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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
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Jesus said, "I chose you and appointed you that you should
go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that
whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to
you" (Jn. 15:16).
When we expect God's help in our expression and prosperity,
we are to come in the name of sons--in the consciousness of
sonship. We are to see to it that the work we are doing is
the Father's work and the very highest type of service of
which we feel capable. When we know this to be true, we are
not anxious or concerned with results. We are interested in
carrying out the Father's directions and in doing that
which is best for all concerned.
We can of course throw ourselves, our God-given faculties
and powers, into personal efforts, and accomplish given and
desired results. But unless we are working in perfect tune
with the Infinite and doing that which is our best and that
which best meets the highest needs of our soul, we shall
not be wholly satisfied even though we gain that which we
set out to attain.
Remember we are to pray in the name of Jesus Christ, which
means with the same earnest desire to glorify God in our
life that filled Jesus' mind and heart always. We are to
ask of the Father in the realization of our oneness with
Him and the consciousness of sonship.
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Jesus says that if we love Him, we will keep His
commandments. Remember what those commandments are? "'You
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with
all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your
strength.'" (Mk. 12:30). "'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself'" (Mk. 12:31).
It is the Lord God within us that we are to be devoted
to--to love, unify ourselves with, be obedient to. Our own
spiritual self must have our attention and love and care
and consideration. If we are neglecting our own spiritual
development, our own health, we are not keeping this first
and greatest commandment. And if we are not keeping it, we
cannot keep the second.
So before we can truly pray, as Jesus says we should, and
in answer to which He says the Father will do what we ask
Him, we must learn to love our own spiritual self and to do
that which is best for us--and best for all others.
When heart and mind and body are filled with the
consciousness of the love of God and fellow human beings,
we prosper. That which we are prompted to do is
accomplished. We are fearless and happy because we know
that we are doing our part to establish and maintain God's
kingdom in the earth.
While you are more in the realm of the soul, where the
activity of the psychic forces impresses you with the
negative phases of humanity's development, you
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will feel the weight of human woe and will tend to grieve
and worry and resent that which seems unfair and unjust and
cruel. But as you raise yourself into the Christ
consciousness and see as God sees, you will look through
and beyond appearances and begin to understand the true
state of affairs and to discern just what is taking place
in people. You will be just as diligent in helping people,
but you will no longer give way to seeing greed and the
crushing of some people by others (injustice). You will
understand that what is taking place is a process of
growth, and you will bless this growth and see people
becoming more Christlike.
It may be, blessed friend, that you have been overtaxing
that body of yours by giving forth more than you have taken
the time and quietness to receive. That physical being in
us is a willing and obedient servant and does what we tell
him to do, but we mustn't be a heavy taskmaster and try to
drive him beyond what he has developed the capacity to
endure. In my own experience I find that it is always best
to listen and obey when I receive the hint to take things
easier. At times when I've disregarded the hint, I've
received the kick also.
Remember that your heart is and always will be right with
God. It is the throne of love, and "God is love." You are
eternally one with your source and Creator, so it's just a
matter of getting still, peaceful, calm, and serene, with
your thought away for a while from all the outer
activities, and opening the way for
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the mighty and abundant inflow of Spirit that vitalizes,
invigorates, builds up, and renews every "place" in mind,
heart, soul, and body.
Your Creator is always on the job, and through our united
prayers Christ, the living Word, is bringing into
manifestation what is already an established part of your
being--wholeness.
Unlimited as the infinite Provider is as our resource, we
must still the restless mortal in order to receive; then
deep and full shall the inner breath be to fill our relaxed
and receptive organism. You are rested now and there is no
compelling force to urge you to outer action. "He sent
forth his word and healed them." Bless you!
Perhaps you did not make the complete connection when you
started the new work and that was why the body did not seem
to stand up to the work you needed to accomplish. We have
to make our whole connection, spirit, soul, body, the
wholeness--the holiness is in getting them all
together--all working in harmony. But we are forgetting
this and seeing you connected all the way through and one
with the all-supplying stream of life and substance and
power and love and light. We have to lay hold of this
concept of God as eternal, as active eternal Principle,
all-supplying substance, not as something that comes and
goes and gives out. The things we observe all give out, but
we have to get back of this to the abiding consciousness of
Jesus
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Christ--the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. And
what does that mean? God's supply is always the same. And
when a son of God appropriates and uses God, why, he
becomes all that the Father planned and does all that the
Father wills.
