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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Concerning Age
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In the true thought of life, years have no power to take
from life that which God has given it. Years have no power
to take from life that which God has ordained shall be
endless, permanent, enduring, eternal life. When we can
conceive of life as eternal life, we shall see that since
God is eternal life and has made His Son like Himself, His
Son must be given eternal life.
Doesn't Jesus Christ tell us plainly, "He that believeth on
the Son hath eternal life?" "I give unto them eternal life;
and they shall never perish." "For as the Father hath life
in himself, even so gave he to the Son to have life in
himself." "I came that they may have life, and may have it
abundantly."
Jesus Christ resurrected His body temple from the tomb, and
He lives in this spiritualized body now, although we cannot
see Him with limited, material vision. He promised that the
things He did all His true followers would do.
It is "Christ in you, the hope of glory." Christ is the
life principle within each of us, and we must recognize
this to be our ever-increasing life.
You know there is a great deal of overcoming to do that no
one can do for us if we expect to inherit this wonderful
thing that Jesus intended us to have: eternal life.
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We must overcome the bonds that the mortal mind has made
for us. As we study the ways of eternal life we put aside
all bondage to years and remain in the eternal
consciousness of youth of mind and body that God has given
us to demonstrate His divine plan.
The race mind introduces into the consciousness the thought
of age, unless we rise out of it by an understanding of the
unchanging life of Christ within us. The age belief says
that at a certain period the body begins to grow a little
sluggish, and to take on flesh, and to be less alive. The
cell structures respond to this error belief, and the
person becomes tired easily, and the body slows down or
suffers from pains. All this, you see, is mental. Then
there is the physical cause of age. One who does not
understand that the body requires care day by day often
fails to do that which is truly best for the body. It is a
common error among us that we do not exercise, rest, work,
eat, and drink as we should. Food habits are perhaps the
most direct in their effects on the system. If you were in
a happy state of mind and doing a reasonable amount of work
that you love and were eating the foods you should eat,
your limbs and feet would not trouble you. Swelling and
stiffness and soreness are evidence of accumulations in the
blood and the tissues. Healing will come through taking the
right mental attitude, and getting right down into the body
and telling it the Truth; then following up this treatment
daily with sensible and scientific living habits. Supply
the foods that are needed, so that the bloodstream can be
clean
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and vital and enabled to do its work of washing out the
accumulations and rebuilding and perfecting the muscles,
nerves, bones, and tissues.
We cannot advise you in the matter of operations; nor do we
promise good results from prayer when the individual is
deliberately going contrary to the spiritual law of life
and health. Youth and the good looks of youth are the
fruits of young and eager and joyous and loving attitudes
of mind and heart. Obedience to the law of love and life
results in harmony and order in the organism. The flesh
pictures forth fixed attitudes of mind.
To resort to patchwork is to get temporary results without
changing the cause that produced the imperfection. Rejoice
that you have the vision to see the trend of your
subconscious mind as pictured forth in your flesh; and pray
for light and for courage to walk in the light.
None of us really likes to see the results of the belief in
age, and inharmony, and sorrow, and lack of love, and the
sense of human weakness. But it does no good to call them
"common" or to seek to patch them up by methods that shock
the nerves and make demands upon our resources--without an
appreciable improvement in our mental attitude. The only
real help is in raising ourselves into the Christ
consciousness and permitting this consciousness to work out
into all the details of our daily living.
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Know that the word of God is in your mouth and in your
heart. Rejoice that this is true, and speak words of Truth
with joy, power, and love. Expect your words spoken and
sung to bring results. Weed out destructive and negative
thoughts and words and tones. Study your voice as an
eternal gift of God that has as its source the power and
beauty and harmony and substance of God ideas, that
responds to your every emotion and thought. Expect it to
improve.
Let go of the mental attitude that causes a sense of
burden--that belief in age that weighs one down with
"years." You live in God, not in years; in deeds, not in
figures upon a dial. Instead of thinking, "I'm getting up
in years," get into the youth spirit of joy in living and
loving.
You will notice that we did not say a good "old" man, for
you are not old. You may have given way to some of the race
beliefs in age and failed to take care of yourself and to
make full, free use of the abundant life and substance of
God. But you are not old.
Now we'll explain. You are a threefold being. No doubt you
have learned the facts from your Bible that the Spirit of
God dwells in us and gives us breath. And that we have a
soul. And a physical body. But have you studied these facts
to understand them, so as to know how to use this threefold
nature in the way that God intends?
We have learned and are proving that the very presence and
life and intelligence of God are ever abiding in our being.
