Dynamics for Living Fillmore

175 Pages·2007·0.74 MB·English

Dynamics for Living

By
Charles Fillmore
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Contents
Foreword ... 5
Practical Christianity ...7
God ... 17
Creation ...20
Man ... 23
Consciousness ... 26
Thinking ... 32
The Spoken Word ... 37
Spiritual Law ... 39
Prayer ... 44
Truth Demonstrates Itself ...53
Living Faith ... 60
Health ... 67
Health and Music ... 83
Disease ... 86
Prosperity ... 91
Praise and Thanksgiving ... 110
Love ...115
Forgiveness ... 119
Adam and Eve ... 124
Living Conscience ...128
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Judgment and Justice ... 134
Jesus Christ ... 137
The Kingdom of Jesus Christ ... 140
The Holy Spirit ... 145
Baptism ... 150
Atonement ... 154
Transfiguration ... 157
Fulfillment ... 160
Reincarnation ...163
Treatments for Self-Development ... 168
Golden Snowflakes ... 173

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Foreword
After three decades of studying his writings, it is my conclusion that Charles
Fillmore was the greatest sage who has been embodied in the last five hundred
years. His steadfast research into the realms of God Mind opened to him infinite
adventures. These revelations he generously shared with all who studied in his
classes or pondered over his writings. Prayer opened this man's human
consciousness to the dynamics of Spirit.
I knew Charles Fillmore as a man with a diamond character. His sparkling
humor, his radiant smile, and his luminescent logic quickened the atmosphere of
every room he entered. His genuine humility, his simplicity of requirements, and
his complete dedication to Truth were always deeply felt by everyone who was in
his presence.
Prayer and faith caused him and his wife Myrtle to be the responsive instruments
for a spiritual movement. What she first perceived, practiced, and proved with
the healing laws of God, he examined diligently before complete acceptance.
However, when he experienced the full impact of the practicality of spiritual
science, the way was opened for the evolvement of the Unity movement.
On August 22, 1854, at 4 a.m., Charles Fillmore was born in a log cabin
constructed on an Indian reservation near the small community of St. Cloud,
Minnesota. There was no thought then, of course, that many people would be
transformed by his influential teachings. But the years are proving that his
consciousness of universal Truth has established a reliable cornerstone for the
spiritual growth of hundreds of thousands of people.
What is "new" about this book is the arrangement in which this compilation is
offered. Its purpose is to present the basic substance of Charles Fillmore's
writings in a manner that will invite an expanded study of what he taught.
The sequence employed is a result of Charles Fillmore's own logical thinking
trends. The various sections cover particular conceptions. Such were assembled
from the various books and articles by Mr. Fillmore so that each unit would be
complete in treating a specific subject.
It is my prayer that as you unfold your understanding of the truth that is so
beautifully and positively stated in the following pages, you will find the same
dynamics for living that graced the life of Charles Fillmore.
Warren Meyer
November 15, 1966

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I am now in the presence of pure Being and immersed in the Holy Spirit of life,
love, and wisdom.
I acknowledge Thy presence and power, O blessed Spirit. In Thy divine wisdom
now erase my mortal limitations, and from Thy pure substance of love bring
into manifestation my world, according to Thy perfect law.
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Practical Christianity

