What Is Disease?

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THE INNER LIFE

Because Christian Science, the Unity people and some of the New Thought people have been able to show forth healing in the last century, the whole world is becoming interested. What is not yet realized is that first their natures must change–there must be a purification or change of consciousness. Joel Goldsmith 1963

 

If you cannot see the integrity that animated Mrs. Eddy, the Fillmores, and Ernest Holmes, then you cannot see the spiritual vision at all. If you cannot see and honor them all, you cannot honor the universal nature of the Christ. Joel Goldsmith 1963

Lay hold of Truth and prove it.

Claude Fayette Bragdon (1866-1946) was a first-generation modernist architect, as well as an illustrator, critic, theorist and theater designer. A prolific and influential writer, Bragdon published more than twenty books and hundreds of articles. He was nationally known for his graphic art, his writing on the fourth dimension, his Song & Light Festivals of 1915-1918, and his role in theater’s New Stagecraft. In 1922 he helped translate and publish P.D. Ouspensky's Tertium Organum, for which he also wrote an introduction to the English translation.
A Primer of Higher Space (the Fourth Dimension) [1913]

by Claude Fayette Bragdon

http://ritpress.rit.edu/publications/books/claude-bragdon-and-beautiful-necessity.html

http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/Architects/Bragdon/Intro.htm

Shine with all you have.

In 1889, a frail, sick woman walked into a lecture hall in Kansas City, Missouri, and came away with an idea that saved her life and eventually led her to health and wholeness. This idea was not to let her go until she and her husband, who was soon set afire with it too, had found a faith that reached around the world and blessed the lives of millions of people throughout this century. Myrtle Fillmore ~s How to Let God Help You

Once upon a tiny tick in time

There came a thought into the mind.

There came a supposition.

Nothing more than a miniscule cognition.

A rumor rolled around inside the mind,

Like many a myth, it made us blind.

A fantasy, a wisp of wit,

Led to a most incredible split.

What if it were possible to pull-off a fantastic fraud?

What if I could think a thought

outside of the Mind of God?

Right Thinking.

"Search for the Truth is the noblest occupation of man. Its publication is a duty." Madame de Staël

As words are living things they always objectify. When the undesirable comes into our existence it shows us that we have been doing some wrong thinking. Fanny Louise Middleton Harley - 1895

Through meditation you begin to live from the Spiritual; so that the Spiritual becomes natural to you.

Hopkins encouraged her students on the mystic path:

Begin with yourself to repent, to return.  Lift up the willing inner sight toward the Supreme One, whose Soundless Edict through the ages is “Look unto Me, and be ye saved.” Taste the first manna which the upward watch sprinkles over the unfed brain and heart. How Unity School of Christianity Adopted Eastern Religious Ideas Eric Page

♥ The miracle is a learning device that lessens the need for time. It establishes an out-of-pattern time interval not under the usual laws of time. In this sense it is timeless.
♥ ~  Principles of Miracles #47 ♥

Rufus Collins Douglass, a Boston metaphysical teacher, became a trusted source for the Fillmores and Unity, particularly about the Bible.  When Douglass spoke in Kansas City in 1912 Charles Fillmore praised him his articles about the Bible and the Cabala.  Charles said “he wrote good Bible Lessons. . . I can assure you that what Mr. Douglass says to you will be true and scientific from start to finish.”  One series of Bible lessons led to a small Metaphysical Bible Dictionary Unity published in 1914 { Metaphysical Bible dictionary; an interpretation of the symbolical meaning of scripture names. }.  Douglass also wrote about syncretism, intuition, and spiritual evolution.
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Courage.

Relax is, maybe, the ONLY word that your conscious and unconscious mind can agree on.

Guy Finley: This Realization Leads to the Next Level of Yourself

Lesson 34. I could see peace instead of this. When you reach that state you experience a heightened state of awareness. What if you slip?

We were brothers up there.

It is important to realize that the meaning we unconscious give to events is never the truth, because events have no inherent meaning.  So any meaning we give an event—positive or negative—exists only in our mind, not in the event itself.  Full article @ But I Want To Have Positive Emotions by Morty Lefkoe

I was watching a show the other night. The sub-plot was the main characters father loosing his drivers licence and wanting his son to take him to see someone before thy die to tell him something. The father had been a flyer during WWII and had gotten lost. This other man had also been a flyer and had helped him get turned around and fly in the right direction home.

