Who is Emma Curtis Hopkins?
Emma Curtis Hopkins is considered by many to be the founder of the New Thought
movement, and is known to many as the "Mother of New Thought." She is the author of High
Mysticism and Scientific Christian Mental Practice. She was a student of Mary Baker Eddy,
and went on to found her own school. People from all walks of life came to her for instruction.
As independent teacher, Mrs. Hopkins taught in many cities (including New York, Chicago,
Kansas City, and San Francisco. She later founded a seminary in Chicago. It was a regularly
incorporated school and the graduates were ordained ministers and so recognized by the
State of Illinois. She is noted as being the first woman to ordain other women in a modern
religious movement.
Among her students were Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, co-founders of Unity, H. Emilie Cady,
author of Lessons in Truth, Frances Lord, Annie Rix-Militz, Malinda Cramer, Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, and Ernest Holmes, founder of the Church of Religious Science.
Readers may learn more about this remarkable woman at the following website:
www.emmacurtishopkins.com
Emma Curtis Hopkins is considered by many to be the founder of the New Thought
movement, and is known to many as the "Mother of New Thought." She is the author of High
Mysticism and Scientific Christian Mental Practice. She was a student of Mary Baker Eddy,
and went on to found her own school. People from all walks of life came to her for instruction.
As independent teacher, Mrs. Hopkins taught in many cities (including New York, Chicago,
Kansas City, and San Francisco. She later founded a seminary in Chicago. It was a regularly
incorporated school and the graduates were ordained ministers and so recognized by the
State of Illinois. She is noted as being the first woman to ordain other women in a modern
religious movement.
Among her students were Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, co-founders of Unity, H. Emilie Cady,
author of Lessons in Truth, Frances Lord, Annie Rix-Militz, Malinda Cramer, Ella Wheeler
Wilcox, and Ernest Holmes, founder of the Church of Religious Science.
Readers may learn more about this remarkable woman at the following website:
www.emmacurtishopkins.com
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