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Prentice Mulford was born on April 5, 1834, in Sag Harbor, New York, to Ezekiel Mulford and Julia Prentice. Named for his maternal grandfather, Amos Prentice, he seems never to have used the first name.
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Prentice Mulford was once described as a thinking man, not a reading man. His insights into the mysteries surrounding humanity derived from firsthand thought and experience, not from books. On such age-old topics as reincarnation, the power of thought, the mystery of sleep, the value of prayer, and the occult (all found in this collection), Mulford's attempts to understand our transcendental nature were intuitive and sympathetic, not ordered and logical. This very human quality, along with an unrelenting optimism and faith in man's goodness, lend a freshness and vitality to his work that transcend era. This is self-help for the soul, mind, and body. American author PRENTICE MULFORD (1834-1891) is one of the oddest fixtures of 19th-century literature. After moving for years in the literary and Bohemian sets of San Francisco in the 1860s as a writer of humorous short stories, he lived as a hermit in New Jersey, where he wrote the books of modern spirituality that made him a pioneer of modern self-help philosophies, including Thoughts Are Things and The God in You.
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This is one of the first and more profound books produced by the whole of the New Thought movement. It inspired authors as Orison Swett Marden, William Walker Atkinson, Christian D.Larson and others, that inspired by "Master Mulford", continued in the search for the inner forces that are part of every single human being, and which, well used, can take us to success, prosperity and happiness. This collection includes all six volumes, each volume originally a book itself. You will find in it phrases, advice and wisdom that is the base for all modern writers. Mulford is the source of sources.
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Prentice Mulford was one of the leaders of the New Thought Movement. The God in You will help you to use the power of your thoughts to connect with the spirit of the god that is all around you. Simple and spiritual.
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One aim in the publication of these little books, is to suggest how you can increase your force. In other words, how to so apply your spiritual power as to bring to you and others the best results and the most happiness. The evolution of force out of ourselves can be greatly hastened and assisted by the aid of others who similarly desire force, and who desire it in a similar spirit...
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Prentice Mulford was born on April 5, 1834, in Sag Harbor, New York, to Ezekiel Mulford and Julia Prentice. Named for his maternal grandfather, Amos Prentice, he seems never to have used the first name.
Mulford grew up in Sag Harbor, at sixteen was working in his father's hotel, spent a few months at the state normal school but soon abandoned the idea of becoming a teacher.
Then Mulford held a job as clerk in New York City for a year, then one in Illinois, and, having returned to Sag Harbor, at twenty-one shipped on board the clipper Wizard, bound for San Francisco. Upon reaching that port late in 1856, he was told by the captain that he was "not cut out for a sailor, " and discharged from the crew.
After a few months in San Francisco, he shipped with the schooner Henry down the California coast. Lured by the gold fields, he went in 1858 to Hawkins' Bar on the Tuolumne River, but prospecting proved unprofitable and accordingly, he taught school for two years in a mining camp in Tuolumne County.
During the copper fever of 1862 - 1863, Mulford became, he says, "a copper expert, " sinking unsuccessful shafts on his gold claim near Swett's Bar. Next came the silver excitement, but by this time he was finding more remuneration in other fields.
In March 1865 he tramped to Sonora, California, to begin his career as a comic lecturer, and about the same time began to contribute poems and essays to the Sonora Union Democrat under the pen name, "Dogberry. "
In the political campaign of 1866 - 1867 he was a candidate for the state assembly, but failed of election. Through his "Dogberry" articles in the Union Democrat, he had, he says, "gained a small county but cashless reputation" (Prentice Mulford's Story, ed. of 1913, p. 260) and in 1866 Joseph Lawrence of the Golden Era, then the leading literary weekly west of the Mississippi, numbering among its contributors Bret Harte and Mark Twain, called him to San Francisco.
During the next five years Mulford wrote for several papers, including the Dramatic Chronicle, forerunner of the San Francisco Chronicle, and for a few months in 1868 edited the Stockton Gazette, a Democratic campaign paper.
In 1872 he sailed for Europe, "to advance by writing and talking the good and glory of California", the mission being financed by San Francisco business men. He remained for a time in London, recording his impressions in letters to the San Francisco Bulletin, for which he also reported the Vienna world's fair.
In 1873, Mulford returned to New York and lectured for a time, but in the middle seventies joined the Daily Graphic, then under David G. Croly, creating the column of condensed local news called "The History of a Day. "
Sick, after six years, of the sordid routine of this work, he gave up his job and retired alone to a small cabin which he built himself in the New Jersey woods near Passaic. In The Swamp Angel, published in 1888, he humorously described some of his experiences.
The following year he published Prentice Mulford's Story, an account of his life up to the time of his leaving California.
While in the New Jersey wilderness, Mulford began to write the philosophical essays known as the White Cross Library. He published the first of these in Boston in May 1886, and for several years thereafter issued one a month, in pamphlet form. They were later collected in six volumes under the title, Your Forces and How to Use Them. In these essays and in the lectures he gave during the same period he expounded many of the ideas comprehended in the system of popular philosophy which came to be known as "New Thought. " He maintained that the individual, by controlling his thought, directing it toward worthy objects, and cultivating a serene and confident attitude of mind, can achieve health and success. He believed in the evolution of man through a series of reincarnations leading toward the final perfection of the spirit and the loss of the "material parts that decay. " Though his literary style lacked grace and was often actually crude, it was characterized by a directness and force which gained him an increasing number of readers, who found encouragement in his teachings. The quality of his thought brought a tribute from Whittier, who in the little poem, "Mulford, " speaks of him as "a sage and seer. "
On May 24, 1891, having been troubled and depressed for some time (National Magazine, September 1906, p. 568), he set out in a dory for a solitary cruise along the south shore of Long Island, seeking quiet and a chance to order his thoughts. On May 30 he was found dead in his boat, which had been anchored in Sheepshead Bay since the morning of the 27th His body, identified the next day by an intimate friend, was placed on June 2 in the family vault at Sag Harbor.
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Although Prentice Mulford was nominated, he ultimately lost the election.
Quotations:
"Love is an element which though physically unseen is as real as air or water. It is an acting, living, moving force. .. it moves in waves and currents like those of the ocean. "
"Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past. "
"But no one experience should be followed and dwelt in forever. Life in its more perfected state will be full of alterations - not a rut, into which if you are once set you must continually travel. "
After his returt to New York in 1873, Prentice Mulford brought a young English girl as his bride. According to all accounts she was charming and exceedingly attractive, but the marriage was not successful and after a few years there was an amicable separation.