The Radiant I AM

In 1887, encouraged by her sister, Alethea B(rooks) Small, Nona Brooks attended classes taught by Katherine (Kate) Quiner Bingham (1849 - 1913), a student of Emma Curtis Hopkins. This was the same year that Malinda Cramer started taking classes with Emma Curtis Hopkins. While attending these classes, Brooks "found herself healed of a persistent throat infection" and shortly thereafter Brooks and Small began to heal others.  Bingham had gone to Chicago to seek help for an illness and had been cured by Mabel MacCoy, another student of Emma Curtis Hopkins. The third sister, Fannie B(rooks) James, also studied under Mabel MacCoy. It was in 1898 that Nona Brooks first studied with Cramer.

There is good for me, and I ought to have it.

This is the basic principle upon which all prosperity rests. Satisfaction along every line rests upon whether you have spoken this truth. ECH 1902 http://www.original-unity.com/2011/09/03/how-to-attain-your-good/

The importance of forgiveness is a recurring theme in all spiritual literature. This is what H. Emilie Cady had to say about it in “Bondage or Liberty, Which?”, Lesson 12 of her Lessons in Truth, published originally in Unity, September, 1895 (Vol. VI No. 4.). This text is taken from pp. 159-160 of the 1919 …

The Luminiferous Ether and the Kingdom of God.

Elisa Lionne: What Are You Thinking?

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 do. We began to prosper, a little at a time, and our health continued to improve. Myrtle Fillmore

"Heal thyself and then teach others to heal".

Emma Curtis Hopkins said there are three ways that people could heal:

Think outside the box!

Come up hither and realize that there is only ONE. As I look at you I do not speak to the dress you wear, for I know that at the end of your day, that garment that you are wearing will drop into a hamper and you will be left standing. In just the same way, I do not speak to your outer form-body and assume that that is YOU. At the end of ‘your day’ of thinking you are a human being, in the day of the Lord, you will drop that form-body as your identity and the True You will still be standing, still aware, still conscious, and alive as Life Itself, and you will still be here.

Background of New Thought Series

These are six lectures on The Background of New Thought given at Unity Village from March 26, 1984 through April 6, 1984 by Philip White.

Philip Whites's Background of New Thought Series

• About Philip White
• Lecture 1 - 26 March 1984
• Lecture 2 - 28 March 1984
• Lecture 3 - 30 March 1984
• Lecture 4 - 02 April 1984
• Lecture 5 - 04 April 1984
• Lecture 6 - 06 April 1984

10,000 Vistors!

I started this blog as I started researching Phineas Parkhurst Quimby and New Thought. I wanted to know how he healed. I also wanted to know how Myrtle Fillmore healed. I read something from someone sometime back that they would write their fourth book on healing.

I've discovered that's pretty easy.

Only God heals.

As the Quakers say, look to the "Inner Light", the Christ within.

The journey continues.

God is an experiential experience.

Background Notes on Emma Curtis Hopkins

by Rev. Marjory Dawson

In the mid 1800's, new philosophies were born through the work of Quimby, Emerson, Eddy, Thoreau and Whitman. These people were part of a group called the Transcendalists. They based their philosophy on the ancient idea of the law of correspondence or, in other words, as the microcosm reflect the macrocosm. They gathered together with the purpose of leaving the old ideas behind. This new philosophy proclaimed the dignity and the worth of the individual. This idea of the worth of the individual was new. This new message carried a possibility of hope and a love of God.

Josephine Emma Curtis was born into this atmosphere of change in a small town in Connecticut on September 2nd, 1849, although most publications have her birth year as 1853. Emma was the oldest of nine children and was raised on a farm. The Curtis family valued education and, apparently, Emma was an excellent student.

In 1874, when Emma was 25 years old, she married George Hopkins. George was a high school English teacher. They had a son who died at the age of 30. Emma and George lived separate lives beginning in the mid 1880's. Eventually, George filed for divorce on the grounds of abandonment.

