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Devoted to practical Christianity. A monthly magazine issued the 1st of the month by UNITY SCHOOL OF CHRISTIANITY 917 Tracy, Kansas City, Missouri Charles Fillmore and Myrtle Fillmore, Editors Entered as second-class matter, July 15, 1891, at the post office at Kansas City, Missouri, under the act of March 3, 1879. Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorised October 28, 1922. VoL 68 KANSAS CITY, MO., FEBRUARY, 1928 No. 2 THE PURPOSE OF UNITY SCHOOL NITY School of Christianity was founded in 1889, in Kansas City, Mo. The Unity move­ U ment has spread to every country in the world, but the headquarters are still in Kansas City. Unity School of Christianity is an independent edu­ cational institution. It aims to teach mankind to apply the doctrine of Jesus Christ in all the affairs of life. Its purpose is not to found a new church or sect, but to help and to teach men and women of every church — and also those who have no church affiliations— to use and to prove the eternal Truth taught and used by the Master. The Unity teachings explain the action of mind, the connecting link between God and man. They ex­ plain how the mind affects the body, producing discord or harmony, sickness or health, how it brings man into understanding of divine law, harmony, health, and peace, here and now. W e suggest that you accept what, in our literature, appears to you to be Truth, and that you withhold judgment on the remainder until you understand it better. If you seek the Holy Spirit as your guide into the full­ ness of Truth, you will know for yourself what is of God and what is of the personal man, in all that you read and in all that you hear from others. U N IT Y C IT Y By Vivian Yeiser Laramore I see a city beautiful That faith in God shall build. And m it is the tree of life. By thoughts untiring tilled; And m it is that Spirit voice Which has the ages thrilled. Its streets are paved with selflessness, Its walls are girt with trust. And those who journey there shall say, “Jehovah, He is just," And those who linger there shall learn The nothingness of lust. The light of service shall it lift In each upreachmg tower. And prayer shall be its corner stone. And peace shall be its power; And there the grace of unity Shall gladden every hour. The lame, the halt, the weary one Shall come in woe and pain To And within himself the Christ Who maketh whole again. To lean upon the arms of love. And angels entertain. I see a city beautiful. White-shining in the sun. And life is there, and joy is there, And work with gladness done; For it is built upon the word Of the all-knowing One. NOTES AND COMMENTS B y C harles F illmore You mention Cardinal Newman, who left the Protestant church. You have of late made other remarks that would lead me to think that you are in sympathy with the Roman church.— Extract from a letter received by Unity School. UR attitude toward the Roman church is unprejudiced. It is not our intention to criticize or to call attention to the shortcom­ ings of any sect. W e are all children of one great Father and we should try to act like members of His family, not quarreling among ourselves like a lot of Lucifers, but praising the good in each, and min­ imizing the evil. Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and members of other sects transact business together without friction. W hy cannot churches do likewise? “One is your teacher, and all ye sue brethren.” What is the meaning of “ Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return” (Genesis 3 :1 9 )?— Extract from a letter received by Unity School. The foregoing Scripture quotation is true of man in his physical consciousness only. T he thinking entity in man, called the soul, endures after the body is dis­ solved in the dust of the earth, and it will build another dust body, repeating this process again and again until it is quickened by Spirit and experiences the new birth. When the new birth (as demonstrated by Jesus) is completed, the corruptible dust puts on incorruption, and the mortal becomes immortal. Then “death is swal­ lowed up in victory.” John the Baptist represents the natural man; Jesus, the supernatural. John’s baptizing Jesus illustrates a degree of soul unfoldment, in which the intellect per­ ceives certain spiritual truths, but not clearly. Thus it is not the Christ or superman that John cleanses in baptism, but John’s material concept of the superman. The Christ or superman is absolutely perfect spiritually, and we must cleanse our minds of all material limitations about Him. W hen we do this we shall have the con­ sciousness of the Father and we shall know that we are His sons in whom H e is well pleased. If mind is the all-creative power, why is it not so ex­ plained in the Bible, and why are there not more evidences of it in everyday life.— Extract from a letter received by Unity School. W e hear much in this day about great discoveries. We are told that the discoveries of one man in the electrical field, Thomas Edison, are capitalized at one billion dollars, and that Henry Ford has made a for­ tune of a billion dollars in only 25 years by concen­ trating upon one idea, the production of an inexpensive automobile. Lesser discoveries and the inventions that follow are cited on every hand. The radio has grown overnight from a ridiculed theory to a great industry. A safety razor is piling up millions for the man who persisted in promoting an idea that was the sport of barbers. In considering all these great discoveries, we usually give our attention to the product instead of to the cause. It is understood that they all came from the mind of man, but the greatness of the mind of man and its infinite capacity are not emphasized. W e hold that the greatest discovery of all the ages is that man’s mind has creative power—all-creative power. Metaphysicians do not rest on the claim that thoughts produce things by a process in the realm of things, but they hold that the greatest of all discoveries is that thoughts mold and make things out of the in­ visible ether; in other words, that there is an invisible substance with which the thoughts of men work as the potter works with clay. They say, further, that this invisible substance is very tenuous, but tangible to thought, and responds instantly to every impulse of the mind or soul; that from it all visible things came forth; that in it eternally exist potentially all the ideas that, projected into visibility, form the body of man and the manifest universe; that this invisible ether is the home of the great creative Spirit, which Jesus called Father, God, known by the Hindus as Brahm, by modern scien­ tists as First Cause. Metaphysicians state, also, that the various creations of Elohim mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis were ideas projected into the ether as ideas, not finished creations; that Elohim did not make man at first a finished product, but that the man created “in our image, after our likeness” was the ideal man who was afterward, in the second chapter of Genesis, formed out of the dust of the ground and quick­ ened into life by Jehovah God. This belief is borne out by the statement in verse 5 of the second chapter of Genesis that “no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up . and there was not a man to till the ground.” From this point on, the Scriptures symbolically describe the evolution of Adamic man by Jehovah, meaning I AM God. If theologians understood the crea­ tive power of thought, such understanding would give them the key to a harmonious and logical explanation of the mysteries, apparent contradictions, and seeming inconsistencies of the Bible. All differences between fundamentalists and mod­ ernists would be quickly harmonized if the relation be­ tween the first and second chapters of Genesis were understood. Elohim is Spirit and all its creations are spiritual. M an is primarily spiritual, invisible, univer­ sal. This man is Elohim’s only begotten son—man, Jehovah, “the Christ of God.” This man of God is the pattern or type man for all men. Jesus said, "No one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, even the Son of man, who is in heaven.*' Jesus called the universal ether the “kingdom of the heavens.” T he ideal or God-man of every man exists in the higher or heavenly realms of every mind. We are all expressing that ideal in personal consciousness, which is typified in Scripture by Adam. In the man of Nazareth. Christ symbolized the spiritual man and Jesus symbolized the Adam man. Jesus was the last word in the evolution of spiritual man through personal or Adamic consciousness. Returning to the creative power of thought, if this power were understood and applied by man it would lift him quickly from material to spiritual consciousness. Good men are subject to the allurements of sensation, the serpent, and they sin, that is, they miss the mark, because they do not understand the many subtleties of the evolutionary law.

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