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Malinda Cramer was the author of several books, including:
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with additional material from Amazon.com and Google Books.
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894:(June 12, 1844 – August 2, 1906) was a founder of the
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1233:Information in this section largely from
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399:International Divine Science Association
1280:First Divine Science Church of Denver,
1251:Albanese, Catherine L. (January 2007).
1025:C. L. Cramer (San Francisco, CA), 1902.
964:, which would interconnect the various
902:, and an important figure in the early
44:Malinda Elliott Cramer in an 1890 photo
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1257:. Yale University Press. p. 316.
975:Between 1893 and 1898, Cramer trained
353:Universal Foundation for Better Living
147:Founder of the Divine Science movement
1649:20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
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1348:Divine Science page on Malinda Cramer
1202:First Divine Science Church of Denver
1018:by C. W. Gordon (San Francisco) 1890.
333:Agape International Spiritual Center
1629:19th-century American women writers
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1386:, University of California Press,
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962:International New Thought Alliance
585:'Three Initiates' (authors of the
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389:Association for Global New Thought
348:International New Thought Alliance
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217:Glossary of New Thought terms
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1362:Contemporary Authors Online
1333:. SUNY Press. p. 326.
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1111:Contemporary Authors Online
1099:Contemporary Authors Online
439:List of New Thought writers
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1271:Cramer, Malinda (1923)
1097:"Malinda Cramer", Gale
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414:New Civilization Church
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98:Woodlawn Park Cemetery
1207:July 13, 2012, at the
1037:In 1957, published as
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672:Esther and Jerry Hicks
531:Frank Channing Haddock
252:New Thought literature
222:History of New Thought
202:Creative visualization
1619:Divine Science clergy
1442:Distinctive doctrines
1382:Satter, Beryl (2001)
1379:. Accessed May 2008.
1368:. Accessed May 2008.
1078:Eighth edition, 1905.
712:Florence Scovel Shinn
237:Life force ("energy")
1604:Writers from Indiana
1400:, accessed May 2008.
1357:, accessed May 2008.
1284:, accessed May 2008.
647:James Dillet Freeman
632:Terry Cole-Whittaker
212:Higher consciousness
174:a series of articles
1614:New Thought mystics
1609:New Thought writers
1521:Emma Curtis Hopkins
916:Greensboro, Indiana
914:Cramer was born in
853:Religion portal
792:Subjective idealism
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610:Ella Wheeler Wilcox
561:Christian D. Larson
556:Emma Curtis Hopkins
343:Church of the Truth
267:Prosperity theology
247:New Thought beliefs
68:Greensboro, Indiana
1449:Affirmative prayer
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767:Efficacy of prayer
717:Masaharu Taniguchi
521:Perry Joseph Green
197:Affirmative prayer
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1181:Albanese, p. 316.
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