HEALING
Myrtle Fillmore
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THE FOLLOWING EXTRACTS FROM HER LETTERS INTRODUCE MYRTLE
PAGE FILLMORE TO YOU AS SHE KNEW HERSELF AND AS NO ONE ELSE
COULD.You see, dear, we just feel rather modest—really we haven’t much to say, as to
when the work was started, and how it was done! We just received from the
Father some ideas that proved wonderfully helpful in our own family; then we
shared them with others, and they too were helped. Since those of like faith are
drawn together, we soon found ourselves in a little society, which was formed
for the study of Truth and the practice of its ideas. We grew. After a time it
seemed that the other folks went their various ways, and only we were left to
continue what we felt to be important enough to develop and to devote
ourselves to. Unity School unfolded and continued to grow.
We have never cared to interest folks in our own lives. It makes no difference to
others what we have done, who we are. What is important is that we are doing
what the Father has given us to do, according to our best light. And if we have
something that others want or that will help them—spiritual ideas and their
radiance—we are glad to share it. If others wish to receive, all right; if not,
because of what they may
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term our personal limitations, that is all right too. We are not trying to interest
folks in the School, but in the ideas of the Christ Mind, which we feel to be the
foundation of the work, and our standard of life.
But, dear, I feel you are crowning me with an honor that belongs to the Holy
Spirit—which is omnipresent, and which expresses in the loving desires of the
hearts of all those who are endeavoring to manifest the Mother side of God! You
call me the mother of Unity! Well, now, I know of nothing that would give me
greater joy than to feel that God could work so perfectly through me as to bring
forth a great ministry and a place of peace and goodwill and health such as this
[Unity School] is. But in reality, I feel that I am only the soul who caught the first
vision of this ministry, and who nurtured that vision until others came along to
help in the establishment of it in the minds and hearts of our dear ones, and to
help in the molding in substance the outer forms of this school and its work.
It is my great joy to perceive somewhat of the mother side of God—the divine
love that never fails and that is equal to the drawing of souls to itself. It is my
prayer to be able to radiate the qualities of this divine love to all.
You too are the mother of Unity, because in your heart you have the same ideals,
and the same great generous spirit, and the endless and tireless service, and the
love that never fails! The mother
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of Unity is the universal mother. How happy we are, to represent this mother!
You may never have suspected it, but the Unity work is a dream that has been
nurtured and built from the invisible to the concrete through love, devotion, and
good, hard work. It may never have occurred to you that my husband and I have
put ourselves into this thing which God has given us to do without personal
returns beyond our “daily bread” and clothing. I work here every day, and
receive a salary, just as several hundred other workers do. I think a very capable
businessman or woman would not consider working for this salary. But it meets
my personal needs; and usually I have a little each week with which to do what
my heart prompts.
We are helping all who come our way to unite with us in the study of the Truth
that enables each one to bring forth sufficient supply for daily needs, and to
make good use of all the riches of God here in the earth as well as in the heavens
of mind.
I am glad to offer you the testimony that we have proved that God can and will
prosper the work that the Holy Spirit prompts. As the needs of other branches of
our work have arisen, we have let them be known, and the supply and the
necessary help have come forth. But we have always had to launch out on faith
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visible evidence of the ultimate success. We know that God is in His work, and
that it is the Spirit of God operative in a given service that provides whatever is
required in doing that work.
I was once an emaciated little woman, upon whom relatives and doctors had
placed the stamp “T.B.” [tuberculosis]. And this was only one of the ailments—
there were others considered beyond help, except possibly the changing of
structures through an operation. There were family problems too. We were a
sickly lot, and came to the place where we were unable to provide for our
children. In the midst of all this gloom, we kept looking for the way out, which
we felt sure would be revealed. It was! The light of God revealed to us—the
thought came to me first—that life was of God, that we were inseparably one
with the Source, and that we inherited from the divine and perfect Father. What
that revelation did to me at first was not apparent to the senses. But it held my
mind above negation, and I began to claim my birthright and to act as though I
believed myself the child of God, filled with His life. I gained. Others saw that
there was something new in me. They asked me to share it. I did. Others were
healed, and began to study. My husband continued his business, and at first took
little interest in what I was doing. But after a time he became absorbed in the
study of Truth too. We consecrated ourselves to the Lord, and kept doing daily
that which we felt led to
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do. We began to prosper, a little at a time, and our health continued to improve.
