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William Walker Atkinson
William Walker Atkinson (1862 – 1932) was a noted occultist and pioneer of the New Thought Movement. He wrote extensively throughout his lifetime, often using various psydonyms. He is widely credited with writing The Kybalion and was the founder of the Yogi Publication Society.
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EDITOR'S NOTE
William F. Shannon
Long before the blockbuster 2006 movie and bestselling book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, and long before Esther and Jerry Hicks' Law of Attraction and the many other books in the same vein, there was William Walker Atkinson's Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World. This seminal work of American practical spirituality, more than any other, planted the seed out of which all other 20th century works on positive thinking were to grow, either directly or indirectly.
William Walker Atkinson (1862-1932) was a lawyer, businessman, and publisher, as well as a prolific author writing under his own name and various pen names. As with many brilliant people trapped in a high pressure world full of demands not in sync with their spiritual nature, Atkinson suffered a mental and physical breakdown, as well as financial disaster. He found renewal in the Mental Science
movement that took the American spiritual landscape by storm in the late 1800's. After his adoption of this mode of positive thinking, Atkinson regained his mental and physical health as well as his material prosperity.
The movement that Atkinson credited with his rejuvenation would come to be known as New Thought
, a uniquely American spiritual philosophy that would go on to contribute to 20th century American culture and spirituality in untold ways. Atkinson himself contributed immeasurably to the movement's development through his many books and articles and other activities.
In recognition of the author's desire to inspire all people, the text of this edition has been edited into gender neutral language. Atkinson was a product of his place and time as we all are, and he often used masculine pronouns to refer to both men and women. Unfortunately, today such usage can leave the impression that women are not among the group to which the writer is referring. That was certainly not Atkinson's intention, as reflected in his Working Creed
reproduced in this volume. Gender neutral language is a subtle but important way to promote equality, and equality for all is at the core of Atkinson's thinking. It is in that spirit that we offer this gender neutral edition of his seminal work.
Hudson Mohawk Press is proud to publish this new, redesigned edition of Thought Vibration as a contribution to the continuing search for Truth, in the hope that the positive thought vibrations of the author will reach a new generation of readers in need of these timeless insights.
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WILLIAM F. SHANNON is the Publisher and Editor of Hudson Mohawk Press. He holds a Master of Arts in Integrated Studies/Cultural Studies from Athabasca University in Canada.
PREFACE
to the 1908 Edition
Franklin L. Berry
In December 1901, William Walker Atkinson in assuming the editorship of the popular magazine New Thought, introduced himself to the readers of that periodical in a memorable article. That article contained a clear, ringing, forceful statement of his individual creed, than which nothing can afford a deeper insight into the character and inner self of the man whose name appears as author of this book. It is the crystallized expression of the world-principles, the truths, which his writings seek to illuminate, and in my opinion should be read by every student of his works, as the key to the philosophy he teaches.
For this reason there has been prefixed to this book, under the title My Working Creed,
the most vital of the fundamental beliefs enunciated by Mr. Atkinson in that famous introductory statement of 1901. None can read the recurring, ringing I BELIEVE
of this author, without feeling an answering thrill of exaltation and power. To those who read this book I would say, imbue yourself thoroughly with the broad and beautiful spirit of those few preliminary paragraphs that you may pass on understandingly to the perusal of the teachings which follow.
Those who have an opportunity to refer to the article from which this Creed is taken, should do so.¹ It tells of the work, the material success, followed by over-strain, physical and mental breakdown and financial disaster, which marked the earlier years of William Walker Atkinson. It shows how he came to know what he now holds to be The Truth, and how, in his own life, he has demonstrated its value. For from mental and physical wreck and financial ruin, he wrought through its principles, perfect health, mental vigor and material prosperity.
Mr. Atkinson, during the many years of his connection with the magazine, New Thought, built for himself an enduring place in the hearts of its readers. For four years his literary work was confined to its pages (including in addition, three books for its publishers), and article after article of wonderful strength and vital force flowed from his pen. During this time several series of lessons
appeared, under varying titles, in regard to the application of the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, lessons which created a sensation and exerted a wonderful influence upon the lives of those who applied their principles. They were written in Mr. Atkinson's own sparkling, intimate style, teeming with thought, force, energy, fire, but shorn of all atmosphere of the study, all attempt at fine writing,
polished periods or dignified metaphor, and all affectation, or assumption of superior learning. One of Mr. Atkinson's cardinal principles is Stand on your own feet,
and he deprecates any attempt to read infallibility into his writings. For this reason we have again prefaced the present work with a Foreword
in which he seeks to instill into all students of New Thought, whether as expressed in his writings or in those of others, the quality of self-dependence. A reading of this Foreword will give the student a clear idea of the attitude of mind in which Mr. Atkinson thinks this and all other individual interpretations of life should be approached.
With My Working Creed
and the Foreword
as guides, the present reader should enter upon Thought Vibration, the book proper, in a spirit calculated to extract the greatest possible value.
Thought Vibration embraces two series of the vital lessons mentioned above, with some additional articles by Mr. Atkinson following out the same line of teaching. The order of the lessons has been somewhat changed in the combination; and for further continuity and clearness, new lesson titles in the form of chapter headings have been selected. The publishers have preferred to retain the familiar unstudied style of the lessons, as originally written, rather than to subject the articles to the literary revision by the author which usually precedes publication in book form. They contend that Mr. Atkinson's mightiest influence, his greatest strength and power, lies in his simple, straightforward, and at times even colloquial language -- the kind which even my little son can understand,
as wrote in gratitude one earnest student. It is such writing that the world needs, writing which can be read and apprehended by the little sons
of the world, whether known as children or as men. There is a great deal of so-called fine writing
on New Thought subjects, beautiful sentences full of high, though sometimes misty thought; but this world needs common, practical, everyday application of this thought. Where there is one reader for the literary masterpiece, there are a hundred readers (plus even that other one), for the book written as a keen, live, person talks, and written about the difficulties, the problems, the possibilities of the average citizen of the world.
This is a truth Mr. Atkinson has mastered, and it is with intention he casts from him the restrictions of an academic style. He speaks, always, not in dignified tones to the public,
but in the language of a friend to YOU. It can be said of him in praise, as of another before him: "The common people heard him gladly!" -- the highest, most enduring tribute that can be paid to a leader