James Allen wrote As a Man Thinketh, often considered the greatest self-help book in the world, in 1903. What advice would he give to the modern people if he lived in 2017, more than a century after his days? Spiritual Messages from James Allen: The True Meaning of Happiness and Success shows the answer.

This book, the transcript of messages given by the spirit of James Allen himself, is one of the spiritual interview series by Ryuho Okawa, founder and CEO of Happy Science. In this interview, the spirit of Allen talks about the thoughts that are not only characteristic to him, but more advanced than what he wrote when he was alive. He also reveals his past life as Saint Francis of Assisi, and this fact will open a way to the comparative research of the characters and thoughts of both Francis and Allen.