文档介绍：THOUGHT VIBRATION
OR THE LAW OF ATTRACTION IN THE THOUGHT WORLD
William Walker Atkinson
First Published by The New Thought Publishing Co., Chicago, 1906.
Electronic Edition Published by Cornerstone Publishing, 2001.
William Walker Atkinson
(1862-1932)
William Walker Atkinson was a very important and influential figure in the early
days of the New Thought Movement. Little is known about his early years, except
that he was born in Baltimore, Maryland on December 5, 1862, to William and
Emma Atkinson, both of whom were born in Maryland also.
He married Margaret Foster Black of Beverley, New Jersey on October 1889 and
they had two children. He pursued a business career from 1882 onwards and in
1894 he was admitted as an attorney to the Bars of Pennsylvania. Whilst he gained
much material ess in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain
eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced plete physical and
mental breakdown, and financial disaster. He looked for healing and in the late
1880's he found it with New Thought. From mental and physical wreck and
financial ruin, he wrought through its principles, perfect health, mental vigor and
material prosperity.
Some time after his healing, Atkinson began to write some articles on the Truths
which he had discovered which was then known as Mental Science, and in 1889 an
article by him entitled "A Mental Science Catechism," appeared in Charles
Fillmore's new periodical, Modern Thought.
By the early 1890's Chicago had e a major centre for New Thought, mainly
through the work of Emma Curtis Hopkins, and Atkinson decided to move there
and he became an active promoter of the movement as an editor and author. In 1900
he worked as an associate editor of Suggestion, a New Thought journal, and wrote
his first book, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, being a series of lessons
in personal ism, psychic influence, thought-forc