Life became sweeter and more interesting, and we began to see a new world. In
all these years, our interest has not lagged, and we have continued to enjoy the
unfoldment of God’s plan in our lives.
I’m going to tell you a secret: I don’t get to keep house as much as I should like.
I’m not supposed to have time for it—folks demand so much of my time. So I
have a woman to keep house for us. But do you know, I like to carry the dishes
away from the table at the close of the meal; and make a nice hot suds and wash
the dishes, wipe them, and put them away in nice rows in the china closet! So if
sometimes you find yourself doing work that isn’t supposed to be desirable,
remember that there are other good folks doing the same sort of work, and that
still others would like to be doing it, even though circumstances have placed
them at something else. Whatever you undertake, do it the very best you can.
Folks will note your good work, and soon you will be given more important
positions. Show the Father that you are ready to do your best, and He will keep
increasing your ability and will place you where you will be blessed and where
your work will bless others.
I often think that we are all in too much of a rush,
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trying to do too much, and failing to discern and do the things that would mean
most. So much that we think and do, surely, would not be done by one in the
Jesus Christ consciousness. So much that we think we need would not be desired
by one conscious of the spiritual resources.
Indeed, I have felt in a strange land and longing for familiar landmarks! When I
feel such a hungering, I try to draw very close to God and rest in the assurance
that all is well. I know that God would not have me struggle with unknown
things, or talk of that which I have not proved. I realize that that which God
would have me do God inspires in me, that it is very easy to do God’s will, and
that when I thus conduct myself, a great peace and friendliness comes and
abides.
We must have quiet and opportunity for inward searching, for we must go
beyond what we have heretofore attained. There is nothing in hearsay or in
observation or in the evidence of the senses, apart from spiritual discernment,
that can take us beyond our present footing.
Know this, dear, that I know I must be beautiful within, and in my fellowship
with others, and in my sharing with them the good things of life if I am to
become beautiful without. Anything that makes me have the feeling of
selfishness cannot result in more beauty to me. Anything that awakens in me the
loving desire to have others happy and adorned with beautiful
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things, and anything that helps me to express this loving desire in my living is
sure to bring forth its fruit in my life. Now, I am sure that you understand, and
approve my passing on to another the use of the beautiful gift that you with so
much love sent to me. You did mean for me to use it in the way it would give me
most joy, didn’t you?
I was very religiously trained and suffered a lot from the theology taught of a
God who in truth is loving. But I am rejoicing in the doctrine of our wise and
loving heavenly Father who chooses that none shall perish but that all shall have
eternal life.
One more word: I think you are trying to give me too much credit for your poise,
happiness, and success! Of course I am happy to have been privileged to write to
you and pray with you and rejoice with you over demonstrations. But I know
that it is God in the midst of you doing His perfect work who is responsible for
the good.
You ask what restored me to vigorous health. It was a change of mind from the
old, carnal mind that believes in sickness to the Christ Mind of life and
permanent health. “Be transformed by the renewal of your mind” (Rom. 12:2).
“As he thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7 A.V.).
I applied spiritual laws effectively, blessing my body temple until it manifested
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the innate health of Spirit. These wonderful laws will work for you too when you
apply them diligently and in faith.
I smiled as I read about the state of your finances. I’ll tell you a little about mine!
I am on salary, just as other Unity folks are. Sometimes I have a very definite
place for all my allowance, before I even begin on my individual needs.
Sometimes I am obliged to draw upon the Fillmore account in order to do
something I feel to be important. Usually when I find myself “strapped,”
someone who doesn’t know the facts will send me a love gift. Last week I
handed out about all I could get my hands on and was looking for more, because
I had places for it. This morning a letter came from a woman to whom I have
written a few times, but whom I haven’t seen, in which there was a check for me
for two hundred dollars. There was no apparent reason for her sending it;
evidently she and the Lord were aware of my use of money and replenished my
purse in that happy way. The money I had sent forth came back multiplied; I can
replace the amount I drew out and still have plenty of “pin money.”
