`1955 ad for the “Special Liberace Edition” of Claude M. Bristol’s Magic of Believing.

Claude M. Bristol and the Metaphysics of Necessity

Life was not always ‘magic’ for the mind-power author — but he left an important self-help legacy

The American metaphysical scene has produced no other figure quite like Claude M. Bristol (1890–1951). He did not write as a spiritual visionary or scientist but rather as a journalist and businessman who related to…