What Charles Fillmore Said About The Holy Spirit
§4 We believe in the Holy Spirit, which baptises the universe and man with the thoughts of God, and perpetually establishes the divine law in all manifestation.
Meditation in the Silence
1. Choose a time and a place where you will be alone and undisturbed for at least 20 minutes.
2. Assume a comfortable position so that there is no feeling of tension or strain in your body.
3. If sitting, place both feet flat upon the floor. Put your hands comfortably in your lap with either both palms up to receive blessings, or with the left palm up and the right down to receive and give a blessing.
4. Close your eyes, be still, and relax.
5. Focus your attention upon your head and begin to relax the muscles in your scalp, face, and neck. Say softly or silendy:
In the name of Jesus Christ relax, relax, relax. Peace, be still; wait upon the Lord only.
6. When you are ready, move your attention to trunk, arms and legs and repeat:
In the name of Jesus Christ relax, relax, relax. Peace, be still; wait upon the Lord only.
7. Now bring your attention to the throat and the power center where the creative Word is forming to give life, substance, and intelligence to your declared word of faith. Affirm sofdy and then several times silently:
The Holy Spirit pours unlimited blessings out upon my life; I accept the fullness of God and the counsel of my inner teacher.
8. Rest in the silence letting the affirmation reveal its Truth to you.
9. When you are ready, return your awareness first to your physical body, and then to your surroundings as you re-enter your world.
Unity is Trinitarian; we accept the concept of the Trinity or Tri-unity of God. In traditional churches the trinity is understood as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (or Ghost). Charles taught the Trinity from a metaphysical perspective. The Father represents Mind, the source of all. The product of Mind is ideas and therefore the Son represents the offspring or product of Mind—its ideas. To accomplish anything an idea must be carried out and made visible. This is the activity of the Holy Spirit. In your mind the movement of ideas is called thinking. In Divine Mind that movement, like your thinking, is the activity of the Holy Spirit which moves the idea from invisible to visible, from potential to manifestation.
To see the trinity in another way, think of the Father as the architect, the Son as the blueprint, and the Holy Spirit as the builder. In human experience, procreation requires both male and female. The same is true of creation. The Father is the masculine aspect while the Holy Spirit is the feminine. Charles Fillmore said, “This quickening of the soul by the Holy Spirit has continued ever since and in every age. Thousands have testified to her ministry. But giving God and Christ all the credit without thought of her, the Holy Spirit.” Fillmore continued, “So Jesus Christ pointed her out as the only teacher of the doctrine he gave to the human family. She is the transformer of the physical to the spiritual in the natural world. This was typified by the presence and instruction of Jesus’ mother to the servants at the changing of the water into wine at the marriage feast in Cana.” (Unity, 1942)
Sometimes people think of God as king, Mary as the queen of heaven, and Jesus as the son. This is the same symbolism of the trinity. The feminine aspect of God is the creative, nurturing, inspiring activity which is always at work in the universe as the activity of law.
“In the beginning” the Spirit of God moved to give us wholeness and that Spirit continues to move to give us fullness of all there is. We may separate the fullness of God into any number of ideas and then limit the Spirit according to those ideas. For example, we can have the Spirit of God supply us with health, or with prosperity, or even joy. But to think of God just as health, or prosperity, or even joy is to limit God to these expressions. Certainly God is our health, prosperity, and joy but also infinitely more that these. Jesus told us that all the Father has was his. He went even further when he stated that it was the Father’s good pleasure to give us the kingdom. The fullness of God is lavish abundance for all of us if we will accept. Remember that baptism of the Holy Spirit which is pouring out the abundant thoughts of God throughout the universe and upon you as well.