The Spirit of God is what gives you
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intelligence and life. Spirit has developed for you that
life which we call the soul. And the soul has built the
body and continues to renew and rebuild it day by day.
Spirit has no age; it is eternal, as God is eternal and
unchanging. The soul is not old in the sense of its being
full of years and decrepitude. The soul is ever unfolding
God's ideas, and these are unchangeable. The development of
soul qualities causes the individual to be more mature in
his judgment and his expression, and as the soul is ever
keeping in touch with that which is true of God and the Son
of God, it is refreshed and eager for life's experiences.
The body, which is made up of the action of thoughts of
life and love and substance and power and intelligence in
everyone is never old. The very substance that gives the
body its form and that nourishes and sustains it is ever
new and responsive to the thoughts of life that are
impressed upon it.
We are proving that the body is entirely renewed in less
than a year, and that one can renew and rebuild it and
change its appearance by changing one's thoughts and living
habits.
Now, aren't you beginning to take a new interest in life?
Won't you stop the next person who says that you are a good
"old" man? Let him know that you are being renewed and that
God is finding you ready to represent Him in your thoughts
and acts.
Physiologists who keep careful watch of the ways of the
body now declare that we are renewed bodily in
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less than a year. Why should flesh age when it is renewed
so often?
It must be that the old molds of the mortal mind and the
ideas that belong to it need to be remodeled, and the
remedy is, "Be transformed by the renewal of your mind"
(Rom. 12:2).
Keep on praying for faith, because it is through prayer
that you develop all your wonderful qualities of soul. It
is not the drugs that do the healing; they are just
something tangible upon which to place your attention while
God in the midst of you is doing His work of restoration.
"I am the Lord, your healer" (Ex. 15:26).
So do not think of drugs as being "props," for they
sometimes fill the system with poisons that hinder the
healing power of Spirit in its work. If you need something
visible to the human eye upon which to place your faith, it
might be better to study along the line of dietetics, and
give your body the right kinds of food. Right thinking and
right eating go hand in hand in keeping one healthy.
The more you think about God's presence of life, purity,
love, strength, and health in every fiber of your body
temple, the stronger will become your consciousness that
your organism is the temple of "Christ in you." God is
already in every part of your being, so it is just a matter
of being conscious of oneness with Him. Your thoughts of
Truth form this consciousness.
We are glad to write your mother, to help her see
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herself as God sees her and to make use of her God-given
power to renew and transform her mind and body through the
application of Truth. But we'll not help her to be "old,
old, old in years." We'll help her to see that the years
only add their wealth of experience and development; that
the body never grows old, in fact every cell of the body
(if we give it a chance) is renewed and replaced in less
than a year. So none of us is a year old! The only reason
for some folks' seeming to be old, and weak, and inactive
is their persistence in thinking the same old thoughts, and
getting into ruts, and failing to make use of the good
things provided for their needs. Often folks form the habit
of taking foods that they do not need and that burden the
system year after year. After a time the mechanism that at
first handled these food burdens breaks down, and then
there are accumulations that begin to hinder perfect
circulation and renewal. Then so-called heart trouble, or
high blood pressure, or intestinal disorders, may show up.
Those who do not understand begin to say, "He is getting
old." Not so; he's simply disobeying the health rules!
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God has much to be done, and He will reveal the plan to
those who seek it, and will open the way of progress and
success to those who are willing to give up preconceived
opinions and to grasp the Truth as the Holy Spirit reveals
it. Heretofore, people have worked for money, labored "for
a living." Now people are going to be forced to see that
work is for the purpose of expressing God-given faculties
and powers and loving service in the way that is truly
beneficial. Wasted effort or unwisely directed plans will
be a thing of the past. Each thought and each move will be
divinely inspired, and results will be satisfying and
permanent.
We find that we must be not only good but good for
something in this world in which we live. Sometimes we get
into a rut and need a change of work, but first we must
change our viewpoint.
It surely is not wisdom and good judgment to keep at a
thing year after year that brings no appreciable returns
and that does not cause the soul to grow and expand and
radiate through the body as ever-renewing health and youth.
It is foolishness to devote oneself so wholly to a given
line of action that one's consciousness is neglected, so
that one fails to learn how to keep in health and strength
and how to bring forth the things needed for daily comfort
and peace of mind.
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The work that God appoints us to never demands of us more
than we can do comfortably. And He never obliges us to
neglect our unfoldment of the Christ pattern within us.