I confess that I haven’t always looked at people and their work, and their abilities
as I now do. There was a time when I felt I must go back to old ways to earn
money to meet pressing needs. But my faith and the
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faith of those who could see a little further than I helped to hold me steadfast. I
reasoned that my past experiences had not been satisfying, that I could at least
turn my mind to new ideas and give them a thorough trial. I determined to use
my ability in the manner that seemed to meet the needs of persons who came my
way. I had little proofs that I was using a law and that there was substance and
life backing me and coming forth at my command.
While it may be that this work in which we are engaged is something that we
began in another life—and it doubtless is a science that the universal Christ Mind
is pouring forth through us—we do know that the same mind and the same law
is in all and operative for all. We know that faith and understanding and the
determination to live according to the Creator’s plan will bring forth whatever is
needed, and will do this for everyone who puts his or her trust fully in the
Father.
From our experience we find it wise not to talk too much about what we are
discovering and using—except to those who come to us for it. We know that it is
not wise or profitable to call attention to differences, not even in an effort to
explain our point. If we were to go into other churches or classes, we should
endeavor to avoid points of difference or apparent contradictions. We should
look for all points on which to agree, and praise the other’s faith and good works.
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should talk on subjects that intuition made us to know others were interested in.
We should not stamp our faith “Unity” or stress points of doctrine. We should
keep to Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, as the source of our light and the application
of His teaching as the way of life. We should give God the glory for any and all
good in our lives, and emphasize the Truth that it is God’s working in and
through us that does the transforming. We should not, however, be disturbed
about the prejudice of those who feel that they must shut out the undesirable.
When we began our study and work, we might have had only a handful of
friends—if we had thought to look about us and count them. We no doubt
would have met with objections from churches if we had given them
opportunity to object. But now—well, we just haven’t the time to meet and enjoy
all the thousands of good friends, hundreds of whom are ministers, who find our
work safe and our literature food for thought. You will find that if you love folks
and live happily among them, they will love you. If you do not try to change
them or give them what they have no knowledge of wanting, they will not show
resistance or resentment. If you do not in your attitude or inference show
disapproval of their beliefs or ways, they will tear down their walls of opposition
and indifference and after a while show interest in what you have.
No one wants to feel that what he has and has been depending on is false and
unreliable; but all want to add to the treasures they now have, and all will in
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drop the worthless pebbles for the precious gems, when they have awakened to
the difference. Rather than feel that you must “stand up for Truth if it is
ridiculed,” let the Truth in you stand for itself. How can a thing be ridiculed,
really? If one who knows the Truth and takes no account of evil keeps poised
and loving, that is proof enough. One who speaks an untruth or is mistaken in
his judgments has the Christ Mind within him to correct him. You do not need to
do this. Leave it with Him. And why compare Unity with other teachings? This
is not the Unity way. Unless some earnest soul comes to you for an explanation
or light on some point, it is better to let others form their own conclusions.
Adverse states of mind are built through some sort of contradiction or lack of
understanding—and of course they can but contradict that which would set
them at naught. Those who don’t know Jesus, the Son of God manifest in the
individual, will perhaps contradict the principles embodied. But what of this?
The day will come when all adverse states of mind will give way to the light of
Truth. If you have the poise to keep still when unbelief is talking, the day will
come when you will be intrusted by the Father with speaking or doing that
which will reveal Jesus Christ indwelling. Pray for understanding for yourself.
Get all your faculties and powers awake and working in perfect harmony with
the Christ pattern. You will be busy enough without bothering about what others
are doing.
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I smile as I think of your wanting to sit at my feet, when you are in touch with
the fount of all wisdom and understanding power and life and love and
substance! Your indwelling Christ is beginning to find you receptive, and you
will grow by leaps and bounds. Never again be sad or give way to thoughts of
what might have been! God is eternal, unchanging good, and you have access to
all that God is and has. There’s a Bible promise that will help you to know that
what may seem lost is not so in reality, and that the opportunities and blessings
that seem gone will return just as fast as you are ready for them. “I will restore to
you the years which the swarming locust has eaten,” saith Jehovah (Job 2:25). All
that has been destroyed, neglected, or lost through lack of understanding or
foolishness or false pride or ambition can and will be brought forth as present
good just as rapidly as you grow in consciousness; for God is ever giving just
what we expect!
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Jesus Christ
Unity teachings are based on the Jesus Christ teachings, and we advise all people
to hold firmly and steadfastly to the principles taught and demonstrated by this
first Christian metaphysician. We have found in Christianity rightly interpreted
more Truth than in any of the other religions we have delved into; consequently
we advocate it.