In the early 1880's Emma had an ailment related to breathing and came to a Christian Science practitioner. Out of that healing experience, she contacted Mary Baker Eddy and began working and studying with Ms. Eddy in Boston. Emma became the editor of The Christian Science Journal. In 1886, without cause, Mrs. Eddy relieved Emma of this position. Probably that termination came out of Emma's broad education. It is known that she continued to read any and all material. Mrs. Eddy believed that Christian Science was revealed only to her and that it should be considered the final word. Emma felt that the truth had been revealed to many people throughout history and that truth was available to everyone.

After the split with Mrs. Eddy, Emma went on to establish her own school in Chicago. It was called The Emma Curtis Hopkins College of Christian Science and it graduated its first class in 1886. In Chicago, her innovative ideas and policies built the foundation that provided the organizational structure of the New Thought Movement in the United States.

Emma established many study groups in the east and the west, from New York City to Seattle to Milwaukee to San Francisco to Washington, D.C. She visited these groups frequently and became known as the Teacher of Teachers. She also had study groups in Europe and traveled there. There were seventeen branches of the Hopkins Metaphysical Association from Maine to California. On one of her trips to San Francisco, she taught 250 students. In 1918, Emma was voted honorary president of the International New Thought Alliance. That organization is active today.

Emma had a unique approach to her teaching. For one thing, she insisted that her students already knew everything that she was telling them. It wasn't a matter so much as learning but as recalling or remembering the spiritual instinct that is born within us. She had a great sense of integrity toward her students for she felt equal with her students because all are the expression of God. To her the teaching was more important than the teacher. She showed great enthusiasm for the high principles of Truth.

She insisted upon discipline – to train the mind to think in a certain way at all times. She challenged her students to prove out the truth principles in their lives.

During this time, women were discounted and it was thought their places were in the home. Emma did not fit into this mold. It is reported that Emma taught over 50,000 individuals. She ordained women as ministers. Another 30 years passed before women gained the right to vote. Some of her students went on to establish schools and churches – Divine Science, the Home of Truth, Religious Science and Unity. Her students included H. Emily Cady, the Fillmores, Ernest Homes and many others.

Ernest Holmes was Emma's last student. He studied with her in 1924 and she died in 1925. Holmes described her as a stately woman who always wore a long dress, an elegant hat and white gloves.

Emma acknowledged three sciences: (1) the material or physical science that declares laws; (2) mental science, as all that we are IS made up of our thought; and (3) mystical science, which she emphasized. She drew from the bible, the non-Christian scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita, the Avesta Zoroaster, ancient Greek and Roman mythologies and the world's great philosophies and saints.

Emma was the first to bring in the concept of the Divine Feminine. She claimed the "Mind-Principle" is the "Fatherhood of the Trinity" – The "Sonship" symbolizes the children who are "creations of the mind" – "The Holy Ghost" is the "Mother-Life."

Emma has been called a New Mystic. She has been described as an introvertive type of mystic who let go of the empirical ego so that the pure ego merged into the Light – or what we might call an experience of Unitive Consciousness.

The mystical science deals with the hidden, unspoken and invisible. Emma writes in a way that we can relate this mystical science to everyday living.

This book, Self Treatments including The Radiant I AM, was given by Emma as part of her lectures at the Hopkins Theological Seminary in Chicago. The style of writing was the style of the times. In the old-fashioned, flowery verbiage, the mystical truth comes to life. Make an agreement with yourself to NOT be intimated by her writing style. For example, we might say, "Thoughts are things," but Emma would say it this way, "The great white glory within, all hot with the spirit, warms some word into feeling and a shape as the warmth and dew forces the amoeba to spring into the shape of a man or a plant, that which the sunlight of understanding has gleamed upon stirred to take form."

Try reading Emma out loud. Pretend you are Emma and feeling her inspiration!

Note: With gratitude to WiseWoman Press who collected this material in the form of this book.

