The White Cross Library

The White Cross Library is the complete collected writings of New Thought pioneer Prentice Mulford. Described by Mulford’s original publisher as “a monthly system of publication, showing how results may be obtained in all business and art, through the force of thought and silent power of mind.”

It includes the autobiographical works The Swamp Angel, and Prentice Mulford,'s Story: Life by Land and Sea as well as the six volume Your Forces and and How to Use Them from which was drawn the selections included in: Gift of the Spirit, The Gift of Understanding, Thought Forces and Thoughts are Things.

The Swamp Angel is Mulford's experience living much as Henry David Thoreau did at Walden. He builds his own home and proceeds to explore life through his thoughts and the written word. He narrates several interesting and humorous anecdotes.

Prentice Mulford’s Story: Life by Land and Sea tells of Mulford’s life during the California gold rush. His life begins as a sailor on his way to San Francisco, then as cook on a whaling ship and finally in California as miner, teacher, jurist, city founder, prospector, mountain man, lecturer and politician before finally finding his calling as a newspaper man, as writer and then editor. This book is filled with first hand adventure and humor during the early days of California.

Your Forces and and How to Use Them are a series of monthly essays written by Mulford over a period of six years. These writings are a great unknown treasure from a simple man who lived America's westward expansion. The force of our thoughts in the everyday events of life as well as the highest flights of the mind are the common thread of these varied writings.