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Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters
Quickened By the Spirit
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[Myrtle Fillmore's Healing Letters]
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You remember the spiritual inspiration that Paul had, an
inspiration that is also ours as we claim the light and
power and love that are God's expression through us:
"If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells
in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give
life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which
dwells in you" (Rom. 7:11).
It isn't people at Unity who quicken and heal. It isn't the
human desire of the individual's heart that makes the life
flow through his organism more freely. It isn't the thing
that we usually think of as Christianity that brings one
into the quickening, healing currents of Christ life. It is
the stirring in us of the same Spirit of Christ that was
and is in Jesus Christ--the Spirit of God, standing forth
in individual consciousness and expression--the stirring up
in our minds of divine ideas from the mind of Being. It is
the soul's willingness and effort to live in its daily
thinking and acts in the Spirit of Christ--that same Spirit
which made Jesus forget Himself in doing the good and
perfect will of His Father. It is not churchgoing and
praying and the observance of moral laws, but vital,
loving, powerful words and acts of helpfulness to others.
Jesus' consecration was a living, constant thing. He adored
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the Father and sought constantly to glorify Him in making
the things of His Spirit manifest in the lives of His
children. Jesus was eagerly discovering the real purpose of
life and fulfilling it not for Himself alone but for all of
us. Jesus says, "Follow me" (Lk. 9:59). "If you love me,
you will keep my commandments" (Jn. 14:15). "He who
believes in me will also do the works that I do" (Jn.
14:12). "Feed my sheep" (Jn. 21:19). "Heal the sick, raise
the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons" (Mt. 10:8).
To be truly healed and quickened by the life more abundant,
one must forget the past and the limitations of the past,
and offer every thought, every ounce of energy to Spirit,
to be used in bringing God's kingdom of light and love and
order and beauty and health into the earth, into the lives
of all people. This giving is not to be done in human
consciousness and might, but in the realization that it is
God working through one's soul and body to increase one's
life and strength and substance, to fulfill His perfect
plan. One's body is to be thought of as the temple of the
living God. One's arms and hands are to be thought of, and
used, as God's arms and hands, the expression of God-Mind's
ideas of power and loving service and splendid work. The
executive power of the mind, in its relation to things that
we think of as belonging in the three-dimensional world, is
expressed through the arms and hands. One should think of
whatever one is led to do as being God's work. One should
know and rejoice in one's innate ability to accomplish that
work. One should
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realize that one is free to decide wisely, and to do
whatever will benefit oneself and others. One should see
others in this beautiful spiritual world of activity and
bless them.
God is in us as the very life and substance that we use,
and our use of God's gifts increases our ability to use and
to direct them. God is life; we make that life into living.
God is love; we make divine love into loving. God is
substance; we take the substantial reality and bring it
through into the manifest world. God is wisdom; we claim
oneness with divine wisdom and it expresses through us as
wise thoughts and decisions and actions: the light of life
that glows from heart and face, yes, every cell of the body.
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