Ursula N. Gestefeld
(22 April 1845 − 22 October 1921)
American New Thought writer and teacher (Ursula Newell Gestefeld, 1845–1921), born in Augusta, Maine. Originally a student of Mary Baker Eddy, taking a class under her in 1884, but broke with Christian Science after her Statement of Christian Science (1888) and the pamphlet Jesuitism in Christian Science (1888) challenged Eddy's claim to exclusive doctrinal authority; she then developed her own independent system, the "Science of Being," taught through the Exodus Club and its magazine The Exodus (from 1897), later reorganized as the Church of the New Thought and College of the Science of Being (1904). Contributed "Another View of Metaphysical Healing" (February 1892) to The Path, rebutting William Q. Judge's criticism of mental healing and arguing that Theosophy and her "Divine Science" are at root the same system approached through intellect and through soul respectively; answered in turn by an editorial note from Judge. Other works include What Is Mental Medicine? (1887), A Chicago Bible Class (1891), and Reincarnation or Immortality? (1899).
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- Works: Gestefeld, Ursula N. (works)
- CTD article in Russian: Гестефельд, Урсула Н.
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