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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
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We are glad to have you pray with us for divine guidance,
understanding, and righteousness in all our ways. We do not
want personal ambition to creep into our work or to hinder
us in doing that which we feel the Father would have us do.
But we cannot always depend on the personal opinions and
desires of our students to guide us aright in handling the
affairs of Unity School. There are matters of universal
importance to be considered; and we consider that this
body, which has drawn together in a spirit of love and
desire to serve, is best able to see and decide and do that
which is for the ultimate and highest good of all
concerned. Consecration to Truth is one necessary phase of
spiritual development. The ability to make practical use of
the law is another necessary phase of development. In Bible
times Ezra caused his people to repent and turn to God. But
he was not the practical businessman and leader who could
cause them to go in and rebuild their city, Jerusalem.
Nehemiah knew how to direct men, and how to get them to
pool and use their funds to best advantage; and he it was
who caused the Israelites to rebuild Jerusalem.
We are endeavoring, in Unity, to be both consecrated to
Truth and practical in handling all matters coming to our
attention, and in our use of all funds
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coming to us through love. We are praying daily for
guidance, for the truly unselfish use of all that is given.
We appreciate the prayers and the cooperation and the
letters of counsel that our fellow students offer. We are
willing to have all our efforts that do not measure up to
the standard of righteousness fall and come to naught.
Sonship in Christ is the goal, and the establishment of the
kingdom of heaven in the earth is our aim. If in our
immaturity we make mistakes, the law will reveal it, and
the love of the Father will forgive (will "give for" the
mistakes a better understanding of the things needful) and
lead us in a better way. We are not looking for evil or
punishment. We are endeavoring to see the Christ in all
humanity, and to call attention to and encourage the
development of the Christ in all who are receptive. We are
assured that the Christ Mind in us is working in our
consciousness to cast out all that does not measure up.
Your frequent crying out in letters for personal help
implies lack of faith in God and in us and tends to break
up the spiritual consciousness we are helping you to
establish. The secret of our power to help others lies in
our refusing to be moved by the appearances and the
apparent lacks that are reported to us, and in our
steadfastly holding to the Truth of being and declaring the
working out of the constructive thoughts and words we have
sent forth, in which we ask those who identify themselves
with us to cooperate. No matter what you tell us of sorrow,
or lack, or failure, or illness, we do not believe it, and
we do not let it take hold in our
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minds and hearts. If we should do such a thing, we should
become powerless to help you. If we should receive and
dwell upon all the troubles that dear ones feel they
have--and that they want to impress upon us--we should soon
believe that the world was full of such things and that God
was unable to work out His plan of life. So we just keep
declaring that the things you write are not true, and we
shall continue this until you too believe them not true and
cease to give your thought to them, and open your mind and
heart and eyes to the glorious Presence in which you live
and which is seeking perfect expression through you.
We do not promise to say a prayer of words and have the
saying work a miracle in another individual. Our work is to
call attention to the true way of living and to inspire
others to want to live in that true way. Our prayers are
for the purpose of encouraging those who are making the
effort to lay hold of Truth and prove it.
There is much more to living and being healthy than saying
one's prayers and reading good books. One must study one's
every interest, and inclination, and reaction, and desire
in relation to the real Christ wisdom, and love, and power,
and life, and substance. The real teacher and healer, then,
is the one who not only has faith in God but who
understands and makes practical application of the
enlightening, freeing, healing truths. To heal a person is
to free him from the
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errors that caused his need of healing and to present to
him the helpful words and the loving propositions that
enable him to be happy and satisfied and eager in applying
the Truth as it comes.
We don't always know just how our efforts at helping others
seem until we are in much the same position and are
receiving the same consideration and help ourselves! I
suppose it is well that we do have these various vantage
points, else how would we ever arrive at the true Christ
way of making use of the Father's good and of helping
others? We think it quite wonderful to be able to lend a
hand financially, or even to restore health. But we shall
presently know that the ideal is to radiate such a
consciousness of the omnipresence of God that we bring
others to a realization of health, and ability, and supply,
and the order of the kingdom without anything more from us
other than our simply being the expression of Christ ideas.
Then none of us will care to be bothered with more supply
than the day calls for. There will be abundance for all.
And the individual aim will be for the most worthwhile
occupation and self-expression!
We're coming to that place swiftly, praise the light that
is for all!
It is my daily joy to bless those who are seeking the way
of life more abundant and to offer myself as
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the hand into which may be placed the message that the
heart of the individual is really writing to God.
You remember the spiritual inspiration that Paul had, and
this inspiration is also ours as we claim the light and
power and love that are God's expression through us:
"If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells
in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give
life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which
dwells in you" (Rom. 8:11).
It isn't individuals at Unity who quicken and heal. It
isn't the human desire of the individual's own heart that
makes the life flow through his organism more freely. It
isn't the thing that we usually think of as Christianity
that brings us into the quickening, healing currents of
Christ life. It is the stirring in us of the same Spirit of
Christ that was and is in Jesus Christ--the Spirit of
God--standing forth in the individual as the expression of
divine ideas from the mind of Being. It is the soul's
willingness and effort actually to live, in daily thinking
and acts, the Spirit of Christ, that same Spirit which made
Jesus forget Himself in doing the good and perfect will of
His Father. He adored the Father, and sought constantly to
glorify Him in making the things of His Spirit manifest in
the lives of His children. Jesus was eagerly discovering
the real purpose of life and fulfilling it, not for Himself
alone but for all of us. He said, "I am the light of the
world" (Jn. 8:12). "You are the light of the world" (Mt.
5:14).
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We confer titles on no one, we use no titles ourselves, and
we take no account of those which other persons use. We are
privileged to use the title "Reverend" if we desire.
We explain in our literature and from our platform that the
real baptism is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. No person
or group of persons can give this spiritual baptism--it is
a matter between the individual soul and the divine source
of all light and life and power and love. When the
individual is baptized by the Holy Spirit, that individual
knows it, and power from on high is felt and expressed, and
is seen by others.
When you read of those who are using such titles as
"Reverend" or "Doctor," or when a center demands such a
title of the speaker who is welcomed to its platform, know
that spiritual vision will enable you to look beyond all
those outer signs and to discern the real character and
ability of the leader or minister.
Our best Unity workers and leaders use no frills. It is
their consciousness that draws to them the students they
can help, and not their names or the list of books and
lessons they have read.
* To those who pass satisfactorily the examinations given
on the Unity correspondence course we grant a certificate.
Those who complete this course and who prove in other ways
that they are capable of ministering from platform,
classroom, healing room, and who have demonstrated that
they are trusting to God's divine law of giving and
receiving, the law of prosperity, for
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their success and support--those in whom we have faith and
those whom we feel to be loyal Unity workers--may be
ordained by us. But after this ordination we expect them to
go out and stand on their own feet and build their own work.
Those who know the true purpose of this work are not so
much concerned with titles or positions. They are intent
upon expressing the Spirit of Christ.
* Editor's Note: The correspondence course is no longer
available.
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