Emma Curtis Hopkins

Emma Curtis Hopkins
Portrait of Emma Curtis Hopkins from High Mysticism.
Born	Josephine Emma Curtis (1849-09-02)September 2, 1849 Killingly, Connecticut
Died	April 8, 1925(1925-04-08) (aged 75) Killingly, Connecticut
Occupation	New Thought teacher
Known for	Founder of New Thought

Josephine Emma Curtis Hopkins (September 2, 1849 – April 8, 1925) was an American spiritual teacher and leader. She was involved in organizing the New Thought movement and was a theologian, teacher, writer, feminist, mystic, and healer; who taught and ordained hundreds of people, including notably many women. Hopkins was called the "teacher of teachers" and "mother of New Thought" because a number of her students went on to found their own churches or to become prominent in the New Thought Movement, including Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, founders of Unity Church; Ernest Holmes; and H. Emilie Cady, author of Unity's cornerstone text Lessons in Truth. According to Charles S. Braden, Hopkins influenced the development of New Thought "more than any other single teacher",^[1] and modern scholars have identified Hopkins as the founder of New Thought.^[2]