The Myrtle Fillmore Collection

Is available @ http://content.unity.org/MyrtleCollection/theCollection.html

There are notes on Christian Science Lessons from classes attended in Chicago. Also, Personal Files are there too.

Also an interesting picture of her and her sons on horseback on their way to a Healing Revival in Colorado in 1901. The preferred mode of travel at the time.


Interesting because the notes are in her handwriting, so they add an extra dimension to the teachings which are Christian Science in nature. Not Quimby, which was much more intuitive and connected to higher guidance. Weltmer was somewhere in between.

Actually, her notes are quite refreshing. No one was waving their hands around anyone else to heal. It puts the original form of healing in the New Thought churches in a new light.


There is no such thing as a “disease” or incurable condition. These activities, weaknesses, or abnormalities to which the medical profession gives name are but the efforts of the God-given inner intelligence to deal with conditions that the individual has produced by his failure to understand the Truth and to recognize himself as the perfect child of God, and to live by the divine law of life. Anything that does not measure up to the Christ pattern of perfection can be changed.
Anything that the ideas of God-Mind, expressing in the mind of man, have not produced can be dissolved into the original nothingness by the understanding application of the power of spiritual thought and the resultant spiritual action.
Doctors, of course, judge by appearances, founding their opinions upon the study of effects, and drawing their conclusions from the outworking of mistakes the patients have made.
No one who has awakened spiritually and is seeing his threefold being in the light of Truth would speak of disease as something of itself. He would not think for a moment that the mind was fixed in old race beliefs or errors, nor that his body was unresponsive to the Spirit.
So when someone comes to us who has had a doctor diagnose his illness, we ask him to turn from the doctor’s opinions and verdict and cease to think of the name he gave to the condition that existed at the time of the examination and treatment. We ask him to cast out the assumption that this condition would not be changed and done away with, just as one would refuse to hold to and to think of some unworthy and untrue thing that he might have heard spoken as he walked down the street.
Excerpt from “Healing” by Myrtle Fillmore which can be found here @ http://www.freehealingbooks.com/bewell1.htm

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 "I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness." 
She brought her thoughts and actions into alignment with that idea. She read the Gospels, changed her eating habits and speaking habits wishing to be true and she also abandoned petty gossip. 
She steadfastly remained focused on what she wanted, believing in her partnership with God. (Practicing the Presence of God for Practical Purposes - Whitehouse and Anderson - 2000)   

“Then it flashed upon me that I might talk to the life in every part of my body and have it do just what I wanted. I did so, and got marvelous results.” How I Found Health - Myrtle Fillmore ~ Unity, August, 1899  [… Read More …]

Some stories indicate that she sat with an empty chair across from her where she pictured Jesus sitting.  She forgave herself and each of her body parts for thinking ill thoughts.  She explained “it flashed upon me that I might talk to the life in every part of my body and have it do just what I wanted.  I began to teach my body and got marvelous results.”  Her work included not allowing, in her words “any worried or anxious thoughts into my mind, and I stopped speaking gossipy, frivolous, petulant, angry words.”  In a period of two years, Charles noted dramatic physical changes in her. How Unity School of Christianity Adopted Eastern Religious Ideas Eric Page

“Primary Lessons in Christian Healing” by Annie Rix Militz can be found here @ http://www.freehealingbooks.com/bewell3.htm