Harriet Emilie Cady was an American homeopathic physician and author

Author

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 of New Thought

New Thought

New Thought promotes the ideas that "Infinite Intelligence" or "God" is ubiquitous, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect.Although New Thought is neither...

  spiritual

Spirituality

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 writings. Her 1896 book Lessons in Truth, A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity is now considered the core text on Unity Church

Unity Church

Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication...

 teachings. It is the most widely read book in that movement, and has sold over 1.6 million copies since its first publication.

Biography

Born in 1848 in Dryden, New York

Dryden, New York

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 to Oliver and Cornelia Cady, Cady's first job was as a schoolteacher in a one-room schoolhouse in her hometown. In the late 1860s, however, she decided to pursue the field of medicine

Medicine

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, and enrolled in the Homeopathic College of New York City

New York City

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, graduating in 1871, and becoming one of the first woman physicians in America.

Introduced to the teachings of Albert Benjamin Simpson

Albert Benjamin Simpson

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, Cady became deeply involved in spiritual and metaphysical

Metaphysics

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 studies. She was inspired and influenced by Biblical teachings and the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. She was taught by Emma Hopkins, the New Thought "teacher of teachers".

Cady also associated with several prominent figures in the New Thought movement of the time, including: Emma Curtis Hopkins

Emma Curtis Hopkins

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, Divine Science minister Emmet Fox

Emmet Fox

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, Ernest Holmes

Ernest Holmes

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, founder of Religious Science

Religious Science

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, and Charles

Charles Fillmore (Unity Church)

Charles Sherlock Fillmore , born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, founded Unity, a church within the New Thought movement, with his wife, Myrtle Page Fillmore, in 1889...

 and Myrtle Fillmore

Myrtle Fillmore

Mary Caroline "Myrtle" Page Fillmore was co-founder of Unity, a church within the New Thought movement, along with her husband Charles Fillmore. Prior to that time, she worked as a schoolteacher....

, co-founders of Unity Church

Unity Church

Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication...

. Finding The Christ in Ourselves, a pamphlet she had written and sent unsolicited to Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, was published by them in the October 1891 issue of Thought.

Cady died January 3, 1941 in New York City.

Books

• Lessons in Truth, A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity ISBN: 1451597266
• How I Used Truth
• God, a present help

External links

• The complete book "Lessons In Truth" by H. Emilie Cady