PEOPLE everywhere on earth are now realizing as never before that the well-
being of this world rests with its inhabitants. It is no longer a religious dogma or a
philosophical theory that the destiny of the race is in the hands of man.
Humanity has built age after age only to find that its structures do not endure.
They are faulty because the divine plan has not been consulted by the builder.
Our Bible plainly teaches that God implanted in man executive ability to carry out
all the creative plans of the Great Architect.
The great and most important issue before the people today is the development of
man's spiritual mind and through it unity with God. The taproot of all confusion
is our failure to use our minds intelligently. Religion and all that it implies in
prayer and recognition of God in idea and manifestation is the one and only way
out of the chaos in which we find ourselves. We must therefore begin at once to
develop this unity with the Father mind by incorporating divine ideas into all that
we think and speak.
People in this atomic age civilization ask why God does not reveal Himself now as
He did in Bible days. The fact is that God is talking to people everywhere, but
they do not understand the message. We need to divest ourselves of the thought
that wise men of the Bible were especially inspired by God, that they were
divinely appointed by the Lord to do His work. Everything points to their
spiritual insight as the result of work on their part to that end.
Thus, practical Christianity is the only system of religions before the people today
that, because of its universal appeal to the pure reason in man, can be accepted
and applied by everyone and every nation under the sun.
Revival
Modern metaphysics is merely a revival of the philosophies taught by an almost
forgotten past. The principles that underlie existence are being again brought to
the attention of men. The race is again entering the cycle of knowledge. We catch
once more the light of pure reason and honest logic.
Few people have come into the light. Pure reason is almost an unknown quantity.
When strict deductive methods are introduced into religion, and logical
conclusions are reached from a stated premise, the average believer is at sea.
People have been taught that certain relations exist arbitrarily no matter how
opposed these relations may be to the logic necessary to cause and effect.
In order to arrive at a mutually harmonious and correct conclusion, the result of a
logical argument, we must have a premise or point of beginning upon which we
can all agree. Logic in its strictest sense is the only accurate method for arriving
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at truth. That system of philosophy or religious doctrine which does not admit of
the rules of perfect logic in reaching its conclusions from a stated premise must
be outside the pale of pure reason and in the realm of manmade dogma.
To know accurately about the reality of things we must disregard all appearances
as indicated by the five senses and go into pure reason--the Spirit from which was
created everything that has permanent existence.
The Difference
Practical Christianity and Truth stand upon the same foundation and are
interchangeable terms. Practical Christianity is not a theory having origin in the
human mind; nor is it a revelation to humanity from some prophet whose word
alone must be taken as unquestionable authority. It is in this respect totally
different from the other religious systems of the world because it does not in any
respect rest its authority upon revelation. It has no dogmas nor creeds, nor are its
students expected to believe anything which they cannot logically demonstrate to
be true.
It takes as the basis of its doctrine a fundamental truth that is known alike by
savage and civilized, and from that truth, by cold, deductive reasoning, arrives at
each and every one of the conclusions which are presented. Thus it does not in
any manner partake of the popular concept of religion, as a vague something
which has to be accepted on faith, and believed regardless of its consistencies. On
the contrary, it invites the closest mental scrutiny. The analytical logician will
find a new world open to him in following the sequential deductions which this
science of pure reasoning evolves.
Truth of the Ages
This system of deductions from intuitively ascertained facts is not new, nor are its
conclusions new, for the historian tells us that similar methods of arriving at the
fundamental truth of things were in vogue thousands of years ago. Long before
the historical period, legend and tradition report the existence of temples where
pure reason was taught. History also tells of similar schools that existed five
thousand years before Christ.
Faithfulness
You will find, if you are faithful in following the line of argument here presented,
that a principle will be disclosed to you which will demonstrate itself in an
unmistakable manner. The logical deductions from the premise stated may not
come to your full comprehension at once because of certain intellectual
limitations into which the race has plunged itself. Men have been so long
divorced from logic and pure reason that they are confused when a clear-cut
proposition is stated and carried to a conclusion along the lines of perfect
sequence.
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Independent Thought
To think in an independent, untrammeled way about anything is foreign to the
habit of the races of the Occident. Our lines of thought and act are based upon
precedent and arbitrary authority. We boast much of our freedom and
independence, but the facts are that we defer to custom and tradition. Our whole
civilization is based upon manmade opinions. We have never thought for
ourselves in religion, consequently we do not know how to think accurately and
consecutively upon any proposition. We have not been trained to draw
conclusions each for himself from a universal pivotal truth. Consequently, we are
not competent to pass judgment upon any statement so predicated. Our manner
of deciding whether or not certain statements are true or false is to apply the
mental bias with which heredity, religion, or social custom has environed us, or
else fly to some manmade record as authority.
In the study of practical Christianity all such temporary proofs of Truth are swept
aside as chaff. We entertain nothing in our statements of Truth that does not
stand the most searching analysis, nothing that cannot be practically
demonstrated.
Starting Point
In order to carry on an intelligent, rational line of argument it is necessary to find
a mutual starting point which is universally accepted as true. There may be many
pivotal points chosen from an intellectual standpoint that would doubtless be
accepted as reasonably true. Upon close analysis they will usually be found
resting upon another and anterior so-called truth. For instance, we might agree
that ponderable objects always fall toward the earth. Yet, the question quickly
arises, "What causes them to fall?" The ready answer is, "Gravity, of course." "But
what is gravity?" Thus, we are led back and back until lost in First Cause, or God.
In agreement upon a statement as the basis of an argument of universal nature,
we must be careful to get one that has no anterior. There can be but one basis of
being, and consequently but one basis of being's movements and forms. When we
have fully agreed that everything of which we are cognizant can be traced in its
last analysis to God, and no further, we have a basis upon which to rest a doctrine
that cannot be successfully opposed, if its deductions are logical and can be
demonstrated. This is exactly what is claimed for this science of Christ. It is not
only a system of philosophy which cannot be disputed by the rational mind, but it
also demonstrates in the world of phenomena that its conclusions are true.