We have found Jesus to be the great Teacher, accessible to all who have faith in
and understand the spiritual principles that He sets forth. Jesus as a superman is
here in our midst and we can receive instruction direct from Him if we ask, and
agree to carry out in our lives what He teaches. If we want all that is contained in
Christianity, Mohammedanism, and every other religion or religious cult that
came out of Christianity, we should ask Jesus and He will show us the Truth just
as fast as we develop our spiritual nature to the point where He can import it to
us. Jesus cannot reach minds that are immersed in materialism. By those
immersed in materialism we mean not only those who deal with the most
material elements in the world but also those who have materialized
Christianity.
To insure success and to inspire faith and confidence in ourselves and our
undertaking, we should always have Christ as the source of our inspiration and
prosperity.
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Our success and satisfaction in business, in home, in our social lives is always
greater when we take Christ Jesus as our partner. It is, “Christ in you, the hope of
glory” (Col. 1:27). Why not follow in the footsteps of One who has demonstrated
and proved every step of the way?
God’s love for us, for all His children, is so great that He sent Jesus Christ to be
the Way-Shower to lead us to a greater realization of our heavenly Father’s love
and will for us. Jesus Christ is not merely a divine man who lived many centuries
ago and whose life and works are to be considered past history. He is alive
today. He is with us now. His words, “Lo, I am with you always” (Mt. 28:20), are
His living promise to each of us. The Christ presence within our own souls is the
Great Physician who has wisdom and power to heal and to adjust in divine order
every function of our body temples. Turning within to Him, we receive that
guidance, that assurance, that healing for which our souls long, the prospering
and success for which we not only long but need to express as sons and
daughters of the Most High, heir to all that the Father has. Instead of thinking of
the Lord as the personal Jesus Christ who is away at some distant place called
heaven, we must think of the Lord as our own God-given Christ Mind, and of
Jesus Christ as ever with us in the spiritual consciousness that He has established
and that He has merged with the race mind in order that we
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may be in touch with Him and lay hold of Him and build our lives according to
His pattern.
There’s a distinction between Jesus Christ, the man, and the perfect-man idea
that God has created and implanted in each of us, His children. The Christ Mind
is the crystal-clear mind that is not blurred by the “becoming” things of which
the senses tell us, nor by the reports of the intellect which are records of people’s
experiments day by day. The Christ Mind gives us an idea in its entirety and
then we work it out in our own consciousness and body and affairs.
For example, the Christ idea of love is given us, God love. Love unifies us with
God, our Source, and we know that we are good and true and fearless from
within, because we let these God qualities well up from the center of our being.
Love alone would not enable us to keep our balance; it would draw us here and
there without regard to what we accomplished. Here is where we begin to see
the difference between the man Jesus Christ as we know Him, and the people
who have fallen short of what we term goodness and real power. Jesus exercised
all the God qualities we have yet been able to discern in a masterly way. God
love was expressed by Him; but it was supplemented and balanced by God
wisdom, power, judgment, will, zeal, life, renunciation, strength, order,
imagination, and faith. Love drew Him to people; but good judgment held Him
to a course of action that resulted in success more far-reaching than any of us
have yet realized.
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Jesus is the individual who made the complete union of mind, soul, and body in
Spirit. He brought forth into expression the Christ, the God-Mind within, and
consciously identified Himself with the Father. God is not a person; “God is
Spirit.”
Jesus Christ has merged His wonderful consciousness with the race
consciousness, that we may turn to Him and receive into our minds the
understanding of life and the activities of mind that result in freedom from the
limitations of race beliefs and intellectual reasonings. We can quicken our own
Christ Mind by dwelling upon the Truth that we are one with Jesus Christ and
one with God, through the understanding that Jesus the Christ helps us to
unfold.
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Prayer
It is not enough to pray. Prayer is one step that you take, but you need other
steps. You need to think of God, the all-powerful Healer, as being already within
you, in every part of your mind, heart, and body. To keep one’s attention and
prayers in the spiritual realm of mind, without letting them work out into the
soul’s expression and into the actual physical doing of that which corresponds
with what the mind and heart has thought and spoken and prayed, is to court
trouble. To keep declaring love and power and life and substance, and yet
unconsciously, perhaps, assuming limitations and living them, will cause
explosions and congestion that work out in the physical. We need to harmonize
our thinking and our prayers with actual living experiences.
