ABSTRACT
New Thought has never had an apostolic succession or a rigid discipline or a centralized organic form. New Thought has been defined as "an attitude of mind, not a cult". New Thought is either a theology with a philosophic basis or a philosophy with a theological bias. Theology must take account of a creative evolution and a humanity which has struggled upward from far-off beginnings along a far-flung front and the findings of Science and the intimations of Psychology. Mrs. Eddy soon dissociated herself from the others and she supplied in "Science and Health" a distinctive philosophy to her movement. In England as in America interest was aroused by Christian Science, then came a gradual reaction and the establishment of independent branches of the movement. As a principle of healing New Thought differs from Christian Science in almost the whole range of its assumptions.
