Walter Clemow Lanyon was the author

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 of more than 40 books on 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...

 spirituality

Spirituality

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. All his books are about Christian maturity for the Body of Christ

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 (the Church).

History

Little is known about Lanyon's personal life except that he was an Englishman

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 of Cornish

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 stock born in the United States

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 in 1887. He was educated in the USA, France

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, and England

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, and served as interpreter and foreign correspondent

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. For decades he traveled all over the world, investigating and studying the various presentations of Christian-based mystical teachings

Christian mysticism

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. He traveled and lectured all over the world. His lectures were based, he said, "solely on the revelation of Jesus Christ."

While most of his writings are now out of print, those still available are heralded largely by proponents of New Thought Movement, due mainly to Lanyon's message of self-reliance and the seeking of "Christ consciousness" within.

In addition to his books, Lanyon was credited with having written two light operas as well as several secular stories, plays

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 and articles

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, all of which are now lost. This is also true of paintings he is said to have exhibited in Europe and the USA.

Lanyon died in California

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on July 4, 1967 at the age of 79.

Books (partial listing)

• And It Was Told of a Certain Potter (1917)
• Embers (1918)
• Your Home (1918)
• Has It Ever Occurred To You? (1919)
• Abd Allah, Teacher, Healer (1921)
• A Royal Diadem (1921)
• Treatment (1921)
• Demonstration (1921)
• Your Heritage (1923)
• The Joy Bringer (1925)
• Leaves of the Tree (1925)
• London Notes and Lectures (1928)
• Impressions of a Nomad (1930)
• It Is Wonderful (1931)
• The Laughter of God (1932)
• The Eyes of the Blind (1932)
• Behold the Man (1933)
• Out of the Clouds (1934)
• A Lamp Unto My Feet (1936)
• The Temple Not Made With Hands (1936)
• Thrust In the Sickle (1936)
• A Light Set Upon a Hill (1938)
• I Came (1940)
• That Ye Might Have (1940)
• Life More Abundant (1940)
• Without the Smell of Fire (1941)
• 2 A.M. (1944)
• The Impatient Dawn (1946)
• Ask (1970)

External links

• Walter C. Lanyon website
• Walter C. Lanyon online book excerpts