“Take Your Thinking in Hand.” From an address by Dr Emmet Fox at Unity Headquarters in 1936. Read by Dr Ian Ellis-Jones. This piece can be found in Dr Fox’s book Sparts of Timeless Truth (Lee’s Summit MO: Unity School of Christianity, 1937). All rights reserved.
Dr Emmet Fox (1886-1951) was a Divine Science minister and author. He was the pastor of the Church of the Healing Christ, in New York City, from 1931 until his death in 1951. Some of his more popular books include The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life (1934), Power Through Constructive Thinking (1940), The Ten Commandments (1953), Diagrams for Living: The Bible Unveiled (1968), The Science of Living: In Class with Emmet Fox (2005), and Emmet Fox's Keys to Life and Health (2005).
Dr Ian Ellis-Jones (born 1955) is an Australian academic, lawyer and published author. He has also worked for many years as a minister and teacher of New Thought, mindfulness and meditation and he regularly gives talks and lectures to community groups and other organisations on philosophy, practical psychology, religion and spirituality. He is a member of the International New Thought Alliance (INTA) and the Theosophical Society of Australia and has been president of a Unity centre in Sydney, the Humanist Society of New South Wales, and the Council of Australian Humanist Societies (CAHS). The author of several books, his most recent book is Making Australia Positive (2023), which is both a history of New Thought in Australia and a dual biography of two great Australian New Thought leaders of yesteryear, namely, Grace M. Aguilar and Veni Cooper-Mathieson.