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"BE the change you wish to see in the world."

                        Ghandi

THE PRAYER FOR PROTECTION

The Light of God surrounds me.

The Love of God enfolds me.

The Presence of God watches over me.

The Mind of God guides me.

The Life of God flows through me.

The Laws of God direct me.

The Power of God abides within me.

The Joy of God uplifts me.

The Strength of God renews me.

The Beauty of God inspires me.

Wherever I am, God is!

This full version, written by James Dillet Freeman, was contributed by Louise Kelly

The photo above is of the Unity Wings that were hand-made for us by a local artist.
It is in a place of honor behind the pulpit in our sanctuary.

Article from Unity Magazine:

Dear Tom:  Could you inform me of the background of the Unity wings and what they symbolize?  Thank you so much.
                                                    E.R., Corpus Christi, TX.

Dear E.R.:  Unity cofounder Charles Fillmore decided on the symbol because he felt the winged globe represents the divine spirit uplifting the whole world.  He saw the winged globe as an ancient symbol with great spiritual significance, and of course, Mr. Fillmore was correct.  However, the actual Egyptian symbol on which Unity’s traditional flying sphere is based was not a winged globe at all.  After all, the ancients almost unanimously believed the Earth was flat.  A brief study of Egyptology shows that the figures from which the Unity symbol is drawn were found in two forms.  I have seen both in carvings transplanted from the sands of Egypt to the Louvre museum in Paris.  First, you often find the round portion has two antennae, insect feelers, if you will.  This is not a celestial object at all but a mythological insect to represent the soul, called the winged Ba.  An Egyptology website describes: “The Ba is what we might call someone’s personality.  It would leave the body at the time of death”  The other form, without the feelers, is generally used by Unity; this also is not the winged globe but a winged solar disk.  In actual Egyptian carvings, the symbol is often shown with coiled cobras flanking the circular center.

     This is a form that the god Horus Behuderty (Horus of Edfu) takes in his battles with Seth.  The god Thoth used his magic to turn Horus into a sun-disk with splendid outstretched wings.  The goddesses Nekhbet and Uazet in the form of uracus snakes (cobras) joined him at his side. However, the idea of a soul taking flight to higher realms is certainly in harmony with both Unity’s theology and the spirit of the Egyptian lore, even if the “immortal souls” in the ancient world were thought to be limited to the wealthy and powerful.  Today we know the wings of Spirit spread across not just this world, but all the worlds in God’s great cosmos, wherever sentient beings may be contemplating their religious symbols, as we did in the ancient world and continue to do so today.

                                                          Thomas Shepherd