in her "interview" with Mrs. Crosby of Waterville, as reported in Human Life, March 1907, puts in as fact that "Mrs. Patterson (Mrs. Eddy) spent most of her time reducing to writing the remembered sayings of Quimby," while living with Mrs. Crosby.

This is what George Quimby had to say on the matter, "Now a word about the great court decision. One E. J. Arens, of Boston, made a statement which he could not prove, that Mrs. Eddy got her ideas from father, and that his writings and manuscript would prove it. He went into court and could not prove what he said, and now Mrs. Eddy and her adherents claim that because he could not prove that there were such manuscripts, that there are none! I would not allow him to use the manuscripts in court, and consequently he could not prove what he said." "The basis of the whole misunderstanding has been that everything that has emanated from the Eddy side has been taken for God's truth, and everything that has been stated in opposition to her has been pronounced and believed to be lies. By assuming all she has said is true, on the start, it doesn't leave much for the other side." ". . .I have a package of Mrs. Eddy's letters to my father, covering a period from 1862 to 1864. . . In all her letters she gives him full credit for discovering and reducing mental healing to a science. . . This Mrs. Eddy knew, and this she learned from him, not as a student receiving a regular course as she taught in her college, but by sitting in his room, talking with him, reading his manuscripts, copying some of them, writing some herself and reading them to him for his criticism. In that sense she and many others of his patients were his pupils, in the same way that the disciples were pupils of Jesus."

Julius Dresser and his wife Annetta, who had known Mrs. Eddy since she first visited Dr. Quimby at Portland, knew how much she had admired him and praised him as the one discoverer of the method of Jesus. They were irked by her claims and those made for her as the discoverer of Christian Science, and rose to the defense of the good Dr. Quimby, thus provoking a still more radical disclaimer on the part of Mrs. Eddy that she owed nothing to this "mesmerist," and causing her to push farther and farther back her first intimations of the truth only vaguely suggested by the Portland healer. Various partisans of Mrs. Eddy undertook replies from time to time, always confining themselves to what was favorable to Mrs. Eddy, never examining the facts. The rumor was persistently fostered that the whole question of Mrs. Eddy's indebtedness was settled by the Arens' suit.

The controversy as to Mrs. Eddy's dependence upon Quimby has been so frequently discussed by persons on both sides that there is nothing new that can be said about it. Violent partisans, pro and con, have presented the evidence alleged for and against such influence. Perhaps the best summary of the stages through which the controversy has passed was furnished by H. W. Dresser, son of Julius Dresser, in his "The Quimby Manuscripts," published in 1921. The various stages are presented in chronological order in Appendix I of the book, and the sources clearly indicated, so that interested students who desire to go into the matter may easily satisfy themselves as to the facts. The book is is now out-of-print, but an electronic edition is available by Cornerstone Books for internet users to read online. The electronic edition includes Mrs. Eddy's letters to Dr. Quimby and to Julius Dresser as published in the first edition of the book. You can read the online book here.

The most compelling feature concerning the controversy in Mr. Dresser's book is the confronting of the clear statements of the early Mrs. Eddy with the Mrs. Eddy of a later date, when the defense of a going organization very much under fire was a major concern, and when it had become a matter of necessity, as it seemed to her, to assure her following of her originality as revealer of the new truth which Christian Science purportedly brought to the world. It is exceedingly difficult for an objective student to accept at face value the later statements in the face of the earlier ones, made spontaneously and out of a profound sense of gratitude to her great benefactor. There was certainly no practical purpose to be served by her quite gratuitous and eloquent early tributes to the importance of P. P. Quimby other than the enhancement of the reputation of the man who cured without medicine, who healed by mental or spiritual means, the first, in America at least, to do so.

That Dr. Quimby was a very remarkable healer there can be no doubt. And that he saw something very special in Mrs. Patterson-Eddy there can be little doubt either. More than once, he buoyantly remarked "she is a devilish bright woman." He was impressed by her, as by no other patient. He possessed extraordinary clairvoyant abilities, and was known to have made the following remark concerning Mrs. Patterson to another of his patients: "This is a very wonderful woman and in comparison I am the man, but Mary is the Christ." He could already see the great potential in her for furthering his healing cause and giving impetus to the spreading of his methods.

Out of the thirty-four hundred cases that Quimby treated in his last two years at Portland, only four felt any obligation to pass on the healing gospel - Warren Felt Evans, Annetta and Julius Dresser, and Mary Patterson. Mrs. Patterson did not delay. She was determined to be able to demonstrate the method through which she had been healed in order that she could apply this to suffering mankind. In 1866, just a few weeks after Quimby's passing, her prayers were answered, and following her near fatal fall on the ice, she rose from her sick bed with a new strength and conviction and belief that she could help heal others.

Whilst Christian Scientists may claim that the healing method employed by Mrs. Eddy was unique to her, any objective student will realise that there really is no essential difference between the methods taught and practised by Quimby and his later followers and those adopted by Mrs. Eddy. The basis is exactly the same, i.e. firstly the removal of fear from the patient, which Quimby accomplished by quietly explaining the mental causes of their malady to them, and then the replacing of this fear with faith, conviction, and firm expectation that they are healed. As it was exceedingly difficult for some of his patients to believe that healing could be affected in this way, he would often manipulate the patient's head in order for them to see that something had been done. In his manuscripts it becomes clear that he claimed no healing efficacy in this manipulating of the head, other than to help with the patient's faith. Quimby's conviction was that it is faith and expectation that invokes the Divine healing power, and whether one calls this power omnipresent Wisdom as Dr. Quimby did, or Divine Mind as Mrs Eddy did, or Universal Mind as many New Thoughters do, or God as most others do, makes no real difference. Jesus Himself said as much with His statement "Thy faith hath made thee whole."

Despite all the controversy surrounding Mrs. Eddy's Christian Science movement, the Church of Christ, Scientist, which she formed in 1879, had spread around much of the world by the time she died, and one should not be over-critical of Mrs. Eddy, or underestimate the vital role that her organizational skills played in getting this healing message to a worldwide audience. Mr. Henry Wood, one of the earliest New Thought authors, had this to say in his 1903 book New Thought Simplified: "No spiritual revival is fully intelligible from an intellectual and conventional standpoint. It can be interpreted only from within. With limited and exceptional out-croppings, a most vital body of truth has lain dormant since the period of the primitive Church. The modern practical application of spiritual power for the assuagement of mental and physical ills was not a discovery or special revelation. It was a divine and eternal law, though largely out of intelligent use and application. But by natural selection new forward impulses of eternal truth choose the fittest channels for their expression. As Mrs. Eddy's individuality was the one in which leadership for the Christian Science division of the new advance actually lodged, it is fair to conclude that for some reason she was the most suitable instrument. Whatever her incidental mistakes, she deserves honor and respect accordingly. This she will receive in future, however it may be lacking today."

In 1895, Mrs. Eddy published the first edition of the "Manual of The Mother Church." One of her last and greatest accomplishments was founding The Christian Science Monitor in 1908—her 88th year—a newspaper respected around the world for its editorial integrity and news insight. By the time of her death in 1910, she had become one of the most recognized public figures in America. In 1995, she was elected to the National Women's Hall of Fame as the only American woman to found a worldwide religion.