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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Jesus Christ
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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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