Who was Henry Thomas Hamblin?

HT Hamblin, 1873-1958, was a spiritual teacher and writer based in England, whose message and vision were straightforward and pragmatic. He believed that the spiritual life and the practical, everyday life were inseparable. His teachings centred around the power of thought and the importance of meditation to draw on the inner power, wisdom and love that we all have deep within us. HT Hamblin referred to this as “the Secret Place of the Most High” in the days before the concept of meditation became well known.

After establishing a successful business as an optician in London, HT Hamblin went on to write a number of spiritual books.

He published an international correspondence course of spiritual lessons, and a magazine called The Science of Thought Review (later New Vision and now renamed Hamblin Vision – with a nod to his profession as an optician - and published digitally.)  

HT Hamblin was colloquially known as HTH, and later ‘The Saint of Sussex’. Whilst his teachings leaned towards esoteric Christianity, his philosophy was truly universal, embracing the truths of all faiths. The emphasis of his message is on finding the power of spirituality within us all, in the context of our everyday lives, rather than religion. As a young man, he reacted against the dogma of his strictly religious upbringing and believed that religion often divided people, while spirituality united people.

He experienced poverty and ill health in his early life and served in the First World War, but it was the death of his young son in 1918 which caused him to reach rock bottom and give birth to his vision. His teachings came from a place of pure empathy and compassion for humankind.