The Canon / Pillars / New Thought
Pillars · 1921
Within You Is the Power
British New Thought / Applied Right ThinkingWithin You Is the Power sets out the conviction that abounding health, sufficiency of supply, and deep inner joy are the natural state of a person who comes into harmony with what its author called Cosmic Law. Its central claim is that disciplined, God-aligned thought is a practical daily means of producing health, character, and provision.
The book frames mind-power not as bare technique but as contemplative practice, anchoring the method in a theism centred on the omnipresence, omnipotence, and all-goodness of God. It teaches an inner harmony with cosmic order from which right conditions follow.
As one of the foremost British exponents of applied spiritual philosophy, Hamblin gave New Thought a durable home in the United Kingdom, and the text exemplifies the mystically grounded, right-thinking strand he carried to a wide European and American readership.
In its words
It is a metaphysical truth that the outward life is a reflection of the thought life.
Whatever ideal is held in the mind becomes woven into the life through the tireless working of the sub-conscious mind.
The power within is infinite, for, by faith in it, man is directly 'coupled up' with the Spiritual Power of the Universe.
Practices it teaches
Applied Right Thinking — Hamblin's scrutiny and reversal of every thought
The discipline Hamblin built his whole movement around — he literally branded it "Applied Right Thinking." Character and circumstance, he held, are built thought by thought, so the thought-life must be governed…
Realizing Infinite Good — Hamblin's spiritual treatment that dissolves fear
Hamblin's "treatment" — his method for meeting fear, worry, and the sense that something is wrong by turning the whole attention to the Infinite Good of God until the felt sense of threat dissolves.
I Am a Branch in the True Vine — Hamblin's realization of the spiritual real self
Hamblin's identity practice: deliberately locating the "I" in the spirit, not the body, mind, or personality. In Within You is the Power Ch.
Entering the Silence — Hamblin's hushing of the surface mind to hear intuition
Hamblin's contemplative practice of becoming still and receptive. He distinguishes two layers of mind — the loud "surface, material mind" and the deeper "subliminal" mind that is "one with the Universal Mind" — and…
Realizing the Power Within — Hamblin's turning to the Infinite at one's centre
The root practice of Hamblin's whole system. Where most New Thought "indwelling power" teachers stay vague, Hamblin's claim is blunt and theistic: "Man possesses, did he but know it, illimitable Power.
Taking Your Difficulties Into the Silence — Hamblin's handing over of worry to the Infinite
Hamblin's specific remedy for fear and worry, and his most surrender-flavoured practice. The anxious mind grips a problem and churns it; Hamblin's instruction is the opposite — stop straining, grow still, hand the…
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Henry Thomas HamblinRight thinking in harmony with cosmic law produces health, supply, and peace Full voice →Key terms
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