| Addington Archives and Research Center
Celebrating the Past Through Preserving History for the Future
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Inquiries about the archives (including
questions about reproduction of materials, generally $10.00 for
such an item as an article) may be sent to intaarchives@aol.com.
Holdings of the Archives:
Books
and Booklets, Authors A-F
Books
and Booklets, Authors G-M
Books
and Booklets, Authors N-Z
Collections
summary, partly repeating what can be found via other links
here.
Magazine
Titles. See immediately below for details.
Magazines,
A-M
Magazines,
N-Z
Pamphlets
Small
Pamphlets
Correspondence
Lectures,
Sermons, Lessons, Articles, Class Notes, and Dissertations
Reports
published in New Thought
Mostly
Book Reviews Published in New Thought
Articles
Published in New Thought
Inspirations,
Prayers, and Poems Published in New Thought
Memorials
Published in New Thought
Pictures
taken inside the Archives building
New
Thought History handout presented by INTA/SSMR Addington
Archives Committee at the 2000 Congress
Joint INTA/SSMR Archives
Committee members (left to right) Doug and Karen Jones, Deb
Whitehouse, and EvaGrace Johnson conferring with INTA President
Blaine Mays (center), July 31, 1999, in Safety Harbor, FL,
during the 1999 INTA Congress.
Archives Purpose
The purpose of the Addington INTA Archives is to identify,
collect, organize, describe, preserve, and provide access to
the historical and ongoing records of the activities of national
and international INTA and the New Thought Movement. Its overall
mission is to provide the message of the New Thought Movement
to humanity. As an administrative unit within the organizational
structure of the INTA, the Archives is responsible for maintaining
the records that document the legal, fiscal, administrative,
and historical activities of the INTA.
Archives History
In the 1950s, New Thought minister Raymond Charles Barker joined
with scholar Charles S. Braden, author of Spirits In Rebellion,
the standard history of the New Thought movement, to implement
a project that would result in the collecting and storing of
archival materials dealing with New Thought. In the following
decades, this collection was housed at the Bridwell Library of
Southern Methodist University and at the Unity Library of Unity
School of Christianity. After the completion of the archives
building adjoining INTA headquarters, the collection was moved
there in 1990. For half a century, INTA members have dedicated
themselves to collecting the material that documents the New
Thought Movement, and materials are added daily.
Accomplishments
1. The donation of an acre of land for the archives building.
2. The completion of a debt-free building constructed to the
required specifications for maintaining archives materials.
3. The beginning of a $1,000,000 reserve to generate interest
for covering the operating costs of the archives endowment, with
the first $100,000 coming from Jack and Cornelia Addington and
$44,331 coming from members in the Addington INTA Archives Stewardship
Society begun in 1991. The purpose of the Stewardship Society
is to enable the archives to gain financial self-sufficiency,
and it represents the support of those who believe that preserving
the ideas of New Thought is an effective way to minister to the
needs of the present and future.
4. The successful transferring of the INTA archival collection
stored at other locations to the archives.
5. The hiring of a Director of Archives who began the work
of archiving the material received.
6. The purchase of a computer, used to create a database to
catalog archival material.
7. The involvement of a volunteer staff with archival knowledge.
8. The establishment of an INTA Archives Committee consisting
of members of both the Society for the Study of Metaphysical
Religion and INTA, to offer assistance in developing the INTA
Archives.
9. The creation of the Archive Steward newsletter for those
who have donated $125.00 or more to the Stewardship fund.
10. The purchase of supplies for a Pictorial History Project,
intended to preserve and store pictures dealing with New Thought
and activities of INTA, and the creation of a Pictorial History
database.
11. The creation of a New Thought magazine database, breaking
down over 1,000 issues of New Thought magazine and making
them available for research.
12. The compilation-in-process of an inventory of all materials
on the premises, whether or not thus far formally archived. The
inventory will be linked to this page in the near future.