Primal Cause
Having decided upon God, or Primal Cause, as the basis of our system, the next
step is to decide upon the nature of this Primal Cause. It is safe to assert that in
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all the world not a single person of intelligence can be found who would say that
God is anything but good. It requires no exhaustive reasoning to arrive at this
conclusion, for it is the ready response of the intuitive faculty of all mankind,
which it is always safe to count as correct.
Having agreed that God, or the Primal Cause of all things, is the only safe basis on
which to predicate an argument that deals with life in all its sinuous windings,
and that the nature of that First Cause must necessarily be only Good, we can by
logical deduction evolve a doctrine that must of necessity be universal in its
application.
It is sometimes thought by certain people that man should not attempt to find out
the nature of God because He is so far above and beyond the comprehension of
the finite that such attempts are sacrilegious folly. Yet when carefully analyzed it
is found that the one aim and end of man's existence is to find God. The source of
life is the great mystery which has commanded the closest attention and study of
men in all ages, and as that source must be the Infinite, it is thus ever inviting
man to comprehend it.
The Bible says, "No man has ever seen God," and our physical scientists all agree
that primordial life, or First Cause, is invisible or spiritual, exhibiting itself as an
intelligent force. Hence, as corollary to the statement that God, or First Cause, is
good, we assert that He is also Spirit.
Value to Man
Having established a basis grounded in irrefutable truth, from which deductions
may be drawn in an infinite number of directions, the next very natural question
that presents itself is, "What good can come to man from a study of God?"
The facts are that the only good that has come to this world has been through the
study of God, notwithstanding that the preponderance of that study has been of a
nature to preclude the discovery of God or His mode of manifestation. People
have been taught that God is a personal being who rules the universe much after
the manner of an arbitrary monarch. This erroneous and contracted teaching has
led to a belittlement of God in the concepts of men and they have imaged a man-
god, and have also formed a "graven image" of God, who is Spirit.
The true concept of God is that He is the Intelligent Principle of the universe,
and, like all principles, totally impartial in His expressions. This is the concept of
God which has come to us in this awakening age. It is not new. The wise old sages
of the Orient tell us that their ancestors thousands of years ago, in secret temples
dedicated to the study of God, or the Primal Cause of all, found that in certain
stages of high understanding, the result of systematic training, they came into
such harmonious relations with this primal principle, or First Cause, that they
were endowed with causing power themselves.
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