Sometimes we pray to a God outside of ourselves. It is the God in the midst of us
that frees and heals.
With our eye of faith we must see God in our flesh, see that wholeness for which
we are praying in every part of the body temple. “Do you not know that your
body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you. . . . Glorify God in your body” (1
Cor. 6:19, 20).
Prayers aren’t sent out at all! Sometimes that is our
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trouble. Where would we send our prayers? We should direct them to our minds
and hearts and affairs. We commune with God-Mind within our own
consciousness. Prayer is an exercise to change our thought habits and our living
habits, that we may set up a new and better activity, in accord with the divine
law rather than with the suggestions we have received from various sources.
We sometimes think that we pray when we read and declare statements of Truth.
We have very little idea of the way in which the answers to those prayers are
coming. And we do not prove that we expect them to be answered. Almost
immediately after praying we go on doing the things we have been doing, which
does not allow answers. And we think and say that which is not in accord with
the prayers we have made. For example, we go into the silence and declare
statements of prosperity. Then in writing a letter we speak of lack and failure
and longing which proves that we have those thoughts and feelings of lack in
our hearts and that we are dwelling on them more strongly than we are on the
Truth that we have prayed.
Prayer, then, is to change our minds and hearts so that God’s omnipresent good
may fill our minds and hearts and manifest in our lives. If we do not keep on
thinking in accord with the prayers we have made, we do not get good results.
For all thought is formative; all thought has its effect in our lives. When some of
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our thought energy is expended in negative beliefs and feelings, and we show
that we have old mental habits in the subconscious mind, we get those old
negative results—even when we are praying daily and when others are praying
for us.
We have a very decided part; we are to cease worrying, and being anxious, and
thinking and speaking of the past and of the apparent lack and idleness. We are
to concentrate all our attention upon the Truth of God, and the truth of our own
being, upon the very things we would see taking place in our lives. We cannot do
this so long as we have negative thoughts in our hearts.
As we pray, the word of life is going into us, breaking up old fixed beliefs and
reorganizing our lives. The word of life—life as God has planned it—is taking
hold of our subconsciousness, and we know that we are free and will begin to
use our freedom. Working in the consciousness of freedom, we will be happy
and well and busy and prosperous. But our attention will be upon what we are
doing rather than upon outer results. The results will take care of themselves
once we have started our foundation in Truth.
“With God all things are possible” (Mt. 19:26). Those who receive spiritual help
are the ones who place their undivided faith in God and who bring their thinking
in line with His Truth. “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you
free” (Jn. 8:32).
Prayer, as Jesus Christ understood and used it, is
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communion with God; the communion of the child with his or her Father; the
splendid confidential talks of the son or daughter with the Father. This
communion is an attitude of mind and heart. It lifts the individual into a
wonderful sense of oneness with God, who is Spirit, the source of every good
and perfect thing, and the substance that supplies all the child’s needs—whether
they are spiritual, social, mental, physical, or financial. Positive declaration of the
truth of one’s unity with God sets up a new current of thought power, which
delivers one from old beliefs and their depression. And when the soul is lifted up
and becomes positive, the body and the affairs are readily healed.
Sometimes I have written a letter to God when I have wanted to be sure that
something would have divine consideration and love and attention. I have
written the letter, and laid it away, in the assurance that the eyes of the loving
and all-wise Father were seeing my letter and knowing my heart and working to
find ways to bless me and help me to grow.
So I suggest that you write a letter to God, putting into words that which your
heart holds and hopes for. Have faith that God is seeing your letter and your
heart, and that there is wisdom and power and freedom and love to accomplish
that which will meet your needs. After you have placed your heart’s desires with
God, don’t be anxious or worried or negative. Don’t look for signs that He has
responded. Busy yourself with
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the work God gives, and with study and prayer develop into a real companion
and a real radiator of happiness and inspiration. As you do so you become the
radiating center toward which those are drawn who will add to your happiness
and cooperate with you in making your life a beautiful success. Spirit intends
you to be a radiating center that will draw to you whatever you need to be well
and strong, successful and prosperous.
