A Teacher
U.S. Andersen
Three magic words: the power of mind
The transmission
Uell Stanley Andersen was an American author, former football player, and New Thought writer best known for Three Magic Words (1954), a meditative course in mental science presented as a sequence of contemplative readings designed to lead the reader to a single realizing insight—that mind is universal and the individual participates in a creative, all-pervading consciousness.
He also wrote The Secret of Secrets and The Magic in Your Mind, extending the same metaphysics of universal mind and directed thought. Andersen’s place in the tradition is as a mid-century synthesizer who translated the abstract idealism of Troward and Holmes into a structured, almost devotional reading practice.
Rather than offering tips and techniques, he built a graduated path intended to produce a felt shift in identity—from separate ego to participant in universal mind. His work has enjoyed a quiet, durable afterlife, frequently rediscovered and recommended within online manifestation communities for its emphasis on consciousness and identity over mere visualization.
What they gave
Universal mind metaphysics: Framed manifestation as recognition of one’s identity with an all-pervading creative consciousness.
- Contemplative course format: Structured Three Magic Words as progressive readings aimed at an experiential realization, not just instruction.
- Identity-first emphasis: Anticipated later teachers in prioritizing a shift in self-concept over technique.
- Durable underground influence: Became a recurrently rediscovered classic in modern manifestation circles.
In their words
You are, literally, a product of your own thought. You are what you think; only that, nothing more.
All creative impulses spring from imagination.
The line they stand in
Influenced by: New Thought; Thomas Troward; Ernest Holmes; Vedantic notions of universal mind.
- Influenced: mid-century mental-science readers; later consciousness-oriented manifestation teachers; online communities reviving “universal mind” framing.
Revelations they taught
Essential Works
- Three Magic Words1954
- The Magic in Your Mind1961
- The Secret of Secrets1958