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Who is Charles Fillmore?
Charles Fillmore (1854-1948) is credited as the founder of the Unity School of Christianity. He was born on a Minnesota Indian reservation in 1854. Before age 2, Fillmore was kidnapped by Sioux Indians and many researchers feel he was used in some sort of mystical ceremony. During his teenage years, he was influenced by education in metaphysics and mysticism.
Myrtle became his wife in 1881. She was suffering from TB and was unable to find successful treatment. She sought help from New Thought (the ideas of P.P. Quimby focusing on the psychic and occult realm) and was apparently healed. This piqued Charles' interest and it resulted in his intense study of New Thought ideas and practices.
A few years later (1889), the Fillmores founded Unity and in 1891 the Society of Silent Unity began. In 1914, several of the Fillmore's societies and literature pieces merged into Unity School of Christianity. In 1893, Myrtle Fillmore began a children's magazine titled Wee Wisdom and she served as the editor for 35 years.
Charles Fillmore's teachings are the basis of the Unity religion, especially the Metaphysical Bible Dictionary and Talks on the Truth.

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Metaphysical Bible Dictionary:

An Interpretation of the Symbolical Meaning of Scripture

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Understanding

Understanding REFERENCE to the dictionary shows the words wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and intelligence to be so closely related that their definitions overlap in a most confusing way. The wor...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:55:00 PST

The Work of the Imagination in Regeneration

The Work of the Imagination in Regeneration WHEN THE faculties of the mind are understood in their threefold relation--spirit, soul, body--it will be found that every form and shape originated in th...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:05:00 PST

Power--Dominion--Mastery

Power--Dominion--Mastery MAN DOES not exercise the power of his spiritual nature, because he lacks understanding of its character and of his relation to the originating Mind in which he exists. From...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:11:00 PST

Regenerating Love

Regenerating Love WE CANNOT get a right understanding of the relation that the manifest bears to the unmanifest, until we set clearly before ourselves the character of original Being. So long as we ...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 04:17:00 PST

Wisdom--Judgment

Wisdom--Judgment WHICH is the greater, wisdom or love? After long study of the analysis of love given by Paul in the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, Henry Drummond pronounced love to be "the greatest...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:03:00 PST

Strength--Stability--Steadfastness

Strength--Stability--Steadfastness WHEN the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, hisgoods are in peace: but when a stronger than he shall comeupon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him h...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:14:00 PST

The Development of Faith

The Development of Faith FAITH has an abiding place in man's consciousness. This place of abiding is described in the Scriptures as the "house of Simon and Andrew." A house is a structure that some ...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:06:00 PST

The Twelve Powers of Man ~ Chapter 1

The Twelve Powers of Man Chapter 1  THE SUBCONSCIOUS realm in man has twelve great centers of action, with twelve presiding egos or identities. When Jesus had attained a certain soul development...
Posted by Charles Fillmore on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:19:00 PST