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The Fillmore teachings are not so much to be studied as they are to be practiced. The Fillmores called their program Practical Christianity.

To get people started, they offered a “Beginner’s Course” in a correspondence school format. Their course was published by Unity for over six decades: from the early 1910s into the 1970s. It defined what the Fillmores believed their students should do and what they demanded their ministers teach.

This volume, Foundations, is the first of three printed Fillmore Wings textbooks. It covers the first six lessons of the Correspondence School program and it lays a foundation for the twelve topics in the advanced course of study. These lessons are supplemented with The 1892 Fillmore Covenant, a short and concise expression of how the Fillmores committed themselves to the practice they preached.

Students of this volume can expect increased health of the body–the body in all its expressions–as the body of our mental thinking, as our physical body, as the body of our affairs, as the body of our church, as the body of our life challenges, and the body of our accomplishments.

Rev. Mark Hicks, Publisher and General Editor, Fillmore Wings

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Table of Contents

• Introduction to Fillmore Wings Foundations
• Fillmore Covenant
• Lesson 1. The Silence
• Lesson 2. Healing
• Lesson 3. Prosperity
• Lesson 4. The Body of Christ
• Lesson 5. Overcoming
• Lesson 6. The Great Demonstration

Introduction

Christ asks for a home in your soul,
Where he can be at rest with you,
Where he can talk easily to you,
Where you and he, alone together,
Can laugh and be silent
And be delighted with one another
   - Caryll Houselander

Charles Fillmore, co-founder of Unity, studied, taught and lived the transformational life of knowing Oneness with Spirit and Wholeness of his mind, body and soul. As a Unity ministerial candidate and Unity Truth student desiring my own spiritual transformation, I have not been disappointed with the teachings of the Fillmore Wings Foundations. The original Correspondence School’s six basic lessons have proven to be an invaluable resource on how to practice a true spiritual life, not as abstract theology, but as a set of principles that can be applied to my thinking, health, relationships, and purpose.

Charles Fillmore’s metaphysical understanding of the Silence, Healing and Prosperity has solidified my beliefs from one of blind faith to active spiritual participation. Reverend Mark Hick’s rebirth of the original Correspondence School’s basic lessons reaffirms that it is my personal responsibility to embrace conscious alignment of the human mind with Divine Mind. Rather than attributing my life’s circumstances solely to external forces, I must focus on God’s presence within, shifting thought from fear to faith, from disease to health and from scarcity to prosperity. As a student of Fillmore Wings Foundations I have found greater emotional resiliency, a desire for spiritual intelligence and a sense of inner peace. These lessons have taught me to raise my consciousness from limiting thought beliefs to truth-centered thinking.

Charles Fillore offers a practical and empowering approach to spiritual growth that speaks directly to everyday life. I find his teachings to be as contemporaneous today as he destined them to be over 100 years ago when he wrote his practical metaphysical Christian lessons for his ministerial students. I highly recommend Fillmore Wings foundational lessons for anyone striving for personal transformative spiritual outcomes. You will not only expand your understanding of spiritual laws but deepen your sense of purpose and find unity with others.

As a result of our weekly study group’s spirited dialogues on the Body of Christ, Overcoming and Demonstration, I have been inspired to know I can overcome limiting conditions and I am reminded to strive to live from my Christ consciousness. I invite you to awaken to the inner power of the Christ within you, and experience abundance in all areas of your life. It is only through practical discipline and daily study we can truly cultivate habits of gratitude, faith, and intentional living that nurtures lasting spiritual growth. Fillmore Wings Foundations will awaken your soul’s desire to give Christ a forever home. Gratitude to Reverend Mark Hicks for the resurrection of these timeless lessons.

Namaste!

Marsha Schulte – Unity Ministerial candidate

Fillmore Covenant

Each year, on December 7, we celebrate Charles and Myrtle Fillmore's writing their Dedication and Covenant:

“We, Charles Fillmore and Myrtle Fillmore, husband and wife, hereby dedicate ourselves, our time, our money, all we have and all we expect to have, to the Spirit of Truth, and through it, to the Society of Silent Unity.

It being understood and agreed that the said Spirit of Truth shall render unto us an equivalent for this dedication, in peace of mind, health of body, wisdom, understanding, love, life, and an abundant supply of all things necessary to meet every want without our making any of these the object of our existence.

In the presence of the Conscious Mind of Christ Jesus, this 7th day of December, A.D. 1892.”

Charles and Myrtle Fillmore knew that the true measure of a healthy ministry is not money nor attendance—rather it is the degree to which people commit to the ministry. Few people will give their time, money and life to an endless array of interesting speakers and ideas. Spiritual seeking is not religious commitment.

What people want is a teaching that is authentic, powerful, clear and supported by a consistent message. People will commit—all they have—when they perceive the commitment and single focus that Charles and Myrtle Fillmore demonstrated many years ago.

We often mark the start of Unity as April 1889, when Unity published its first magazine. But we believe a better date would be December 1892 when Charles and Myrtle made their commitment to what would become the Unity movement in the form of this Dedication and Covenant.