Author Bios

Arnold Bennett

James Allen

Julia Seton, MD

Ralph Waldo Trine

Wallace Wattles

Theron Q. Dumont

Christian D. Larson

William Walker Atkinson

Christian D Larson was famous for his encouraging concept of 'the ideal made real'. Larson was an outstanding New Thought leader and teacher. A prolific writer of New Thought books, Larson believed that people have tremendous latent powers that, with the proper attitude, could all be harnessed for success.

The New Thought movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, owes its origin to Larson, who organized the New Thought Temple there in January 1910. In September of that year Larson began to publish Eternal Progress, for several years one of the leading New Thought periodicals. Larson strode into the spotlight in 1912, when he wrote 'The Optimist Creed' that appeared in his book Your Forces and How to Use Them. It was adapted as the Optimist International's Creed in 1922. Many have found inspiration in The Creed, which has been used in hospitals to speed patients' recovery, and in locker rooms, where coaches have used it to motivate their players. One of Christian D Larson's main claims to fame lies in the influence he had on Ernest Holmes, founder of one of the major worldwide branches of New Thought, Religious Science, also known as Science of Mind.