Now, my dear you are taking this all-supplying substance
for yourself. I see you capable of going on with strength,
wisdom, power, and joy. I witness your soul satisfied and
blessed in God. The waters of life are ever flowing from
the throne of God in your heart, the place of authority
from which you send forth your mandates.
I am finding, myself, that if I want to keep the outer
organization, I have to be appropriating and transmuting
the coarser.
We must know the chemistry of the body; we must find the
whole man. We have need of this outer man and we have to
make the mortar that builds him up to full development.
Dear heart, you and I both realize that the supply is in
the One, that the One never runs short of supply. Now when
we get the concept of this and it becomes a habit for us to
appropriate and apply this consciousness as we do the air
that is constantly ready for our use, we shall be one with
the omnipresent reservoir of God supply and have no more
lack of any kind.
God in the midst of you is a tower of strength and
stability. You are filled with the vim, vigor, vitality,
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and tireless energy of "Christ in you," and you are renewed
every moment of the day.
It may be, dear friend, that you have been trying too hard
in a personal way and have not taken time to relax, to let
go, and realize that "I am in the Father, and the Father in
me." Sometimes our attention becomes so engrossed in the
things we are trying to do that we forget to unify
ourselves consciously with the source of our being.
You are the executive of your indwelling Lord, and every
instant you draw from Him the wisdom, life, energy,
strength, power, and substance to meet the moment's most
pressing need; as your consciousness becomes one with His,
you realize that it is not by personal might, nor by
personal power, but by the Spirit of the Lord that all
things are accomplished.
When you pray for another, your word of Truth quickens,
awakens, and stirs to action the Spirit within that
individual, so you do not need to lose any of your vital
force when you realize that the word does the work. In this
realization your patients do not draw upon your energy.
You are developing your inner resources of Spirit, and
becoming more alive through the resurrection of new powers
from day to day. The powers you are unfolding are your
assurance of prosperity and success in the outer, for
demonstrations of life and prosperity go hand in hand.
I am joining you in the Godward thought, and the
thanksgiving that there is only one Presence and one
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Power in you and through you, and present at your meeting
Sunday evening. Keep it constantly in your mind that you as
a limited entity are not there visible to the eager crowd;
but that God is there expressing divine ideas, manifesting
His blessings, through His own image likeness children.
Instead of looking out and seeing the sense evidences, or
listening to the complaints or the woes or the trials of
those gathered to witness the Truth, look directly and with
undivided attention to God, the good.
Now, I know just how you feel about wanting to walk with
me, to take my hand, to be held close in the embrace that
gives peace and courage, to join in song of rejoicing for
the unlimited good. But that feeling isn't all what it
seems! It isn't me that you want to be closer to; it is
your own Lord: you want to be consciously one with what to
you represents an advance over what you have yet realized!
And the longing is the prayer of your heart that brings
fulfillment! Isn't that glorious?
You are too much inclined to the mental, as it is. The
depletion you experience when you talk to others, or when
you help them, is due to your mental sensitiveness--your
ability to sense needs, and to supply mentally, out of your
own great store, that which others lack. But you must rise
out of this phase of development, out of this means of
helping others. The Jesus Christ consciousness of life
gives you the spiritual poise
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and ability to see beyond the seeming conditions through
which others are passing. It gives you power to stir up in
them and to call into expression their God-given abilities
to meet their own needs.
Jesus Christ sees as God sees. He sees the perfection of
people; He holds us in our perfection. His holding us there
and drawing us up into the perfection of Himself does not
in any way deplete His own consciousness or tear down His
own body. There was a time in His unfoldment when Jesus did
experience such mental activity and such depletion. At such
times He withdrew from the multitudes for a while, to get
back into His consciousness of oneness with God and the
universal and inexhaustible resources of Spirit. When He
healed the woman who had an issue of blood, He was
conscious that virtue had gone out from Him because the
woman had come to Him and touched Him, to get the personal
help. You see, His consciousness of life and love reached
out into His garments; and He was conscious of that which
touched even His clothing. Later He had risen out of that
particular state in which He felt virtue leaving His body
to merge with the body of another; and had established
Himself in the spiritual realm where His consciousness of
life and substance merges with the entire race
consciousness, and where we may all come in touch with Him
and receive the spiritual help without depleting Him. He
learned to appropriate more but to refrain from drawing
boundary lines. The human believes in limitations and fixes
the inflow and outflow
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of life. We rise out of these limitations and boundaries by
degrees. As we learn how to use these qualities and powers
in divinely ordered ways, we are ready to let down the
walls of separation, which at one time were protections.
