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Emma Curtis Hopkins
Emma Curtis Hopkins
(1853-1925)
"Teacher of Teachers"
Emma Curtis Hopkins, was born in Connecticut in 1853. She was educated at Woodstock Academy and remained thereafter for a time as an instructor.
In 1882, she was healed of an illness by Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science) and then devoted herself to the study of Christian Science. She became a practitioner and served as editor (1884-85) of the Christian Science Journal. However, since she was a strong-willed woman and so was Eddy, their diverging opinions regarding Truth led to their parting of ways.
In 1886 she left Mrs. Eddy, moved to Chicago, and established on her own the Christian Science Theological Seminary in 1887. There she taught the truth similar to the unfoldment of Mrs. Eddy and lectured extensively, teaching classes in New York, San Francisco, Kansas City, Boston and many other places. She not only drew upon the Bible, but later included in her philosophy and teachings the non-Christian scriptures and the works of the world’s great philosophers as well. She spent time in London, where she had contact with Thomas Troward and other British leaders of the New Thought movement. After that she ceased using the name Christian Science and began teaching privately.
Because of her considerable influence on these New Thought organizations, Emma Curtis Hopkins came to be called the "Teacher of Teachers."
Among those followers who so greatly benefited by and followed her teachings were Melinda Cramer and Nona Brooks who co-founded the Church of Divine Science, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore who founded the Unity School of Christianity, and through Cramer and Brooks, later, Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science. These three churches today can be found throughout the world.
Unity, Divine Science and Religious Science are the three largest organizations within the present-day International New Thought Alliance (INTA).
Emma Curtis Hopkins was a mystic. She emphasized this element in all her teachings and writing. She drew upon the Bible, the non-Christian scriptures, and the works of the world's great philosophers and saints in her teaching. Her mysticism was a very potent influence upon Ernest Holmes.
In her greatest work, The Twelve Powers of the Soul she wrote:
“Never the spirit was born,
the spirit shall cease to be never.
Changeless the spirit remains,
Birthless and deathless forever.”
(1853-1925)
"Teacher of Teachers"
Emma Curtis Hopkins, was born in Connecticut in 1853. She was educated at Woodstock Academy and remained thereafter for a time as an instructor.
In 1882, she was healed of an illness by Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science) and then devoted herself to the study of Christian Science. She became a practitioner and served as editor (1884-85) of the Christian Science Journal. However, since she was a strong-willed woman and so was Eddy, their diverging opinions regarding Truth led to their parting of ways.
In 1886 she left Mrs. Eddy, moved to Chicago, and established on her own the Christian Science Theological Seminary in 1887. There she taught the truth similar to the unfoldment of Mrs. Eddy and lectured extensively, teaching classes in New York, San Francisco, Kansas City, Boston and many other places. She not only drew upon the Bible, but later included in her philosophy and teachings the non-Christian scriptures and the works of the world’s great philosophers as well. She spent time in London, where she had contact with Thomas Troward and other British leaders of the New Thought movement. After that she ceased using the name Christian Science and began teaching privately.
Because of her considerable influence on these New Thought organizations, Emma Curtis Hopkins came to be called the "Teacher of Teachers."
Among those followers who so greatly benefited by and followed her teachings were Melinda Cramer and Nona Brooks who co-founded the Church of Divine Science, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore who founded the Unity School of Christianity, and through Cramer and Brooks, later, Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science. These three churches today can be found throughout the world.
Unity, Divine Science and Religious Science are the three largest organizations within the present-day International New Thought Alliance (INTA).
Emma Curtis Hopkins was a mystic. She emphasized this element in all her teachings and writing. She drew upon the Bible, the non-Christian scriptures, and the works of the world's great philosophers and saints in her teaching. Her mysticism was a very potent influence upon Ernest Holmes.
In her greatest work, The Twelve Powers of the Soul she wrote:
“Never the spirit was born,
the spirit shall cease to be never.
Changeless the spirit remains,
Birthless and deathless forever.”