The Future
With continuing support in the form of donated collections,
the archives will provide a place for all New Thought materials
to be preserved permanently and made available for study and
research. If you know of material that should be housed in the
archives, please contact INTA headquarters.
Archives Sasselein Peace Chapel
The Archives building also contains the beautiful Sasselein
Peace Chapel, which seats 30 people. It is a special place of
inspiration with its 5x7 ft. specially commissioned stained glass
window, entitled "Transcendence." A prayer service is held in
the Chapel Monday through Friday at noon. Each individual and
group member of INTA, Archive Stewardship Society member, and
INTA Prayer Partner throughout the world is included in the prayer
time. All of those who have preceded us in the dissemination
of New Thought are honored through prayer. Each world leader
and each member of the family of humanity is included in prayers
for peace, protection, illumination and well-being.
Archives Stewardship Society
Your Help Is Needed. We ask our members and friends to assist
us in fulfilling one of INTA's vital services to the world of
New Thought. In addition to the $100,000 endowment established
by the Addingtons' Abundant Living Foundation and the money received
from our stewards, we need an additional $878,000 endowment from
one or more sources to assure the growth and operation of our
archives. The archives chair can also be separately endowed and
established in the name of the donor. The archives fund needs
to reach sufficient size to support a full-time Director of Archives
and the continuing work of archiving incoming material.
Archives Stewardship Society Membership
Requirement for membership in the Society is a tax deductible
contribution to INTA Archives Endowment of $11.00 or more each
month or $125.00 for the year. Upon completion of this requirement,
your name will be placed on the Archives Stewardship Society
Roll in the archives reading room. The individuals and groups
who are stewards or are in the process of completing their Stewardship
are an inspiration for others to follow.
Stewardship Society Application
Archives Stewardship Society Membership
$125 one-time payment for the full year
Membership Monthly Pledge Plan
$11 a month for 12 months
To join the Stewardship Society, telephone INTA at (480) 830-2461,
or e-mail at inta@neta.com, or write to:
INTA
5003 E. Broadway Road
Mesa, AZ 85206
Please indicate whether you do or do not wish to have your
name listed on the Stewardship Society roll.
Please let us hear from you. INTA has a spiritual mission to
fill for the family of humanity. The Archives Stewardship Society
is dedicated to the achievement of this mission, including collecting,
preserving, and making available for study and research all known
New Thought materials.
Archival links
U.
of Idaho links to Repositories of Primary Sources, including
a link to valuable "Additional lists."
Standards
for Archival Description: A Handbook
ICA/CDS
- ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description
The
Library Corporation (TLC): ITS.forWindows...
National Archives and Records
Administration, including material on overall Archival
Management, details of Preservation,
and valuable links to Resources
on the World Wide Web.
The Society
of Southwest Archivists
E-Text Archive electronic free
storage
For free storage, given by Brad Jensen, of New Thought material (including
this site; many thanks), see Brad Jensen's site
on making and storing Web pages, as well as his links to
electronically archived writings of Charles Fillmore (with text-search program),
Wallace Wattles, Thomas Troward, and Ernest Holmes, as well as many sound-recorded
sermons that can be played from his site.
The American
Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works This
site includes the following quotation:
Our heritage is all that we know of ourselves;
what we preserve of it, our only record.
That record is our beacon in the darkness of time;
the light that guides our steps.
Conservation is the means by which we preserve it.
. . . It is a commitment not only to the past,
but to the future.
PHILIP WARD,
The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time
Metaphysical links
Society for
the Study of Metaphysical Religion.
New Thought
Movement Home Page, containing links to many New Thought
writings archived on the World Wide Web.
Noel McInnis's major gateway, complementary to the preceding
one, to New Thought, the New
Thought Network and A
Guide to New Thought on the Internet.
Metaphysics:
Multiple Meanings.
Created, largely reproducing an INTA brochure, on behalf of
INTA, Aug. 6, 1999,
By Alan Anderson
E-mail: alan@neweverymoment.com
Latest update July 9, 2001
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