As you learn to see the fullness of God's life and love and
power and substance in others, you will know that you need
not pour out your own for them. You will have the knowledge
and the light to call their attention to what they have and
to prompt them to use it.
You ask, "What's wrong with me?" My dear, we are not
looking for the "wrong" things; with our spiritual eye of
faith that beholds only the divine image and likeness, we
are seeing you as the Father created you in the
beginning--whole, illumined, full of faith, perfect. By
seeing you from God's standpoint we help you to manifest
your innate divinity.
Take your eyes away from appearances as they seem to the
limited, human vision. Be diligent in holding to your
innate Christ perfection under all circumstances.
The word of Truth is the power that does the work
effectively, and when you use the word instead of your own
vital force, when you wish to help others, there will be no
after effects in your mind or body. When you practice the
laying on of hands you weaken your powers of resistance and
easily take on the condition you wish to dissolve in your
patient.
It is a limitation to try to use your personal power
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in healing others. Constantly keep in mind the truth that
"I do not speak on my own authority; but the Father who
dwells in me does his works." Say with Jesus, The Father
who dwells in me does his works.
It is necessary for the healer to establish himself in the
consciousness that perfection is the only reality; there is
only one Presence and one Power in the universe, God, the
good omnipotent.
Deny the belief, the appearance, of disease (or discord of
any kind) and realize that it is nothing. Think of it as
dissolved into nothingness, and with your eye of faith see
the Christ perfection established in the place that needs
to manifest the reality of good.
Conserve your vital force and your thought force. Then your
whole being will be strengthened, and you will become too
positive to take on any false belief. Your thoughts of
Truth tend to make you positive.
When you speak the word to help others, know that it is,
"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the
Lord of hosts" (Zech. 4:6). The word quickens the Spirit in
your patients to action, and the Spirit in them does His
works. God in the midst of you ministers unto them and
calls forth the divinity they need to express.
It is possible, you know, to drive oneself beyond what the
soul and body can stand up under, if wisdom and love do not
prompt. One may lean too much toward intellectual
activities--drawing and holding
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too much of the blood and nerve energy in the upper part of
the body, and causing congestion and depletion. One may
devote oneself so wholly to those things, good in
themselves, which require undivided attention and nerve
strain that the playtimes for the body (not the usual
social activities, which do not really permit the body to
relax and renew itself while the mind is engaged in
dwelling upon the purely natural things of life) are
neglected. So we try to encourage our folks to seek to live
balanced lives, being fair to the body, regardless of the
soul's eager pace to keep up with the things that it
considers most vital.
One could engage in so-called spiritual work to the point
of losing one's health. In order to benefit humanity most
we must each one see to it that we are fair to ourselves
and that we live a life that increases our power and
strength and health.
"What does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and
forfeit his life" (Mk. 8:36)? We might gain many persons
and bring them to our spiritual convictions, yet if we lost
our own health and consequently our life, our work would
not be pleasing in God's sight. For God is the very mind
and life within us that is seeking to blend and coordinate
the faculties of mind and express them in the substance
that we term the manifest life.
There is no limit to the so-called "miracles" that
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can be performed by those who consecrate themselves wholly
to do the will and the work of Christ.
"Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in
the midst of them" (Mt. 18:20).
We know that as you continue to hold fast to the living
Christ, you and all your blessed co-workers will be
illumined and prospered in ever-increasing measure.
The blessings that you have already received are only the
beginning of a glorious outpouring and spiritual growth
that will continue always.
"God will supply every need of yours according to his
riches" (Phil. 4:19). This is the greatest promissory note
ever written, and it is one that you can cash every hour of
every day at God's ever-present "bank" and storehouse of
supply.
The wonderful energies of Spirit that restore you to
wholeness are there waiting for you to express them along
lines of profitable service to God and humanity.