When we are doing as God would have us do, He takes
wonderful care of us, not by always bringing supplies and
placing them at our feet, but by showing us how to use our
resources in a way to convert them into whatever we need or
would use. One who is living the Christ life attracts
blessings of all sorts, and he need never worry about
financial matters, though he will give enough thought and
attention to them to keep his part of the law.
Many individuals are going through a period of awakening
and adjustment. And many do not seem to know which way to
turn. Employment of the past seems taken away. Nothing that
one has done before seems to offer itself. Many times the
reason for this is that the soul has been driving itself
along certain ruts for a long time, and for its own good
needs a change. It is not always best for a person to
continue doing that which he likes to do, or that for which
he has been trained, or that for which he is paid best. We
need to round out, to develop, all our faculties and powers
to do that which brings us close to humanity and that which
increases what the world needs most. If we do not keep in
touch with Spirit and heed its promptings, our unconcious
desires will take us out of the ruts and leave us
floundering on the rocks, until we wake up and take hold of
something that we shall find we like and that helps us and
others.
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We are declaring and giving thanks each day that Jesus
Christ is revealing to each needy one the Truth about
supply and the righteous expression of faculties and powers
that invites the daily supplies as they are required. It is
God's will for all His children to have abundance. And it
is our privilege to think this Truth and declare it and
expect it to be proved in our lives. This is our method of
prayer: acknowledging our oneness with God, claiming the
ability that this gives, and expecting to have the things
needed and conducive to spiritual progress.
We are God's children. But we are also His brain power, and
His hands, and His voice: it is through us that God
expresses His ideas, His blessings, and brings forth the
unmanifest good in the forms in which we use it.
Understanding this gives one a much better attitude toward
work and makes one confident that one can and will have
plenty to do and will receive compensation for it. As we
realize that we are helping God to bring forth His
blessings and order, our work becomes interesting and
joy-filled. We no longer feel that we must overdo in order
to realize as much money as possible. We leave it to the
divine law to bring to us our own; and we soon see that the
better work we do the more satisfaction and supply we
receive, because it is a law back of the personal relations
existing between people. God never sends a soul into the
world without providing for its needs. Until a person
seeking to find his right work gets the light and feels the
urge
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to be up and doing, he is to be still and wait upon the
Lord and see His salvation. Meanwhile instead of worrying
about financial matters and the money to pay expenses, he
should keep going to God and confidently making known his
needs, giving thanks for the supply. He should give thanks
first of all for wisdom to know what needs to be done; then
give thanks that the needs are supplied out of the great
storehouse of the Father. He must bless and break and pass
out what he has; and give thanks and know there is more
coming as he requires it.
There is an inexhaustible supply, and we are God's beloved
children for whom He is ever providing and to whom He has
given His life and wisdom and power and substance, the
innate ability to do whatever is required in bringing our
souls to the Christ standard of living and serving others.
In order truly to prosper in his work the individual must
keep his mind filled with real prosperity ideas in right
relation. He must think whether or not he is doing what he
desires to do and must know by divine intuition that it is
helping to develop and to round out his consciousness and
keep his body strong and radiant. Also he must understand
whether or not he is serving others to the best of his
ability, and whether he is thinking of them and feeling
toward them that which invites from them their best and
that which is just toward him. To determine these things
requires
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spiritual discernment and the balanced development and use
of all the faculties of mind. There are those who arrive at
a rather good prosperity consciousness without being
conscious of the science of Truth. But we find that
everyone may attain his right place if he develops a health
and prosperity consciousness by daily applying himself to
the practice of Truth.
This problem of keeping ourselves employed isn't what it
seems. Once we come into the understanding of the true
purpose of life and service, we shall not need to keep busy
all the time doing things we are not particularly
interested in, for folks who have no interest in us. Work
has been held up to us, from the time we were born, as a
means of earning a living. We have been impressed with the
thought that we should be constantly employed and that we
should seek to increase our earning power.
Well, now we are coming to see this matter in a new light.
Work is for self-expression, the development of God-given
faculties and powers, and for helping those about us. Our
life and sustenance are gifts from God and are free for the
taking, when we understand how to proceed of course.
At present we do find it most helpful and convenient to
have some definite arrangement whereby we serve others and
keep the channels of supply open. As long as we expect to
use for ourselves those things and conveniences which
require the efforts of others, we
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should and must give of our own abilities in some sort of
service in return. Many of the most important and necessary
things in life are free gifts from God, and we may have
them, constantly, without any thought of doing anything in
return for them: the air we breathe, the sunlight, the
beauty of nature, the out-of-doors for recreation and rest
and inspiration. For these we should be thankful to God,
and we should be appreciative enough to make the best use
of them that we may the more perfectly interpret His plan
in us.
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