Frederick L. Rawson was an Influential English New Thought Leader. He was a brother to a great engineer in England. F. L. Rawson took 100 men into world war one. They all returned without a scratch on any of them. "There is nothing but God." was his statement to that miracle. "There is nothing but God in God's perfect world. Man is the image, the likeness, passing on God's ideas to his fellow man with perfect regularity and ease."

F. L. Rawson was born in England in 1859. Like many other leaders in the field of New Thought, was not a clergyman. He was an engineer and businessman. he became a distinguished practicing engineer, had achieved a marked success in his profession as consultant and as businessman, and had retired before he founded the Society for Spreading the Knowledge of True Prayer. Among other things, he was a pioneer in the field of the practical use of electricity and engineer of the first company in the field of electrical lighting, even laying the first electric railway in England. He had other interests; even drawing up plans for the first gas-driven automobile and was consulting engineer for the first airship built in Britain. Rawson had the respect of serious minded scientists of his day. he also excelled at various sports and was the first violinist in an orchestra for more than a dozen years.

He was widely knowledgible in the fields of science and philosophy, and it was through his scientific interest in the remarkable claims made in the area of religion and the occult which led to him studying them extensively to discover the truth for himself.

In the late 1880's, Christian Science had emerged in Britian with considerable success. Rawson was commisioned to make a study of this cult and write a series of articles about it. Rawson accepted the assignment and began a stufdy of Christian Science, only to become fully convinced of its truth and eventually became an ardent Christian Scientist himself. Eventually he would part ways with the church to begin his own work; this ultimately grew into one of the most active and influential metaphysical healing groups in England, affiliating himself with the growing New Thought Movement.