Your Word Is Your Wand — Florence Scovel Shinn (1928)

In Your Word Is Your Wand, Florence Scovel Shinn develops one of the defining principles of her New Thought philosophy: that spoken words carry creative force. What the individual repeatedly declares with feeling and conviction becomes a pattern through which expectation, action, and experience are shaped.

Organized as a practical treasury of affirmations, the book addresses prosperity, happiness, love, health, forgiveness, guidance, and spiritual protection. Shinn teaches the reader to recognize limiting language, release fear and resentment, and replace habitual negative declarations with words aligned to faith, confidence, and divine order.

Concise, memorable, and designed for daily use, Your Word Is Your Wand is both a sequel to The Game of Life and How to Play It and a self-contained handbook for the deliberate use of speech. Its central lesson is simple but far-reaching: language is not merely descriptive—it is formative.

This text has been carefully prepared by Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press as part of an ongoing effort to preserve and circulate significant works from the history of New Thought, metaphysical philosophy, and the forgotten library of human consciousness.

The physical edition is printed and assembled by hand, bound with black binding tape, and presented with newly prepared cover artwork and layout by C.K. Lee.

Issued here as a Holographic Pagan Press edition.

Details

Author: Florence Scovel Shinn
Title: Your Word Is Your Wand
First published: 1928
Available formats: PDF edition or handmade archival physical book
Physical dimensions: 8.5 × 11 in
Binding: Black tape-bound spine
Publisher: Odd Enough Books / Holographic Pagan Press
Cover and layout: C.K. Lee

Collector’s Note

This edition is part of the Holographic Pagan Press archival publishing project, devoted to recovering and preserving works from the history of metaphysics, occult philosophy, New Thought, spiritual science, and the development of human consciousness.

Each physical copy is printed, assembled, and finished by hand in limited quantities, presenting Shinn’s work in a newly prepared edition designed for reading, study, and collection.