As you help others spiritually and in every way you not
only fulfill the law of giving and receiving, you develop
your own resources and capabilities in fuller measure. By
helping others under the guidance of the Spirit of truth
you at the same time help yourself. So do not let the
limited concepts of others interfere with your giving
loving service. You are right in maintaining that you can
help others demonstrate "higher" than you have
demonstrated, because it is not through personal might, nor
personal power, but it is by the
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Spirit of the Lord that all things are accomplished. "The
Father who dwells in me does his works." God is the one and
only Helper in the universe, and all the good we ever enjoy
is brought forth through His power.
But, dear, I am inclined to feel that we all must arrive at
the place where we do as Jesus did when He saw that so many
demands were being made upon Him for help that He could not
give Himself fully enough to what the Father was directing
Him to do. He asked Spirit to show Him men in whom dwelt
the qualities that could be developed to make them
successful healers and teachers and leaders. Then, whether
there was anything in the life or attitude of the
prospective worker to indicate his readiness or even his
willingness to change his occupation or to take up
spiritual training, Jesus approached him and spoke of His
conviction and asked the man to follow Him. He didn't seem
to have much difficulty in getting a group of men to drop
what they were engaged in to take up with eagerness and
devotion and diligence the things He considered necessary
to success in spiritual service.
You are "unspeakably busy" doing the things that come to
you for attention, and really don't have time for the
things that would make you a greater and more powerful
leader. There are others in your city who have not enough
to do to encourage their own development. I know you have
tried to get helpers in your center,
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and you have no doubt approached all who seemed to possess
the desired qualifications.
But it must be that there are those who would love to help
and who would be blessed in such work. Let us unite in
prayer for your discernment, discrimination, and authority
to look for and to select those in whom some particular
spiritual quality are dominant and ready for practical
training.
You speak of the comfort and soul food you enjoyed during
your hours with me. That is splendid temporarily. But,
dear, if you were with me daily, I might at any time do
something that would hurt you just as badly as some of the
things others have done have hurt. Personalities, as such,
do not have the capacity for always satisfying one another.
And the persons who are still depending on outer
expressions of love and consideration are likely to be
disappointed or disillusioned at any moment. For truly
there just isn't real joy and light and power and substance
in the things of the senses, or always in the relations of
those who are seeking to let Christ ideas prompt them in
their individual expression. Our real source of help in
every need is the Holy Spirit within; and as we keep poised
in Spirit, we find ways reach others in Spirit and call out
the best in them and to understand them in a wonderful new
way.
If you truly feel that the Jesus Christ Spirit is inspiring
you and giving you power to teach and heal and prosper, I
am sure that you will find plenty to do. What I can't
understand is that, assuming you were
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being divinely prompted, you seemed to feel that you must
go and sit there at that center, under the direction of
others and limited apparently by their decisions. If there
were things that the Father would have had you do, why
didn't you go about doing them--without regard to what
others were doing? And if your attention had been directed
Godward, you surely would have been so occupied with
splendid constructive thoughts and work that you wouldn't
even have noticed what the others were doing. You were
bound in personal consciousness and sensitiveness
(subconsciously perhaps), and this made you feel disturbed
at what you believed the others' attitude toward you to be.
With your mind cluttered up with conflicting beliefs and
feelings, you were not in shape to handle the work the
Father would have brought to you.
Remember and be encouraged, dear, that when we began to
awaken and to feel the urge to minister, there was no such
thing as a Unity center, not even friends who saw things as
we did. We did come in touch with a few, and were together
in a class. But we all had to branch out and start using
what we got in our own way, meeting whatever need presented
itself. It was the thing that shone in our face and the
results we got through our prayers that drew others to us.
And we hadn't time to think much about what success we were
having, there was so much to be done for the family, and
our own eager study of whatever words of Truth we could
find or hear kept us busy. We were not thinking of the
approval of others or how they regarded
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us. And not depending on any gathering or other folks'
cooperation, we were perfectly free to do whatever work the
Father brought. We didn't ask for work; it just came right
to our home. Someone would hear through another that we had
something good and would come.
