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What is spirituality? It is the lived experience of one who has practiced and studied a particular spiritual pathway. That is to say spirituality is an outcome, not a starting point. Practice and study are the prerequisites for entering into Fillmore spirituality.

This volume, Spirituality, is the third of three printed textbooks of the Fillmore Wings Study Program. It builds upon the Foundations (practice) and the Beliefs (study) of the Fillmore teachings. These volumes comprise what the Fillmores taught for over six decades, from the 1910s into the 1970s.

This volume is supplemented with the well-known testimonies of Myrtle and Charles Fillmore about their healing experiences. Their testimonies convey their lived experience of metaphysical Christianity. Students of these lessons should look forward to greater joy and happiness, move loving relationships, and a sense of fulfillment in life purpose.

–Rev. Mark Hicks, General Editor

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

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Table of Contents

• Welcome
• Introduction to Fillmore Wings Spirituality
• Fillmore Testimonies
• Lesson 13. Spirituality, or Prayer and Praise
• Lesson 14. Faith
• Lesson 15. Imagination
• Lesson 16. Will and Understanding
• Lesson 17. Judgment and Justice
• Lesson 18. Love

Introduction to Fillmore Wings Spirituality

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Fillmore Testimonies of Healing and Prosperity

The Healing Testimony of Myrtle Fillmore

James Dillet Freeman, The Household of Faith, pp.47-48

James Dillet Freeman writes: "A few years later, Myrtle Fillmore wrote one of the most popular articles that have ever appeared in Unity magazine—the story of her healing."

"I have made what seems to me a discovery. I was fearfully sick; I had all the ills of mind and body that I could bear. Medicine and doctors ceased to give me relief, and I was in despair when I found practical Christianity. I took it up and I was healed. I did most of the healing myself, because I wanted the understanding for future use. This is how I made what I call my discovery.

"I was thinking about life. Life is everywhere — in worm and in man. 'Then why does not the life in the worm make a body like man's?' I asked. Then I thought, 'The worm has not as much sense as man.' Ah! intelligence, as well as life, is needed to make a body. Here is the key to my discovery. Life has to be guided by intelligence in making all forms. The same law works in my own body. Life is simply a form of energy, and has to be guided and directed in man's body by his intelligence. How do we communicate intelligence? By thinking and talking, of course. Then it flashed upon me that I might talk to the life in every part of my body and have it do just what I wanted. I began to teach my body and got marvelous results.

"I told the life in my liver that it was not torpid or inert, but full of vigor and energy. I told the life in my stomach that it was not weak or inefficient, but energetic, strong, and intelligent. I told the life in my abdomen that it was no longer infested with ignorant thoughts of disease, put there by myself and by doctors, but that it was all athrill with the sweet, pure, wholesome energy of God. I told my limbs that they were active and strong. I told my eyes that they did not see of themselves but that they expressed the sight of Spirit, and that they were drawing on an unlimited source. I told them that they were young eyes, clear, bright eyes, because the light of God shone right through them. I told my heart that the pure love of Jesus Christ flowed in and out through its beatings and that all the world felt its joyous pulsation.

"I went to all the life centers in my body and spoke words of Truth to them — words of strength and power. I asked their forgiveness for the foolish, ignorant course that I had pursued in the past, when I had condemned them and called them weak, inefficient, and diseased. I did not become discouraged at their being slow to wake up, but kept right on, both silently and aloud, declaring the words of Truth, until the organs responded. And neither did I forget to tell them that they were free, unlimited Spirit. I told them that they were no longer in bondage to the carnal mind; that they were not corruptible flesh, but centers of life and energy omnipresent.

"Then I asked the Father to forgive me for taking His life into my organism and there using it so meanly. I promised Him that I would never, never again retard the free flow of that life through my mind and my body by any false word or thought; that I would always bless it and encourage it with true thoughts and words in its wise work of building up my body temple; that I would use all diligence and wisdom in telling it just what I wanted it to do.

"I also saw that I was using the life of the Father in thinking thoughts and speaking words, and I became very watchful as to what I thought and said.

"I did not let any worried or anxious thoughts into my mind and I stopped speaking gossipy, frivolous, petulant, angry words. I let a little prayer go up every hour that Jesus Christ would be with me and help me to think and speak only kind, loving, true words. I am sure that He is with me because I am so peaceful and happy now....

"I want everybody to know about this beautiful, true law, and to use it. It is not a new discovery, but when you use it and get the fruits of health and harmony, it will seem new to you, and you will feel that it is your own discovery."

The Prosperity Testimony of Charles Fillmore

James Dillet Freeman, The Household of Faith, pp.51-53

James Dillet Freeman writes: "In the meantime, Charles Fillmore had come but slowly to accept what to his wife had been an instant and overwhelming revelation.

"Although I was a chronic invalid and seldom free from pain, the doctrine did not at first appeal to me," he later wrote.

To Myrtle Fillmore, the realization of the Truth about herself and her relationship to God had come suddenly, in a flash of inspiration. She had a new conviction, a burning flame of faith. Charles Fillmore had a different kind of mind. He thought of himself as a hard-headed businessman, and he had a family to provide for. He was reluctant to let his business friends and associates know that he was interested in a new-fangled religious idea such as his wife had. Still, because he was a practical man, when he saw the living, tangible results of his wife's faith, saw bodies rebuilt, crippled limbs renewed, and sight restored, he could not help but become interested.

