A Teacher
Henry Thomas Hamblin
Right thinking in harmony with cosmic law produces health, supply, and peace
The transmission
Henry Thomas Hamblin (19 March 1873 - 28 October 1958) was an English mystic and New Thought author who became one of Britain’s foremost exponents of applied spiritual philosophy in the early twentieth century.
A successful optician by trade, he experienced a deepening inward turn toward mysticism and in 1921 founded a magazine, the Science of Thought Review, to put his principles of “Applied Right Thinking” into circulation.
Though he had no prior experience of editing or publishing, he printed ten thousand copies of the first issue and sold them all, and the periodical became the long-running vehicle for his teaching. Hamblin taught that abounding health, sufficiency of supply, and “joy indescribable” are the normal state for a person who comes into harmony with what he called Cosmic Law, centred on the omnipresence, omnipotence, and all-goodness of God.
He was prolific, with dozens of books and booklets to his name from 1921 onward, including Dynamic Thought (1921) and The Power of Thought (1921), many translated and sold across Europe and America.
His work is continued today through the Hamblin Trust, a registered charity that still publishes his books and the magazine he began.
What they gave
Applied Right Thinking: framed disciplined, God-aligned thought as a practical daily technology for producing health, character, and supply.
- The Science of Thought Review: built a durable British platform for New Thought, carrying the tradition to a UK and European readership for decades.
- Mystical grounding: anchored mind-power practice in a contemplative theism rather than mere technique, stressing inner harmony with Cosmic Law.
- Prolific popularizer: produced a large body of accessible books and booklets that shaped British personal-development writing.
In their 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.
The line they stand in
Influenced by: the New Thought movement; Christian mysticism; the optimistic metaphysics of writers such as Ralph Waldo Trine and James Allen.
- Influenced: the British New Thought movement; the Hamblin Trust which preserves his work; later UK personal-development and spiritual-self-help authors.
Revelations they taught
Essential Works
- Within You Is the Power1921
- Dynamic Thought1923