Turn away from all these conflicting and confusing and
discouraging thoughts and appearances, and give your
interest and undivided attention to God. You remember
little Samuel, don't you? He had gone into the temple, and
was ever hovering about to do whatever might be given him
to do. One night he was aroused and thought he heard Eli
the priest, calling him. He ran to Eli, but discovered that
Eli hadn't called him, and he became quiet again. Again he
heard the voice; and Eli then explained to him that it
might be Jehovah, and told him to speak to Jehovah--and the
revelation of Spirit came. Read the account in 1 Samuel,
the third chapter. You will notice that there is special
mention of "both the ears" of everyone that hears the doing
of Jehovah! Let us consider your problem in the light of
little Samuel's experience. You have given yourself to
service at the temple. You have been responding to the
dictation of others. At last there is evidence that the
Lord is endeavoring to speak to you. You don't get the
message by going first to one and then to another of your
associates, or even by coming to us. You must talk with
Jehovah (your own Lord God, in the midst of you). And when
you know what it is Jehovah is saying to you, don't be
afraid to do it! Samuel heard things that seemed to be
uncomplimentary to the priest
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Eli and his sons, and he feared to tell them. But Eli came
to Samuel to know what had been prophesied. Eli was a
priest and supposedly the law giver, but prejudice and
ambition came in and interfered with his service. But even
in the midst of this there was Samuel (which means "name of
God"), bringing the soul into conscious communion with God
so that the spiritual prophecy might be given and the way
of deliverance from further bondage made clear.
When we do our best and continue to look to God for our
light, and ability, and opportunities for expression and
service, the divine law works out our problems and we have
more grace and glory than we had anticipated.
Those who meet the public are supposed to be poised and
well-rounded in their spiritual development, and so filled
with love and joy and health and consciousness of supply
that they fairly radiate it to all who come near--not
starved for kindness and understanding and love and
encouragement! Those who need help themselves don't belong
in work where they are continually faced with the problems
of others. They should get into something that they have
wanted to do and that will tend to unfold their own
faculties and powers in such a way as to prove that they
are ready for the larger field of service. So long as you
are so disturbed by what others do or fail to do, you are
hardly abiding in the Christ consciousness, from which you
should work in the spiritual ministry.
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No, there is no lack of cooperation among students so long
as they keep in the Truth consciousness. But the adverse
beliefs of the ages will come up to be handled. The closer
we are associated the more we invite from one another the
shortcomings that exist in us and that must be brought to
the surface, recognized, and made to measure up to the
Christ standard. The advantage of groups of Truth students
being so closely associated is that they form the habit of
constantly reminding one another of the unfailing law and
unchanging Principle. Truth students who are loyal to
Christ are not given to smoothing things over, or making
excuses for the error beliefs or the cries of the human
self as it must relinquish its prejudices. In Christ we
learn to brace ourselves for the shocks that the uprooting
process sometimes causes, if not to welcome the experiences
that show us how we stand. We learn to be less concerned
with what others are doing and more concerned with our
attitude toward their doings. We are less eager to impress
folks and more determined to have something worth their
heeding before we offer it. We are willing to still the
eager but often mistaken intellectual offerings, that the
Christ word may fill our hearts and quicken our senses and
establish its order in the earth.
Dear one, you are becoming consciously established in the
poise of the Christ Mind, where you are constantly open and
receptive to new ideas, new inspiration, new vitality.
Spirit always comes forth to meet the needs, whatever they
may be. You are putting the
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personal self aside in order that the capacity of the
Christ I Am may be demonstrated.
You are growing so at one with universal Mind that you
speak from the consciousness of your divine self, which
knows intuitively what to say to help each one of those
dear seekers after Truth who comes to you for aid in
reading the divine law. In the one all-knowing Mind we all
live, move, and have our being. You are open, receptive,
and obedient to the inner leading, and thus are a free
avenue through which the Father reaches His children with
His message of Truth.
All of us "with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the
Lord, are being changed into his likeness from one degree
of glory to another" (2 Cor. 3:18). My! how radiant and
beautiful we are all becoming!
The success of teachers and healers and leaders lies in
their being able and willing to bear witness to the Christ
ideas active in the consciousness of those whom the Father
draws to them, and not in their telling what they
personally can do or have done. All of us more or less give
way to this habit of introducing personal ways and opinions
and desires into our work. We are praying and knowing that
all that does not measure up to the Christ method of living
and teaching is falling away from us, that we may do the
perfect will of the Father.
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