Charles Fillmore was not one to take things on blind faith. He had an inquiring, scientific turn of mind. When he saw the healings that were coming as a result of his wife's prayers, he began to question why they should come to pass. If people were being healed, there was a reason for the healings. He commenced to inquire into this reason. He read all the books that he could find on the subject; and where courses were available, he took them. The Fillmores studied with Joseph Adams, who published a metaphysical journal called "The Truth Gleaner" in Chicago, when he came to Kansas City. They went to Chicago to study under Emma Curtis Hopkins.

At first, Mr. Fillmore was mentally disturbed by the many conflicting statements about Truth made by various teachers. He could not understand why there should be so many divisions and schools and such an assortment of opinions about an exact science. "The muddle was so deep," he wrote, "that for a time I was inclined to ridicule, yet I couldn't get away from the evidence of a great power back of the flood of contradictory statements."

There might be a doubt as to which one of the teachers was right, but as to the results there could be no doubt whatever. His eyes could see the results. About his doubt he wrote:

"I noticed, however, that all the teachers and writers talked a great deal about the omnipresent, omniscient God, who is Spirit and accessible to everyone. I said to myself, 'In this babel I will go to headquarters. If I am Spirit and this God they talk so much about is Spirit, we can somehow communicate, or the whole thing is a fraud.'

"I then commenced sitting in the silence every night at a certain hour and tried to get in touch with God. There was no enthusiasm about it; no soul desire, but a cold calculating business method. I was there on time every night and tried in all conceivable ways to realize that my mind was in touch with the Supreme Mind.

"In this cold, intellectual attitude one can easily understand why I did not seem to get any conscious result, but I kept at it month after month, mentally affirming words that others told me would open the way, until it got to be a habit and I rather enjoyed it.

"However, a time came when I began to observe that I was having exceedingly realistic dreams. For months I paid no attention to them, my business at that time being of the earth earthy — buying and selling real estate. The first connection that I observed between the dreams and my affairs was after closing the purchase of a piece of property I remembered that I had dreamed about the whole transaction some months before.

"After that I watched my dreams closely and found that there was a wider intelligence manifesting in my sleep than I seemed to possess in the waking state, and it flashed over me one day that this was the mode of communication that had been established in response to my desire for information from headquarters. This has been kept up ever since with growing interest on my part, and I could fill a large book with my experiences. Everything which it is necessary for me to know is shown to me, and I have times without number been saved from false steps by this monitor. Again and again, I have had mapped out the future along certain lines for months and years ahead, and the prophecies have so far never failed, although I have sometimes misinterpreted the symbols which are used."

This was the way in which Charles Fillmore came into Truth. Being practical, he sought for something that was an exact science. Being a student, he studied under many teachers. In the end he turned, as must all who seek Truth, to the one true Source.

Perhaps it was because of this experience of his own that he was able to help so many others later on who, just as he had done, set out without much faith to go on — persons who could not accept simple statements simply because their intellect was continually raising doubts. To all these, Charles Fillmore could say because he had proved it by his own experience:

" 'Belief cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.' Set aside a time every day, a definite time, and pray whether you believe or not. Take a Truth Statement and repeat it over and over. It does not matter that at first you do not believe it to be true. If you will persistently affirm Truth, even though you do not believe it at first, you will find that your prayers have power. Faith is like a mustard seed and it will grow. Pray, pray, and keep praying; affirm, and yet affirm once more. Your persistent prayers will succeed."

Charles Fillmore was never a half-way sort of person. Once he became convinced that he was on the track of Truth, he threw all his mind and energies into its pursuit. Although he did not immediately discontinue his interests in real estate and mining, his absorption in spiritual matters became greater and greater. "My interest," he wrote, "became so pronounced that I neglected my real estate for the furtherance of what my commercial friends denounced as a fanatical delusion."

At this time, Charles Fillmore took the most important step of his life.

His income was the lowest it had been in years, for a depression was sweeping Kansas City, following the collapse of the real-estate boom. The needs of his family were

the greatest they had ever been; in 1889 a third child, Royal, was born. His friends were all telling him that his interest in this spiritual idea was a fanatical delusion. He had had no great amount of formal schooling. He had had no experience whatever in the publishing business. Nevertheless, he decided to publish a magazine.

Charles Fillmore had come to believe in the ideas that he had first learned from his wife. He had studied them and probed them as thoroughly as he was able. He had come to see that they made sense and presented a scientific view of life. He had seen them actually demonstrated as true, for he had seen his wife and others healed by them. "I had applied the healing principle to my own case with gratifying results," he stated. "My chronic pains ceased. My hip healed and grew stronger, and my leg lengthened until in a few years I dispensed with the steel extension that I had worn since I was a child."

Here was something of which he could say without reservations, "This is Truth." Here was something that he could believe in, live by. A timid man might have held back, but Charles Fillmore had the courage of his convictions. Having found a faith, he dared to step out on that faith. Having found something that he felt was worth saying, he said it.