The book of Genesis begins with the words, “In the beginning God...” and in like manner Charles Fillmore opens Unity’s Statement of Faith. All other points are based on this fundamental principle. This is the one vine from which emanates all other branches of Truth. In our Statement of Faith we must have a starting point and that starting point is faith in a presence and power that we call God. As we study about God and open our minds and hearts to greater revelation of the nature of God, we overcome the “graven image” concept of God—the old man with a long white beard living in a place called heaven who rules like an arbitrary monarch—to reach a spiritually mature understanding of God, its nature, and our relationship to it.

Notice that there is no equivocation, neither God and Satan, nor God and something else. It states very clearly, God, the one and only. H. Emilie Cady, in How I Used Truth, puts it this way, “There is only God; all else is a lie.” If God is the one and only, where is there room for a devil, Satan, any other power? Every time we convince ourselves that there is anything other than God we are lying to ourselves and at the same time we disconnect from the true power for good in the universe. God is all, over all, through all and in all. Beside God there is nothing. It is important to train ourselves to look to the Allness of God in order to overcome our problems. If we arc one with, connected to all power and wisdom, we need not seek elsewhere to obtain them. That is a useless act. “Be still and know that I am God.”

God as principle is eternal, unchanging and unlimited, definite and exact. It neither occupies space nor is it limited by time and matter. It is formless and yet the cause of all form in the universe. The principle of music moves through notes; the principle of mathematics moves through numbers. God as principle moves through ideas.

God as all-good. The nature of anything is its essential character. So the essential character of God, the nature of God, is absolute good. If we accept that “there is only God,” then there is also only good. Absolute good cannot be the author of anything less. Many times in life good comes to us but in our immaturity we see that good as negative or evil. We may fight it and wresde with it, and in time reach the point where we see it for what it is and always was, a blessing and opportunity to grow.

God as Divine Mind. God is the original mind in which all ideas exist and the medium through which principle and intelligence function. As the one and only mind, it is the only source of ideas and intelligence. We may talk about “your mind’” and “my mind” but there is only one mind. Each of us is a point of awareness within the one mind we call God. The product of mind is ideas and we have access to all the ideas within Divine Mind. Whenever you need anything, turn to God in the silence of your being and seek the inspiration and guidance which is always there. You will find your answer because you are one with the mind of God.

God as Spirit. Jesus said to the woman of Samaria at the well, “God is spirit...” (John 4:24) The Latin word, spiritus which we translate as “spirit” means “breath.” Like the breath, it is invisible. It also cannot be analyzed by the senses. Yet it is the cause of all life, substance, and intelligence, the moving force of the universe animating all things.

Omnipotent. God is Almighty! Even more important is the concept that God is all power—the source of all power and the power itself. God is not power/#/in that it is filled with power that comes into God from somewhere else. God is that power. At times we feel power, but only God is the source of the power that we feel. We are filled with God-power. Think about it. If God is the only power in the universe, what is there for us to fear? WTiat can possibly overcome God or any expression of God such as we are?

Omniscient. Many times I have heard this defined as “all knowing.” But this is not a satisfactory- statement. God is more than just knowledge imparted. Just as God does not acquire power from somewhere, God does not get knowledge from another source. God is the knower as well as what is known—all knowledge. There is no place in the universe and no time in your life when you are ever separated from the knower and knowledge, from Mind and all the ideas inherent in Mind.

Omnipresent. You have not found it yet, nor will you ever find it. You will never be in the one place where God is not. There is no place in the universe where God is not. Psalm 139 says, “Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there! (139:7-8)

When you are experiencing the dark night of the soul, in the midst of life’s greatest challenges, God is there. Sometimes you may forget this Truth and begin to feel separate and alone. But these three “omnis” remind you that right where you are, no matter how things look or what seems to be making its presence known, there is only God.. All the power, wisdom, and intelligence of God are at all points throughout creation. And that includes exactly where you are and in whatever experience you may be.

When a body of water is choppy with fitful currents of air it cannot reflect objects clearly. Neither can man reflect the steady strong glow of Omnipotence when his mind is disturbed by anxious thoughts, fearjul thoughts, or angry thoughts.
—Charles Fillmore, Jesus Christ Heals, page 176.