                                    

Self Treatments Including the Radiant I Am

by Emma Curtis Hopkins, Managing Editor Michael Terranova, Illustrator Shirley Lawrence & Designer and Editor Ruth Miller

Michael Terranova

"Webmaster www.emmacurtishopkins.com"

THE RADIANT I AM by Emma Curtis Hopkins: http://www.churchofspiritualscience.org/radiant_i_am_by_emma_curtis_hopkins.html

"I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness."

It was in 1886 that a series of lectures were presented in Kansas City by Dr. Eugene B. Weeks. Dr. Weeks had at one time been a student of Christian Science under Mary Baker Eddy. However when one of her chief pupils Emma Hopkins broke away to found her own movement, The Illinois Metaphysical College, in Chicago, Dr. Weeks went with her. It was as a member of her College that he visited Kansas City.

It took 2 years before Myrtle Fillmore was completely healed. She was considered to be dying of hereditary tuberculosis. With no doctor or drug intervention, using tremendous strength of character and mental discipline, she daily focused on the idea from Weeks - "I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness."

One of the pioneers in the field of religious radio broadcasting.

Dr. Ernest C(harles) Wilson
(1876-1982)

the ‘Dean of Unity minsters’

Dr. Ernest Charles Wilson or Ernest C. Wilson (1876 - 1982) was a prominent minister with the Unity School of Christianity, headquartered in Kansas City. He was ordained in 1917 and became minister of Cleveland Unity Center in 1935. From Cleveland he went to Unity School of Christianity as editor of Youth Magazine and later became editor-in-chief of Unity Publications, as well as an international lecturer and teacher.

 Charles Fillmore, the founder of Unity, appointed Dr. Wilson as his successor as minister of Unity Church in Kansas City. Prior to coming to Unity on the Plaza, Dr. Wilson established Christ Church Unity in 1938, and under his leadership it became the largest Unity church in the world, and one of the foremost churches in Los Angeles. 

Dr. Wilson was one of the pioneers in the field of religious radio broadcasting, having spoken on radio for almost 50 years, and having given several nationwide broadcasts in connection with Columbia Church of the Air. He had made over 1,200 television appearances.

He was the author of books many on Christianity which are popular today. His works include "The Great Physician," "Soul Power,"”The Master Class Lessons,” "The Contemplation of Christ," "The Week that Changed the World," "The Emerging Self," and "Like a Miracle."

MASTER CLASS LESSONS 

 1935  

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE 12,751 STUDENTS IN HIS TWELVE MASTER CLASSES TO DATE, WITH GRATITUDE FOR THEIR FAITHFUL APPLICATION OF THE LESSONS AND FOR WHAT THEY HAVE TAUGHT HIM 
He closed every lesson with the following to reflect on: 

 “You are a radiant center of the Christ light, mighty to attract your good, and to radiate good to others.”

Columbia Broadcasting System Inc. announced a change of policy in its religious programs. No longer would Columbia sell time to religious bodies or individuals. Instead, Columbia would put on a Sunday schedule of its own. to be known as "Church of the Air," beginning Sept. 13. Time Monday, Aug. 24, 1931 

1940 Ad CBS Sunday Radio Columbia's Church of the Air - Original Print Ad http://www.amazon.com/1940-Sunday-Radio-Columbias-Church/dp/B005DGLO6A

“Death is not the end of life, but an event in its midst. We are inheritors of immortality. Our life did not begin when we came into this world. Nor will it cease when this life ends.”

In the 1920's Ernest Wilson came to be the lead editor of all Unity publications, in 1931 he remarried Charles and Myrtle on their 50th wedding anniversary, in 1933 he presided at the marriage of Charles and Cora Fillmore, and in 1934 he succeeded Charles Fillmore as the Senior Minister of the Unity Society. He knew Emilie Cady, he was at Charles Fillmore's bedside in his last few hours when Charles asked him if he believed in eternal life, he knew Lowell Fillmore, James Freeman and May Rowland when they were young, he launched a very successful church in the Los Angeles area in 1939, attracting many notable celebrities, and in 1965 he returned to Kansas City to lead the Plaza Church until his retirement in 1976.

Wilson was considered a pioneer in religious television for his daily appearances on a Los Angeles television station and weekly network appearance on the Betty White Show.  Betty White Ludden briefly hosted and produced her own daily talk show, The Betty White Show, on NBC